Exam 3: Origins of Western Society

Throughout the Renaissance the middle class continued to decline.

The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 prevented Greek scholars from influencing the development of the European Renaissance.

The bow and arrow:

The bubonic plague or Black Death was carried to Europe by sick rats from ships in the Near East trade.

Early civilizations often become organized into a military aristocracy, a priesthood, and landless peasants.

Chronologically, the Middle Ages falls approximately 1,000 years after the Renaissance.

The Age of Revolutions from about 1750 to 1850 led to the emergence of our modern economic and government systems.

Erasmus was a Renaissance philosopher who advocated:

The phenomenon known as the Inquisition was exclusively medieval and restricted to one time period.

James Watt's steam engine and James Hargreave's spinning jenny helped make it possible to produce more output and to:

The Moors were armies of what group?

Marco Polo reached Japan in 1290 and remained there for ten years.

Aristotle argued that the polis was a natural outgrowth of the human being's nature.

During the Middle Ages, religion began to lose its influence in people's lives.

Today, Latin forms the basis of only a few words in the English language.

Throughout the Renaissance, the influence of religion remained strong.

Feudal estates are associated with which kind of authority?

In 1453 Constantinople fell to the:

Beginning in the late 1980s the countries of Eastern Europe become independent of the Soviet Union (USSR), which:

The gathering of people into a spatially and ethnically defined unit organized and run by a small group who will maintain order and defend the unit is: