World History Midterm Study Guide

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Across
  1. 1. His teachings are the basis of Islam.
  2. 3. Title given to Tokugawa by the emperor of Japan.
  3. 6. French surgeon who developed a new ointment to prevent infection and invented a new method for closing wounds using ligatures.
  4. 7. English monarch during whose reign the Anglican Church became more Protestant.
  5. 9. His teaching are the basis of Christianity.
  6. 11. Spanish explorer who crossed Panama searching for a direct route to Asia.
  7. 14. German mathematician who used Brahe's data to create laws of planetary motion using mathematics.
  8. 15. East Asian nation at turned to isolationism after being invaded by Japan and the Manchus.
  9. 19. German printer who invented the first mechanical movable type printing press.
  10. 21. Chinese emperor who limited Western influence because he felt that China was stronger without them.
  11. 26. Intellectual movement that grew out of the study of classical Greek and Roman cultures.
  12. 29. His fleet of four ships reached Calicut, India in 1498.
  13. 31. Italian scientist who improved the telescope and observed mountains and craters on the moon.
  14. 32. It was the rebirth of art and learning.
  15. 33. Florentine sailor who claimed that Columbus had not reached Asia but a previously unknown continent.
  16. 34. English monarch who split with the Catholic Church after the pope refused to annul his marriage.
  17. 35. Christian humanist writer who argued for the translation of the Bible into every vernacular.
Down
  1. 2. Spanish explorer whose crew sailed around the world.
  2. 4. Italian artist who is referred to as a Renaissance man because his interests and body of work spanned many subjects, media, and disciplines.
  3. 5. French writer who argued that women could learn just as easily as men if they were allowed to attend the same schools.
  4. 8. French thinker who emphasized human reasoning as the key to understanding truth.
  5. 10. Polish astronomer who proposed that the sun is at the center of the universe.
  6. 12. Italian city in which the Renaissance began.
  7. 13. Shape of the planets orbits rather than circles.
  8. 16. English scientist who experimented on gasses and discovered how temperature and pressure effects them.
  9. 17. Genovese sailor who predicted he could reach Asia by sailing west.
  10. 18. Asian empire who allowed European traders to build trading posts in coastal areas because its rulers did not see Europeans as a threat.
  11. 20. Flemish doctor who accurately described human anatomy which helped the research of other medical scientists.
  12. 22. English mathematician who explained why planets moved as they did around the sun by developing the universal laws of gravitation.
  13. 23. English writer who showed a remarkable understanding of the human condition and human psychology.
  14. 24. English thinker who helped develop the scientific method by stressing experimentation and observation.
  15. 25. British trade representative whose mission failed in China because he did not perform the kowtow which was insulting to the emperor.
  16. 27. Ottoman sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453 ending the Byzantine Empire.
  17. 28. Region in northern Europe where the northern Renaissance began.
  18. 30. He successfully unified all of Japan under his authority with the help of European firearms in 1603.