Chapter 8
 

1.  Popular during the Roman period, the school of philosophy called ________ was strongly influenced by the work of Plato, and was in turn influential upon early Christian thinkers.

2.  The ________ were religious movements with secret initiation rituals, including baptisms and ritual meals that symbolized consuming the body and blood of the god.

3.  The most active teacher among the followers of Jesus, ________ was responsible for many of the doctrines of belief upon which the Christian religion would later be based.

4.  ________ was an aristocratic Hindu who renounced his life of material comfort and privilege and sought out spiritual enlightenment -- thus, his followers call him the Buddha ("Enlightened One").

5.  In Buddhist thought, ________ is the release from illusion and from the Wheel of Rebirth.

6.  The city of ________ was the site of a very important sermon of the Buddha, a sermon often compared to the Christian 'Sermon on the Mount'.

7.  The Indian emperor ________ worked actively to spread Buddhism throughout Asia.

Chapter 9
 

1.  The Roman emperor ________ divided the Empire into western and eastern halves.

2.  The emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to ________.

3.  The ________ was the basic formula, or statement, of early Christian belief and doctrine.

4.  Recited in all Benedictine monasteries, the ________ is a schedule of prayers that mark out the devotional cycle of the day.

5.  The official bible of the medieval Christian church was the ________, which ________ produced by translating the Hebrew bible and the Greek-language Christian texts into Latin.

6.  Commissioned by Justinian, the ________ was the principal church of Roman Constantinople and is the most notable existing example of Byzantine architecture.

7.  Music that consists of a single line of melody is called ________.

Chapter 10
 

1.  The birthplace of Muhammad, ________ was also a traditional site of religious sanctuary for the nomadic people of the Arabian peninsula.

2.  The word 'Islam' means "________ to God's will."

3.  ________, capital of the Abbasid dynasty, was the center of the Islamic world during the 9th to the 12th centuries.

4.  Telling stories to save her life, the ingenious storyteller ________ provides the framing narrative for The Thousand and One Nights.

5.  An Arabic stringed musical instrument called the ________ was a forerunner of the guitar.

6.  The Great Book of Songs, an encyclopedia of Arabic music and poetry that later influenced Western song-making, was compiled by ________.

Chapter 11
 

1.  Fought in 378 C.E., the ________ marked the turning point in the ascendancy of the Germanic tribes over Roman military power.

2.  ________ is the first epic literary work in a European language.

3.  A writing style developed by the manuscript copyists of the Carolingian period, the ________ is an ancestor of modern typographic letters.

4.  ________ was a French-Norman nobleman who invaded and conquered England in 1066 C.E.

5.  In the agricultural method called the ________, crops are rotated such that one-third of the land is fallow (rested) each planting season.

6.  The ________ were humorous tales reflecting the concerns of middle-class townspeople.

Chapter 12
 

1.  The central Christian sacrament, the ________ symbolically joins the recipient to God through the consumption of the body and blood of the Christ.

2.  ________ was one of the first great Christian mystics and the leading religious mystic of the 12th century.

3.  The great Italian epic poem Commedia Divina, also known as the Divine Comedy, was written by the poet ________.

4.  The ________ is the section of the Commedia that portrays a medieval vision of Hell.

5.  The ________ were a 13th-century heretical sect, followers of Peter Waldo.

6.  Consisting of the study of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, the ________ was one of the two primary parts of the Liberal Arts curriculum of the medieval university.

7.  A brilliant and popular teacher at the University of Paris known as ________ wrote the treatise titled Sic et Non.

8.  A comprehensive treatise called a ________ was a type of scholarly text written by the medieval scholastics.

Chapter 13
 

1.  The style of church architecture that involved returning to the stone vaulting techniques of the Romans was called ________.

2.  The administrative seat of a bishop of the Church was called a ________.

3.  The ________ style was an architectural style that used four primary elements: the pointed arch, the rib vault, the stained glass window, and the flying buttress.

4.  The palace chapel commissioned by King Louis IX, ________ is considered the most outstanding example of the medieval use of stained glass.

5.  The Benedictine monk called ________ introduced an early form of the 'staff' used for musical notation.

6.  The ________ was a popular form of dance music in the Middle Ages.

Chapter 14
 

1.  The hero-god of the Mahabharata, and one of the nine avatars of Vishnu, is called ________.

2.  ________ is the Hindu god of destruction and creation, of fertility and sexuality, and of rebirth and regeneration.

3.  The ________ dynasty in China is often called the greatest dynasty in Chinese history.

4.  A 9th-century Chinese document called the ________ is the earliest known printed document in the world.

5.  ________ and ________ were the two greatest poets of the Tang period.

6.  An aristocratic Japanese woman named ________ was one of the finest writers in Japan's history.

7.  The ________ were skilled warriors who held land in exchange for military service to the local lord, much as did the European knight.

8.  The actor and playwright ________ wrote the Kadensho, a combination manual for No actors and handbook on No theater.
 

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