Liberty University: EDUC 703 Quiz 2 Study Guide
1. Americas: Which culture was most isolated in the fifteenth-century Atlantic
world?
2. Yes, the Niger River Valley did have Islamic universities in the fifteenth
century. These universities played a significant role in the spread of Islamic
knowledge and scholarship during that time. Great recall!: The Niger River
Valley had Islamic universities in the 15TH century.
3. 1: Aquinas, Aristotle, Scholastics
2: Augustine: Luther was highly critical of 1 except for 2 .
4. monotheistic religions, the printing press and relative peace: true of fif-
teenth-century Europe
5. Calvin encouraged a school system of two tracks: one for common people
and another for the upper classes. Common schools would implement the
catechisms, basic academic skills, and literacy in the vernacular language.
Whereas, Latin grammar schools for the upper class would focus on the clas-
sics to prepare students as leaders in the church, government, or community.
Puritans brought this system of education with them to New England in 1620
and by 1647 passed the Old Deluder Satan Act, the first compulsory education
law in the New World. This law required towns of fifty families or more to
provide a teacher for basic academic skills.: Which educational thinker had the
strongest impact on Puritan education of New England?
6. TRUE: Luther proposed that city governments be responsible for maintaining
schools.
7. Aquinas Scholasticism: What philosophy of education did Ignatius Loyola prop-
agate through the missionary efforts of the Society of Jesus?
8. Lima: In South America, which Spanish settlement became a hub of learning in
the sixteenth and seventeenth century, known by its universities, printing press, and
economic strength?
9. n the early sixteenth century, Portuguese Jesuits arrived in the Kongo at
the request of the Christian King Afonso I who had been baptized along with
his father upon initial contact with the Portuguese. Although Afonso was a
Christian, his subjects were not; they remained pagan.: When King Afonso I of
Kongo invited the Jesuit missionaries to his kingdom, what religion was he already
practicing?
10. A significant demographic among North American slaves were the Atlantic
Creoles. Historians have referred to them as "the charter generations, whose
experience, knowledge, and attitude were more akin to that of confident, so-
phisticated natives than of vulnerable newcomers." Atlantic Creoles included
both Africans and those of mixed race, referred to at that time as mulattos.
Some were transported directly from the African Atlantic coast, but others
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1. Americas: Which culture was most isolated in the fifteenth-century Atlantic
world?
2. Yes, the Niger River Valley did have Islamic universities in the fifteenth
century. These universities played a significant role in the spread of Islamic
knowledge and scholarship during that time. Great recall!: The Niger River
Valley had Islamic universities in the 15TH century.
3. 1: Aquinas, Aristotle, Scholastics
2: Augustine: Luther was highly critical of 1 except for 2 .
4. monotheistic religions, the printing press and relative peace: true of fif-
teenth-century Europe
5. Calvin encouraged a school system of two tracks: one for common people
and another for the upper classes. Common schools would implement the
catechisms, basic academic skills, and literacy in the vernacular language.
Whereas, Latin grammar schools for the upper class would focus on the clas-
sics to prepare students as leaders in the church, government, or community.
Puritans brought this system of education with them to New England in 1620
and by 1647 passed the Old Deluder Satan Act, the first compulsory education
law in the New World. This law required towns of fifty families or more to
provide a teacher for basic academic skills.: Which educational thinker had the
strongest impact on Puritan education of New England?
6. TRUE: Luther proposed that city governments be responsible for maintaining
schools.
7. Aquinas Scholasticism: What philosophy of education did Ignatius Loyola prop-
agate through the missionary efforts of the Society of Jesus?
8. Lima: In South America, which Spanish settlement became a hub of learning in
the sixteenth and seventeenth century, known by its universities, printing press, and
economic strength?
9. n the early sixteenth century, Portuguese Jesuits arrived in the Kongo at
the request of the Christian King Afonso I who had been baptized along with
his father upon initial contact with the Portuguese. Although Afonso was a
Christian, his subjects were not; they remained pagan.: When King Afonso I of
Kongo invited the Jesuit missionaries to his kingdom, what religion was he already
practicing?
10. A significant demographic among North American slaves were the Atlantic
Creoles. Historians have referred to them as "the charter generations, whose
experience, knowledge, and attitude were more akin to that of confident, so-
phisticated natives than of vulnerable newcomers." Atlantic Creoles included
both Africans and those of mixed race, referred to at that time as mulattos.
Some were transported directly from the African Atlantic coast, but others
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