Quiz guide for Wednesday, Feb. 2

• What was significant about Constantine the Great?
• What were Nazarenes?
• Who was Maimonides, and why was he significant?
• Who were Sephardim?
• What were the crusades, and what were their effects on the Jews?
• Who were the Ashkenazi?
• What influences helped Thomas Aquinas in his effort to reconcile religion and reason?
• Where did the Inquisition originate, and what was its position toward the Jews in the beginning?
• What significant event (in the history of Jewish/Christian relations) occured in 1215?
• What did Gregory IX (the ninth) command against the Jews?
• What did Edward 1 of England do in 1290?
• When did the Plague or "Black Death" epidemics begin?
• Whom did the Spanish call "the New Christians" or "Moranos"?
• What process did the Spanish Inquisition begin in 1489?
• What was the Edict of Expulsion and what year did it occur?

From Handout

• Summarize Maimonides' contribution to Eastern and Western medical traditions.
• Who were Gerard of Cremona and Ibn Sina (Avicenna)?
• What was the medieval Christian attitude toward doctors and medine?
• What were Mishneh Torah and Guide for the Perplexed?
• What was the Maimonidean Controversy?
• Who was Averroes and how did he link Jewish and Christian thought?
• Why did Columbus bring a fluent Arabic speaker with him on his voyage?
• Who said, "God made me the messenger of the New Heaven and the New Earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse"?
• What sort of messianic expectations existed in the 1490s?
• How were Ferdinand and Isabella memorialized on their tombs?
• According to the author, how is today's world like that of medieval Spain?