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World History Exam Study Guide – Spring 2016
Be able to identify the following famous leaders: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Philip II (Spain), Louis XIV,
Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Peter the Great, Louis XVI, Robespierre, Napoleon, Otto von Bismarck, Camillo di
Cavour, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Wilhelm I (William), Rasputin, Nicholas II, Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler,
Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Nikolai (Vladimir) Lenin, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman
Be able to identify the following vocabulary terms: dynasty, inquisition, indulgences, heresy, scientific
method, astrolabe, czar, Bastille, divine right, guillotine, Reign of Terror, urbanization, capitalism, socialism,
communism, nationalism, imperialism, Treaty of Versailles, reformation, Jesuits, 95 Theses
counter reformation, Line of Demarcation, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Magna Carta, The Prince,
bourgeoisie
Be able to identify the following and their accomplishments: Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci,
Michelangelo, Raphael, Galileo, Petrarch, Copernicus, Erasmus, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Niccolo
Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando Cortez, Johann Gutenberg, Christopher Columbus,
Francisco Pizzaro, Voltaire, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison, Karl Marx, Samuel Morse, Marconi, Alexander Bell,
James Watt
For each of the events listed below, be able to place it in one of the following categories:
1. Renaissance
5. Age of Exploration
8. Industrial Revolution
2. Reformation
3. Age of Absolutism
4. English Civil War
6. French Revolution
7. Scientific Revolution
9. World War I
10. World War II
- desire for spices from Asia led to development
of new types of ships
- first use of submarines in war
- conflict among the three estates
- Reign of Terror
- sinking of the Lusitania
- Thirty Years War
- trench warfare
- machines invented and adapted
- power of kings and queens defines nations
- horrors of child labor and worker safety issues
- Galileo and Copernicus
- transition from middle ages to modern times
- Cavaliers vs. Roundheads
- Bolshevik revolution
- Europeans rediscover classical ideas
- religious wars in Europe
- Parliament
- building the Palace of Versailles
- steam engines, reapers, telegraphs, & telephones
- Lither starts his movement
- age of outstanding art
- beginning of the Protestant faith
- Spain becomes the richest nation on earth
- Central Powers vs. the Allies
- Axis vs Allies
Be able to list the members of each of these royal families and the countries they controlled:
Tudors, Stuarts, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Bourbons, Romanovs
Be able to list the major combatants and who won each of the following wars:
100 Years War, 7 Years War, World War I, World War II
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World History Final Exam Spring 2016 Review
Directions: Complete each of the following with the proper name, word or term.
__________________________ 1. Country where the Renaissance began.
__________________________ 2. Country where the Reformation began.
__________________________ 3. He started the Reformation by protesting indulgences.
__________________________ 4. He is the most famous playwright (English) of the Renaissance,
wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet.
__________________________ 5. Believed to be the greatest painter, architect and inventor of the
Italian Renaissance.
__________________________ 6. He developed the printing press in Europe.
__________________________ 7. Martin Luther's formal challenge to the Catholic Church .
(Wittenburg, Germany 1517)
__________________________ 8. Name the religion of most of the people of Europe before the 1500's.
__________________________ 9. Divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal during
the Age of Discovery.
__________________________10. The work most people did before the Industrial revolution was?
__________________________11. The wealthy middle class of France during the 1700's.
__________________________12. During WWI, Germany and Austria-Hungary were part of the
__________ Powers.
__________________________13. During WWI, Britain, France & Russia were part of the
__________ Powers.
__________________________14. The Russian Revolution during WWI, led to this type of
government in Russia.
__________________________15. This nation was unified in 1871 by Otto von Bismarck and on the
losing side of 2 World Wars.
__________________________16. Ruled by Philip II and sent the armada to England in 1588.
__________________________17. Country that celebrates July 14th and conquered much of Europe
in the early 1800's
__________________________18. Country with the largest colonial empire during the19th and 20th
centuries. It was the first country to industrialize.
__________________________19. Chancellor/Prime Minister that helped to unify Germany in 1871.
__________________________20. Title given to the rulers of Russia until 1917.
__________________________21. The king of France that was known as the “Sun King”, had the
Palace of Versailles built.
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__________________________22. The battle in which Napoleon met his final defeat.
__________________________23. French king beheaded during the French Revolution.
__________________________24. Czar that modernized and built a new capital on the Baltic Sea.
__________________________25. English monarch during the Renaissance, the Anglican church was
formed during her reign.
__________________________26. Leader of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
__________________________27. Leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of
Terror in the French Revolution.
__________________________28. The belief that your country or political unit is superior to others.
__________________________29. The movement of people from the country to the cities.
__________________________30. Economic system where the means of production are owned by
individuals. (United States)
__________________________31. Economic/Government system where the means of production are
shared by all, there is no private ownership. (Former Soviet Union)
__________________________32. Economic system where some of the means of production are
private and some are shared. (Some European Countries)
__________________________33. Name the agreement that ended WWI and was a cause of WWII.
__________________________34. The attempt by the Nazi's and Adolf Hitler to eliminate the Jews.
__________________________35. The most radical period of the French Revolution where thousands
of people died by the guillotine.
__________________________36. German that wrote the Communist Manifesto that outlined the
economic system called Communism.
__________________________37. Discovered the laws of gravity and other physics principles.
__________________________38. Belief that a Monarch ruled by the power of God.
__________________________39. French dictator of the early 1800's, tried to conquer all of Europe.
__________________________40. The act of conquering territories and building empires.
__________________________41. Developed the telescope to make observations of space. (Italian)
__________________________42. Famous sculptor/artist of the Renaissance. (Pieta & Sistine Chapel)
__________________________43. English monarch who split with the Catholic Church over his
divorce & started the Church of England, married six times.
__________________________44. The law making body of England (represents the people)
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__________________________45. The clergy, the nobility, and the people were the social classes in
France and they are called? Word for Social Classes in France.
__________________________46. The rebirth of interest in the arts. (1300’s-1600’s)
__________________________47. Device used to behead people (during the French Revolution).
__________________________48. The United States president during World War One.
__________________________49. Country where the Industrial Revolution began.
__________________________50. An agreement between nations to help one another in case of war.
__________________________51. A series of rulers from a single family.
__________________________52. A country where the power is in the hands of the people.
__________________________53. This group left the Catholic Church during the Reformation.
__________________________54. A period of very slow or low business activity. (1930’s)
__________________________55. When a country is ruled by a king or queen who has total power.
__________________________56. The side that won World War I.
__________________________57. The side that lost World War I.
__________________________58. A major crime of the Middle Ages, going against accepted teachings.
__________________________59. One of the first books printed on Gutenberg's printing press.
__________________________60. English king behead at the end of the English Civil War.
__________________________61. The side that the U.S. Joined when they entered World War I and
World War II.
__________________________62. The organization that was created after World War I to promote
world peace.
__________________________63. During World War II, Germany, Italy, & Japan were called the?
__________________________64. During World War II the U.S., Great Britain, France, & Russia
were known as the ?
__________________________65. His assassination set off World War I. (Heir to Austro-Hungarian throne)
__________________________66. Fleet which attempted to attack England in 1588.
__________________________67. The sinking of this English passenger ship eventually led to the U.S.
entering World War I.
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Complete this and you are: FINISHED
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Label Each of the following on the Map Below
Portugal
England (Great Britain)
France
Russia
Turkey
Poland
Spain
Germany
Italy
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Greece
Ireland
Belgium
Denmark