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1. 4.1
What is the name of the cultural region that comprises Mexico and Central America?
2. 4.1
How did people first settle the Americas?
3. 4.1
What do the giant head sculptures left by the Olmec civilization tell us about their
culture?
4. 4.1
When did the decline of the Maya occur?
5. 4.1
What type of religion did the Maya, Aztec, and Olmec all have?
6. 4.1
What feature of the Aztec religion made enemies of neighboring tribes?
7. 4.2
What infrastructures did the Incan civilization build that helped them thrive?
8. Glossary
What does secular mean?
9. 10.1
What is a patron?
10. 10.1
What does the technique of perspective add to paintings?
11. 10.1
What is the vernacular?
12. 10.1
What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?
13. 10.1
Why is Leonardo Da Vinci the Renaissance ideal man?
14. 10.1
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
15. 10.2
Which invention revolutionized the way people accessed and consumed ideas and
information during the Renaissance?
16. 10.2
What made William Shakespeare’s work endure for all time?
17. 10.3
What were the indulgences Martin Luther protested?
18. 10.3
p. 396 Why were European merchants and nobles open to the idea of the Reformation?
19. 10.4
What was the result of the Catholic Reformation?
20. 10.4 Which English monarch brought stability back to England after the religious turmoil
following the formation of the Anglican Church?
21. 10.5
What was the Copernican theory?
22. 10.5
What was Isaac Newton’s big idea?
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23. 10.5 What methods used in the Scientific Revolution changed thinking about the physical
universe?
24. 10.5 Which mathematician said “I think, therefore I am.”
25. 11.1
What were Europeans’ main motives for making voyages of exploration?
26. 11.2
Who conquered the Aztec empire?
27. 11.2
What was the attitude of the Ming and Qing dynasties toward foreign trade?
28. 11.1
Who landed in the West Indies in 1492?
29. 11.1
p. 420 In the 1400s, what was the most important trade good from the East?
30. 11.1
Who led an expedition that circumnavigated the world?
31. 11.3
Why did the Native American population decline so rapidly in the Caribbean?
32. 11.5
What was the triangular trade?
33. 12.1
What concept was the belief in “divine right” used to support?
34. 12.2
Why did Peter the Great build the city of St. Petersburg?
35. 12.3
By the end of the 1600’s what had England’s system of government become?
36. 12.4 Which British king gave Greek and Hebrew scholars specific instructions for translating
the Christian Bible into English?
37. 12.4 Thomas Jefferson was influenced by the ideas of _______________ in writing The
Declaration of Independence.
38. 12.6
Why did the people of Paris stormed the Bastille?
39. 12.6
Which queen was beheaded by revolutionaries?
40. 12.8
p. 526 After Napoleon abdicated and went to Elba (the first exile) what did he do?
41. 13.1
In which industry did the industrial revolution first take hold?
42. 13.1-13.2
What was the connection between industrialization and urbanization?
43. 13.2
How did the industrial revolution influence Karl Marx’s ideas?
44. 14.2
Which social group spearheaded the independence movement in Latin America?
45. 14.2
Who led Haiti’s fight for independence?
46. 15.1
Why were so many parts of Africa and Asia vulnerable to Western imperialism?
47. 15.1
What is a protectorate?
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48. 15.1
What was the goal of direct control (direct rule) ?
49. 15.2
Which European monarch sparked the scramble for colonies in Africa?
50. 15.2
What happened as a result of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
51. 15.4
The part of India that was under direct British rule was known as the ___.
52. 15.4
What caused the Sepoy Rebellion?
53. 15.4
Why was India called the "jewel in the crown"?
54. 15.5
After the Opium War, what special treatment did British citizens have in China?
55. 15.7
Why was Hawaiian queen Liliuokalani overthrown?
56. 15.7
In which country did the “Aborigines” live?
57. 16.1 Which two countries’ alliance shaped Germany's military strategy at the start of World
War I?
58. 16.1 What was the reason for the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
59. 16.1
Why did Britain enter the first world war?
60. 16.2 How did Ottoman control of the Dardanelles and German submarine warfare in the
Atlantic have a similar impact on World War II?
61. 16.2
When and where was the Battle of Gallipoli?
62. 16.3
What was the chief goal of the League of Nations?
63. 16.4
What conditions in the Soviet Union brought the Bolsheviks to power in October-
November 1917?
64. 17.5 p. 762 What was one reason that the Great Depression spread quickly from the United
States to other nations?
65. 17.2 What is apartheid?
66. 17.3
Which leader advocated nonviolent civil disobedience?
67. 17.3
How did the Amritsar massacre happen?
68. 17.4
Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931?
69. 17.5
p. 757 What was the theme of All Quiet on the Western Front
70. 17.6
p. 767 What was the chief appeal of fascism to Italians after World War I?
71. 17.7
What economic system did Lenin and Stalin advocate?
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72. 17.8
What happened on Kristallnacht?
73. 18.1
From Hitler's point of view, what was the chief impact of the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
74. 18.1
How did the policy of appeasement work out for the British?
75. 18.2
In which offensive did Hitler and Mussolini cooperate?
76. 18.2
In what order did the Allied nations (US, Britain, Soviet Union, and France)join the war
against the Axis powers?
77. 18.2
Why did Franklin Roosevelt push the Lend Lease program?
78. 18.2
What was the main reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?
79. 18.3
How did the Nazis implement Hitler's "Final Solution"?
80. 18.4
p. 813 What type of warfare was first used in the Battle of the Coral Sea?
81. 18.4
Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a turning point?
82. 17.8
Which European nation suffered the most from war debts?
83. 17.8
What is hyperinflation, and how did it affect Germany after the Great War?
84. 17.8
What does Mein Kampf mean?
85. 17.8
What was lebensraum and how did Hitler try to achieve it?
86. 17.8
What type of political party were the Nazis?
87. 17.8
What was the Third Reich?
88. 18.1
What was the reason the Munich Conference was held?
89. 17.5
What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
90. 18.1 Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat
communism?
91. 18.1
What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan?
92. 18.5
Why was the Bataan Death march deemed a war crime?
93. 18.2
What did Hitler learn about England in the Battle of Britain?
94. 18.5
Why did Japan surrender?
95.
18.5
Which two cities were the eventual targets of the Manhattan project?