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What European nation profited most from trade with the East in the years directly
following the Crusades?
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Which nation did Prince Henry help to take the lead in overseas exploration?
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In the 1400s, what was the most important trade good from the East?
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Bartolomeu Dias captained the first European ship to sail what route?
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What did Vasco da Gama succeed in gaining for Portugal?
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By the 1700s, which nation's East India Company dominated the Indian Ocean
trade?
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Which European country was the leader in developing and applying 15th century
sailing innovations?
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Who were the first Europeans to arrive on Japanese soil?
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Who captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as
the Cape of Good Hope?
10. What were Europeans' main motives for making voyages of exploration?
11. What was the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal and Spain?
12. Which 2 countries had the most trading posts in India by the 1700s?
13. Why was Portugal able to return with Asian goods at 1/5 the cost?
14. What group reached the Americas 1st?
15. What is the name given to the economic company set up by all colonizing countries?
16. What are Japan’s main natural resources?
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17. What was the main motive for the French to establish New France?
18. Who conquered the Aztec empire? The Incan empire?
19. What is the Chasquis system?
20. Why did Europeans see Africans as a better a source of labor than Native
Americans?
21. Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?
22. What did the encomienda system provide for New Spain?
23. What prompted a wave of new businesses and trade practices in Europe in the 16th
and 17th centuries?
24. In the Mayan empire, what served as currency?
25. In the Incan empire, what is the Chasquis?
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Francisco Pizarro conquered which civilization?
By the 1600s, what power dominated Asian trade?
Which European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
As part of the Columbian Exchange, what items were carried west across the
Atlantic?
30. What area in the Americans was originally founded as a settlement by the Dutch?
31. In 1754, which nation(s) held part of what is now the United States? (map)
32. In 1754, which nation(s) controlled Quebec? (map)
33. After 1763, which nation(s) had direct access to the Pacific Ocean? (map)
34. By 1763, which nation(s) won control of territory that had been disputed in 1754?
(map)
35. In 1754, which nation(s) held part of what is now Canada? (map)
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36. What concept was the belief in "divine right" used to support?
37. Whom did the Glorious Revolution bring to England's throne?
38. By the end of the 1600s, what had England's system of government become?
39. What king became France's most powerful ruler and boasted "I am the state"?
40. Why did Peter the Great build the city of St. Petersburg?
41. European monarchs became absolute rulers in response to what?
42. What was the Edict of Nantes issued in an effort to do?
43. What political purpose did the splendid palace at Versailles serve?
44. Which war resulted in the beginning of the modern state system in Europe?
45. What was Peter the Great the first Russian ruler to make an effort to do?
46. The heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was proposed by
47. Francis Bacon helped to develop
48. Isaac Newton explained the
49. The idea of a direct democracy is explained in
50. European art of the 1600s and early 1700s was dominated by a grand, ornate style
called
51. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
52. What prior documents influenced the Bill of Rights?
53. In the 1700s, how were Enlightenment ideas expressed during the 1700s?
54. In what ways did the taxation problem in America differ before and after
independence?
55. How did the Declaration of Independence embody Enlightenment ideals?
56. What are some results of the scientific revolution?
57. How many years did Charles V rule as Holy Roman Emperor?
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58. About what percentage of France's population belonged to the Third Estate?
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What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?
Which document stated that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights"?
During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?
What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime?
How did Admiral Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar?
Why did Napoleon attack Portugal?
Which of the following was an important goal of the Congress of Vienna?
Who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna?
About what percent of France's population belonged to the First and Second Estates?
Which group most strongly embraced the ideals and principles of the
Enlightenment?
69. What issue led to the first meeting of the Estates-General in 175 years?
70. Why did the National Assembly lose the support of many French peasants?
71. Which group imposed the Reign of Terror?
72. Which group finally forced Robespierre from power?
73. What was one important consequence of the Battle of Trafalgar?
74. How did Great Britain react to the Continental System?
75. What was the main goal of the participants in the Congress of Vienna?
76. Napoleon's career finally ended in ___
77. An important aspect of Napoleon's character was his unwillingness to accept defeat.
What action best shows that trait?
78. The action of Napoleon's that caused the greatest human losses was ___
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79. What was the Industrial Revolution?
80. Which of the following was a result of the agricultural revolution?
81. What were the three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?
82. What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurred in 19thcentury Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe?
83. How did landowners and aristocrats view wealthy members of the middle class?
84. What did Britain do in order to keep industrial secrets from the United States?
85. What is the laissez-faire policy?
86. What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?
87. Which of the following is an example of a reform movement?
88. In what way did the Agricultural Revolution pave the way for the Industrial
Revolution?
89. How did Britain's economy affect the process of industrialization?
90. What was the impact of the steam engine on the production of British goods?
91. In what way did the new middle class change British society?
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What are the key ideas in the free-market system?
What was a benefit of the railroad in Britain?
How did the Napoleonic wars and French Revolution impact the industrialization of
Continental Europe?
95. How did the impact of worldwide industrialization affect the relationships between
industrialized nations and non-industrialized nations?
96. How did the philosophy of laissez-faire economics influence early industrialists?
97. What were the long-term effects of Marx and Engels's pamphlet The Communist
Manifesto?
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98. What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?
99. Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World War I?
100. Why were Germany and Austria-Hungary known as Central Powers?
101. Which nation's actions caused the United States to fight in World War I?
102. What did the war become once the participating countries began devoting all of their
resources to the war effort?
103. What action on November 11, 1918, brought World War I to an end?
104. What were the Fourteen Points?
105. In the late 1800s, who competed for industrial domination of Europe?
106. Why did Bismarck seek alliances that later became the Triple Alliance?
107. What did the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare refer to?
108. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect postwar Germany?
109. What was the American public's opinion about joining the League of Nations?
110. What impact did the war have on the economy of Europe?
111. Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the Treaty of
Versailles?
112. Which country was most similar to Russia in the number of battlefield deaths?(chart)
113. How many more troops did the major Allied Powers lose than the major Central
Powers? (chart)
114. What major Central Power lost the most troops? (chart)
115. What was true of the combined losses of the United States, Italy, and the British
Empire?
116. Consider what you know about the two fronts of the war. What relationship existed
between the battlefronts and the war deaths?
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117. What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
118. The German blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what advantage?
119. What crucial lesson was learned in the Battle of Britain?
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What event occurred on the day described as "a date which will live in infamy"?
What was significant about the Battle of Midway?
Which of the following was the location of a Nazi extermination camp?
Which of the following battles marked the final German offensive?
What caused the Japanese emperor to have reduced power after the war?
Where were atomic bombs dropped?
Which of the following was addressed by the Nuremberg Trials?
What was Hitler's prime reason for wanting to take Poland?
Which of the following factors led to the fall of France to the Nazis?
What was the significance of the Atlantic Charter both during and after the war?
What did the Allies' strategy of "island hopping" in the Pacific involve?
How did the Japanese try to build a Pacific empire?
How did Kristallnacht demonstrate Nazi persecution of Jews?
What was the goal of Hitler's "Final Solution"?
What combination led to the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad?
Under the postwar constitution of Japan, who was the head of government?
What does the use of kamikaze pilots show about Japanese culture?
Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany after it invaded Poland?
What was the U.S. response to Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia in mid-1941?
How were the Holocaust and Hitler's "Final Solution" related?
How did civilians join in the war effort?
What was the Allies' plan for victory over the Nazis?
Why were thousands of U.S. citizens put in internment camps during the war?
Why did Truman agree to use the atomic bomb?
What was the direct war cost for the United States during World War II?
During World War II, how many German military personnel were killed or reported
missing?
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