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WORLD HISTORY SEMESTER EXAM Review
Chap. 5
1.
What contributed to the birth of the Renaissance in Italy?
2.
What term means worldly?
3.
Which artistic technique creates a three-dimensional appearance?
4.
Name the intellectual movement of the Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects.
5.
Why was Leonardo da Vinci an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social ideal?
6.
Who was the author of the Italian masterpiece the Divine Comedy?
7.
Who wrote the influential political book The Prince?
8.
Which three artists are most associated with the High Renaissance in Italy?
9.
Which movement of the Northern Renaissance had as its major goal the reform of the Catholic
Church?
10. Who was the best known of all the Christian humanists and author of Praise of Folly?
11. Who invented the printing press in Europe in the mid-1400s?
12. What term means a release from all or part of the punishment for sin?
13. Whose publication of the Ninety-five Theses led to the start of the Protestant Reformation?
14. Who published the Institutes of the Christian Religion?
15. What belief (put forth by Calvin but not agreed to by Luther) advocated that God had determined in
advance who would be saved?
16. What was the first Protestant faith?
17. What treaty formally accepted the division of Christianity in Germany?
18. Who established the Church of England in 1534?
19. What term means to declare invalid?
20. After what event did Henry VIII take over the English church?
Chap. 6
21. What is a Conquistador?
22. What is a Colony?
23. Name some of the technological advancement that resulted in exploration
24. Name 3 Portuguese sailors and explain the importance of each one
25. Explain the route that the Portuguese took to get to Asia.
26. Prince Henry the Navigator
27. Explain the reasons that Queen Isabella wanted to support Christopher Columbus.
28. Explain why Christopher Columbus was laughed at for wanting to sail west
a. When did he sail
b. Why did Columbus call the people he met Indians?
c. Name of his ships
29. Who gave authority for to the encomienda system?
30. 2 things the Spanish had did for the natives in return for labor under the encomienda system?
31. What did the treaty of Treaty of Tordesillas do?
32. What country was the one exception to the Treaty of Tordesillas and who was Pedro Cabral?
33. Be able to draw the line of demarcation on a world map and label the countries involved in the treaty
34. Who was the Americas named after ?
35. Explain the role of Fernando Magellan to the role of exploration?
36. What does the word circumnavigating mean?
37. What current state was once owned by the Netherlands?
38. List some of the things from the old world and some from the new world?
39. What is the Plantation system?
40. What about the plantation system lead to the import of African slaves?
41. What are the cash crops that they grew?
42. Why was their conflict between many of the Indians and the European settlers?
43. Who played a part in the triangle trade, and Explain why it is so important?
44. Explain how does the balance effect employment?
45. Explain the reason that Africans were imported to do labor instead others?
46. What was the motto for Spanish exploration?
47. Describe the journey to America from Africa?
a. What was it called?
b. Why did many of the Africans die?
48. Who was king Afonso? King of where?
49. Explain the role of the Ibo in the slave trade?
50. What percentage of African slaves were sent to the United States?
51. Which term means a body of nonselective government officials?
52. About how many slaves were taken total from Africa during the slave trade?
53. Who is John Cabot?
54. Explain why the English Catholics would want to escape to the new world?
55. Other than religious, name some other reasons that people might choose to move from Europe to the
new world?
56. What are the Dutch known for?
57. Founded in 1607, what was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
58. Why were the Europeans interested in the East Indies?
59. Name the set of principles that dominated economic theory in the seventeenth century.
60. What was the initial reason European rulers encouraged overseas exploration?
61. Who went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia?
62. Which Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztecs?
63. Which Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca?
64. What resulted from encounters between the Spanish and Native Americans?
65. Which explorer’s ships are credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world?
66. Founded in 1607, it was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
67. What colony did English Puritans establish in the New England region of America in the early
1600s?
68. What vast global exchange included people, plants, technologies, and cultures?
69. What term described the pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, & the Americas?
70. Why African slaves were originally brought to the Americas?
71. What was the journey called that slaves from Africa to the Americas had to endure?
72. Which term means a body of nonelective government officials?
Chap. 7
73. What terms means combative?
74. Which term refers to a fleet of warships?
75. Which major European power did not get involved in the Thirty Years’ War?
76. What officially ended the Thirty Years’ War in Germany in 1648?
77. Name three results of the Thirty Years’ War.
78. What term meant the idea that kings receive their power from God?
79. Who challenged the Stuart kings’ claims to absolute power in England?
80. What two sides fought against each other during the Civil War in England?
81. What did the invasion of England by William of Orange which overthrew James II become known ?
82. What laid the foundation for constitutional monarchy in England?
83. What is another term for constitutional monarchy?
84. What term means a system in which a ruler holds total power?
85. What did Louis XIV use to help him maintain complete authority as monarch of France?
86. What two countries battled for control of the German states during the 1700s?
87. What did Peter the Great want to do for Russia?
88. Which English playwright’s work is perhaps the best example of Elizabethan literature?
89. What was Thomas Hobbes’ view of human life in any ungoverned society?
90. What did John Locke argue that humans had before society was organized?
91. What three natural rights did John Locke argue all humans are born with?
92. For what were Locke’s arguments used in the 18th century to support?
Chap. 10
93. What is the scientific revolution?
94. Explain the medieval view of science and the solar system
95. What is the Ptolemaic system and who is its most famous follower?
96. What is Nicolas Copernicus most well-known for?
97. How was the new model of the universe different than the old model?
98. Who is Galileo galilee and why is he important?
99. What type of reasoning does it use?
100. Who is credited for its creation?
101. Who famously said” I think therefore I am “?
102. What is deductive logic?
103. What is John Kepler known for?
104. What does geocentric mean?
105. What does heliocentric mean?
106. What term means the law of universal attraction?
107. What systematic procedure of collecting & analyzing evidence was crucial to the evolution science?
108. Who was the first to argue that the sun was the center of the universe?
109. What did Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation show?
110. Name the 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals who were impressed with the
achievements of the Scientific Revolution.
111. What were philosophers, writers, economists, and social reformers called during the Enlightenment?
112. What three roles did Adam Smith give to government in The Wealth of Nations?
113. What were John Locke’s ideas in relation to an individual’s ability to learn and be educated?
114. Who believed that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will?
115. Who put forth the idea of a governmental system of checks and balances?
116. In whose government were his ideas used?
117. Who is Sir Isaac newton?
118. What happens as the scientific revolution spreads?
119. How did the scientific revolution affect modern medicine?
120. What was the first vaccination?
121. Who is Robert Boyle?
122. What astronomer, authored On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, believed that the earth
revolves around the sun?
123. Explain Deism and the idea of a distant God?
124. What does it mean to enlighten?
125. Define the enlightenment?
126. What is the definition of Philosophe?
127. What is the most important philosophical idea of the enlightenment dealing with the views of others
and explain how it works.
128. Explain how religion changed during the enlightenment
129. Explain the Development of protestant denominations including :John Wesley,Cult of Reason,Deism
130. Who is famous for the quote I think therefore I am?
131. Who is John Locke?
132. What are the two treatises of Government?
133. What is the idea of Tabula Rasa?
134. Who is famous for saying “to be is to be perceived”?
135. Why is Baron de Montesquieu one of the most important enlightened thinkers?
136. Which French enlightened thinker published many works including Candid?
137. Who Advocated civil libiteres such as ______________and _____________ And believed that
democracy propagated the idiocy of the masses.
138. Explain what Jean- Jacques Rousseau advocated in his writings: The social Contract
139. Define Free will
140. Why is Denis Diderot an important person to the enlightenment?
141. Who wrote the wealth of nations?
142. What is Laissez- Faire?
143. How does Immanuel Kant Define Enlightenment?
144. What did Cesare Beccaria do for the enlightenment?
145. Who is Mary Wollstone Craft?
146. How do salons play a role in enlightenment?
147. How did urbanization play a role in the enlightenment period?
148. What role did literacy play in the time of enlightenment?
149. What is Rococo art?
150. Identify Hadyn
151. Explain Mozart
152. What does enlightened absolutism say about monarchs?
153. Explain the role of Fredrick the great in Prussia
154. Explain the role of Joseph II in Austria
155. Explain the role of Catherine the great in Russia
156. Who fought during the 7 years’ war?
157. What is the difference in a mulatto and mestizos?
158. Explain the reign of the Hanoverian dynasty?
159. How does the 7 year war lead to the American Revolution?
160. What is the last battle of the American Revolution?
161. What did the treaty of pairs of 1783 do?
162. Explain our first constitution?
163. Contract the articles of confederation to the united states constitution
164. Explain the federal system.
165. Why do we have the Bill of rights?
166. Who was the composer of the Messiah?
167. Who composed The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni?
168. What term meant monarchical rule by Enlightenment principles?
169. Name the three most famous enlightened absolute monarchs during the Age of Reason.
170. What did the Second Continental Congress approve, officially breaking ties between the American
a. colonies and Great Britain?
171. Who served as commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution?
172. What were the results of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
173. What was the first American constitution called?
174. It created a federal system in which power would be shared between the national & state governments.
175. What are the three branches of our national government?
176. What are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution called?
177. Which English philosopher had the greatest impact on the development of the founding documents of
the United States of America?
Chap. 11
178. To which social group (estate) did the majority of French people belong in the late 1700s?
179. What were the relics of feudalism in France before the revolution?
180. What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaim?
181. What did the civil constitution of the clergy do ?
182. Explain the storming of the Bastille ?
183. What form of government did the Constitution of 1791 create?
184. What are factions?
185. Who were electors?
186. What does coup d’etat mean?
187. Why was the Committee of Public Safety originally set up?
188. What did the Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to do?
189. Who was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety?
190. What was the guillotine?
191. Who overthrew the Directory?
192. What does nationalism mean?
193. Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
194. What were the 3 major parts of Napoleon’s Grand Empire?
195. What was the Civil Code?
196. What was promotion within Napoleon’s government and military based on?
197. What was the Continental System?
198. What were the 2 major reasons for the fall of Napoleon's Empire?
199. Where was Napoleon’s final defeat?
200. What was Napoleon's legacy for Europe?