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The Treaty of Westphalia is signed in the year:

1648

Which of the following rulers of Europe was NOT an absolute monarch?

James I

Absolutism is going to replace;

Feudalism

Who become ms king of England during the Glorious Revolution

Prince William of Orange

Parliament was the what branch of England’s central government?

Legislative

Who becomes Russia’s first absolute monarch?

Peter the Great

Political Liberalism is a philosophy that comes out of the:

Enlightenment

Louis XIV will strip his nobles of their political power:

by forcing them to live with him at Versailles

European rulers will replace their peasant armies with:

standing armies

The nobles of Europe will lose their political authority, but NOT their:

social status

The first explorer to ever sail all the way around the globe was:

Ferdinand Magellan

Mercantilism is going to replace:

Manorialism

The trade route that connected Asia to Europe was called:

The Silk Road

Common cash crops included:

cotton

The first Europeans to arrive in the New World were the:

Spanish and the Portuguese

Ivan the IV is also known as:

Ivan the Terrible

In Russian History, the period between 1598 and 1613 is called:

The Time of Troubles

The first Romanov czar was:

Mikhail

The empire of the Ottomans was ruled over by the:

Turks

The city of Constantinople will become known as:

Istanbul

The Northern Renaissance:

was an extension of the Italian Renaissance

Martin Luther was a:

Roman Catholic monk

Which of the following was NOT a revolutionary Renaissance invention?

illuminated manuscripts

Martin Luther’s followers are going to become known as:

Protestants

The Reformation will cause the what to be undermined?

The authority of the Roman Catholic Church

Which of the following is the best example of a Renaissance man?

Leonardo da Vinci

Albrecht Durer was a:

German painter

Machiavelli will write an important work of political philosophy called:

The Prince

What was the central philosophical idea behind the Renaissance?

Humanism

Martin Luther tacked how many theses to the wall of his local church?

95

Medieval Russia was known as:

Rus

The average life expectancy of someone afflicted with the Black Death was:

Five days

The holiest city in Islam is:

Mecca

The Judeo-Christian Tradition’s origins can be traced all the way back to:

Ancient Israel

European Jews are also known as:

Ashkenazy Jews

Christianity will split into two separate organizations, the Roman Catholic Church and:

The Eastern Orthodox Church

In addition to being farmers, peasants during the Middle Ages were also:

Serfs

The economic system of the Middle Ages was:

Manorialism

The Vikings were pagan raiders from:

Scandinavia

The greatest of the medieval romances was:

Tristan and Isolde

Who are the legendary founders of Rome?

Romulus and Remus

Cleopatra will form an alliance with:

Marc Antony

The Ides of March is:

The 15th of March

Virgil is going to write:

The Aeneid

Julius Caesar was killed by:

a group of senators

The wealthy Romans were called:

Patricians

The eastern half of the Roman Empire will become known as:

The Byzantine Empire

The Roman Senate had how many members?

300

At any given time, the Romans had two:

consuls

Nero is most remembered for having been:

a tyrant

The Peloponnese is:

Part of Greece

Socrates’ greatest student was:

Plato

Who is going to write the great Greek epic poem The Odyssey?

Homer

Judaism was the religion of the;

Israelites

Genghis Khan was the ruler of the:

Mongols

What was the last of the great Mesopotamian empires?

The Chaldean Empire

The Egyptians and the Nubians both lived in ancient:

Africa

Of the following modern-day countries, which one did the Maya NOT live in?

Panama

The Aztecs were destroyed by:

Conquistadors

The Inca were weak and unprepared for the Spanish because of a:

civil war

Which religion is native to Japan?

Shinto

The mandate of Heaven is a:

political concept

The Harappans:

lived in ancient India

Hunter-gatherers, as they left behind their old ways, became:

Farmers

The Paleolithic Age is also known as the:

Old Stone Age

Which of the following ancient Greek figures was NOT from Athens? Aeschylus, Sappho, Aristophanes, Plato

Sappho

The ancient Greeks called the time period of the Mycenaeans the:

Heroic Age

The Peloponnesian War was fought between:

The Peloponnesian League and the Delian League

Greek city-states had at most a population of:

10,000

Alexander the Great was from:

Macedon

Hellenism is:

a kind of Greek-dominated multiculturalism

Today we call the Athenian model of democracy:

Direct Democracy

Which ancient peoples lived in Greece before the Classical Age?

The Minoans

Sparta’s rival was:

Athens

What was an ancient Athenian playwright?

Euripides

The Maya were the greatest what in all of Mesoamerica?

Mathematicians

The Maya lived in:

city-states

The Maya lived in what is now modern-day:

Guatemala

The Inca ruled over the:

Andes

which conquistador destroyed the Inca?

Francisco Pizarro

The Inca invented an early version of what state?

The welfare state

The Aztec capital was:

Tenochtitlan

The Aztecs were primarily interested in what kind of tribute?

human tribute

The most elite of Aztec warriors were named after?

Jaguars

Another name for Mesoamerica would be:

pre-columbian central and south america

The civilization of the Harappans is also known as:

The Indus River Valley Civilization

Feudalism was first evented by the:

Zhou

The Harappans are famous for having developed:

sewage systems

Until the 19th century, who held most of the real political power in Japan?

the shogun

Japan's professional warrior class produced elite soldiers known as:

Samurai

Japan is made up of how many major island?

4

The Zhou and the Shang relied heavily upon the:

Yellow and Yangtze rivers

Japan's only true native religion is:

Shinto

Which daimyo is eventually going to unify all of Japan?

Ieyasu Tokugawa

What is the most likely explanation for the mysterious disappearance of the Harappans?

They over-farmed their land

A.D. stands for:

Anno Domini

Ancient Egypt was protected by:

cataracts and deserts

Sargon conquered which ancient Mesopotamian city-state?

Sumer

The first hominids were born in:

Africa

The birthplace of Judaism is:

Israel