Honors World History Final

only SOME of the questions from the blookets!!! I would recommend still studying the blookets, but this could be an extra study method!

What was the title given to the leader who united the Mongol tribes and established a Mongol empire?

Genghis Khan

What is the period from the fourteenth through the sixteenth century in which Europe experienced a widespread revival of learning and a flowering of the arts?

Renaissance

The word renaissance is French for what English word?

rebirth

What new course of study, also known as the liberal arts, became popular in Europe during the Renaissance?

humanities

What period of history did the Renaissance humanists admire?

Greco-Roman

The most famous Renaissance patrons were members of which family?

Medici

The birthplace of the Renaissance was

Florence

What German developed movable-type printing in Europe?

Gutenberg

Who is called the Father of Renaissance Painting?

Giotto

Who painted The Last Judgment on the Sistine Chapel wall?

Michelangelo

Which painter is best remembered for his engravings and woodcarvings?

Duer

The secular age of the Renaissance prepared the way for the

Reformation

Which verse did Luther use to claim “the just shall live by faith”?

Romans 1:17

The country in which the Reformation began was

Germany

What is the Catholic opposition to the Protestant Reformation called?

Counter Reformation

What light, fast vessel was popular among the early explorers?

Caravel

The first man to round the southern tip of Africa was

Dias

Whose expedition around the Cape of Good Hope to India gave Portugal a lucrative spice trade with India?

de Gama’s

Which two countries divided the world between themselves using the Line of Demarcation?

Portugal and Spain

Which explorer’s crew accomplished the first circumnavigation of the world?

Magellan’s

Who was the first European to view the Pacific Ocean?

Balboa

Who conquered the Inca Empire?

Pizarro

The Roman Catholic friar who opposed the cruel treatment of the Indians by his fellow Spaniards in the New World was

Las Casas

Who discovered the Mississippi River?

de Soto

Who was the Father of New France and the founder of Quebec?

Champlain

Who explored the southwestern section of North America?

Coronado

Who claimed the Mississippi Valley for France?

La Salle

The first permanent English colony in America was

Jamestown

The viceroy responsible for building forts at strategic points and helping Portugal dominate trade with Africa and the Far East was

Albuquerque

What economic policy supported the belief that newly found wealth should benefit the mother country?

Mercantilism

What is the name for the supply of invested money used by the joint-stock company?

Capital

What is the name for the shared profit of a joint-stock company?

Dividends

Which country discovered/claimed the following country: Brazil

Portugal

Which country discovered/claimed the following country: Quebec

France

Which country discovered/claimed the following country: New York

Netherlands (Dutch)

Which country discovered/claimed the following country: Newfoundland

England

Which United States president warned European nations against establishing colonies in the Western Hemisphere?

Monroe

What cultural movement gave literary and artistic expression to the concepts of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”?

romanticism

The French constitution of 1848 established “universal manhood suffrage,” which meant

all men could vote

What is not something Conservative Leaders wanted

Individual Freedom

The enclosure movement resulted in

small farms decreased

The Industrial Revolution had its start in what industry?

textile

What brought workers, raw materials, and machinery under one roof?

factory system

The nation which led the way in social reform was

Great Britain

A state in which the government assumes the responsibility for the material and social well-being of every individual is called what?

welfare state

Marx believed capitalist exploitation of the workers could be solved only through

revolution

What did Karl Marx call the working class?

Proletariat

Wars between China and Great Britain were fought over the smuggling of

opium

Britain received Hong Kong through the Treaty of

Nanking

The most positive result of imperialism was the

missionary outreach

The immediate cause of Germany’s entrance into World War I was

Russia’s mobilization

During WWI, which front consisted of a 500-mile long network of trenches, bunkers, and minefields that resulted in massive casualties and ultimately a stalemate as little ground was gained on either side?

Western Front

The immediate cause of Britain’s entrance into World War I was

the violation of Belgium neutrality

Italy entered World War I because it

was promised land and loans by the Allies

Italian entrance into the war was important because

Germany and Austria had to fight on another front

Which leader proposed the Fourteen Points?

Wilson

What major nation did not join the League of Nations?

United States

President Wilson from the US ran for reelection on the stance of neutrality of the Great War. However, what event flipped his opinion and many Americans to join the allied powers and declare war on Germany?

Zimmerman note intercepted

In what nation did Mussolini launch a military invasion?

Ethiopia

What term means “buying off an aggressor by making concessions”?

appeasement

Hitler was surprised when France and Britain declared war following his invasion of

Poland

Blitzkrieg means

lightening war

Who followed Neville Chamberlain as prime minister of Britain?

Winston Churchill

What were Japanese suicide pilots called?

kamikaze

Who ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb?

Truman

Much like the League of Nations before it, the United Nations’ main weakness is lack of

authority

According to the text, what has prevented the outbreak of another world war?

threat of nuclear war

"In every kingdom, the king's power comes directly from God, to whom the ruler is accountable; power does not come to the king from the people and he is not accountable to them." This excerpt best reflects the concept of

divine right

Who laid the foundation for absolutism in France?

Henry lV

Which war was the last great religious war in Europe?

Thirty Year’s War

Which nation came out of the Thirty Years' War the strongest?

France

What group in France did Richelieu view as a danger to the state?

Huguenots

What title was taken by Ivan IV and passed on to future Russian rulers?

czar

In which country was absolutism defeated?

England

The English kings were limited in power by the

Parliament's control of taxes

What document did Charles I sign in order to obtain more funds from Parliament?

Petition of Right

Oliver Cromwell took the title of

Lord Protector

The Glorious Revolution caused which monarch(s) to lose the throne?

James ll

What group of countries organized against France during the War of the Spanish Succession?

Grand Alliance

Which war was also called the French and Indian War?

Seven Year’s War

Which nation came out of the Seven Years' War the strongest?

England

The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century exaltation of reason is known as the

Age of Reason

Who proposed the heliocentric theory?

Copernicus

Which German astronomer said that the orbits of planets are elliptical?

Kepler

Edward Jenner Developed _____________ that has nearly taken out smallpox

vaccines

The eighteenth-century intellectual movement is known as the

Enlightenment

The belief that sees reason as the only sure source of knowledge and truth is known as

rationalism

What is reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion called?

Inductive reasoning

Reasoning from a simple premise to a more complex truth is called what?

Deductive reasoning

What philosophy says that everything is part of one great substance called “god”?

pantheism

“All knowledge comes through experience” expresses which philosophy?

empiricism

From what country did most philosophes come?

France

Which Enlightenment philosopher believed in limited government and argued that government power comes from the "consent of the governed"?

John Locke

The framers of the U.S. Constitution borrowed which idea from Montesquieu?

separation of powers

Which Enlightenment philosopher believed so much in freedoms of speech and religion that he declared, "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it."?

Voltaire

Which school of thought supported the existence of God as Creator but denied His involvement in human affairs?

deism

What was the religion of the Age of Reason?

deism

What German religious movement arose in the seventeenth century?

Pietism

What is the eighteenth-century American revival called?

Great Awakening

What artistic age spanning from 1600 to 1750 is characterized by its grand, heroic, sensual, and emotional style?

baroque age