world history midterms part 1

Which estate made up the vast majority of French society

3rd estate

What was the time period was an estimate 40,000 people suspected being traders were executed by the guillotine in one year during the French revolution

The reign of terror

The redrew the map of Europe and restored the monarchy

Congress of Vienna

Commoners teh burgeoisie professional peasants in urban population made up for which state in France

Third estate

In 1789 king Louis XVI summoned the state general primarily to

Raise taxes to pay off growing debt

Who created and led the committee of public safety?

Maximilien Ropespierre

Before the revolution in France members of the third estate had

A high tax burden and little political power

The political body of France

Estate general

The leader of the reign of terror was

Maximilian Robespierre

The outbreak at the Bastille released a wave of peasants violence throughout France called the

Great fear

Which of the following were treasonous acts committed by Louis

Trying to escape to France

The declaration of the rights of man guaranteed all the following except for

Equal right for women

After his final defeat by British and partisan forces in June 1815 napoleon was imprisoned on the island of

St Helena

Which of the following did not contribute to France financial crisis?

An extended period of peace

Which of the following statements about France society social structure is true

There was inequality among the three Estates

Marie Antoinette was the wife of which French monarch

Louis XIV

Government spending more money than it takes in

Deficit spending

The French people welcome Napoleon because

He promised order after the chaos of the revolution

In 1793 King Lewis, XBI and Queen Marie Antoinette were

Executed

The abilities main source of income was

Feudal dues collected from peasants

In 1792 the national convention voted to establish the monarchy in the declare France

A republic

What did the national assembly Vow in the tennis court oath?

To draft a constitution for France

Historians believed that what an Napoleon’s greatest impact is

The Napoleonic code

The Kings, Palace and France as many as 10,000 people live there

Versailles

One of the three distinct social classes in French consisting of Roman Catholic clergy and made it 1% of the population

First estate

this group comprised 97% of France population before the revolution

Third state

Considered of the mobility class who paid little taxes

Second estate

A famous Paris prison stormed by a mob

Bastille

Which of the following best describes the motivation that caused European explorers to sail to Asia otherwise known as the 3G’s

God gold glory

After the Europeans arrive in the Caribbean, what caused the deaths of countless Native Americans

Diseases

In the Spanish empire, these were mixed Spanish native Americans near the bottom of the colonial class system

Mestizos

The French colonial economy was based largely on

Fur and fishing trading

Which of the following statement accurately describes the economic policy of mercantilism

It was based on a belief that a nation’s real wealth was measured in its gold and silver treasures

What are the main goals of European exploration was to

Spread Christianity

Conquistadors were attracted to the America’s by

Stories of riches and religious enthusiasm

What is the swollen bleeding gums due to lack of vitamin C called

Scurvy

How did Prince Henry change the course of Portugal’s history?

Portugal led the way in exploration

The middle passage refers to the part of the transatlantic trade network that carried

Africans from Africa to the West Indies and North America

Funded schools for navigation funded mini explorations for Portugal

Prince Henry, the navigator

Discovered the southern tip of Africa prove ships could reach Asia by sailing around Africa

Bartolomeu Dias

Claim Canada for France

Jacques Cartier

Was given credit as the first explorer to circumnavigate the world

Ferdinand Magellan

Found new France in Quebec

Samuel de Champlain

Explored East Coast of Africa and India

Vasco da Gama

Spanish explorer, who conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico

Hernan Cortez

The transfer of animal plants culture, human disease, technology. The idea is between America, Europe, and Africa.

Colombian exchange

Find America and claimed it for Spanish

Christopher Columbus

Suggest that America is a new continent rather than Asia

Amerigo Vespucci

Which of the following was true of Lutheranism

Luther ism taught salvation through faith alone not good works

During his Ryne Henry VIII

Resolved the catholic monasteries

The English reformation differ from the reformation of the rest of Europe because

Was rooted and political rather than a religion

In which of the following did John Calvin believe

Predestination

AnaBaptist believe that

Church and State should be separate

Which caused Luther’s called for Catholic Church to reform

The widespread selling of indulgence among other abuses angered him

The final decrease of the council of Trent

Reaffirm traditional Catholic teaching and opposite to protestant beliefs

Martin Luther believed in Faith alone because caused him to

Disagree and break with the Catholic Church

What main issue did the Lutherans and Calvinist not agree on

Predestination

Which famous place is Louis XIV credited for establishing

Palace of Versailles

Absolutism is a system in which

A ruler holds total power

William Shakespeare is reviewed as a genius because his work

Show keen insight into human nature

Who is considered a complete man of the theater?

William Shakespeare

The commissariat established by Frederick, William, and Russia became

Both the military and civil agency

Peter the Great was determined to

Westernize Russia

Which of the following is regarded as the best example of absolutism

Louis XIV

Art brought together classical ideals of the Renaissance art in the spiritual feeling the 16th century what was it called?

Baroque