History Final Study Guide (copy)

written records

What is the most important type of primary source?

Creation Mandate

What is the name of the command for man to control the earth by exercising dominion over it?

collection of historical resources

Which of the following is not one of three steps the historian goes through to compile his record?

Cainites

Who were the first people to live in cities?

Oligarchy

What term refers to a rule by a few?

polis

The basic political unit of Greece was the

democracy

What term refers to a rule by the people?

monarchy

What term refers to a rule by one?

tyranny

What term refers to a rule by force?

democracy.

Which of the following would not represent citizenship in Japan during this time period?

Shintoism

What was the native religion of Japan?

samurai

Japanese warriors were called

clan

What was the basic social, religious, and political unit in early Japanese society?

conquering Korea

Which of the following was not an achievement of the Tang dynasty?

warrior

What became the leading class in Japanese society?

Taoism

What was the official religion of the Tang dynasty?

political strength

Which of the following was not an achievement of the Song dynasty?

middle class

The growth of towns brought about the emergence of what new social class?

universities

Near the end of the Middle Ages, what institutions became the places of learning?

nation-state

What political entity involved an independent king who ruled a group of people having common interests?

guild

What was the name for a group of merchants who banded together to protect their interests within a town?

church

Art and architecture of the Middle Ages were most influenced by the

cathedrals and monasteries

The primary centers of education during the early Middle Ages were

The early Crusades weakened the papacy

Which of the following was not true about the Crusades?

Babylonian captivity

What was the period called in which the papacy did not reside in Rome?

civil

The War of Roses were what type of war?

England

In which country was absolitism defeated?

Habeas Corpus Act

Which document made it illegal for the government to arbitrarily hold someone in jail?

enlightenment

The eighteenth-century intellectual movement is known as the

Copernicus

Who originally proposed the heliocentric theory?

Priestly

Who discovered the chemical substances of ammonia, oxygen, and carbon dioxide?

They respected church tradition

Which of the following is not true concerning the eighteenth-century philosophers?

Mercator

Who devised a way to map the earth on a flat surface?

Age of Reason

The seventeenth and eighteenth exaltation of reason is known as the

Mayflower Compact

Civil authority for the Plymouth Colony was established by the

was conservative; the French radical

The basic difference between the American and French Revolution is that the American movement

opposition to the revolution

The purpose of the Reign of Terror was to get rid of

the establishment of the republic

Napoleon’s accomplishments included all the following except

Sweden

Which of the following nations was not part of the Quadruple Alliance?

Otto von Bismarck

The architect of German unification was

realpolitik

What terms is defined as doing whatever is necessary to advance national goals”?

Wilhelm I

Who was the first emperor of unified Germany?

romanticism

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

textile

The Industrial Revolution had its start in what industry?

custom-made parts

All the following contributed to the tremendous industrial growth in Europe and American between 1870 and 1914 except

factory system

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

Henry Bessemer

The man who was responsible for an inexpensive and efficient process for making steel was

William Booth

Who founded the Salvation Army?

Louisiana Purchase

Which of the following land acquisitions doubled the size of the United States

convicts

Most of Australia’s original settlers were

isolationism

What terms best describes US foreign policy form the time of Washington to World War 1

France

Britain gained Canada as a result of a war with

Crimean War

The first major international conflict after the defeat of Napoleon was the

missionary outreach

The most positive result of imperialism was the

Matthew Perry

Which American opened Japan’s doors to trade with the United States

New Deal

What was the name of President Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression?

The American stock market collapsed

What occurred in October 1929?

Herbert Hoover

Which US president received most of the blame for the Depression?

Jews

According to Mein Kampf, what group of people was to blame for Germany’s problems?

Communists

What political party in Germany did the Nazis blame for the Reichstag fire?

Benito Mussolini

The Facist Party was founded by

Axis

During World War II, the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan was known as the

Auschwitz

Which Jewish concentration camp was the largest?

the Battle of Midway

What was the turning point of the Pacific War for the Americans?

Hideki Tojo

Who was the Japanese military leader during World War II

Pearl Harbor

“A date which will live in infamy” refers to an attack on

Nagasaki

Where was the second atomic bomb dropped?

American troops simply bypassed Japanese troops on islands that would not make good air bases

The island hopping technique was successful because

to unite Western defenses in Europe against Soviet expression

The purpose of NATO was

arms race

What began in 1949 when the Soviets developed their first atomic bomb?

North Korean invasion of South Korea

The immediate cause of the Korean War was the

Vietnam

After an attack on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress effectively authorized the president to fight a war in

Communists were humiliated and did not try to take any more land anywhere

Which of the following was not a result of the Korean War

Ronald Reagan

What president brought renewed confidence and hopes to America in the 1980s by reducing government regulations and lowering taxes?

the decision of Britain to leave the EU

Brexit refers to

to remove Saddam Hussein from power

What was the purpose of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq?

North Korea

Kim Jong Un is the ruthless dictator of

Kuwait

What country did Iraq invade in August 1990

Ethnic loyalties supersede national unity

Why have many African countries suffered civil wars?

Syrian civil war

A major reason for migration from the Middle East to Western Europe has been the

tradition

Legends, religious beliefs, and social customs are examples of

the desert

What geographic factor helped preserve the monuments, the documents, and the bodies of ancient Egyptian rulers?

ziggurats

Sumerian temple towers were called

Egyptians

The first people known to have a solar calendrer were the

Old Kingdom

Which period of Egyptian history is known as “The Age of the Pharaohs”

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Which two rivers cradled the first civilizations

women

What group of people was favored in Egyptian society but not in many of the other ancient civilizations?

Babylonians

The Chaldeans can also be called the

Avesta

The sacred writings of Zoroastrianism are called the

Phonecians

Purple dye and cedar trees were tow valuable natural resources of the

Alexander the Great

The Persians ruled the ancient world until the arrival of

Diaspora

The dispersion, or scattering, of the Jews is known as

was the first Roman law that was written down

The Law of Twelve Tables was important primarly because it

Senate

The victory of Sulla in the first civil war increased the power of the

Greek

What culture greatly influenced Roman culture?

Nero

The first official Roman persecution of Christianity began under the emperor

Nicaea

At what council was Christ’s deity affirmed

Chandragupta

Who established the Mauryan Empire

moveable type

Which of the following was not a cultural accomplishment of Aksum?

smelted iron

Which of the following was not a cultural achievement of China during this period?