2nd Semester Exam World History

Question 1

Comet is named after this English astronomer

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Halley

Question 2

Wrote “The Sceptical Chemist”

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Boyle

Question 3

Developed a smallpox vaccine

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Jenner

Question 4

Father of Modern Chemistry

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Lavoisier

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Discovered Uranus and made a 40-foot long telescope

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Herschel

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Dismissed from the throne of his country

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James II

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Used a telescope to confirm the earth’s orbit around the sun

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Galilei

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Theorized that the earth revolved around the sun

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Copernicus

Question 8

Theorized that the earth revolved around the sun

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Copernicus

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Studied the body’s circulatory system

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Harvey

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Studied calculus and the laws of gravity and motion

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Newton

Question 11

Explorer who named the Solomon Islands

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Mendaña

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Navigator who accompanied Mandaña

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Quiros

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Colonized Tahiti for France

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Bougainville

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First governor of Australia

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Phillips

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Found a passage through the Great Dividing Range

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Blaxland

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Missionary to New Guinea

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Chalmers

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Explored Australia for England

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Cook

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Provide good growing conditions for plants

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High Islands

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Especially vulnerable to damage from storms

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Low Islands

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Aborigine game

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Mark Grook

Question 21

Used Tahiti to demonstrate man’s natural goodness

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Enlightenment Philosophers

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Sailed a Balsa boat to the Pacific Islands

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Heyerdahl

Question 23

Founded the Safavid dynasty

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Shai Ismail I

Question 24

Founded the Ming dynasty

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Taizu

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Descendant of Tamerlane

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Babur

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Second founder of the Safavid dynasty

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Abbas

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Ottoman ruler (r. 1451-81)

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Mehmet II

Question 28

Admiral of a large Chinese fleet

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Zheng He

Question 29

Fortress city captured by the Ottomans

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Ottoman Empire

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Greatest Mughal Ruler

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Akbar

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Original location of the Ottoman Empire

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Anatolia

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Restored native Chinese rule

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Ming Dynasty

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French writer during the Enlightenment

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Voltaire

Question 34

First kaiser of the united Germany

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Wilhelm I

Question 35

United the German territories into one country

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Bismarck

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Nationalist who founded Young Italy

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Mazzini

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Queen of France during the French Revolution

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Marie Antoinette

Question 38

Army general who became dictator of France

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Bonaparte

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Prime minister of Sardinia who united northern Italy

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Cavour

Question 40

King of France during the French Revolution

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Louis XVI

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First king of united Italy

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Emmanuel II

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Italian nationalist who formed the "Red Shirts"

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Garibaldi

Question 43

Invented the reaping machine

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McCormick

Question 44

Invented the spinning jenny

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Hargreaves

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Invented the cotton gin

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Whitney

Question 46

Improved the steam engine

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Watt

Question 47

Invented the flying shuttle

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Kay

Question 48

Developed a seed drill

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Tull

Question 49

Developed a self-propelled steam engine and tractor

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Fowler

Question 50

Used patents to control the sale of inventions

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Awkright

Question 51

Led the British parliament to end the British slave trade

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Wilberforce

Question 52

Developed a threshing machine

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Meikle

Question 53

Helped Karl Marx write the Communist Manifesto

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Engles

Question 54

Increased the number of eligible British voters

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Disraeli

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Wrote about hardships in England's Industrial Age

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Dickens

Question 56

Jewish captain in the French Army

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Dreyfus

Question 57

Described Russian life in his book War and Peace

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Tolstoy

Question 58

Emperor and founder of France's Second Empire

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Bonaparte

Question 59

Popularized evolution with his book Origin of Species

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Darwin

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French chemist who stemmed the spread of diseases

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Pasteur

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Patented the first telegraph

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Morse

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Scottish scientist who laid a foundation for Einstein

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Maxwell

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Preached the gospel in South Africa for 53 years

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Moffat

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Imperialist king of Belgium

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Leopold

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British missionary explored the Zambezi River

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Livingstone

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African general of the Wassaoulou Empire

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Ture

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African language into which the Bible was translated

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Yoruba

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Disproved claims of racial inferiority of the black man

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Horton

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First African bishop in the Anglican Church

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Crowther

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Wrote a letter to Germany, rejecting colonization

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Macemba

Question 71

President of Liberia who practiced diplomacy

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Roberts

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Reporter who found Livingstone in Africa

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Stanley

Question 73

Ottoman who laid the foundation for a modern Turkey

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Mahamud II

Question 74

Radical who wanted society without government

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Bakunin

Question 75

Russian Eastern Orthodox writer

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Dostoevsky

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Russian czar who abolished serfdom

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Alexander II

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British general in India

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Clive

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Ruler who worked to modernize China

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Guangxu

Question 79

Called himself a "Heavenly King" and Christ's brother

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Hong Xiuquan

Question 80

Missionary to China

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Goforth

Question 81

Staged a coup against her adopted son

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Cixi

Question 82

Pressured Japan to open for trade and end its isolation

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Perry

Question 83

Leader of the Nazi party

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Hitler

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Russia's first dictator

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Lenin

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American president who created the Federal Agencies

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Roosevelt

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American president who began the League of Nations

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Wilson

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Father of Modern Physics

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Einstein

Question 88

Chinese Communist leader

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Mao-Zedong

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Struggled to unite China through the Kuomintang Party

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Sun Yat-Sen

Question 90

Assassinated heir of the Austrian throne

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Ferdinand

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Facist leader of Italy

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Mussolini

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Russia's second dictator

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Stalin

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American general in North Africa and Europe

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Eisenhower

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Developed abstract expressionistic painting

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Pollock

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Emperor of Japan

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Hirohito

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British general that defended Egypt

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Montgomery

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German concentration camp

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Auschwitz

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German general in Africa

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Rommel

Question 99

Japanese general who strengthened Japan's military

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Hideki Tojo