Final

Question 1

Explain the 2 important provisions within the Magna Carta.

Answer 1

1. Protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment
2. New taxation only with baronial consent and limitations on scutage

Question 2

By 1215 the Mongols had conquered most of China under their powerful leader….

Answer 2

Genghis Khan

Question 3

Who was the most famous of all the Venetian merchants?

Answer 3

Marco Polo

Question 4

Name the great plague that ends in 1352 with the deaths of 1/3 to 3/5’s of the European population.

Answer 4

The Black Death

Question 5

What French peasant girl turned longstanding Anglo-French conflict into a religious war?

Answer 5

Joan of Arc

Question 6

The Renaissance originated in what Italian city?

Answer 6

Florence

Question 7

Define the Columbian Exchange.

Answer 7

The movement of peoples, animals, plants, manufactured goods, precious metals, and diseases between Europe, America, and Africa

Question 8

What were Martin Luther’s 2 major issues with the church?

Answer 8

Salvation and Indulgences

Question 9

Pope Paul III created a new priest order to combat the protestants and to convert the heathens to Christianity. What was this new order of priests called?

Answer 9

Jesuits

Question 10

What was the name of one of the most influential royal houses of Europe? The House of Charles V of Spain.

Answer 10

The House of Habsburg

Question 11

What were French Calvinists called?

Answer 11

Huguenots

Question 12

In response to the execution of the Catholic Monarch, Mary Queen of Scots, Philip II of Spain…

Answer 12

Sent the famous Spanish Armada to crush England

Question 13

Name the King who was an ardent believer in the divine right of kings and will create a system of absolute monarchical rule?

Answer 13

Louis XIV

Question 14

Define absolutism.

Answer 14

A system of government in which the ruler contains sole and uncontestable power

Question 15

Define Mercantilism.

Answer 15

Government must intervene in the economy to increase national wealth by whatever means possible

Question 16

Name given to those who fought for Parliament.

Answer 16

Roundheads

Question 17

Name given to those who fought for the King.

Answer 17

Cavaliers

Question 18

The Cromwellian Rump Parliament then abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords and set up a Puritan Republic known as the…

Answer 18

Commonwealth of England

Question 19

John Locke argued that Governments only purpose was to protect what?

Answer 19

Protect life, liberty, and property

Question 20

Define the following:
1. Mestizo
2. Penninsular
3. Creoles

Answer 20

1. A person born to a Spanish father and a native mother
2. Those born in Spain
3. Born in America of Spanish parents

Question 21

Explain the strategic importance of the creation of the Bank of England.

Answer 21

Enabled the government to raise money at low interest for foreign wars

Question 22

What city symbolized Russia’s “opening to the West”

Answer 22

St. Petersburg

Question 23

What were the 2 central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers?

Answer 23

Individual liberty and religious tolerance

Question 24

What were the 3 main reasons for immigration to the “New World”?

Answer 24

Economic, political, religious freedom

Question 25

Who were the executive authority in the colonies, tasked with carrying out the Kings instructions?

Answer 25

Royal governors

Question 26

List the 4 Coercive Acts.

Answer 26

1. Boston Port Act 2. Massachusetts Government Act 3. Impartial Administration of Justice Act 4. Quartering Act