FINAL

Question 0

The study of classical texts caused humanists to focus on what subject?

Answer 0

Individual and human potential (humanities)

Question 1

What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?

Answer 1

Art and Learning

Question 2

What were Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More?

Answer 2

Christian Humanists

Question 3

For what is the Medici Family famous for?

Answer 3

Being rulers and supporters of the arts

Question 4

What was the first full sized book Gutenberg printed?

Answer 4

The Gutenberg Bible

Question 5

What were John Calvin’s major teachings?

Answer 5

Predestination

Question 6

Why was the caravel an important development in navigation?

Answer 6

The caravel was sturdier and triangular sails allowed the ship to sail
Effectively against the wind

Question 7

Why did Lord McCartney give a letter from King George III to Qian-long?

Answer 7

Increase trade

Question 8

What did Hongwu do first to help China become a dominant power?

Answer 8

He overthrew the Mongols and Established the Ming Dynasty

Question 9

What type of poetry presents images rather than expresses an idea?

Answer 9

Haiku

Question 10

What was the main economic activity in New France?

Answer 10

Fur trade

Question 11

Why did Europeans see Africans As a better source of labor than Native Americans?

Answer 11

Africans were strangers to America resulting in hardly any escapes

Question 12

Which European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?

Answer 12

Spain

Question 13

What did the encomienda System provide for new Spain?

Answer 13

Military protection

Question 14

Which king Became France’s most powerful ruler and boasted, “I am the state”?

Answer 14

Louis XIV

Question 15

Why did Peter the Great build the city of St. Petersburg?

Answer 15

The city was on a seaport and it would be easier to travel west

Question 16

By the end of the 1600s,what had England’s system of government become?

Answer 16

A constitutional monarchy

Question 17

Who Declared himself the head of the English church?

Answer 17

Henry VIII

Question 18

What did Francis Bacon help develop?

Answer 18

The scientific method

Question 19

The idea of a democracy is explained in what essay?

Answer 19

Social contracts

Question 20

How did philosophes influence catherine the great?

Answer 20

Proposal on reforms of Russia’s laws

Question 21

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 21

Thomas Jefferson

Question 22

Which philosophes influenced the Bill of Rights?

Answer 22

Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke

Question 23

About which percentage of population belong to the third estate?

Answer 23

97%

Question 24

What happened on July 14 Bastille Day?

Answer 24

Prison raid for gunpowder

Question 25

What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime?

Answer 25

He created a code of laws, public education, set up a fairer tax code, and stabilized the currency

Question 26

How did Admiral Nelson win the battle of Trafalgar?

Answer 26

Split french ships

Question 27

What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 27

to establish a new balance of power

Question 28

How did landowners and aristocrats view wealthy members of the middle class?

Answer 28

Looked down upon

Question 29

What were the goals stated in the "slogan of revolution"?

Answer 29

Liberty, equality, and fraternity

Question 30

which documents stated, "men are born and remain free and equal in rights?"

Answer 30

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Question 31

What was the industrial revolution?

Answer 31

Increased output of machine made goods

Question 32

What was the benefit of being a stockholder in a corporation?

Answer 32

Stockholders are not personally responsible for a corporation's debts, but share in its profits.

Question 33

What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?

Answer 33

Unions

Question 34

What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurred in the 19th century Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe?

Answer 34

Industrialization

Question 35

What did Britian do In order to keep industrial secrets for the United States?

Answer 35

forbade engineers, mechanics, and toolmakers from leaving the country.

Question 36

What were three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?

Answer 36

land, labor, and capitol.

Question 37

What type of Policy did Japan institute to control foreign ideas?

Answer 37

Closed country policy

Question 38

Who were the first europeans to arrive on Japanese soil?

Answer 38

Portuguese

Question 39

Korea was a vassal state of which country during the 1700s

Answer 39

China

Question 40

Which region was referred to as the "powder keg" of Europe?

Answer 40

Balkan region

Question 41

Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World War I?

Answer 41

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Question 42

Which action on November 11, 1918 brought World War I?

Answer 42

Armistice

Question 43

What were the fourteen points?

Answer 43

Plan for a post war world

Question 44

Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 44

Germany

Question 45

what is the Schlieffen plan?

Answer 45

Defeat France in the west and Russia in the east

Question 46

which nations actions cause the United States to fight in World War I?

Answer 46

Germany. The sent the Zimmermann not to New Mexico

Question 47

What did the war become once the participation countries began devoting all of their resources to the war effort?

Answer 47

Total war