FINAL EXAM!

Question 1

2 important provisions within the Magna Carta

Answer 1

Protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment and next 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 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 the long-standing 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 Colombian 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 priest called

Answer 9

The Jesuits

Question 10

What was the name of one of the most influential royal houses of Europe

Answer 10

the House of Habsburgs

Question 11

What were the 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 claims sole and uncontestable power

Question 15

Define mercantilism

Answer 15

governments must intervene 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 the Governments only purpose was to protect what

Answer 19

protect life, liberty, and property

Question 20

Define Mestizo

Answer 20

a person born to a Spanish father and a native mother

Question 21

Define Peninsular

Answer 21

those born in Spain

Question 22

Define Creoles

Answer 22

born in America of Spanish parents

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What city symbolized Russia’s opening to the West

Answer 24

St. Petersburg

Question 25

What were the 2 central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers

Answer 25

individual liberty and religious tolerance

Question 26

What were the 3 main reasons for immigration to the New World

Answer 26

economic, political, and religious freedom

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Royal governors

Question 28

List the 4 Coercive Acts

Answer 28

Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Impartial Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act

Question 29

The Second Continental Congress issues a Declaration of Independence on what day

Answer 29

July 4, 1776

Question 30

A body of deputies from the three estates or order

Answer 30

The Estates General

Question 31

What the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaimed

Answer 31

men are born and remain free and equal in rights

Question 32

What are the slogans and values that will define the French revolution

Answer 32

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity

Question 33

What is the 2nd Century BC artifact that will unlock the lost ancient Egyptian culture

Answer 33

The Rosetta Stone

Question 34

The objective of the Congress was to provide a long term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars

Answer 34

The Congress of Vienna

Question 35

What was America's reaction to the political instability in South America during the 1820's was

Answer 35

The Monroe Doctrine

Question 36

The key industry that drove the development of the Industrial Revolution

Answer 36

Textile Industry

Question 37

A Scottish engineer, who developed an efficient steam engine in 1776

Answer 37

James Watt