Questions

Question 0

Type of government in the Age of Pericles

Answer 0

Athenian democracy

Question 1

Feared warrior-state of Ancient Greece

Answer 1

Sparta

Question 2

Plato’s opinion of the amount of government control in a citizen’s life

Answer 2

Every aspect of the citizens life

Question 3

Christian leader who spread Christianity beyond in the Jewish community

Answer 3

Paul apostle

Question 4

How did Israelites differ from other cultures of that time in regards to the law and their leaders?

Answer 4

Leaders were under the law

Question 5

Know why Greek thought challenged Christian teaching

Answer 5

Because Greeks wanted reasoning vs. faith

Question 6

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a book called A Vindication for the Rights of Women. In it did she call for equal ____?

Answer 6

Education

Question 7

What were the rules referred to by Enlightenment thinkers called

Answer 7

Natural law

Question 8

What English document, signed by King John in 1215 led to due process?

Answer 8

Magna Carta

Question 9

Why were Enlightenment thinkers often censored?

Answer 9

They challenged the ideas

Question 10

What is an enlightenment despot?

Answer 10

Rulers influenced by Enlightenment and tried to gain power through social political change

Question 11

In France’s old order, which estate did the clergy belong to?

Answer 11

First estate

Question 12

Because of the diversity of people and religions, what were the effects on America’s social order? (As opposed to Europe)

Answer 12

It was blurred

Question 13

What was created as a result of the Estates-General in France?

Answer 13

National Assembly

Question 14

What form of government came out of the National Convention in 1792 in France?

Answer 14

Republic

Question 15

How did France’s National Assembly pay off the huge debts of the government ?

Answer 15

Sold off church loans

Question 16

What document was the Declaration of Rights of man and the Citizen based upon?

Answer 16

Declaration of Independence

Question 17

The Directory followed the Reign of Terror in France. What group dominated the Directory?

Answer 17

Bourgeois

Question 18

What war tactic did the Russians use to defeat Napoleon?

Answer 18

Scorched earth policy

Question 19

What did the Congress of Vienna do to support the concept if legitimacy for rulers in Europe?

Answer 19

Restored hereditary monarchies on the throne

Question 20

“Bourgeois liberalism” supports which class (lower, middle, upper)

Answer 20

Middle

Question 21

Which group strove for a homeland for people with a common heritage?

Answer 21

Nationalists

Question 22

Toussaint L’Overture led revolt for what island country ?

Answer 22

Haiti

Question 23

Why did the Congress of Vienna try to force the Netherlands and Holland into a single country in 1815 ?

Answer 23

Because of France?

Question 24

Did Britain, France, and Russia support the Greek revolution because they didn't believe in nationalist ideas?

Answer 24

Yes they didn't believe in nationalist ideas

Question 25

What was Father Miguel Hidalgo's el Grito de Dolores" a call for?

Answer 25

Revolution and independence

Question 26

What event encouraged Simon Bolivar's struggle for Latin American independence?

Answer 26

French occupation of Spain

Question 27

The Industrial Revolution caused people to move from where to where?

Answer 27

Rural to urban

Question 28

What did the cotton gin do?

Answer 28

Separated cotton and seeds

Question 29

The first factories made what?

Answer 29

Textiles

Question 30

"The greatest happiness for the greater number" reflects what school of thought?

Answer 30

Utilitarianism

Question 31

Why did Karl Marx despise capitalism?

Answer 31

Prosperity for few and poverty for many

Question 32

Why was there a population explosion in Europe between 1800 & 1900?

Answer 32

Medicine and sanitary living

Question 33

What is the production method called where workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process?

Answer 33

Assembly line

Question 34

Who created the dynamo?

Answer 34

Michael Faraday

Question 35

Why was Japan able to modernize so quickly?

Answer 35

Because modernization became a priority

Question 36

What is the name of the middle class value system that supported the idea that "a mans home is his castle"?

Answer 36

Cult of domesticity

Question 37

When the concept of natural selection is applied to social business systems, it is called..?

Answer 37

Social Darwinism

Question 38

Romanticism was a revolt against thee Enlightenment's emphasis on what?

Answer 38

Order, harmony, reason, and emotional restraint

Question 39

What painting style portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers?

Answer 39

Realism

Question 40

Bismarck's Realpolitik addressed the needs of whom?

Answer 40

Needs of state

Question 41

Why did William II ask Bismarck to resign?

Answer 41

Didn't want to share the power

Question 42

Why did Bismarck introduce social reforms to Germany?

Answer 42

He was afraid of a revolution by socialists

Question 43

What was an obstacle to a unified Italy, once it was united?

Answer 43

People viewed themselves as better (nationalism)

Question 44

What two countries made up the Dual Monarchy?

Answer 44

Austria and Hungary

Question 45

Russia was very slow to progress in the 1800s. Why was that?

Answer 45

Rigid social structure

Question 46

What was Russification?

Answer 46

Making a nationalities' culture more ethnically Russian

Question 47

What did the Great Reform Act do?

Answer 47

Redistributed seats in House of Commons, eliminated boroughs, and granted male suffrage

Question 48

By the late 1800s, what type of government did Britain have?

Answer 48

Constitutional monarchy

Question 49

Social reforms introduced in Great Britain in the late 1800s kept what group from getting very much support ?

Answer 49

Industrial workers

Question 50

What happened in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848?

Answer 50

Women's rights convention

Question 51

The French government, after their revolution, tried to lessen the influence of Catholic Church by doing what regarding schools?

Answer 51

Starting public school systems

Question 52

Widespread anti-Semitism throughout Europe in the late 1800s kept what group from getting very much support?

Answer 52

Zionism

Question 53

The discovery of what in Iran led to intensified interest in the country by European countries?

Answer 53

Oil fields

Question 54

The discovery of what in South Africa led to the Boer War?

Answer 54

Gold and diamonds

Question 55

The idea of westerners bringing civilization to inferior races is an example of what concept?

Answer 55

Social Darwinism

Question 56

What country did Japan get control of after the Russo-Japan War?

Answer 56

Korea

Question 57

Rifle cartridges greased with animal fat led to what Rebellion?

Answer 57

Sepoy Rebellion

Question 58

What was the purpose of the Open door policy in Asia?

Answer 58

Allowed US to trade with European countries

Question 59

The US gained control of what country as a result of the Spanish American War?

Answer 59

Philippines

Question 60

Know what the Monroe Doctrine says

Answer 60

American policy that discouraged European interference

Question 61

What philosopher believed that the best government would be a philosopher-king?

Answer 61

Plato

Question 62

Life, liberty, and property are what kind of rights?

Answer 62

Natural rights

Question 63

Which country's revolution led to a long term constitution?

Answer 63

America

Question 64

What Latin American liberator was influenced by the American Revolution and Enlightenment ideals?

Answer 64

Simon Bolivar

Question 65

The main purpose of both the American and French Revolution was to establish what?

Answer 65

Government with all powers based on the consent of the people

Question 66

What was the goal of those who took the Tennis Court Oath in France?

Answer 66

To establish a sound and just constitution

Question 67

What event showed that popular protest would play a role in the French Revolution?

Answer 67

Storming the Bastille?

Question 68

Agricultural changes in England in the 1600s enable farmers to produce more ___ with fewer ___.

Answer 68

Products; people

Question 69

What did Louis Pastuer's research in germ theory prove what?

Answer 69

Germs can cause disease

Question 70

Why did labor unions spring up during the Industrial Revolution ?

Answer 70

Unfair working conditions

Question 71

During the Industrial Revolution, what did factory owners spend most of their money on?

Answer 71

Machinery

Question 72

What artistic style developed as a reaction against classism?

Answer 72

Romanticism

Question 73

At the end of the 1800s, were colonies seen as a sign of a country's relative power?

Answer 73

Yes?

Question 74

Why did Japan became a colonial power after 1894?

Answer 74

Homogeneous restoration

Question 75

Anti-foreign sentiment in China in 1900 led to what rebellion?

Answer 75

Boxer rebellion

Question 76

Failure to control foreign influences led to the ___ of the Chinese empires

Answer 76

Fall

Question 77

By 1914, Ethiopia and Liberia were the only 2 African CPU tried to retain their what?

Answer 77

Independence

Question 78

Having several branches of government is a reflection of what enlightenment concept

Answer 78

Separation of power (Montesquieu)