Unit 5- Early Modern World (Part II)

Question 1

*Beyond the extended Chinese family was what? This included dozens, even hundreds, of related families.

Answer 1

*Clan

Question 2

*Describe Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of a social contract.

Answer 2

*an entire society agreed to be governed by its general will

Question 3

*Describe the Safavid dynasty under Shah Abbas.

Answer 3

*the dynasty reached a high point of their glory

Question 4

*What is Laissez-Faire?

Answer 4

*Adam Smith’s belief that the state should not regulate the economy

Question 5

*How did the Russians defeat Napoleon’s superior Grand Army?

Answer 5

*by retreating hundreds of miles and then burning their own villages and country sides

Question 6

*Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation states that…

Answer 6

*gravity could explain all motion in the universe

Question 7

*Napoleons’ coup d’etat overthrew what?

Answer 7

*the Directory

Question 8

*Shah Jahan had what built in memory of his wife?

Answer 8

*The Taj Mahal: the eighth wonder of the world

Question 9

*What did Francis Bacon believe scientists should do?

Answer 9

*use inductive reasoning

Question 10

*What did John Locke’s idea suggest people were?

Answer 10

*were molded by experiences

Question 11

*What was the American nations first constitution called?

Answer 11

*the Articles of Confederation

Question 12

*What was the Japanese name for the heads of noble families?

Answer 12

*Daimyo

Question 13

*What was the most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon?

Answer 13

*the Civil Code

Question 14

*What was the Tennis Court Oath?

Answer 14

*a vow sworn by the French National Assembly to continue to meet until they had produced a French Constitution

Question 15

*Who established the Mogul dynasty?

Answer 15

*Babur

Question 16

*Who led the Ming dynasty’s naval voyages of exploration?

Answer 16

*Zheng He

Question 17

*Who was the first to argue that the sun, not Earth, was the center of the universe?

Answer 17

*Nicholas Copernicus

Question 18

*What did Toyotomi Hideyoshi do by 1590?

Answer 18

*persuaded most of the daimyo to accept his authority

Question 19

*Why was Louis XVI forced to accept the National Assembly’s decrees?

Answer 19

*because thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace