World History Final

Question 1

Why exploration?

Answer 1

God, Gold, Glory. Also a trade route for Asia

Question 2

Vasco da Gama

Answer 2

Portuguese explorer. First to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by an ocean route

Question 3

Henry the Navigatior

Answer 3

Portuguese prince that helped usher in the ace of discovery and Atlantic slave trade.

Question 4

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 4

Italian Navigatior, explorer, and financier who demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies were not the outskirts of Asia

Question 5

Magellan

Answer 5

Portuguese explorer who organized the Castilian expedition, resulting in a he first circumnavigation of the earth

Question 6

Circumnavigate

Answer 6

To sail all the way around the world

Question 7

Christopher Columbus

Answer 7

Italian explorer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic

Question 8

Columbian Exchange

Answer 8

A period of cultural and biological exchanges between new and old

Question 9

African trade

Answer 9

Portuguese’s African slave trade

Question 10

Conquistadors

Answer 10

A conqueror, especially one of Spain/Maine

Question 11

Hernan Cortes

Answer 11

Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire

Question 12

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 12

Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Inca empire

Question 13

Copernicus

Answer 13

Renaissance mathematician and astronomer that placed the sun at the center of the universe

Question 14

Louis XIV

Answer 14

Known as Louis the Great of the Sun King, was king of France from 1643 until 1715

Question 15

Palace of Versailles

Answer 15

King Louis XIV house, extremely big

Question 16

Absolute monarchy

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Only one leader

Question 17

Isaac Newton

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English physicist and mathematician. Came up with the law of gravitation

Question 18

Galileo

Answer 18

Famous Italian astronomer

Question 19

Philosophes

Answer 19

Studied areas of learning. Intellectuals of the enlightenment

Question 20

John Locke

Answer 20

Life, liberty, and property

Question 21

Lassaiz Faire

Answer 21

“Hands off” the belief that the government intervention is bad.

Question 22

Salon

Answer 22

Gathering of enlightenment individuals

Question 23

Natural rights

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John Locke (life liberty and property)

Question 24

Natural laws

Answer 24

Laws that govern the natural world

Question 25

Thomas Hobbes

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Social contract- agree to behave a certain way (absolute Monarchy)

Question 26

Montesquieu

Answer 26

The three branches of government

Question 27

Declaration of the rights of man and citizen

Answer 27

Max Robesppiere. First document for France. Like the bill of rights. People don't want an absolute monarchy.

Question 28

Estates general

Answer 28

France's pre- Revolutionary monarchy

Question 29

Constitution of 1791

Answer 29

Grants universal male suffrage

Question 30

1st estate

Answer 30

Clergy

Question 31

2nd Estate

Answer 31

Nobility=Knights

Question 32

3rd estate

Answer 32

Everyone else

Question 33

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Answer 33

Last king and queen of France, eventually executed for treason

Question 34

Storming of Bastille

Answer 34

Kicks off French Revolution. People think the kinda coming so the kill the guards

Question 35

Robespierre

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French lawyer and politician, most influential figure of French Revolution and reign of terror

Question 36

Guillotine

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A machine that was used to behead people

Question 37

Reign of terror

Answer 37

When all the heads get chopped off

Question 38

Napoleon Bonaparte

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French military and political leader who gained fame during the French Revolution (very successful).

Question 39

Napoleonic code

Answer 39

Legal code for France, dealt with mostly property. Some countries adopted it. Inspired by enlightenment

Question 40

Nationalism

Answer 40

Thinking your country is superior to others

Question 41

Industrial revolution

Answer 41

More buildings and bigger cities

Question 42

Agricultural revolution

Answer 42

Updates in farming

Question 43

Enclosures

Answer 43

Fencing in waste/ common land

Question 44

Imperialism

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A policy of extending a countries power and influence through diplomacy or military force

Question 45

Urbanization

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An increasing number of people who live in urban areas

Question 46

Social Darwinism

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People thought that white race was better than other races therefore they could take over

Question 47

Indian National Congress

Answer 47

Wanted south rule for India

Question 48

Salt March

Answer 48

Act of civil disobedience led by Gandhi

Question 49

Satyagraha

Answer 49

Nonviolent protest

Question 50

How did the Industrial Age lead to the need for imperialism

Answer 50

Countries needed a better Military force

Question 51

Why was Europe successful in building empires

Answer 51

They manipulated underdeveloped nations, they controlled over weak governments

Question 52

Scramble for Africa

Answer 52

King Leopold kicks it off. Kango. Europe goes after Africa and splits it into chunks

Question 53

Effects of imperialism in Africa

Answer 53

It started a lot of wars

Question 54

Causes of WWI

Answer 54

MAIN

Question 55

Consequences of WWI

Answer 55

Treaty of Versailles- loss of land and money

Question 56

Hitlers rise to power

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Says he wanted to re build Germany while it was down

Question 57

Holocaust

Answer 57

Killed many Jewish people

Question 58

Apartheid

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Segregation (whites and blacks separated)

Question 59

Nelson Mandela

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Fought to get rid of segregation and becomes the president.

Question 60

How did British control india's people

Answer 60

They made laws and strict rules

Question 61

Gandhi

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Leader of a nonviolent revolution

Question 62

Creation of Pakistan

Answer 62

Late 1940's there's too much violence between Hindus and Muslims. Hindus stay in India and Muslims move to Packistan

Question 63

Kim Jong-un

Answer 63

North Korean communist leader

Question 64

Arab-Israel conflict

Answer 64

Fought over the holy land. Jewish wanted to claim Israel as their own.

Question 65

Vladimir Putin

Answer 65

Prime Minister of Russia

Question 66

Hmong people and Laos

Answer 66

Laos helped fight the secret war during Vietnam. Hmong fighters got weapons. Hmong people got put into camps. We left them even though we promised to help them

Question 67

Khmer Rouge

Answer 67

The government group in Cambodia in the 70's who killed millions of people

Question 68

Fidel Castro

Answer 68

Cuban politician

Question 69

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 69

13 day confrontation between US and SU

Question 70

Fall of communism how?

Answer 70

German reunite

Question 71

When?

Answer 71

Late 80's and early 90's

Question 72

Who fought in the Cold War?

Answer 72

The 3rd world countries