World History Final Study Guide ch.16-24
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- Which two groups did Cardinal Richelieu feel had too much power?
- the Huguenots and the nobles
- According to Karl Marx, how would the proletariat seize control of the economy from the bourgeoisie?
- through revolution
- During Elizabeth I's reign, what were the two other countries with which she sought a balance of power?
- France and Spain
- What was the relationship of Oliver Cromwell to the Roundheads?
- He was their military commander
- Which term best describes the attitude of the leaders of the Revolution toward the Catholic Church in France?
- hostile
- Who led the Reign of Terror?
- Maximilien Robespierre
- On which topic do you think the following people might have agreed: John Stuart Mill, Lord Shaftesbury, Jeremy Bentham, Karl Marx?
- government involvement in social welfare
- What was the main motivation for Henry VIII's six marriages?
- He was trying to have a male heir.
- Whose work was the basis of genetics?
- Gregor Mendel
- Which of these ideas did Magellan's circumnavigation prove true?
- Earth's oceans are connected, Earth is much larger than anyone had believed, Earth is a globe
- Which man promoted the idea that power should be divided among three branches of government?
- Montesquieu
- What was true about the impressionist movement in art?
- emphasized a new look at color and light
- The Council of Trent agreed on
- the Catholic Reformation.
- Who took the Tennis Court Oath?
- representatives of the Third Estate
- The unique characteristics of Renaissance art included
- perspective.
- A laissez-faire policy means
- no government interference in business
- When did France become a Republic?
- 1792
- The author of An Essay on the Principle of Population was
- Thomas Malthus
- To help control France, the Congress of Vienna
- established buffer states
- How many voyages did Columbus make trying to prove that he had discovered a new route to Asia?
- four
- Of the following, who did not directly contribute to improved communications?
- Rudolf Diesel
- A church-run state is called a(n)
- theocracy.
- The ratification of the Constitution did not make the United States a full democracy because
- not all Americans had the right to vote
- What was the domestic system?
- People worked in their own homes
- what are some termso likely to use in a discussion of the division of labor?
- the conveyor belt
- Making money was one reason European countries wanted to trade directly with Asian spice dealers. What was the other?
- Church leaders wanted to expand Christianity
- What is the most pessimistic mode of writing
- naturalism
- How did the American colonists protest the Stamp Act?
- They attacked stamp agents and burned tax stamps in the streets, They boycotted British goods, They met at a Stamp Act Congress in New York City.
- As a result of the Seven Years' War
- Great Britain emerged as the strongest colonial empire, his own son, his closest advisers
- Which of the following statements is not true about laborers during this time?
- Children were not allowed to work in factories
- Who took the throne as the result of the Act of Settlement?
- George I
- Francis Bacon is known for having
- helped develop the scientific method.
- What did ships carry on the middle leg of the triangular trade?
- enslaved Africans
- Where was Napoleon's last battle fought?
- Waterloo
- The king of France during the French Revolution was
- Louis XVI
- Which group of the French population were ignored in the Declaration of Rights?
- women
- In collective bargaining,
- union leaders and the employer try to reach an agreement
- What circumstance showed the lack of religious toleration after the Restoration?
- Only members of the Church of England could attend universities
- What was the final result of the loss of the Spanish Armada?
- Spain's decline as a sea power
- Who was Montezuma II?
- an Aztec ruler
- What did Cervantes' novel Don Quixote symbolize about Spain?
- It was declining as a European power
- Mercantilism was a theory of national economic policy that held that
- a state's power depended on its wealth
- What was the enclosure movement?
- laws that allowed landowners to fence off land
- A result of the Portuguese spice trade was
- an ongoing effort to spread Catholicism, the building of many new trading posts in Southeast Asia, conflict with Muslim traders
- When China was successfully invaded by the Manchus it had been weakened by
- lavish spending on the court rather than the military.
- The new joint-stock companies helped fund voyages of exploration because they allowed individual investors to
- share the risks.
- The first European explorer to find his way around the southern tip of Africa was
- Bartholomeu Dias.
- Which thinker's writing especially influenced Thomas Jefferson as he wrote the Declaration of Independence?
- John Locke
- The Thirty Years' War
- began in Bohemia,involved a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, weakened Germany
- Which of the pairings of inventor and invention is correct?
- Richard Arkwright and the steam engine
- Why were village economies limited to the local area?
- Transportation to other areas was difficult
- When did France join the Americans in the war against Great Britain?
- soon after the British defeat at Saratoga, New York
- What circumstances led to the bitter fighting between the minority French Protestants, or Huguenots, and the Catholic majority?
- a struggle for the monarchy
- Who of the following concluded that blood circulates throughout the body?
- Harvey
- It is logical that the Renaissance began in Italy because Italy
- avoided the economic crisis of Middle Ages, avoided the economic crisis of the late Middle Ages. avoided the economic crisis of the late Middle Ages, close contact with byzantine empire and was filled with artifacts of the ancient world.
- All of the following were goals of the Metternich systems EXCEPT
- promoting liberalism
- Which of the following did not happen under Louis XIV?
- creation of a just tax system
- Which work was the principal influence on the view of the universe as a machine governed by fixed laws?
- Principia, written by Newton
- What was a result of urbanization
- the size of families increased
- What was the cause of tension between James I and Parliament?
- the king's constant need for money
- The real reason the French returned to Southeast Asia in 1858 was
- their desire to control Indochina's resources.
- Unlike in Italy, the Renaissance in northern Europe
- had a more religious tone.
- Among the important societal changes of the period in Italy was the
- rise in importance of wealthy merchants and bankers.
- As part of the Japanese Act of Seclusion,
- no Japanese could leave the country.
- What was a major result of the Industrial Revolution?
- a more flexible social order
- Ivan the Terrible, an early czar, took extreme measures against
- the boyars
- The rulers of Safavid Persia, who were Muslim,
- were bitter foes of the Ottoman Turks
- What event marked the Glorious Revolution?
- the peaceful transfer of power to William and Mary
- Of the following, which was an achievement of Peter the Great?
- won a warm-water port near the Baltic Sea
- The discoverer of oxygen was
- Joseph Priestley
- How did the Petition of Right limit the power of Charles I?
- He could not collect taxes without Parliament's consent.
- The beginning of the Ming dynasty marked
- the overthrow of Mongol rule.
- The use of the phrase "the great sword hunt" in Japan referred to
- efforts to disarm the peasants.
- Which statement is true of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan?
- No person could change his or her social class.
- What was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's position on the ideas of the Enlightenment?
- He felt people should rely more on instinct and emotion, He criticized the era's excessive reliance on reason, He wanted people to throw off civilization and return to nature
- Who wrote Common Sense?
- Thomas Paine
- What phrase best describes Napoleon's invasion of Russia?
- a horrible defeat for Napoleon
- Europe's increasing contacts with the rest of the world led to
- the spread of diseases, an exchange of goods, technology, and ideas, changes in lifestyles around the world
- Anglicanism is
- a blend of Protestant belief and Catholic practice.
- The political philosophers who believed in natural law also believed in
- applying reason to political, economic, and social relationships
- Of the following, which believed that absolute monarchy was the best form of government?
- Thomas Hobbes
- Who would be an example of NOT romantic
- Gustave Courbelt
- Compared to Renaissance art, the baroque style of art and architecture was
- more complex and emotional
- Suleiman I can best be described as
- a heroic military commander, a skillful administrator. a patron of the arts
- Martin Luther protested the sale of indulgences, which were
- certificates to reduce or cancel one's sins.
- What is capital with respect to industrialization?
- money available for investment
- Who was John Cabot and what did he do?
- He was an Italian-born navigator who explored Newfoundland.
- How did Diderot use the Encyclopédie?
- to praise religious tolerance, to criticize the Catholic Church,to cover everything then known about the sciences, technology, and history
- For what reasons did some Europeans choose to emigrate in the late 1800's
- find better jobs, escape persecution, and to escape famine
- Siam's King Mongkut protected the country from Western nations by
- allowing those nations to compete for commercial opportunities.