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WHII Midterm Review
Need to Know List of SOLs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Renaissance artist: Sistine Chapel, David | Michelangelo |
| Renaissance artist: Last Supper, Mona Lisa | Leonardo |
| Renaissance playright | Shakespeare |
| Renaissance humanist | Erasmus |
| Started Protestant Reformation with the Ninety-Five Theses | Luther |
| Believed in Predestination | Calvin |
| Started Reformation in England: Divorce issue | Henry VIII |
| Wanted to make France stronger in Thirty Years' War | Cardinal Richelieu |
| Early dissenter: burned at the stake by the Catholic Church | Jan Huss |
| Early dissenter: translated the Bible into English | John Wycliffe |
| Group that spread Catholic beliefs | Jesuits |
| Invented the printing press | Gutenberg |
| Sarted school to improve navigation: Portuguese | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| Portuguese explorer: sailed around Africa to India | Vasco da Gama |
| Discovered America in 1492 | Columbus |
| Spanish; conquered Aztec | Cortez |
| Spanish: conquered Inca | Pizarro |
| Spanish: his crew was 1st to circle the world | Magellan |
| English: circled the world | Drake |
| French: claimed Canada | Cartier |
| First to develop heliocentric theory | Copernicus |
| Said planets circle the sun in ellipses or ovals | Kepler |
| Used telescope to confirm helicentric theory | Galileo |
| Came up with laws of motion and calculus | Newton |
| Discovered circulation of the blood | Harvey |
| French absolute monarch: built Versailles | Louis XIV |
| Russian absolute monarch: wanted to "Westernize" his country | Peter the Great |
| Leader of Roundheads and Parliament during the English Civil War | Cromwell |
| English King beheaded after Civil War | Charles I |
| English King: Restoration, "Merry Monarch" | Charles II |
| English rulers: signed Bill of Rights | William and Mary |
| Enlightenment philosopher: "Leviathan" people need strong ruler | Hobbes |
| Enlightenment philosopher: Separation of powers into three branches | Montesquieu |
| Enlightenment philosopher: Social Contract: majority rule | Rousseau |
| Enlightenment philosopher: Free speech and religion | Voltaire |
| American author of the Declaration | Jefferson |
| French King killed during French Revolution | Louis XVI |
| French: coup d'etat, Law Code | Napoleon |
| German composer of Baroque music | Bach |
| Austrian composer of Romantic music | Mozart |
| French artist of "Liberty Leading the People" | Delacroix |
| Spanish novelist: Don Quixote | Cervantes |
| Led Mexican independence | Hidalgo |
| Led Haiti's independence | L'Ouverture |
| Led South American independence movements | Bolivar |
| American President:___________ Doctrine | Monroe |
| Led Northern Italy in Unification | Cavour |
| Led Southern Italy in Unification: Red Shirts | Garibaldi |
| Led German Unification | Bismarck |