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History Final
Final for 2nd semester freshman year
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The landowning upper class of Rome were called | patricians. |
| The Punic Wars pitted Rome against | Carthage. |
| In times of war, the Romans would | appoint a dictator to organize society and the army. |
| Augustus' achievements included all of the following EXCEPT: | Removes the Senate and creates a more efficient legislature |
| The Pax Romana was a | 200 year span from reign of Augustus to Marcus Aurelius of Roman rule, prosperity, unity and expansion. |
| All of the following parts of the Aqueduct are matched up with their purpose EXCEPT: | Covered Trench - Used when a mountain gets in the way |
| Romans needed roads in order to | all of the above |
| This Roman leader who persecuted Christians and blamed them for setting Rome on fire. | Nero |
| This Roman leader that codified and standardized Roman law and built wall across Britain to avoid invaders. | Hadrian |
| This Roman leader who was similar to Plato’s vision of a philosopher-king because of his commitment to duty. | Marcus Aurelius |
| This Roman leader who granted toleration to Christians in 313 and created a new capital called Constantinople. | Constantine |
| This Roman leader who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. | Theodosius |
| The Romans got all of the following “gifts” from the Etruscans EXCEPT... | military strategies |
| The Roman Republic was defined by all of the following attributes EXCEPT... | the practice of ostracism was used to reduce any one person gaining too much power. |
| All of the following are examples of the Plebeian class in Rome EXCEPT... | |
| What word goes best with the following definition, “...establishing control over foreign lands and people.” | imperialism |
| Emperor Diocletian is famous for all of the following EXCEPT... | |
| During the time of the Roman Republic, the Senate was broken up into how many consuls? | two |
| All of the following are reasons for the fall of Rome EXCEPT. | rampant disease |
| The time period known as the “long decline” can best be describe by all of the following characteristics EXCEPT | military failures |
| What empire did the Byzantine Empire branch out from? | East Roman |
| Empress Theodora did all of the following EXCEPT | aided the poor |
| The kicking out of someone within the church is known as? | excommunication |
| The “Great Schism of 1054” created what new Christian religion | Eastern Orthodox |
| Which of the following is a reason for “The Great Schism?” | Emperor Leo III ordering the destruction of all icons. |
| Islam means | Submission to Allah |
| The Hajj is | journey to Mecca |
| All of the following are pillars of Islam EXCEPT: | jihad: holy war against Allah’s enemies |
| The majority of Muslims are | Sunnis |
| How many times must a person go on a pilgrimage to Mecca in their life time? | 1 |
| All of the following are reasons for the Spread of Islam EXCEPT: | location of Mecca |
| Which of the following is NOT a Muslim Empire | |
| Which of the following is the accurate depiction of the feudal pyramid? (starting top to the bottom) | king, nobleman/clergy, knights, peasants |
| What was the unifying force of the Middle Ages? | Christianity |
| Which Pope called for the 1st Crusades? | Pope Urban II |
| The Byzantine Emperor called upon the Pope for help when his city was attacked by the Muslims. The Pope used the Council of Clermont to call upon what action? | Crusades |
| All of the following are reasons for a serf’s short life expectancy except? | practice of poaching |
| In the feudal contract the serfs are bound to the land. All of the following were advantages for the serfs in this system except? | religious salvation |
| The feudal contract was an agreement between the Vassal and the lord. What does the feudal contract contain? | Lord gets loyalty and military service; Vassal gets fief |
| What was a loosely organized system of rule in which the powerful local lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords. In exchange for lesser lords or vassals, pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord. | Feudalism |
| Part of a vassal’s obligation under his feudal contract was to | serve in the military and be loyal |
| When the ownership of a manor was granted to a new lord, the serfs | remained on the land to serve the new lord. |
| Starting in the late 700s, which group attacked Western Europe from the North and the sea, broke the last threads of unity in Charlemagne’s empire? | Vikings |
| Feudalism developed as a way for medieval societies to | protect themselves. |
| In the manor system, the peasants had to | sell their produce to their lord. |
| During the First Crusade in 1099, Christian knights succeeded in capturing | Jerusalem |
| What issue was the cause of a bitter battle between eastern and western Christianity? | A Byzantine emperor banned religious icons. |
| The city of Constantinople was in a key location on the strait that links the Mediterranean Sea with the | Black Sea. |
| The rule of the Byzantine emperor Justinian differed from the rule of monarchs in Western Europe in that | |
| Which of the following is a key belief, or duty, of Islam? | Each Muslim should make a pilgrimage to Mecca. |
| Muslims believe the sacred word of God as revealed to Muhammad is contained in the | Quran |
| What meeting reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings in opposition to Protestant beliefs? | Council of Trent |
| Christian humanists believed that | if they read the works of christianity they would become more pious |
| In the scientific method, a hypothesis is a | possible explanation to be tested. |
| _________can be best described as the lessening of the time for a person to spend in purgatory. | indulgences |
| Protestant religion that preaches predestination, the idea that God alone decides if you are going to heaven. | Calvinism |
| Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinkers in that humanists | tended to focus more on physical subjects. |
| The age of great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts is called the | Renaissance |
| Group who studied the physical nature of the world and did not focus on the spiritual aspects were called: | |
| The publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses | attacked the abuses in the sale of indulgences, beginning the Protestant Reformation. |
| What means denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis? | |
| What resulted from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555? | Each German prince could decide the religion for his lands. |
| All of the following were causes of the Scientific Revolution EXCEPT, | Catholic Reformation |
| What was the first protestant religion | Lutheranism |
| Developed the heliocentric universe theory | Nicolas Copernicus |
| Created calculus | Isaac Newton |
| Known for saying, “I think therefore I am.” | Rene Descartes |
| Artists known for his works like The Pieta and the marble David | Michelangelo |
| Artists who studied Da Vinci and Michelangelo’s works. Also know for his work The School at Athens. | Raphael |
| Designed the dome on the Cathedral in Florence | Fillipo Brunelleschi |
| How did Europeans usually acquire African captives for the slave trade? | They relied on African traders to bring captives to African ports. |
| Which foods were first introduced to the Americas by Europeans through the Columbian Exchange? | wheat |
| What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society? | scientific method |
| Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that came from the | Scientific Revolution. |
| According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is | an absolute monarchy. |
| The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker? | Montesquieu |
| What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to protect and defend the natural rights of the people? | John Locke |
| The idea of separation of powers in the Constitution was borrowed from Enlightenment thinker | Montesquieu |
| Accepted the English Bill of Rights and ruled with his wife Mary | William of Orange |
| All of the following are true of the Glorious Revolution EXCEPT: | Parliament invited Charles II back to rule. |
| All of the following were ensured by the English Bill of Rights EXCEPT: | the right of an attorney. |
| All of the following are true of Peter the Great EXCEPT: | He allowed the elected legislature to veto his laws. |
| The obstacles to absolutism all occurred in | England |
| Absolutist monarchs, asserting Divine Right, felt their power came from | God |
| All of the following were motives for the Age of Exploration EXCEPT? | Greed |
| The introduction of new foods, plants, & animals between America & Europe is known as? | Columbian Exchange |
| What was the ONE disease the America’s gave the people of Europe? | Syphilis |
| What was the first protestant religion | Lutheranism |
| The publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses | attacked the abuses in the sale of indulgences, beginning the Protestant Reformation. |
| What resulted from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555? | Each German prince could decide the religion for his lands |
| Industrial Revolution inventor; Dynamite | Alfred Nobel |
| French revolutionary and leader of the Committee of Public Safety | Maximilian Robsepierre |
| Industrial revolution economist, who came up with the theory of Socialism | Karl Marx |
| British explorer, wanted to connect Africa from Cairo to Capetown with a railroad | Cecil Rhoades |
| Last absolute monarch of France, before the French Revolution | Louis XVI |
| Industrial revolution inventeor who improved the steam engine for commercial use | James Watt |
| Military dictator of Japan, insituted closed door policy | Tokugawa |
| First Consul of France, brilliant military leader, conquered most of the European continent | Napoleon Bonapart |
| King of Belgium and ruler and owner of the Belgian Congo | Leopold II |
| In France’s old order, the clergy belonged to the | First Estate. |
| One important result of the Estates-General was | the National Assembly. |
| What war tactic helped the Russians defeat Napoleon? | scorched-earth policy |
| What form of government did the National Assembly create with the Constitution of 1791? | a limited monarchy |
| When radicals took control of the Legislative Assembly in the fall of 1792, they extended voting rights to | all male citizens |
| During the Reign of Terror, trials and executions were carried out under the authority of | the Committee of Public Safety. |
| Under the Napoleonic Code | men regained complete authority over their wives. |
| Napoleon’s final defeat was at the | Battle of Waterloo |
| Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because | Japanese political leaders placed a high priority on modernization. |
| The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because | medical advances reduced the death rate. |
| Which of the following was a Social Darwinist argument in favor of Western imperialism? | Westerners thought they had a duty to bring their civilization to inferior races. |
| Rifle cartridges greased with animal fat were a key cause of the | Sepoy Rebellion. |
| Which country was able to preserve its independence by defeating Italian invaders in 1896? | Ethiopia |
| At the Berlin Conference, European powers agreed that, in order to claim part of Africa, a European power had to | set up a government office there |
| Who did King Leopold II hire to explore the Congo River basin and arrange trade treaties with African leaders? | Henry Stanley. |
| What was one result of the Sepoy Rebellion? | Parliament ended the rule of the East India Company. |
| What was a result of the Taiping Rebellion that began in China in 1850? | The Qing government survived but had to share power. |
| In the Treaty of Nanjing, Britain gained control of | Hong Kong |
| All of the following were motivations for Imperialism except: | Nationalism |
| The military leaders of Japan for 600 years until the start of Imperialism were the | Tokugawa |
| The rebellion that began in China, to expel all foreigners from China was called: | Boxer Rebellion |
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