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Gorsuch WH Review
WH II SOL Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Founder of Christianity | Jesus of Nazareth |
| Founder of Buddhism | Gautama |
| Founder of Islam | Muhammad |
| Led Jews out of Egypt in the exodus | Moses |
| Founder of Judaism | Abraham |
| Islamic Name for god | Allah |
| Muslims from Asia Minor-defeated Constantinople-renamed it Istanbul | Turks |
| Painted Sistine Chapel and Sculpted la Pieta and David | Michelangelo |
| Painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Renaissance playwright and writer of sonnets | Shakespeare |
| Invented printing press | Gutenberg |
| Head of Roman Catholic Church | Pope |
| Most famous Christian humanist | Erasmus |
| God predestines certain people to go to heaven | John Calvin |
| Catholic order that proselytized for all over the world for Catholic church | Jesuits |
| Combined Catholic and Protestant to come up with Anglican Church | Elizabeth I |
| Broke away from Catholic church because of divorce | Henry VIII |
| First to ever break away from Catholic Church, German monk, faith | Martin Luther |
| Portugal-brought people togeher to study navigation | Prince Henry |
| his crew was first to circumnavigate the globe | Magellan |
| Portugese-first to find water route to Asia | da Gama |
| wanted to sail west around the world to get to Asia-landed in Carribbean-thought | Columbus |
| first Englishmen to sail inside the globe | Drake |
| Spanish conquistador-conquered Aztecs | Cortez |
| Spanish conquistador-conquered Incas | Pizarro |
| French explorer-claimed Canada for France | Cartier |
| Native American civilization-Yucatan-famous for pyramids | Mayans |
| set up trading enclaves for foreigners to trade in | Chinese |
| kicked out foreigners and became isolationists | Japanese |
| Africans-traded salt and gold | Songhai |
| Native American civilization-Mexican-corn | Aztecs |
| Muslims-Asian Minor-coffee and ceramics | Ottomans |
| Muslims-ruled India-built Taj Mahal | Mughals |
| Native American civilization-Peru-Andes Mts.-roads & bridges | Incas |
| an absolute ruler of Russia-he wanted to westernize Russia | Peter the Great |
| absolute monarch of France-brought a great culture to France-also caused problems by doing away with the Edict of Nantes-built Versailles | Louis XIV |
| absolute ruler of Prussia | Frederick the Great |
| nickname of louis XIV | Sun King |
| German-used math to prove that earth goes around the sun in an ellipse | Kepler |
| Polish-heliocentric theory-feared the church | Copernicus |
| English-blood circulates through the body | Harvey |
| Italian-telescope to prove Copernicus right-declared a heretic | Galileo |
| English-developed calculus and the laws of gravity | Newton |
| Spanish-novelist-wrote Don Quixote | Cervantes |
| Second great composer of Enlightenment | Bach |
| American-wrote Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| French-believed in freedom of speech-seperation of church and state | Voltaire |
| Austrian-great composer-began composing at age 5 | Mozart |
| English-used natural law-wrote Two Treatises on Gov't-influenced Jefferson | Locke |
| French artist-painted Liberty Leading the People | Delacroix |
| French-Social Contract | Rousseau |
| French-wrote Spirit of Laws-believed in seperation of powers | Montesquieu |
| English-wrote Leviathan-believed people needed an absolute monarch | Hobbes |
| Steam engine-work now done by machines instead of human power | Watt |
| Used US Navy to get Japan to open up to trade | Cmdr. Matthew Perry |
| Invented steel-now machines could be made stronger and resistant to fire | Bessemer |
| Cotton Gin-clean cotton faster-need for slaves grows | Eli Whitney |
| Made world's first vaccination-small pox | Jenner |
| Discovered germs and bacteria | Pasteur |
| Socialism-Wrote Communist Manifesto-proletariat to rise up and revolt | Karl Marx |
| Capitalism and Laissez Faire- Wrote Wealth of Nations-profits make people work | Adam Smith |
| Russian Socialist-wanted to spread socialism all over the world-led Bolsheviks | Lenin |
| US President World War One | Woodrow Wilson |
| Radical socialist led by Lenin | Bolsheviks |
| Prince of Austra Hungry-assassinated-spark of WWI | Archduke Ferdinand |
| Totalitarian leader of Japan | Tojo |
| Totalitarian leader of Italy | Mussolini |
| Totalitarian leader of Germany | Hitler |
| Totalitarian leader of Soviet Union | Stalin |
| Ruler of Russia in early 1900's-incompetent-overthrown | Tsar Nicholas II |
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