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world hist sem 1
world history semester I final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What world religion had the greatest impact on Northern Africa? | Islam |
| What ethnic groups make up the Afrikaners? | Dutch settlers, German settlers and French Huguenots |
| What major trade kingdom did Mansa Musha Rule? | Mali |
| Of the major trade kingdoms of West Africa which was the largest? | Songhai |
| Tenochtitlan was the capitol city of what civilization? | Aztec |
| The Inca empire was located in what south american moutain range? | Andes |
| What did the Aztec freate that was simillar to ours? | The Callendar system |
| Who conqured the Inca? | Francisco Pissarro |
| Who conqured the Aztec? | Hernan Cortez |
| Genghis Kahn founded what empire | The Mongol |
| What was Marco Polo able to accomplish? | First European to explore Asia, served in Genhis Kahn's court and worte "Il Million" |
| What dynasty did the Manchu’s establish? | The Qing |
| Buddhism and Hinduism had the greatedst impact on what contenent? | Asia |
| mercantilism refers to? | createing a favorable ballence of trade for the old world vs. the new world |
| Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were? | a painter, sculpture, poet and author |
| A person who excelles at the arts of the renissance are called? | A renissance man |
| Who wrote the 95 thesis | Martin Luther |
| Who's reformation movement took place in Geneva | John Calvin |
| An indulgence form the Catholic Church allows a person to? | Buy forgiveness of sins |
| What english Monarch broke away from the catholic church becasue he wanted a divorce | Henry VIII |
| What is the most holy place for muslims? | Mecca |
| What is the largest Muslim group in the world? | Sunni |
| Who ruled the Ottoman Empire durring the Golden Age? | Suleiman |
| What was invented in the middle east? | the Astrolabe |
| What did Cardinal Richelieu achieve in France | Consoldateing Absoulte Power |
| The Edict of Nantes granted what? | Religious freedom for protestants in France |
| What is a Huguenot? | A French Protestant |
| What did Versailles symbolize in France? | Absoulte power in France |
| The Petition of Right guaranteed what? | The English king had to call parliament into session when asking to raise taxes |
| What year did the "Long Parliment" begin> | 1640 |
| What event lead to the English Civil War? | The Long Parliment |
| Who lead parliment durring the English Civil War? | Oliver Cromwell |
| The glorious revoultion was successful because? | it was accomplished without war, it brought in William and Mary who accepted limited monarchy |
| Who created a serf class, or an unfree labor force in Russia | Peter the Great |
| Divine RightDivine Right is the belief that? | A monarchs authority to rule came from God |
| The______suported the King during the English Civil War and the ________supported Parliament. | Cavaliers/Roundheads |
| What Czar was responsible for modernizeing Russia? | Peter the Great |
| Thomas Hobbes believed? | People were naturally bad and should give their right to one absoulte ruler |
| John Locke believed? | People were naturally good and demoracy was the best way to perserve peoples natural rights |
| Natural Rights are? | Rights a person has because they are alive |
| The industrial revoultion begain in what country? | Great Britain |
| What was the order of the three estates in France | Frist the clergy, second the nobles, third everybody else |
| What event began the French revoultion? | The storming of the Bastille |
| What enlightenment thinker believed in the concept of separation of power in government? | Montesquieu |
| Laissez Faire economics is the belief that____? | The government should not regulate the market place but the market will regulate itself |