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World.History Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wrote the Inferno | Dante |
| Local versions of the Latin language | Vernacular |
| A Church-run state | Theocracy |
| Blended Protestant beliefs and Catholic features in England | Elizabeth I |
| Author of The Prince | Machiavelli |
| Inventor of the printing press | Gutenberg |
| Led takeover of the Medici power | Savonarolo |
| Designed dome for Cathedral of Florence | Brunelleschi |
| Wrote the Book of the Courtier | Castilogne |
| Founder of the Jesuits | Ignatius of Loyola |
| German artist known for wood carvings | Durer |
| Someone who fights other peoples' wars | Mercenaries |
| Leader of the Holy Roman Empire, tried to stop Protestantism | Charles V |
| Painter of the Last Supper | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Espoused rejection of Catholic ritual | Puritanism |
| His divorce precipitated English/Catholic rift | Henry VIII |
| Excommunicated Luther | Leo X |
| Author of the Canterbury Tales | Chaucer |
| Established universities throughout Europe | Jesuits |
| Author of Utopia | Thomas More |
| First permanent French settlement in the Americas | Quebec |
| Conquistador who took over Mexico | Cortés |
| French missionaries | Jesuits |
| Killed in the Philippines during an attempt at circumnavigation | Magellan |
| His stories of China inspired people | Marco Polo |
| Inca emperor who was defeated | Atahualpa |
| French navigator who explored the St. Lawrence river | Cartier |
| Treaty that divided the unexplored world in two | Tordesillas |
| Explored the southern tip of Africa | Bartholomeu Dias |
| English sea captain who raided Spanish ships | Drake |
| Man in whose honor America was named | Vespucci |
| Italian explorer sponsored by Spain | Columbus |
| Objected to abuse of Native Americans | Bartolomé de las Casas |
| Sponsored Columbus | Isabella |
| Pioneered water route from Europe to India | Vasco da Gama |
| Place where many spices came from | Moluccas |
| Banking family of Florence | Medici |
| Dutch colony at the mouth of the Hudson | New Amsterdam |
| Spice trade center taken by Albuquerque | Melaka |
| Italian who first sailed for England | Cabot |
| England's ruling dynasty from 1485 to 1603 | Tudor |
| Russia's "window to the West" | St. Petersburg |
| Founder of the Bourbon dynasty | Henry IV |
| Russian nobles | Boyars |
| German nobles | Junkers |
| Monarch who refused to marry | Elizabeth I |
| Dynasty that ruled Russia until 1917 | Romanov |
| Painter in the Baroque style, used elongated faces | El Greco |
| Wrote the Two Treatises on government | John Locke |
| Art inspired by the Catholic reformation | Baroque |
| Wrote Don Quixote | Miquel de Cervantes |
| Spain's most powerful monarch | Philip II |
| Location of Louis XIV's palace | Versailles |
| Written by William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet |
| Believed that kings needed to keep power | Thomas Hobbes |
| Completed the Saint Peter's Basilica | Gian Bernini |
| Economic advisor to Louis XIV | Jean-Baptiste Colbert |
| Succeeded the Tudor dynasty | Stuart |
| First Tudor monarch | Henry VIII |
| Prussian rulers and Hapsburg rivals | Hohenzollerns |
| Protects citizens from the power of the government | Bill or Rights |
| Written by Thomas Jefferson | Declaration of Independence |
| Enlightened Ruler who actually tried to reform | Joseph II |
| British march to Concord interrupted here | Lexington |
| Describes the idea of Laissez-faire | Adam Smith |
| Site of British army surrender | Yorktown |
| More simplistic style of art | Rococo |
| Argued against the enlightenment | Rousseau |
| Wrote the encyclopedia | Denis Diderot |
| Enlightened ruler of Russia | Catherine the Great |
| Masterwork of Baron de Montesquieu | The Spirit of Laws |
| Enlightened ruler of Prussia | Frederick the Great |
| Refused some of Copernicus's hypothesis | Kepler |
| I think, therefore I am | Descartes |
| Started the Methodist Religion | John Wesley |
| Great musical composer | Mozart |
| Joined England and Scotland | Act of Union |
| Supporter of Freedom of Speech | Voltaire |
| Author of Principia | Newton |
| Ruled France during the Reign of Terror | Committee of Public Safety |
| Type of French government before the revolution | Monarchy |
| Plan that forbade trade with Britain | Continental System |
| Wanted to imprison royals and abolish monarchy | the Radicals |
| Group of extreme radicals | Jacobins |
| Wife of Louis XVI | Marie Antoinette |
| Rarely called meeting of the 3 social classes | the Estates General |
| Argued for women to be included | Olympe de Gourges |
| Person who assassinates Marat | Charlotte Corday |
| Comprised 97% of the French population | the Third Estate |
| Rivals of the Jacobins | Girondists |
| Napoleon's greatest victory | Austerlitz |
| When you take the government over | Coup d'etat |
| Early leader of the Revolution who was killed in the bath | Jean Paul Marat |
| Doctors, lawyers, and merchants | Bourgeoisie |
| Paris prison stormed by a mob | Bastille |
| Formed by those locked out of Estates-General | National Assembly |
| The unified French legal system | Napoleonic Code |
| Included bishops and abbots | the Higher Clergy |
| Those who continued to support the king | Royalists |
| Freed the serfs | Czar Alexander II |
| Inventor of the spinning Jenny | James Hargreaves |
| First leader of an independent Canada | John Macdonald |
| Train connecting Liverpool and Manchester | the Rocket |
| Set up the 2nd French Republic | Louis Napoleon |
| People who wanted to perfect society | Utopians |
| Invented by John Kay to make waving faster | Flying shuttle |
| The Citizen King of 1830 France | Louis-Philippe |
| Briefly took over Italy in 1848 | Giuseppe (Joseph) Mazzini |
| Meeting between union leaders and an employer | Collective Bargaining |
| Feared population would outgrow food supply | Thomas Malthus |
| Inventor of cotton-cleaning machine | Eli Whitney |
| First ruler of a united Italy | Victor Emmanuel II |
| Leader of the Congress of Vienna | Prince Metternich |
| To achieve objective by any means necessary | Realpolitik |
| Built New Lanarck, Scotland as a perfect town | Robert Owen |
| People who take the risk to start a new business | Entrepreneurs |
| Took over the Kingdom of Two Sicilies | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| Lost the second French Empire | Napoleon III |
| Money to invest in labor, material, and machines | Capital |
| Workers who were going to take over | Proletariat |
| Developed power flight | Wright Brothers |
| Famous impressionist | Claude Monet |
| Ruling class that had to be overthrown | Bourgeoisie |
| Accused of being a spy during the 3rd Republic | Alfred Dreyfus |
| Wanting a greater role for women | Feminism |
| Extreme love and pride for one's country | Nationalism |
| Developed cubism | Pablo Picasso |
| Writer in the naturalism form | Emilie Zola |
| Known for his skyscrapers | Louis Sullivan |
| Developed Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud |
| Known for work with radiation | Marie Curie |
| e=mc2 | Albert Einstein |
| "War is the father of all things" | Friedrich von Bernhardi |
| Famous French impressionist | Renoir |
| Famous Post-Impressionist | Vincent van Gogh |
| Supported the Zionist movement | Theodor Herzl |
| Pioneered the modern American home | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Popularized Social Darwinism | Herbert Spencer |
| Developed the camera | George Eastman |
| Led an uprising in Sudan | Mahdi |
| Discouraged European interference in the Americas | Monroe Doctrine |
| At first controlled by France | Suez Canal |
| British called them Boers | Afrikaners |
| Present-day Libya | Tripoli |
| Territory having its own government, but guided by a foreign power | Protectorate |
| Territory ruled directly by an imperial power | Colony |
| Kept his country independent | King Mongkut |
| Demanded that Japan open up for trade | Matthew C. Perry |
| Took over the Congo | Leopold II |
| Domination over one country by another | Imperialism |
| New York journalist turned African explorer | Stanley |
| Was used as proof of Europeans' superiority | Social Darwinism |
| Reason for the Sepoy rebellion | Animal fat |
| Encourage Chinese opium use | Great Britain |
| Founded colony in present-day Zimbabwe | Cecil Rhodes |
| Remained independent despite French invasion | Siam |
| Led by Cetywayo, initially defeated the British | Zulu |
| Present-day Zimbabwe | Rhodesia |
| Repelled Italian invasion | Ethiopia |
| Opposed Qing dynasty | United League |
| Ended the Russo-Japanese war | Treaty of Portsmouth |
| Site of present-day Tokyo | Edo |
| Being sent to your own country to stand trial | Extraterritoriality |
| Ruled China during the warlord period | Yuan Shigai |
| Empress Dowager of China | Ci Xi |
| Was known as Formosa, taken by Japan | Taiwan |
| China forced to give England this | Hong Kong |
| Country Japan modeled themselves after | Germany |
| The Ming Dynasty navy was made up of these | Junks |
| Did not like foreign influence in China | Harmonious Fists |
| Started the Meiji Restoration | Emperor Mushito |
| Opened Japan to American trade | Treaty of Kanagawa |
| Great Chinese writer | Ba Jin |
| Object of Japanese attack | Port Arthur |
| Tried to keep Japan isolated | Tokugawa Shogunate |
| Another name for trade city of Canton | Guangzhou |
| Japan could have anything but this place | Philippines |
| Proposed the Open Door policy | John Hay |
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