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HistoryMidterm
List of all words on the History II Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grandson of Babur who was benevolent and encouraged religious tolerance | Akbar (Mughal Emperor) |
| Conquered Delhi in battle of Panipat. Set up Mogul dynasty. | Babur |
| Governor of the Plymouth colony | William Bradford |
| Italian captain sailing for England who explored Newfoundland and the North American coast | John Cabot |
| French Philosopher who invented analytic geometry and wrote the "Discourse on Method", which outlined an analytical approach to understanding | Rene Descartes |
| Discovered electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
| Henry IV of France; Founder of the Bourbon dynasty; Issued Edict of Nantes | Henry IV of Navarre |
| Edict giving Huguenots the right to practice their religion | Edict of Nantes |
| Second and most powerful Tudor king who separated England from the Catholic Church | Henry VIII of England |
| Women who believed that not only the clergy could experience God | Anne Hutchinson |
| Founder of the Stuart dynasty who was Anti-Puritan | James I of England |
| English philosopher who drafted the Fundamental Constitution of Connecticut | John Locke |
| English classical poet | John Milton |
| Most powerful king of Spain who ruled Hapsburg Spain and sent Spanish Armada to England | Phillip II of Spain |
| Ottoman Sultan and Caliph who was a heroic fighter and skilled administrator; know as "the great" or "the lawgiver" | Suleiman I |
| The third military leader to complete the unification of Japan | Tokugawa Ieyasu |
| French author who wrote poetry, plays, essays, and books in an entertaining and satirical style; Place in the Bastille twice and exiled from France to England | Voltaire |
| Led Methodism which stressed the value of the personal religious experience | John Wesley |
| System in which each nation keeps peace by allying with one nation if the other gets too powerful | Balance of Power |
| Ship that allowed explorers to travel up shallow inlets and beach the ship to make repairs; "the best ships that sailed the seas" | Caravel |
| Religious ideas going across the Atlantic from Britain to the New World in the mid-eighteenth century | Great Awakening |
| 50 acre land grants given to settlers (one for each member of the family) | Headrights |
| Servants bound to master for a term of years in payment for passage to the new world | Indentured Servitude |
| Certificates that lessened or canceled sins | Indulgences |
| A belief that a person is made good by their faith in God's mercy and love | Justification by Faith |
| Elite corps of young boys taken from Balkan Christian families to fight for the Ottomans | Janissary |
| A belief that a nations strength is determined by its wealth (Bullion: Gold) | Mercantilism |
| Artists showing distances between objects as they appear to the eye | Perspective |
| Owners of large tracts of land in North America on which they were granted by royal charter the right to establish colonies | Proprietor |
| The Parliament army fighting against the Cavaliers and Charles I during the English Civil War; they were led by Oliver Cromwell | Roundheads |
| The royal army against Parliament during the English Civil War | Cavaliers |
| Society providing financial support to scientists and publishing scientific books and journals | The Royal Society |
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