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Semester One Final
Semester One Final BWHS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who led the way for overseas exploration for Portugal? | Henry the Navigator |
| Who was credited with the discovery of the New World? | Christopher Columbus |
| Who was the first person credited with circumnavigating the globe? | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Who was the Spanish explorer who encountered and destroyed the Aztec empire? | Hernan Cortes |
| Who was the Spanish explorer who encountered and destroyed the Inca empire? | Francisco Pizarro |
| Why did the slave trade begin? | Need for labor in the Spanish Empire |
| How did European powers get control of trade in Southeast Asia? | Military Force |
| What type of foreign policy did most of Asia have? | Restricted foreign trade |
| What did Spanish explorers travel to the Americas to find? | Gold |
| What is the belief that a nation's real wealth is measured in its gold and silver treasure? | Mercantilism |
| Who wrote the Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith |
| Who wrote Leviathan and presented the concept of the social contract? | Thomas Hobbes |
| Who presented the idea that people have natural rights? | John Locke |
| Who was the leader of the Roundheads in the English Civil War? | Oliver Cromwell |
| Who was the Russian monarch who carried out social and political reforms to westernize the country? | Peter the Great |
| Who was the Spanish monarch who tried to expand Catholic power throughout the world | Philip II |
| Who was the French monarch who was executed during the French Revolution? | Louis XVI |
| Who was the French emperor that rose to power and built an empire that included much of Europe? | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Who was the first European monarch to be tried and executed by his own people? | Charles I |
| Who was the architect of the Reign of Terror who tried to crush all opposition to the French Revolution? | Robespierre |
| Which estate supported the French economy by paying taxes? | Third Estate |
| Who were the members of the First Estate? | Clergy |
| Who were the members of the Second Estate? | Nobles |
| Who were the members of the Third Estate? | Majority |
| Which estate was almost always outvoted in the Estates General? | Third Estate |
| What was the document that ended the Glorious Revolution and asserted the Parliament's superiority over the monarchy? | English Bill of Rights |
| What is divine right? | The belief that the right to rule was given by God |
| Who lived in tenements? | The poor |
| What group benefited the most from the Industrial Revolution? | Middle class |
| What was Darwin's theory called? | Evolution |
| What did Social Darwinism encourage? | Racism |
| What is the movement of people from the country to cities called? | Urbanization |
| Who was the Prussian chancellor who engineered German unity? | Otto von Bismarck |
| Who was the Russian czar who freed the serfs? | Alexander II |
| Who was the French army officer falsely accused of being a German spy because he was Jewish? | Alfred Dreyfus |
| Who was the Hungarian Jewish journalist who began the Zionist movement? | Theodor Herzl |
| What is the ideology that focused on establishing a homeland for people of a common heritage? | Nationalism |
| What is the term meaning realistic policies based on the needs of the state? | Realpolitik |
| Which European country was the first to ban the slave trade? | Britain |
| What is the political ideology that focuses on ending class struggle? | Communism |
| What is the economic ideology in which society owns large farms and businesses? | Socialism |
| What is the economic and political ideology in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private individuals for profit? | Capitalism |
| What is the movement whose goal was the establishment of a homeland for Jews? | Zionism |
| Why was Italy hard to unite? | Regional differences |
| Why was Russia hard to unite? | Ethnic differences |
| Why did some native peoples help the Spanish defeat the Aztec empire? | They hated the Aztecs |
| Why did Europeans avoid the Mediterranean? | Muslims were in control of trade routes |
| What is the exchange of food, goods and people from the Old World to the New World? | Columbian Exchange |
| How did the Age of Napoleon affect Europe? | It spread the ideals of the French Revolution |
| What was the impact of the Enlightenment? | It encouraged revolutions around the world |
| Why was coal important in the Industrial Revolution? | Coal provided the fuel needed to smelt iron and produce steel |
| Why did Britain take the lead in the Industrial Revolution? | British business class had large profits to invest |
| Who was the Italian nationalist who helped to unify Italy? | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
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