Belew History Midterm Study Guide - 2023
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| What was the Renaissance a rebirth of? | show 🗑
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| Members of the Society of Jesus were commonly called? | show 🗑
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| The study of classical texts led to ___________, an intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievement. | show 🗑
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| show | Albrecht Durer
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| William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright of the ___________________ Age. | show 🗑
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| This man began the Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses, or formal statements, to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517. | show 🗑
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| Protestant is a term that refers to what group of people? | show 🗑
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| show | They wanted direct trade with Asia, not wanting the Italian or Ottoman middlemen.
Spreading the Word to the “savages” of the world.
For non-firstborn nobility to try and build their fortunes.
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| In 1488, this explorer was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa, naming it the Cape of Good Hope. | show 🗑
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| show | Portugal in 1543
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| When the Japanese started their "closed county policy" only one port remained open to limited outside trade. What was the name of that port? | show 🗑
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| Japan banned outsiders from trading with their people except under strict controls. This policy was called what? | show 🗑
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| Hernando Cortes was a Spanish soldier who led his troops to conquer which native empire? | show 🗑
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| show | Conquistadors
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| The Spanish forced natives to work on ranches, in mines, and on plantations within a system known as ______________. | show 🗑
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| show | The French and Indian War
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| show | King Philip
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| show | joint-stock
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| The word "specie" refers to what? | show 🗑
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| This author published what is called the first modern European novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, in 1605. | show 🗑
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| show | A republic
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| The idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch was God's representative on Earth. | show 🗑
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| show | Cardinal Richelieu
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| Why did states form more slowly in Central Europe than they did in Western Europe? | show 🗑
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| This Russian leader came to power in 1533 at the age of 3 and would take the title of czar at the age of 16. | show 🗑
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| What was the Glorious Revolution? | show 🗑
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| This thinker believed that, by better understanding the world, scientists could generate practical knowledge that would improve people's lives. | show 🗑
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| show | The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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| show | Voltaire (real name is Francois Marie Arouet)
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| This act (actually a series of acts) passed by Parliament in 1651 prevented American colonists from selling their most valuable products to any country except Britain. | show 🗑
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| show | The Articles of Confederation
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| show | (American) The first ten amendments of the Constitution that protected basic rights.
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| show | The Third Estate
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| show | The First Estate
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| The Second Estate was made up of which group? | show 🗑
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| show | They were searching for gunpowder and arms
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| show | Gulliotine
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| What was the Reign of Terror? | show 🗑
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| After the failure to reestablish French American colonies, Napoleon sold this to the United States in 1803. | show 🗑
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| What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna? | show 🗑
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| Which elected leader of France declared himself emperor? | show 🗑
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| show | Camillo di Cavour
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| Who was the leader of the Red Shirts? | show 🗑
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| show | Otto von Bismarck
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| show | Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
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| Why did people start to abandon their farms and move to the cities as the Industrial Revolution progressed? | show 🗑
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| show | The Middle Class
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| According to this economist, author of An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), the earth's population would someday outrun its food supply. | show 🗑
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| What were the reasons that British anti-slavery activists opposed slavery? | show 🗑
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| This American reformer, from Massachusetts, favored free public education for all children. | show 🗑
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