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World History II 1500 AD to Present (Part 1)

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Who led Prussia in the unification of Germany?Otto von Bismarch
When Oliver Cromwell died who was the king who was restored to power?Charles II
What Enlightenment thinker believed that people are sovereign and consent to government for protection of their natural rights?John Locke
Name three forms of imperialism.Colonies/protectorates/spheres of influence
What is mercantilism?Economic practice adopted by European colonial powers in an effort to become self sufficient: based on the idea that economies existed for the benefit of the mother country
Name some of the effects of the Idustrial Revolution on industrialized countries.Increased population, increased education, standards of living; improved transportation; urbanization; pollution; dissatisfaction with working conditions, growth of middle class
Who helped unify Northern Italy?Count Cavour
Name an Enlightenment painter who borrowed heavily from the Greek and Romans.Eugéne Delacroix
What did Adam Smith write that was influential in the growth of capitalism?Wealth of Nations
Three Western Hemisphere agricultural products that changed European lifestyles.Corn, potatoes and tobacco
Identify the Portugueses explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean to the coast of India.Vasco da Gama
Name the palace built by King Louis XIV of France that became a symbol of royal power.Versailles
Who led Haiti to independence?Toussaint L'Ouverture
Who was the author of the novel Don Quixote?Cervantes
True/False: The American and French Revolutions had minimal impact on the Latin American independence movement.False
List two animals from Europe that changed the lifestyles of American Indians.Horse and cattle
Who is credited with discovering the circulation of blood.William Harvey
This Frenchman believed that the best form of government included a separation of powers.Montesquieu
Name tow religious dissenters prior to Martin Luther.Jan Huss, John Wycliffe
What codified French Law?Napoleonic Code
What war led to the creation of the German state?Franco-Prussian War
Who developed a smallpox vaccination?Edward Jenner
In the Industrial Revolution family-based cottage industries were displaced by ?Factory system
A term that indicated politics based on practical rather than idealistic notions justifying all means to achieve and hold power.Realpolitik
who developed the heliocentric theory?Nicolaus Copernicus
Who was the French King who was executed during the French Revolution?Louis XVI
Where did the Industrial Revolution originate?England
Who broke with the Catholic church because he wanted a divorce?Henry VIII
Who changed the focus on the Thirty Years' War from a religious to a political conflict?Cardinal Richelieu
What was Constantinople renamed by the Ottoman Empire/Istanbul
In the factory system what helped keep costs of production low and profits high?Child Labor
Name the English monarch who was executed during the English Civil War.Charles I
Who wrote Leviathan?Thomas Hobbes
Who was the English monarch who was head of the Anglican Church and obtained victory over the Spanish Armada?Elizabeth I
Which religion was concentrated in parts of Asia, Africa, and southern Europe in 1500 A.D.?Islam
The sale of these was one of the causes of the Protestant Reformation.Idulgences
What is a Huguenot?French Protestant
What group was founded to spread Catholic doctrine around the world>Jesuits or Society of Jesus
Who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe?Francis Drake
One impact of the Columbian Exchange was that slavery was based on ______?Race
What religion did the Mughal rulers spread into India?Islam
What three continents was the Ottoman Empire located on at its peak in power?Asian, Africa and Europe
Identify three American documents that incorporated Enlightenment ideas.Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights
What were some means of diffusing Christianity during the exploration period?colonists migrated to new lands/Catholics and Protestants converted indigenous people
What is a viceroy?A representative who ruled one of Spain's provinces in the Americas in the King's Name
What event led to widespread discontent in Europe - sparking the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848?Congress of Vienna
True/False: Italy and Germany became nation-states before most other European nations.False
Who was the absolute monarch who began the westernization of Russia?Peter the Great
What does suffrage mean? What impact did the Industrial Revolution have on women's demands for suffrage?Voting rights/increased the demands for suffrage
Name the two revolutions that Enlightenment ideas greatly influenced.American Revolution and French Revolution
What invention increased the demand for slave labor on American plantations?Invention of the cotton gin
The Renaissance was a "rebirth" of ____ knowledge and the "birth" of the ____ world.Classical/modern
What connected the Read Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and was considered to be a lifeline to India by Great Britain?Suez Canal
Northern German princes converted to ____ ending the Pope's authority in their states.Protestantism
What practice was established to reinforce Catholic doctrine?Inquisition
In what year was the English Bill of Rights signed?1689
True/False: The English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution prompted further the absolute power of the English monarch.False - led to more rights for the Englishment
This Asian country was controlled by a shogun and adopted a policy of isolation to minimize foreign influences.Japan
Under mercantilism colonial economies were limited by the economic needs of the _____.Mother Country
Who used a telescope to support the heliocentric theory?Galileo Galilei

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