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What does the term vernacular mean?
Native Language Slang
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Roughly what time period does the Renaissance cover?
1300-1600
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The printing press was invented by who?
Johann Gutenburg
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The followers of John Knox were known as?
Presbyterians
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What was the Renaissance?
Revival of art and learning
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What was the first full size book that Gutenburg printed?
Bible
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What was a Renaissance man?
A man who excelled in many fields
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What was the practice of selling indulgences?
Released a sinner from performing the penalty that was imposed for sins
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Who named himself head of the English Church?
Henry VIII
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What was the main reason for Henry the VIII's split from the Catholic Church?
Henry's many marriages
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What were Europeans main motives for making voyages of exploration?
New trade routes
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Who conquered Aztec Empire?
Hernando Cortes
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Why did the Europeans see Africans as better source of labor then the Native Americans?
They are immuned to diseases
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Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?
Bahamas
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What was the encomienda system and what did it provoke for Spain?
Native Americans are forced to work and free labor
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What European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
Spain
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What concept was the belief in divine right used to support?
Idea that God created a monarchy
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The heliocentric, or sun-centered theory was proposed by who?
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Francis Bacon helped develop what?
New Scientific Method
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Isaac Newton explained what law?
Theory of Motion
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The idea of direct democracy was explained in what book?
On the Spirit of Laws
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The Declaration of Independence was written by who?
Thomas Jefferson
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The Bill of Rights was influenced by what thinker?
Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke
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Put the following events in order: Constitutional Convention, French/Indian War, Stamp Act, and Navigation Act.
Navigation Act, French/Indian War, Stamp Act, and Constitutional Convention
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What was Montesquieu's influence on the U.S constitution?
His political theory
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Which document stated "men are born and remain free and equal in rights"?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens
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During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?
No one
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Define Plebiscite
Vote of the people
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What strategy did Czar Alexander I use to defeat Napoleon in Russia?
Scortched-Earth Policy
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One of Ramanticism's greatest composers was?
George Gordon or Lord Byron
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This man led a revolt of enslaved Africans in Saint Domingue?
Toussant L'Quverture
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What was the industrial revolution?
Greatly increased output of machine made goods
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What were three factore of production required to drive the industrial revolution?
Land, Labor, and Capital (wealth)
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What is the laissez-faire policy?
Lets owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference
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What is the name for voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?
Strike
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What were the Zionists?
Movement founded in 1890s to promote the establishment of Jewish homeland in Palestine
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What does it mean to be a dominion?
Self governing in domestic affairs
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Why did Great Britain establish a penal colony in Australia?
Place send convicts to serve their sentence
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Who was the American inventor and industrialist who made factory production more efficient by introducing the assembly line?
Henry Ford
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Declared that all slaves in Confederat states are free
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What concept is the theory of evolution base on?
Natural Selection
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Who was the British women who formed the Women's Social and Political Union in the Early 1900's?
Emmeline Pankhurst
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What policy or action led to the Trail of Tears?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
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What event provoked the succession of the Southern States from the United States?
Lincoln promising the stop of slavery
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Why was the work of Louis Pasteur important in the history of medicine?
Discovered Bacteria
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Why was India called "the jewel in the crown"?
Produce raw materials
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What was the main reason for the Crimean War?
To give Russia a Warm-water port
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What happened as a result of the Berlin Conference in 1984-1985?
Ethnic groups forced to be near eachother because of the new boundaries created, fought.
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Why did Britain take control of the Suez Canal?
Oversaw financial control of the canal, also the canal connected the Red Sea and the Mediteranean Sea
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What is Geopolitics? Name an event in history that illustrates it.
Taking land for its strategic location, Crimean War
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Why did Britain sell Opium to China?
Only thing to trade and to get people addicted to the drug
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What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
So Americans wouldnt be colonized anymore
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Spain lost control of Cuba as a result of what war?
Spanish-American War
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What was Benito Juarez most remembered for?
Politics of Mexico
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What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war called?
Militarism
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What region was refered to as the "Powder Keg" of Europe?
Balkans
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Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800's and most of WWI?
Kaiser Wilhem II
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What was the Schlieffen Plan?
Attacking and defeating France in West and rushing East to Russia
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Which nation's actions caused the United States to fight in World War I?
Germany
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What did the war become once participating countries began devoting all their resources to the war effort?
Total War
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What were the fourteen points?
Wilson's outlined a plan for achieving lasting peace after WWI
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Who was forced to assume full responsibility for the war under the Treaty of Versallies?
Germany
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What was the goal of the Allies Gallipoli campaign?
Take control
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What did the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare refer to?
Germans would sink ships without any warnings
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How did the Treaty of Versailles effect post war Germany?
Left people in poor living conditions
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What is the link between militarism and imperialism?
Dominate countries and are always ready to fight
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What event in Sarajevo ignited the Great War?
Shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie (his wife)
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What was the trench warfare intended to accomplish?
Protect themselves from enemy fire
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Who were the Bolsheviks?
Group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of government in November 1917
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What were soviets under Russia's provisional government?
Local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers
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What is a totalitarian state?
Government that take total control, over public and private aspects
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What was the purpose of the Soviet's states five-year plans?
Development of Soviet Unions Economy
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What group was known for taking a 6000 mile long journey known as the long march?
Communist Party
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Who lead the famous protest known as the Salt March?
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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How did Czar Alexander III and Nicholas II deal with calls for reform?
Dispanded them, they didn't want reforms
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Under the Traty of Versailles, who did the Allies give Chinese territories to that had previously been controlled by Germany?
Japan
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Whose territory of relativitly replaced Newton's comforting belief in a world run by absolute laws of motion and gravity?
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity
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After WWI, most Europena nations had what type of government, if only temporary?
Democracy
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What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
Stock Marcket crashing
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Il Duce was the title of what leader?
Benito Mussolini
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What German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat Communism?
Nazism
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What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Axis Powers
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What does Facism stress?
Emphasized obedience and loyalty
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What was the policy of Appeasement?
Giving into an agressor to keep the peace
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What impact did the radio have after the war?
Spread Patriotism and Propaganda
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In what way was Japan different from its allies Italy and Germany?
Japan's Empire
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What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
Invasion of Poland
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What was the major cause of the collapse of the stock market?
Selling of millions of stocks and no one to wanting/willing to buy them
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What was a blitzkrieg?
Ggermany's new military strategy
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What crucial lesson was learned in the Battle of Britain?
Britain has strong resistance
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What event occured on the day described as "a date which will live in infamy"?
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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What was the significant about the Battle of Midway?
U.S destroyed Japans naval fleet and the retreated
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What battle marked the final German offensive?
Battle of the Buldge
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Where were the atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Name one location of a Nazi extermination camp?
Auschwitz, Poland
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Which of the following was addressed at the Nuremburg Trials?
22 Nazi leaders were tried for War Crimes
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What was the goal of Hitler's final solution?
Eliminate the Jews
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How did the Lend-Lease Act benefit the United States?
Helped out their Allies
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Why did President Truman agree to use the atomic bomb?
Prevent more soldiers from dying and cause Japan to surrender
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