WORKSHEET WORLD HISTORY 1-25
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INSTRUCTIONS: Use your Revised Final Edition Study Guide World History 1-16 to answer the write the
answers to the questions. That will be worth 70%. Then, circle the numbers next to the questions you
want to answer orally. Each question you answer orally is worth 10%.
1. What three advantages fostered the Renaissance in Italy?
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2. How were expectations for the Renaissance Man and Renaissance Woman similar?
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3. What major changes did a belief in individual merit bring about in art?
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4. Does Machiavelli think that a prince should prefer to be loved or feared? Why?
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5. What are some of the characteristics of the Renaissance Man, and
Renaissance Woman?
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6. How did Italy’s cities help to make it the birthplace of the Renaissance?
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7. What was the attitude of Church leaders and the wealthy toward the arts?
Why?
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8. What were the major effects of the invention of the printing press?
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9. What was one way the Renaissance changed society?
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10. What were the main points of Luther’s teaching?
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11. Why did Luther’s ideas encourage the peasants to revolt?
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12. How did Henry VIII’s divorces and marriages cause religious turmoil in England?
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13. What political, economic, and social factors helped bring about the Reformation?
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14. From where did the term Protestantism originate?
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15. What impact did Henry VIII’s actions have on England in the second half of
the 1500s?
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16. How did Protestant teaching lead to the forming of new groups?
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17. Why was it easier for women to take part in the early stages of the Reformation
than in the later stages?
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18. What was Calvin’s idea of the “elect” and their place in society?
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19. What role did noblewomen play in the Reformation?
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20. What were the goals of the Jesuits?
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21. Why was taking Constantinople so important to Mehmed II?
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22. What were the advantages of the Devshirme system of the Sultan?
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23. Which cultural achievements of Suleyman’s reign were similar to the
European Renaissance?
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24. By what means did the early Ottomans expand their empire?
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25. Why was Suleyman called the law giver?
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