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1. What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?
2. What was Johannes Gutenberg known for?
3. What are indulgences. Who disposed this practice?
4. Who declared himself the head of the English Church?
5. What did Ignatious of Loyola found (create)?
6. Describe a "Renaissance man.”
7. What church did Henry VIII leave? Why?
8. What did he create?
9. What ended up happening at the Council of Trent?
10. The Peace of Augsburg?
11. The Renaissance occurred roughly between which dates?
12. Define “secular”?
13. Define “vernacular”
14. Who invented the Printing press
15. Akbar
20. Esfahan
16. Constantinople
21. Isma'il
17. cultural blending
22. Shah Abbas
18. devshirme
23. Shah Jahan
19. ghazi
24. Timur the Lame
!25. Who ordered the building of the Taj Mahal? Why? !
26. Who conquered Constantinople? What did he do with the city after?
27. What did Suleyman the Lawgiver and Akbar have in common?
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28. Which European country lead 15th century sailing innovations?
29. Define Haiku.
30. Who 1st sailed around the tip of Africa, What is that geographic point called?
31. Zheng He
32. Purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
33. Which two groups were involved?
34. Who was Prince Henry? Why is he famous?
35. Bartolomeu Dias
36. Vasco da Gama
37. daimyo
38. How did people earn money in New France? (economic activity)
39. Who conquered the Aztec empire?
40. Who did Europeans see as better slaves than natives? Why?
41. Where did Christopher Columbus land first?
42. What is the encomienda system? What was its purpose?
43. Who was New York first settled by?
44. Why did the English want to take control of New Netherlands?
45. According to the policy of mercantilism, how could a nation increase its wealth?
46. What did the Atlantic slave trade do to Africa?
47. Divine Right 48. What happened during and after England’s Glorious Revolution
49. By the end of the 1600s, what kind of government did England have?
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50. What caused of the eight civil wars fought in France between 1562 and 1598
51. "I am the state”?
52. Why did European monarchs become absolute rulers?
53. What type of government did the United Provinces of the Netherlands establish?
54. What was the Edict of Nantes?
55. What political purpose did the palace at Versailles serve?
56. How did Frederick the Great believe people should rule?
57. Why was Peter the Great considered “Great?”
58. What problem helped to weaken the Spanish Empire?
59. What was the Thirty Years' War? What happened?
60. How did Peter the Great westernize Russia?
61. Why was Ivan the Terrible nicknamed “the terrible?”
62. Versailles:
70. Thirty Years' War:
63. intendants:
71. Cardinal Richelieu:
64. Huguenots:
72. Treaty of Nijmegen:
65. Louis XIII:
73. Jean Baptiste Colbert:
66. Louis XIV:
74. Michel de Montaigne:
67. René Descartes:
75. Henry IV (Henry of Navarre):
68. Edict of Nantes:
76. War of the Spanish Succession:
69. Cardinal Mazarin:
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77. Who 1st adopted the the term Czar?
78. What is a Czar?
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79. Ivan the Terrible's cruelty was aimed at who?
80. In Russia, the boyars were who?
81. Why did Peter the Great go to the west?
82. What is The Heliocentric theory - Who created it?
83. Francis Bacon helped to develop what?
84. Isaac Newton explained what?
85. Who authored The Declaration of Independence
86. The Bill of Rights was influenced by?
87. neoclassical
88. FACT: The Constitutional Convention occurred AFTER the American Revolution
89. What was Montesquieu's influence on the U.S. Constitution?
90. Difference between Baroque and neoclassical?
91. Which specific event/tax did the American colonists begin proclaiming as "taxation without
representation”?
92. Who contradicted (went against) the ideas in the U.S. Constitution?
93. What document(s) did the Catholic Church ban
94. How did taxation differ in America before and after independence?
95. How did the Declaration of Independence embody Enlightenment ideals?
96. What were some outcomes of scientific revolution?
97. Galen
100.Robert Boyle
98. Aristotle
101.Isaac Newton
99. Tycho Brahe
102.Francis Bacon
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103.Galileo Galilei
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110.Thomas Hobbes
104.René Descartes
111.Mary Wollstonecraft:
105.Johannes Kepler
112.Jean Jacques Rousseau:
106.Nicolaus Copernicus:
113.Cesare Bonesana:
107.Voltaire:
114. Beccaria:
108.John Locke:
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109.Montesquieu
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115.America’s first national government was on which document(s)
116.List the major reasons for the colonists' victory over Britain
117.How many people belonged to the Third Estate?
118.What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?
119."men are born and remain free and equal in rights” = Which FRENCH document
120.During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?
121.What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime?
122.Why did Napoleon attack Portugal?
123.What was an important goal of the Congress of Vienna?
124.Who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna?
125.Which group of the 3rd Estate most strongly embraced the ideals and principles of the
Enlightenment?
126.What issue led to the first meeting of the Estates-General in 175 years?
127.Why did the National Assembly lose the support of many French peasants?
128.Why did Napoleon sell the Louisiana Territory?
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129.Battle of Trafalgar - What happened
130.What is the Continental System? How did England react?
131.Who paid the taxes in France before the French Revolution?
132.How did the bourgeoisie differ from other members of the Third Estate?!6
133.What does plebiscite mean?
134.What strategy did Czar Alexander I use to defeat Napoleon in Russia?
135. FACT: Napoleon did NOT possess the characteristic trait of “humility”
136.What was one important effect from Congress of Vienna
137.What was the main goal of the participants in the Congress of Vienna?
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