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FINAL Flashcards

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The study of classical texts caused humanists to focus on what subject?

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Individual and human potential (humanities)

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What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?

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Art and Learning

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What were Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More?

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Christian Humanists

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For what is the Medici Family famous for?

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Being rulers and supporters of the arts

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What was the first full sized book Gutenberg printed?

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The Gutenberg Bible

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What were John Calvin’s major teachings?

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Predestination

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Why was the caravel an important development in navigation?

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The caravel was sturdier and triangular sails allowed the ship to sail
Effectively against the wind

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Why did Lord McCartney give a letter from King George III to Qian-long?

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Increase trade

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What did Hongwu do first to help China become a dominant power?

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He overthrew the Mongols and Established the Ming Dynasty

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What type of poetry presents images rather than expresses an idea?

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Haiku

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What was the main economic activity in New France?

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Fur trade

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Why did Europeans see Africans As a better source of labor than Native Americans?

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Africans were strangers to America resulting in hardly any escapes

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Which European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?

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Spain

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What did the encomienda System provide for new Spain?

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Military protection

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Which king Became France’s most powerful ruler and boasted, “I am the state”?

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Louis XIV

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Why did Peter the Great build the city of St. Petersburg?

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The city was on a seaport and it would be easier to travel west

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By the end of the 1600s,what had England’s system of government become?

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A constitutional monarchy

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Who Declared himself the head of the English church?

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Henry VIII

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What did Francis Bacon help develop?

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The scientific method

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The idea of a democracy is explained in what essay?

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Social contracts

20
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How did philosophes influence catherine the great?

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Proposal on reforms of Russia’s laws

21
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

22
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Which philosophes influenced the Bill of Rights?

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Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke

23
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About which percentage of population belong to the third estate?

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97%

24
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What happened on July 14 Bastille Day?

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Prison raid for gunpowder

25
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What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime?

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He created a code of laws, public education, set up a fairer tax code, and stabilized the currency

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How did Admiral Nelson win the battle of Trafalgar?

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Split french ships

27
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What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna?

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to establish a new balance of power

28
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How did landowners and aristocrats view wealthy members of the middle class?

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Looked down upon

29
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What were the goals stated in the “slogan of revolution”?

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Liberty, equality, and fraternity

30
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which documents stated, “men are born and remain free and equal in rights?”

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

31
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What was the industrial revolution?

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Increased output of machine made goods

32
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What was the benefit of being a stockholder in a corporation?

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Stockholders are not personally responsible for a corporation’s debts, but share in its profits.

33
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What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?

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Unions

34
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What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurred in the 19th century Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe?

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Industrialization

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What did Britian do In order to keep industrial secrets for the United States?

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forbade engineers, mechanics, and toolmakers from leaving the country.

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What were three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?

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land, labor, and capitol.

37
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What type of Policy did Japan institute to control foreign ideas?

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Closed country policy

38
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Who were the first europeans to arrive on Japanese soil?

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Portuguese

39
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Korea was a vassal state of which country during the 1700s

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China

40
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Which region was referred to as the “powder keg” of Europe?

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Balkan region

41
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Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World War I?

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

42
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Which action on November 11, 1918 brought World War I?

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Armistice

43
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What were the fourteen points?

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Plan for a post war world

44
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Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the treaty of Versailles?

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Germany

45
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what is the Schlieffen plan?

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Defeat France in the west and Russia in the east

46
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which nations actions cause the United States to fight in World War I?

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Germany. The sent the Zimmermann not to New Mexico

47
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What did the war become once the participation countries began devoting all of their resources to the war effort?

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Total war

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