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Question 1

(7-2.5) Why is a constitution so important to a country?

Accepted Answer

Social contract, protects people, makes rules for govt

Question 2

(7-1.5) Why would a person find a trading post located next to a river or an ocean?

Accepted Answer

Rivers and oceans were near trade source/ transportation

Question 3

(7-1.3 & 7-1.4) Mercantilism can best be described as:

Accepted Answer

colonies buying manufactured goods from the mother country

Question 4

(7-1.2) Thinking Map, what were some of the major effects of European Domination in the world?

Accepted Answer

European ideas spread through politics, economics, beliefs

Question 5

(7-2.4) What did the English Civil War want to change?

Accepted Answer

abuse of powers by absolute monarchs

Question 6

(7-1.5) In which region did Europeans trade as equals with other nations?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 7

(7-1.5) What religion brought to Asia by Europeans led them to stop all trade with Europeans?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

Question 8

(7-1.1) How did the darker-shaded area of the map above become a European colony?

Accepted Answer

A treaty honored the claim of Portugal to the area

Question 9

(7-2.4) What is a civil war?

Accepted Answer

war breaks out between people in same country

Question 10

(7-2.2) What was the new system that was developed as a way to test hypotheses

Accepted Answer

Scientific Method

Question 11

(7-2.4) The Glorious Revolution is significant to British history because it:

Accepted Answer

Forced monarchs to a limited power thru Bill of Rights

Question 12

(7-2.2) Reaction to Galileo’s findings that supported the Copernicus heliocentric theory?

Accepted Answer

Rejection by the Catholic Church

Question 13

(7-1.1) Which European country colonized this gray part of South America by 1770?

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 14

(7-2.3) Who developed the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances?

Accepted Answer

Baron de Montesquieu

Question 15

(7-1.5)The map above best demonstrates which one of the following?

Accepted Answer

Triangular Trade

Question 16

(7-2.1) Which system is considered an unlimited government?

Accepted Answer

absolute monarchy

Question 17

(7-2.4) What role did Oliver Cromwell take over in England?

Accepted Answer

Lord Protector of England

Question 18

(7-2.2) Sir Isaac Newton is associated with laws of what?

Accepted Answer

Motion and Gravity

Question 19

(7-2.1) Which is the best definition of an unlimited government?

Accepted Answer

Peoples rights and freedoms are lessened as citizens,

Question 20

The Enlightenment philosophers believed that the power of the government is derived from what?

Accepted Answer

the people

Question 21

(7-2.2)Astronomer put on trial by the Church for arguing Earth revolved around the Sun?

Accepted Answer

Galileo

Question 22

(7-2.2) The Scientific Revolution began to question ancient theories of which institution

Accepted Answer

Roman Catholic Church

Question 23

(7-1.4) economic system where most of the production was privately owned.

Accepted Answer

capitalism

Question 24

What methods happened to cause a change from an unlimited government to a limited one?

Accepted Answer

constitutional monarchies, democracy, separation of power

Question 25

(7-1.2) Which of the following inventions contributed to European domination of the world?

Accepted Answer

gunpowder

Question 26

(7-1.3) By the 1700s, European nations used their American colonies as a source of what?

Accepted Answer

raw materials for making manufactured goods

Question 27

Time period known as the Age of Reason that changed governments throughout the world?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment

Question 28

(7-1.3) Who controlled what could be imported and exported under the mercantilism system?

Accepted Answer

the mother country

Question 29

(7-2.5) What important war challenged an unlimited government in America?

Accepted Answer

The American Revolution

Question 30

(7-1.2) This type of ship used both smaller, square sails and triangular sails.

Accepted Answer

Caravel

Question 31

(7-1.1) Which of the following was a result of the Age of Exploration?

Accepted Answer

The discovery of the New World

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