Social 8 Year End Review (2021)

Question 1

Who made up the LARGEST group of the population in Mexico in 2006?

Accepted Answer

Mestizos

Question 2

During Edo Japan which group of people would have been the lowest on the hierarchy

Accepted Answer

Merchants

Question 3

What challenges did the Japanese face in maintaining their culture during adaptation?

Accepted Answer

Both A and C.

Question 4

Which of the following is a belief of Japan

Accepted Answer

Kami

Question 5

What is the only religion Japan had that isn't borrowed from another culture?

Accepted Answer

shinto

Question 6

Every aspect of Aztec society was based on _____?

Accepted Answer

Religion

Question 7

Which of the following descriptions BEST defines the Renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

A time when there was a rebirth of classical knowledge

Question 8

What did the Aztec economy rely on?

Accepted Answer

war and tribute

Question 9

Who was the leader of the Aztecs when they met Spain?

Accepted Answer

Moctezuma

Question 10

The Edo Period of Japan was when:

Accepted Answer

the shogun took power

Question 11

Trade was important to the Aztecs because:

Accepted Answer

Tenochtitlan was small and they could not produce everything

Question 12

What two elements were often portrayed in paintings of the Renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

Landscapes and humans

Question 13

How were the small group of Spanish able to defeat the mighty Aztecs?

Accepted Answer

disease

Question 14

What does civil war mean?

Accepted Answer

when a country fights itself

Question 15

What is humanism?

Accepted Answer

belief in the goodness of the individual

Question 16

What was the greatest criticism of the Catholic Church before the Protestant Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Full of greed and corruption

Question 17

Increased wealth of the Italian city states, resulted in all of the following changes except

Accepted Answer

An increase in democratic freedoms in the city-states

Question 18

When Spain conquered the Aztecs they

Accepted Answer

wiped out their civilization and took resources

Question 19

What did the Aztecs and Spanish cultures have in common?

Accepted Answer

war and religion

Question 20

Identify one of the major results of BLACK DEATH on society :

Accepted Answer

Decrease in population

Question 21

What was the biggest military advantage that the Spanish had over the Aztecs?

Accepted Answer

weapons and armour

Question 22

A collection of facts and skills one has can be defined as:

Accepted Answer

knowledge

Question 23

Worldview is:

Accepted Answer

the total accumlation of a peoples experiences

Question 24

The Sudo-Japanaese war directly caused:

Accepted Answer

the Russo-Japanese War

Question 25

The Renaissance started in which European country?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 26

What was a shogunate?

Accepted Answer

the shogun's right hand men

Question 27

The scientific method’s greatest contribution was to

Accepted Answer

People to investigate using observations and experimentation

Question 28

What was the isolation policy passed by the Shogun?

Accepted Answer

to keep control of Japan from others

Question 29

Why do expansionist countries want more territory?

Accepted Answer

God, Gold, Glory

Question 30

Which element of worldivew includes mountains, water, and boarders?

Accepted Answer

geography

Question 31

Define imperialism.

Accepted Answer

the policy of expanding a country's power over others

Question 32

Define Renaissance.

Accepted Answer

rebirth

Question 33

What form of art was developed during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Humanism

Question 34

The ideas of the Protestant Reformation spread quickly across Europe, mostly because of the

Accepted Answer

Availability of books - invention of the printing press

Question 35

Which of the following is TRUE of Aztec civilization before contact with Spain?

Accepted Answer

They dominated the cultures around them

Question 36

Before the printing press, books were made by

Accepted Answer

the clergy

Question 37

Immediately after the conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Spanish took steps to

Accepted Answer

destroy all traces of the temples and religious symbols

Question 38

Which area of Europe was first to benefit from the revival of trade?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 39

What 2 social classes were impacted negatively by the change from Edo to Meiji governments?

Accepted Answer

daimyo and samurai

Question 40

Wanting to take over another country to take their resources is called:

Accepted Answer

imperialism

Question 41

The worldviews of the Aztecs and the Spanish were similar in that both cultures valued

Accepted Answer

military service

Question 42

Serfs were:

Accepted Answer

another word for peasant

Question 43

What impressed Cortez about the Aztecs when he first arrived?

Accepted Answer

gold

Question 44

The Aztecs made sacrifices to make gods happy. This shows:

Accepted Answer

Beliefs

Question 45

How many worldview elements are there?

Accepted Answer

7

Question 46

Which 2 countries did Japan go to war with, to gain more land?

Accepted Answer

Russia and China

Question 47

The Treaty of Tordesillas was created in order to:

Accepted Answer

Divide the land and trade routes between Spain and Portugal

Question 48

In order to have one religion like in the West, the emperor discouraged Buddhism and encouraged

Accepted Answer

Shintoism

Question 49

Medieval society in Europe and the Aztecs were most similar in that both societies

Accepted Answer

Gave the leader ultimate power in making decisions

Question 50

Which element of worldview describes the year or era of the events?

Accepted Answer

time

Question 51

What era came before the Renissance in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Medevil Times

Question 52

The Aztec society created their civilization in present day:

Accepted Answer

Mexico

Question 53

In Edo Japan, outsiders weren't permitted to enter into cities. This shows:

Accepted Answer

society

Question 54

Identify the element of Spanish worldview that MOST contributed to Spanish imperialism.

Accepted Answer

belief in their cultural superiority

Question 55

What aspect of citizenship did the Aztecs put as most important?

Accepted Answer

good of the group

Question 56

The main goal of education in Aztec society was to

Accepted Answer

Create loyal citizens to strengthen the state.

Question 57

The greatest influence over Western Europe before the Renaissance was:

Accepted Answer

Catholic Church

Question 58

Which of the following statements describes a disadvantage of the island location of Japan?

Accepted Answer

trade and contact with other nations is more difficult.

Question 59

The Emperor tried to make Japan more like the west. This was called:

Accepted Answer

Westernization

Question 60

Which group was at the bottom of the Catholic Church hierarchy

Accepted Answer

parishioners

Question 61

The immediate response to the signing of the Unequal Treaties in Japan was:

Accepted Answer

the onset of civil war and disorder

Question 62

Who did the Americans force to sign the trade agreement?

Accepted Answer

The shogun

Question 63

Although the emperor was considered the supreme ruler, the real power was held by:

Accepted Answer

Shogun

Question 64

Spain went to the land of the Aztec to:

Accepted Answer

get resources and become rich

Social 8 Year End Review (2021)

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Social 8 Year End Review (2021)

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