Bedsole-1st Semester Exam

Why did Cortes take Montezuma prisoner?

Which cash crops did the European settlers produce?

What is NOT a reason ways of thinking changed greatly in Europe between 1350 and 1650?

Which of the following would NOT describe Renaissance ideas about Humanism?

How did the Civil Wars in France end?

Modern theory of probability

What is contextualizing?

Where did Columbus first set foot in the New World?

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec civilization

_______________provide a first-hand account of an event or time period and are considered to be authoritative.

How could Italy’s geographic location have helped launch the Renaissance?

In 1507, European mapmakers named the New World after which explorer?

Where did the Protestant Reformation begin?

Discovered tiny microorganisms called bacteria

Large farms in the southeastern part of the Americas and the Caribbean

First to discover arteries carry blood

Proved that materials need oxygen to burn.

Fast ship that could said with & against the wind, large cargo area, and shallow hull that could navigate shallow water

What was a benefit of new trade to the Italian city-states and other European countries?

How did the 30 Years War end?

First successful English settlement in North America

Began the dissection of cadavers

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided which continent?

Matter is made up of elements

NOT one of Spain's goals for settlement in the new lands

A recorder of the past

Who sponsored Portugese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa?

Economic practice where investors share the expenses and the profits

Person who studies human history & prehistory through excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts is a _______

Developed the Scientific Method

All BUT the following occurred during the 30 Years War.

NOT on one of English settlers reasons for coming to North America

Gutenberg first printed with movable type in 1440, early in the Renaissance. Which was NOT one of the major impacts?

What industry did John Cabot help develop for England?

Why did Italians support artists during the Renaissance?

Which country did NOT claim territory in North America?

In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed between which two countries?

Who invented the printing press?

Classified livings things into groups

What was one of the main reasons for the Protestant Reformation?

Use the sun, moon, planets and stars to help explorers navigate on the open seas

What was the overall effect of the Columbian Exchange on the most of the native people of North America?

What is sourcing?

Which two ancient cultures did people become interested in during the Renaissance which helped them develop new ideas?

Policy where nations increase wealth by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver

_____________offer an analysis, interpretation or a restatement of primary sources and are considered to be persuasive.

Who provided the European explorers with most of their navigational technology?

What contributed to the growth of wealth in the Italian city-state?

Conquistadors is a Spanish word meaning ___

Who was also involved in colonial expansion in 16th and 17th colonial expansion with France, Spain, Portugal & England?

What was the renewed interest in culture called?

Three laws of motion

What country finall gave Christopher Columbus financing for his voyage to the New World?

What is corroborating?

Secular means ______.

An expert in the study of the physical features of the earth and atmosphere

Discovered cells using a microscope

Which Europeans were the first to make major improvements in ships?

Heliocentric theory of the universe

Chinese invention that used the Earth's magnetic poles to help explorers determine cardinal direction

Which European country was the first to launch large-scale voyages of exploration?

What did African slaves suffer through that enslaved Native Americans did not suffer through?

The trading of ideas, culture, people, goods and diseases between Europe and the New World came to be known as _____.

What was the result of the English Reformation?

What was the standard currency, the gold coin of Florence?

As a result of the Columbian Exchange, which disease wiped out the majority of the natives?

Invented the water thermometer

Which of the following explorers is given credit as the first to circumnavigate the world?

Planets move in elliptical paths around the sun

What were the three reasons for European exploration?

Because European diseases killed the native populations of America, ________.

Europeans wanted to find which of the following to expand trade with the East?

The Virginia Company was formed by _____.

Geocentric theory of the universe

Which of the following is a reason why the Renaissance begain in Italy?

Two key figures in the the Protestant Reformation were ______.

What item from the Columbian Exchange MOST helped the Native Americans?

Where was the 30 Years War fought?

England's first cash crops were located in all BUT ______.

"I think, therefore I am"

What was Columbus' purpose for exploration before discovering the New World?