GS2 Semester 1 review

Question 1

What is your favourite subject at school?

Accepted Answer

Mr House's class, History, The class in A408, Global Studies II

Question 2

What does Renaissance mean?

Accepted Answer

Rebirth

Question 3

When the monarch shares power with the people (e.g. England after the Glorious Revolution)

Accepted Answer

Constitutional monarchy

Question 4

Who sailed from Spain to the Caribbean in 1492?

Accepted Answer

Christopher Columbus

Question 5

He built a new capital city in Russia and made his nobles shave their bears

Accepted Answer

Peter the Great

Question 6

The Third Estate formed the National Assembly during

Accepted Answer

The Estates-General

Question 7

1789 Document: "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights"

Accepted Answer

The Declaration of the Rights of Man

Question 8

"The three Gs" were God, gold, and

Accepted Answer

Glory

Question 9

What increased during the Age of Exploration?

Accepted Answer

Global trade

Question 10

"L'etat c'est moi" (I am the state)

Accepted Answer

Louis XVI

Question 11

Thomas Hobbes thought

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The government should be very strong to protect the people fro themselves

Question 12

The Catholic Church used to sell these. It means an official forgiveness of someone's sins

Accepted Answer

Indulgences

Question 13

What word has the closest meaning to absolute?

Accepted Answer

Total

Question 14

97% of people were in

Accepted Answer

The Third Estate

Question 15

Robespierre led the Committee of Public Safety to kill 20,000-40,000 people

Accepted Answer

The Reign of Terror

Question 16

Education for women

Accepted Answer

Wollstonecraft

Question 17

Natural rights

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 18

Which is NOT a reason the Renaissance began in Italy?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa

Question 19

Who owned the most land in medieval and early modern Europe?

Accepted Answer

Nobles

Question 20

What lost power because of the French Revolution

Accepted Answer

The monarchy

Question 21

Who was the first European to sail directly from Europe to India in 1498?

Accepted Answer

Vasco da Gama

Question 22

Who do Christians worship?

Accepted Answer

Jesus

Question 23

This person set up a school of navigation in Portugal, helping to start the Age of Exploration

Accepted Answer

Prince Henry

Question 24

The Enlightenment emphasized

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Reason

Question 25

Why did Henry VIII leave the Catholic Church?

Accepted Answer

He wanted to divorce his wife

Question 26

Why was the guilltine used?

Accepted Answer

Painless

Question 27

What was the Columbian Exchange?

Accepted Answer

Plants, animals and diseases moved between the Old World and the New World

Question 28

Humanists would want someone to

Accepted Answer

Enjoy their life

Question 29

Which is NOT true about Renaissance art?

Accepted Answer

Only about Christianity

Question 30

Martin Luther thought __________ had the authority to say what the Bible means

Accepted Answer

Every Christian

Question 31

Where did most of the explorers come from during the Age of Exploration?

Accepted Answer

Europe and China

Question 32

Who paid no tax before the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Nobles

Question 33

What language was used in the Bible and during services in the Catholic Church?

Accepted Answer

Latin

Question 34

He got so rich from colonies in South America

Accepted Answer

Philip II

Question 35

US government divides power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches

Accepted Answer

Balance of powers

Question 36

Which is NOT true about Zheng He?

Accepted Answer

He made Chinese colonies in the Indian Ocean

Question 37

Divine right supported

Accepted Answer

Absolute monarchy

Question 38

Where did the Renaissance begin?

Accepted Answer

Florence, Italy

Question 39

Which invention helped to spread Luther's ideas during the Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Printing press

Question 40

What was the main religioon of Europe during the Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

GS2 Semester 1 review

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GS2 Semester 1 review

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