World History Midterm Review

What leader promoted religious tolerance and abolished taxes on non-Muslims in the Mughal Empire?

What did European rulers do because they wanted to find new trade routes?

What document was written in Latin because it was meant for church leaders?

Who's invention provided easier access to books leading to more people learning to read?

Which of these caused a spread of new ideas in the 1500s?

What was the foreign policy for Tokugawa shoguns?

Who was Francisco Pizarro?

What document limited the power of the English monarchy?

Which country was known as the Hermit Kingdom due to their isolation?

Which of these spread the Black Plague?

Pax Romana was a long period of peace and prosperity for which empire?

Who's population was reduced by 90% after contact with Europeans?

What continent were English, Dutch, and French explorers originally trying to find a route to?

What religion was persecuted in Tokugawa Japan?

What document establish a line between Spanish and Portugese land in the Americas?

Who inspired the French with faith during the Hundred Years' War?

What country was the first to try to find a water route around Africa to India?

Which of these did Michelangelo NOT create?

What did Ferdinand Magellan's voyage accomplish?

What would sailors use an astrolabe for?

The wealthy and powerful merchant class of Italy led to which movement?

Who did Cortes and rival Native American tribes unite to defeat?

What English playwright was known for telling simple stories in new ways?

Which country controlled Brazil in the 1500s?

Which of these wars did the French win?

What empire did Osman I establish?

What agreeement led to England gaining large amounts of land and dominating North America?

What event reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings in opposition to Protestant beliefs?

What happened due to printed materials becoming more available in the mid 1400s?

Who was brought in to replace Native American workers who were dying from disease?

What society did the Manchus conquer?

What was a daimyo?

Which of these attacked the sale of indulgences, beginning the Protestant Reformation?

Why did Ming emperors decide to isolate China?

African slaves were the most important part of which trade?

What was the exchange of foods, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic that had a dramatic impact on later societies?

Who helped to turn Portugal into the world leader in exploration?

Who established the Hellenistic Era, an age that saw the expansion of the Greek language and ideas?

Which of these does NOT describe Charlemagne?

Which of these did Renaissance art focus on?

Who proposed the theory that the Earth travels around the Sun?

What was the court created by the Catholic Church to find and punish heretics?

Which of these socities was made up of many small city-states?

What territory in the Americas was first explored by the Dutch?

Where were the Moors driven out of during the Reconquista?

Leonardo da Vinci was all of these EXCEPT

Which of these do NOT describe a republic?

What event was started to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from the Muslims?

Where was Christopher Columbus trying to reach when he instead arrived in the Americas?

What was the major war between Athens and Sparta?

What country did Zheng He sail for?

What caused the Protestant Reformation?

What event declared Martin Luther an outlaw and condemned his writings?

Which of these countries was similar to China by discouraging contact with outsiders?

Which ruler completed the restoration of central authority in Japan in the early 1600s?

Who was named the first Holy Roman Emperor for helping to keep the pope in power?

Where did an outnumbered Greek army hold off a superior Persian force before eventually being defeated?

What was the primary cause for the decline of the Native American population after European contact?

Which Roman leader was assassinated by rival senators?

Who started the Church of England when the pope refused to annul his marriage?