World History Final part 1

How did the Chinese economy fare under the Qing Dynasty?

American leaders gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise

the new dynasty that ruled China after the decline of the Ming dynasty

Who were the Boers?

When the first European traders arrived in the 1500's, the Japanese responded by doing what?

What statement best describes the significance of the settlement of Cape Town?

led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal

what resulted from the peace of Augsburg in 1555

After the Japanese, and later the Manchus, invaded Korea, the Koreans responded by

The first Europeans to challenge Portuguese domination of Asian trade were who?

Sir Thomas More was executed because he

What Humanist of Northern Europe wrote about his vision of an ideal society, in which people live in peace and harmony?

wrote a guide for rulers on how to gain and keep power

formed by a group of wealthy merchants, it had full sovereign powers

In a scientific method, a hypothesis is a

The Swiss City-State of Genvea became a model of protesting morality under the leadership of

Which of the following British laws imposed taxes on such items as newspapers and pamphlets in the American colonies?

In the 1400s, Europeans searched for new trade routes to obtain valuable spices that came mainly from where?

Diderot's Encyclopedia was important because it

an island chain once called the Spice islands

How did Europeans usually acquire African captives for the slave trade?

a ruler of Kongo who tried to halt the slave trade in his lands

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal

By trading in gold and slaves, Osei Tutu helped to build which powerful kingdom/empire?

the calculations of astronomer Johannes Kepler showed that

The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa were the work of the great artist

When the Mughal empire weakened, British and French armies fought for power in India with help from Indian troops called

The idea of separation of powers in the Constitution was borrowed from Enlightenment thinker

The idea that god long ago decided who would be saved and who would not

humanist scholars differed from medievil thinkers in that humanists

proposed a heliocentric model of the universe

The voyage to Calicut by Vasco da Gama soon led to the creation of a vast trading empire for

What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people?

The Ming rulers allowed limited trade with Europeans under the condition that the Europeans would

The main goal of the Jesuits was to

Britain passed the Navigation Acts to

Showed that gravity keeps planets in orbit

Economist Adam Smith argued that, in a free marked, business activity would be regulated by the forces of

Today's Baptists, Mennonites, and Amish can all trace their religious ancestry to the

United his people by claiming that they shared spriritual bonds

a government run by religious leaders

How did Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias seek a route to Asia in 1460?

Elegant compostions by Handel, Haydn, and Mozart reflected a new musical style of the Enlightenment known as

in the 1600s, Robert Boyle's work transformed the field of

In Ming China, why did European traders buy Chinese silks and porcelains in gold and silver instead of trading?

The inventor who perfected the microscope and was the first person to see cells and microorganisms was

The islands that Christopher Columbus explored in his voyage in 1492 later became known as what?

the city that produced many renaissance artists and scholars with the support of the Medici family

An island off the coast of India seized by the Portugese in 1510

The purpose of the Council of Trent was to

Anabaptist beileved that infants should not be baptized because

The Constitution created a federal republic, which divided power between

system of checks and balances in United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?

Large quantities of American silver flowed into the economies of East Asia through What Spanish Trading Center?

a religious group that has broken away from an establshed church

Led an expedition that became the first to circummnavigate Earth

The Line of Demarcation divided world trade and exploration rights between the

In the mid 1600s, which nation captured Malacca from Portugal and developed a monopoly on trade in the Spice Islands?

started a printing revolution

The Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the American Revolution because

An artist who made sketches of flying machines centuries before the first airplane

a thriving trading region where the northern renaissance began

a costal city of East Africa that was an important trade center

To rule China effectively after seizing Beijing in 1644, the Manchus

How did Martin Luther react when peasant rebels took up his banner to bring social change in Germany?

what triggered the events that resulted in the formation of the Church of England

In the early 1500s, what method did Afonso de Albuquerque use to establish Portuguese outposts in India?

Which of the following was an advantage of the colonists in the American Revolution?

grand, ornate style of art and architecture popular during the age of Louis XIV.

a Portugese trading post in Ming China

Enlightenment writers sometimes tried to avoid censorship by

The age of great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts is called the

How, in 1513, did the Spanish adventurer Vasco Nunez de Balboa reach the Pacific Ocean?