First Semester Review

One of the main leaders of the Reign of Terror

Those who ruled Spain's colonies in the name of the Spanish monarchs.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is modeled on the

Established a link between microbes and disease

Explorer who fought the Aztecs

The trade route that transported African slaves to the Americas.

The cotton gin was a machine that could

Who discovered the sterilizing surgical instruments with antiseptics would prevent infections?

The age of great change marked by renewed interest in the classics is known as what?

Which estate broke away and declared themselves to be the National Assembly?

Who invented the radio

What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business & society?

Friars differed from other monks in that they

Where did the technology for America's first textile factory come from?

The Line of Demarcation gave exploration rights to what countries?

The idea that God long ago decided who was going to heaven and who wasn't.

Group of ships that has full sovereign powers

Proposed a heliocentric model of the universe

War tactic involving hit-and-run raids.

A private toll road.

Why did King John sign the Magna Carta?

Who helped bring about the American Revolution

What was the name for the campaign to drive out Muslims of the Holy Land

The Spanish who vanquished the Americas.

According to Thomas Hobbes, whats the best form of government?

Name of the movement to ban or limit the use of alcohol.

What triggered the formation of the Church of England?

A peasant bound to the land.

Method for carrying out executions during the Reign of Terror.

The islands that Christopher Columbus explored later became known as what?

Who said the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people?

An outbreak of rapid-spreading disease.

Starting in the late 1700s, who finally helped break up Charlemagne's empire?

Production method when workers do the same job over and over.

Improved the steam engine in the late 1700s

Who added Peru, Ecuador,and Chile to the Spanish empire?

Invented dynamite

First Permanent colony in the Americas

Started a printing revolution with the printing press

During the First Crusade, what city did Christian knights capture?

What style of architecture is know for its spires and tall windows?

Argued that supply and demand regulate business activity

An economic policy based on a nation exporting more goods than it imports.

Napoleon's final defeat was at the

The first factories developed in what industry?

Proposed the idea of separation of powers in government.

What was passed in the early 1800s to reform child labor?

A document that set out the rights and privileges of a town.

A mounted warrior.

American leaders gather in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise

The everyday language of ordinary people.

An estate granted to a vassal by his lord.

What set out guidelines for governing the Plymouth colonies?

Adam Smith was the main author of the D of I.

The first Europeans to challenge Portuguese domination of Asian trade were the