MWC Mid-Term Exam 2015-2016 PERIOD 2 and 6

Ruler of the Aztecs in Mexico

Famous Spanish artist during Spain's golden age

Holy Roman Emperor during the Thirty Years War

Ally of Giuseppe Mazzini and in charge of the "Red Shirts"

The name for Spanish conquerors

German monk who started the Protestant Reformation

Who wrote the Encyclopedia? 

King of France when the French Revolution began

Informal social gatherings where writers, artists, and others exchanged ideas

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

People moving from one country to another

Social class who paid the most in taxes before the French Revolution     (which estate)

King of England who was executed (beheaded) for treason in 1649

Belief that a monarch's authority to rule came directly from G-d

Group of Enlightenment thinkers in France

G-d knows from the beginning who would gain salvation and be saved

Country controlled by Portugal in South America

King of Italy when the country was united in 1870

Person who really ruled France when Louis XIII was king 

Russian ruler who issued an Emancipation of the serfs

Revolutionary statement that was modeled after the Declaration of Independence in France

In Russia, Jews were persecuted against, gangs beat and killed them.  What was this policy?

Invention that helped spread new ideas more quickly during the Renaissance.

Pope Paul III led the Catholic Church in steps to reform (change) itself- what was it called?

Absolute monarch of Spain in the 1500s

The country that helped the Americans beat the British in the American Revolution

Order that gave Huguenots religious toleration and some freedoms in France

William I asked Bismarck to resign in 1890 because ........

Land explored and claimed by Jacques Cartier in eastern Canada

Another name of the Bloodless overthrow of King James II

Machine that beheaded people during the French Revolution

What was the rebirth of learning and culture in Europe during the years 1300-1600 called?

Not a way that Enlightenment ideas were spread

Why was Ferdinand Magellan important?

King of England during the American Revolution

Country that claimed most of the land in South America, Florida, islands in the Bahamas, Mexico

Oldest ruling family in Europe

King Louis XIV's royal French residence (home)

Famous writer who wrote "Romeo and Juliet?

Who was     NOT     a Spanish Conquistador?

Explorer who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru

Person who used mathematics to show that gravity keeps planets in orbit

What was not part of the Triangular Trade network?

Inventor of the printing press

Who was not an Enlightenment thinker?

Prime minister of Prussia who became chancellor by King William I

Before the Africans were brought to the Americas, who worked on the plantations and mines?

Policy of burning crops and villages as people retreated so that the enemy has nothing

1st permanent English colony established in North America

Ruled Russia in 1689 and had the policy of westernization