World History: True-False Review

The Astrolabe was invention during the Renaissance made publishing books quicker, easier, and cheaper.

The Treaty of Versailles was harsh on Germany, forcing them to pay reparations and accept blame for WWI.

The Silk Road connected China to Europe and was used for trade.

In the Zimmerman Telegram, Germany asked Mexico to attack Canada.

The Congress of Vienna decided on new borders for Europe to fix the damage from Napoleon's wars.

The warriors of China were know as Samurai.

The French & English settled in North America while the Spanish & Portuguese settled mainly in South America.

Sparta and Athens were rival city-states in Ancient Greece.

Hinduism follows Siddhartha Gautama's Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path to reach Nirvana.

The European Renaissance was the rebirth of Greek & Roman ideas, literature, art, and architecture in the 1500s & 1600s.

Sputnik was the first satellite in space and it was American made.

China was the first government formed by the ideas of Enlightenment Thinkers like John Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau.

Ferdinand Magellan acted as an ambassador between Italy and the Mongols. He wrote a book called "Travels".

Peter the Great, Louis XIV, and Catherine the Great are examples of absolute monarchs.

Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Ghandi are best known for taking part in violent revolutions.

Mansa Musa of Mali went on pilgrimage to Mecca and gave out some much gold during his travels the value of gold decrease

Hinduism and Judaism are two religions that began in India.

New forms of government in the ancient world include the Republic in Rome and Democracy in Greece.

The assassination of Adolf Hitler was the spark that started World War I.

The Muslim Golden Age was known for innovations in medicine, mathematics, and astronomy.

The followers of Islam are called Muslims.

The Enlightenment was a period in the 1700s when Europeans began to rethink political and social ways of life.

The Protestant Reformation was a religious movement that produced new form of Christianity known as Protestantism.

The Korean and Vietnam Wars were fought to contain the spread of communism in Asia.

Mercantilism is an economic system that restricts trade to being only between a colony and its mother country.