World Studies Midterm Review

The meeting that divided up the continent of African among European nations

What does the word Renaissance translate to?

Which group was the most powerful in Colonial Latin America?

The ability to develop an informed opinion, make predictions & draw conclusions

Famous artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

The ability to locate information using a variety of sources:

True or false: The Northern Renaissance began before the Italian Renaissance

Type of government led by ONE person usually taken by force

Type of government in which ALL people have the opportunity to vote for representatives

Due to rumors about the use of animal fat, Indian soldiers fought against the British government in the ____

Which of the following religions is NOT monotheistic?

Quality of Renaissance art that portrays non-religious scenes

The theme of geography that studies peoples impact on the world around them

Where did the Renaissance begin?

When a powerful country claims exclusive trading rights over another country/their ports

The idea that the strongest, most fittest civilizations will survive

An article written in 2019 about the American Revolution

The name of the treaty that ended the Opium War

Which of the following is NOT a theme of geography

Quality of Renaissance art that emphasizes individual potential and uniquness

Which of the following religions began in present day Nepal?

What was the name of the ship that had triangular sails, could sail through shallow waters and could be easily navigate?

Who was responsible for the horrible treatment of millions of Congolese people?

By the early 1600s, scientists used a method called ___ to study the natural world

The Great Schism was a split between

The scientist who used telescopes to look at the moon and the planets; said Copernicus was right about the sun

Nationalist movement: the merging of politically divided but culturally similar lands

A map's _____ identifies symbols on a map and what they represent

After the Industrial Revolution, people

Which two continents were mainly colonized during imperialism in the 19th century?

Which invention during the industrial revolution helped transform communication?

The name of the period of time that Britain formally ruled India as a colony

Which of the following goods was EXPORTED TO the Old World from the New World in the Columbian Exchange?

A country that has its own government but relies on an outside government for help

The theme of geography that describes a locations human and physical characteristics

Name of the Italian Unification movement

What was the system of encomienda?

Someone who funds the arts

The belief in more than one god

Someone who is leaving a country to move to a new one

Reasons why someone wants to migrate from a place

Which of the following has the LEAST amount of distortion and is the most accurate representation

After the invention of the printing press, book were printed in local dialects or _____

The Middle Passage was

Who led the Protestant Reformation?

What raw material was being taken out of the Congo?

An early production method was called cottage industry because workers

Lines of longitude and latitude are used to find

True or false: The Chinese were successful in resisting European Imperialism

A source that was created during the time the event being studied occurred