WH: S1 Exam Review P1 (Units #1-3)

Question 1

What is a theocracy?

Accepted Answer

a government run by religious leaders

Question 2

Which Mercantilist policy was designed to protect local industries from foreign policy

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Tariffs increased the price of imported goods

Question 3

What is the term used to describe a person who supports the arts?

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patron

Question 4

The introduction of this animal into the New World, significantly changed Natives' lives.

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horse

Question 5

Potato originated in

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New World

Question 6

The main goal of the Jesuits was to:

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Spread the Catholic Faith

Question 7

The Mayflower compact:

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was a set of guidelines for governing the Plymouth Colony

Question 8

This chemist identified the basic building blocks of matter:

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Boyle

Question 9

True or false: Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

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true

Question 10

To conquer the Aztec empire, Hernan Cortez:

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formed alliances with conquered people who hate the Aztecs

Question 11

The English established their first permanent colony here:

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Jamestown

Question 12

Who challenged traditional Aristotelian ideas?

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Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes

Question 13

The Conquistador who added lands of the present-day countries of Peru, Ecuador and Chile was:

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Francisco Pizarro

Question 14

The rapid spread of disease in one area

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epidemic

Question 15

Which Renaissance artist sculpted David & painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

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Michelangelo

Question 16

The trade of goods, ideas, people, and diseases that began in 1492

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Columbian Exchange

Question 17

The purpose of the Council of Trent was to:

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fight Protestantism by rooting out heresy, direct the reform of the Catholic Church

Question 18

Columbian Exchange is often times called this....

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Triangle trade

Question 19

The First leg of the triangle trade was:

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Europe to Africa

Question 20

Who first developed the Heliocentric Theory?

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Copernicus

Question 21

How did the Reformation influence the Scientific Revolution?

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By challenging the Church

Question 22

Who came in conflict with the Church for supporting the Heliocentric Theory?

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Galileo, Copernicus

Question 23

Historians estimate that around _______ million slaves died during the Middle Passage.

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2

Question 24

In what time period did the Renaissance era occur?

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14th - 17th century

Question 25

What did Francis Bacon add to the Scientific Method?

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Observation and Experimentation

Question 26

Johannes Kepler's calculations showed:

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All the planets revolved around the sun in an ellipse (oval)

Question 27

Define Renaissance Man

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a multi-talented person

Question 28

What is the belief that the sun is the center of the universe called?

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heliocentrism

Question 29

The region with the highest number of diseases brought to the continent by explorers:

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Americas

Question 30

What did the Church believe was at the center of the universe?

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Earth

Question 31

What time period was the predecessor of (came before) the Renaissance?

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Dark Ages, Middle Ages

Question 32

What ancient civilizations did the European Renaissance rebirth?

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Greek and Roman

Question 33

At the top of Spanish colonial society were the:

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Penninsulares

Question 34

The Spanish King maintained strict control over his empire by:

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Council of Indies using Viceroys

Question 35

True or false: The Renaissance began in Florence, Italy.

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true

Question 36

Who profited (became the wealthiest) the most from the Columbian Exchange

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Europe

Question 37

Through the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494:

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Portugal claimed its empire of Brazil

Question 38

What event occurred after Martin Luther's grievances against the Catholic Church?

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The Protestant Reformation occurs, Lutheranism spreads to other European countries

Question 39

New France's population grew slowly because:

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Harsh Winters

Question 40

This religion was "exchanged" during the Columbian Exchange.

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Christianity

Question 41

In Spanish colonial society, creoles were:

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native-born descendants of Spanish settlers

Question 42

Because the new food being brought into the Old World was very nutritious, Europe's ....

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population skyrocketed

Question 43

What resulted from the Peace of Augsburg 1555?

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Each German Prince could decide the religion for his lands

Question 44

Prior to the 1500s, who was/were the final authorities to most knowledge?

Accepted Answer

Church

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