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Quiz Review of the 2nd semester of Social Studies.
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1
What were the raise roadways above water that the Aztecs used to connect Tenochtitlan to land?
Causeways
Cement roads
Water roads
Bridges
2
Which civilization did not have slaves?
Maya
Aztec
Inca
Olmec
3
What is the definition of the Renaissance?
A time of rediscovering Medieval art
A time of reconquering of Greek and Roman lands.
A time of rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman learning.
A time of rediscovering Greek and Roman art.
4
What was the Trans-Atlantic Journey called?
"Northern Passage"
"Southern Passage"
"Midwest Passage"
"Middle Passage"
5
What did the printing press do to the church?
Gave them more followers
Limited control over people in church, ( of who read bible)
Limited their power
Gave them more power
6
Which of the following definitions is simony?
Selling and buying of positions in the Catholic Church
Selling of Church relics
The bribing of government officials
The selling of government positions
7
Who was in the Tripe Alliance?
Tlacopan, Tenochtitlan, and Texcoco
Maya, Aztec, and Inca
India, Africa, and North America
Spain, Portugal, and France
8
Where did Vasco Da Gama travel to?
Africa
India
Bahamas
Brazil
9
What was Da Vinci other that and artist?
Priest
Inventor
Architect
Monk
10
Which of these is the Mayan time period?
250 to 900 AD
1300 to 1521 AD
1200 to 1400 AD
1290-1460 AD
11
What was the Geocentric theory?
The sun is still
The Earth revolves around the sun
The sun revolves around the Earth
The Earth is still
12
What did the Church do to most Heretics?
Let them leave the church and live peacefully
Killed them
Let them reinforce their belief and loyalty
Put them on the island of Australia
13
Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Donatello
Raphael
Leonardo
14
Who wrote the famous book, the Prince?
Lorenzo de Medici
Machiavelli
Galileo
Petrarch
15
Witch of the following is the correct definition of Secularism?
Belief that individuals were more important than community
A high ranking in the Catholic church
Religion must be the center of human affairs
View that religion need not be the center of human affairs
16
How many return trips did Columbus take to the Bahamas or "India"?
2
5
3
4
17
What were the two most powerful families in Florence during the Renaissance?
Piazza
Lorenzo
Medici
Gama
18
Who led the Age of Exploration?
England
Spain
Portugal
France
19
Which of these is the Aztec Period?
250 to 900 AD
1300 to 1521 AD
1200 to 1400 AD
600 to 1200 AD
20
Who's quote is "I think, therefore I am"?
Rene Descartes
Johannes Kepler
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei
Nicholas Copernicus
21
Which of the following groups of people sacrificed the most people?
Inca
Aztec
Maya
Africa
22
Which of the following was at the bottom of Maya society?
Warriors
Farmers
Peasants
Merchants
23
What is the Heliocentric theory
The Earth revolves around the sun
The sun revolves around the Earth
Everything is still
The sun revolves around another sun
24
What were the two inquisitions at the time of the reformation?
Roman
Italian
Greek
Spanish
25
Who believed in the Separation of powers?
John Hobbes
Montesquieu
John Locke
Voltaire
26
Who believed in natural rights?
Voltaire
John Hobbes
John Locke
Montesquieu
27
What was one of the most important animals to the Inca?
Llama
Mountain Goat
Bighorn Sheep
Mountain Lion
28
Who was the leader of the Jesuits?
John Clavin
Martin Luther
Ignatius of Loyola
The Roman Inquisition
29
What was the main cause of the defeat of the Aztecs?
Disease
All of the Above
Alliances
Weapons
30
What is a salon?
Where you go to get your hair done
A big house with people
A place in the Enlightenment where people would share ideas
A boat on the ocean sharing ideas
31
Which Inquisition was Galileo interrogated by?
French
English
Spanish
Roman
32
Who were the Inca conquered by?
Francisco Magellan
Vasco Da Gama
Hernan Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
33
Yes or No private companies fund exploration during the Age of Exploration?
No
Yes
34
Who was the first Humanist?
Machiavelli
Petrarch
Erasmus
Tyndale
35
What area did Christopher Columbus find?
Brazil
Finland
Bahamas
India
36
Which of the following was the first to Circumnavigate the world?
Francis Drake
Vasco Da Gama
Magellan and crew
Christopher Columbus
37
What were the Inca farming grounds called?
Terraces
Stairsteps
Chinampas
Triangle farming ground
38
Which of the following did Prince Henry the Navigator do?
Circumnavigate the world
Travel to Brazil
Traveled to India to make Portugal rich
Open a school of Navigation in Portugal during his time
39
Which of these is the Mayan Period?
900 to 1300 AD
250 to 900 AD
1200 to 1400 AD
1300 to 1521
40
What theory of Sun and Earth did the Church believe in?
Heliocentric
The revolution theory
The axis theory
Geocentric
41
What were the Aztec's floating garden's called?
Chinampas
Floating gardens
Shewanki
Keukenhof
42
Who invented the telescope?
Newton
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
43
Who created the scientific method?
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
44
How many times did Philip the II attack England?
5
3
4
7
45
Who were the Aztecs conquered by?
Francisco Pizarro
Hernan Cortés
Vasco Da Gama
Moctezuma
46
Which of the following was created by Leonardo Da Vinci?
Sistine Chapel
David
The Last Supper
Saint George
47
Which of the following lived with the Medici family?
Leonardo Da Vinci
Raphael
Donatello
Michelangelo
48
What was an indulgence?
A corrupted group of church officials
Something to get into the church
A type of food that you eat
Something you paid for to forgive your sins and be in heaven
49
Why were the Medici kicked out of Florence in 1527?
The piazza family did it
Church excommunicated them and they were shamed so they left
Corruption
Too Powerful
50
What were the conditions like for slaves on ships?
Filthy, hot, and crowded
Filthy, smelly, and wet
Wet, clean, and crowded
Clean, cruel, and crowded
51
What was the type of method the Mayans used to clear land?
Slash and Burn
Slash
Burn
Flood
52
Which of the following was both a Priest and Humanist?
Desidermius Erasmus
John Calvin
John Wycliffe
William Tyndale
53
What empire was Tenochtitlan a part of?
Inca
Maya
Aztec
African
54
What was the Scientific Revolution?
A time of rediscovery of classical learning
Change in understanding + knowledge about physical universe
Thinkers studied Greek learning
Moorish scholars preserved classical texts
55
What were most of the Mesoamerican civilizations all good at and had the most achievements in?
Number systems
Languages
Astronomy
Farming
56
Which one is a characteristic of Medieval art?
Good expressions
Shadowing, light effects
Religious
Fun backgrounds
57
What type of belief did the Mayans have with their Gods
Monotheism
Polytheism
58
Which was the most important city for the slave trade?
Paris
Liverpool
Berlin
Timbuktu
59
Which of the following believed in Predestination?
John Wycliffe
William Tyndale
Desiderius Erasmus
John Calvin
60
What were the 3 g's of the age of exploration?
God, Glory, and Gold
God, Glory, and Power
God, Gory, and Gold
God, Glory, and Glod
