World Studies Mid Term Exam 2024

Which explorer's crew traveled around the world?

Which explorer was the first to find a trade route to India?

This Portuguese nobleman once famously said, "Independence or death!"

What decree did Henry of Navarre issue that promised limited religious toleration in France?

Cuzco was the capital of this empire.

group of islands, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji, is named after the appearance of its inhabitants

Who invented the movable type printing press, making books more available to the public?

This young navigator accompanied Mendaña on an expedition in 1595.

The dismissal of an individual from the Roman Church is called __________.

Who became the ruler of England after Cromwell's death?

What Norwegian explorer theorized that the first Polynesians came from South America rather than Asia?

This author expresses his view of rulers in his book The Prince.

Name the set of islands discovered by Mendana and named after the viceroy of Peru.

Spaniards born in Spain and living in its colonies were known as _______________.

Which one of the following reformers was burned at the stake?

Large country estates in Spanish colonies were known as ____.

“The just shall live by faith,” the biblical truth found in Romans 1:17, led to the salvation of which reformer?

This astronomer used a telescope to confirm the earth's orbit around the sun

Who was the first Governor of Australia?

Author of a Renaissance book on manners

English official under Henry VIII who wrote Utopia.

Which explorer named the Solomon Islands?

Essay: Who was Martin Luther, and what role did he play in the Protestant Reformation?

The term "Renaissance" means : 

This empire made many discoveries in astronomy and mathematics.

Who theorized that the earth revolves around the sun?

Which explorer was the first to find a route around Africa?

Empiricism taught that people can find knowledge only through _____________.

The people of this empire expected the return of their god Quetzalcoatl.

Prince Henry of Portugal started a training school for sailors and became known as Prince Henry the____?

Hippocrates was the father of....

Captain James Cook explored for which country?

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

People with Indian and Spanish parents are called

This explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name.

Who was the conquistador that conquered Montezuma and the Aztecs?

painted the Sistine Chapel's ceiling

What is the name of the native peoples who were living in New Zealand when the Europeans came?

Cowboys in Argentina were known as

__________ was a Greek astronomer and geographer.

What term describes the Roman Church's teaching that the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper become the very body ?

Which of the following was discovered by the Spanish?

This astronomer discovered Uranus and made a forty-foot-long telescope

This scientist wrote The Sceptical Chymist

This scientist studied human anatomy.

On what group of islands was James Cook killed

Who found a passage through the Great Dividing Range?

Which one of the following men made significant contributions in the areas of physics, geography, and optics?

Who is known as the father of modern chemistry?

This explorer colonized Tahiti for France.

Marn Grook is a(n) __________.

This French explorer discovered three large lakes (one of which was eventually named after him) Father Of France.

The Cape of Good Hope is at the southern tip of this continent.

Who developed an advanced form of calculus and discovered the laws of gravity and motion?

Tasman explored for

What was the approach to philosophy promoted by Locke?

This group founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Martin Luther translated the bible into

A famous comet is named after this English astronomer.

Alvaro de Mendana was an explorer for which country?

What was the approach to philosophy promoted by Descartes?

James Chalmers was a nineteenth-century missionary to __________.

Sculpted the doors for the baptistery of Florence

Who was known as the "father of humanism?"

Poor neighborhoods in South American colonies were known as

Who wrote the Ninety-Five Theses?

__________ decreed that submission to the pope was necessary for salvation.

Which of the following was discovered by Captain Cook?

Who trusted only human reason as the path to truth?

Author of The Prince

This scientist developed a smallpox vaccine.

This scholar from Rotterdam wrote In Praise of Folly

This Venezuelan knew many languages and liberated both Venezuela and Colombia.

The caravel was a

This group of islands lies within the great triangle formed by the Hawaiian Islands, Easter Island, and New Zealand.

Publisher of a Greek New Testament

Which of the following men introduced Muslim documents to medieval universities?

Which explorer was one of the first Europeans to make peaceful contact with the natives of New Zealand?

The New Laws of 1542 promised protection for Indians as a result of this man’s efforts to promote Indian rights.

Which of the following reformers wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion?

Who was the Roman Catholic missionary who defended the rights of the Indians?

Prester John was a(n) __________.

Most of the islands in this group of over two thousand small islands are low, some are less than one square mile in size

What food did Captain Cook give to his crew to protect them from contracting scurvy?

This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River.

Which country developed a large economic empire without a monarchy?