Midterm Review#1

Question 1

Who was the Renaissance humanist author that wrote The Praise of Folly?

Accepted Answer

Erasmus

Question 2

What is the theory in which colonists sent cotton to textile mills in Europe for manufacturing?

Accepted Answer

Mercantilism

Question 3

What King of England broke with the Catholic Church because he couldn’t divorce his wife?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 4

The Renaissance studied the ancient cultures of what two societies?

Accepted Answer

Greece & Rome

Question 5

What were the causes for the Age of Exploration?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 6

What was the flow of ideas between the Old World and New World called?

Accepted Answer

Columbian Exchange

Question 7

The Renaissance began in cities. In what modern day country were these cities in?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 8

How did Japan control foreign influences?

Accepted Answer

Isolationism

Question 9

Where was Christianity concentrated in 1500?

Accepted Answer

Europe & the Middle East

Question 10

Competition in what continent led to discovery of lands in the Western Hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

European

Question 11

What ancient empire was located in modern day India?

Accepted Answer

Mughal

Question 12

What was the forced journey African slaves took to the Americas called?

Accepted Answer

Middle Passage

Question 13

What religion did the Trans-Saharan trade route spread?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 14

What soft sciences did humanists study?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 15

Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos/Mulattos, & Slaves/Indians was found where?

Accepted Answer

Latin America

Question 16

Which empire traded silks, species, and gems?

Accepted Answer

Mughal

Question 17

The power and wealth of the Catholic Church led to what?

Accepted Answer

The Protestant Reformation

Question 18

Where was the Songhai Empire located in 1500?

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 19

Who believed in the idea of predestination?

Accepted Answer

Calvin

Question 20

What invention increased literacy rates?

Accepted Answer

Printing Press

Question 21

What did the Chinese create to control trade and keep out the influence of foreigners?

Accepted Answer

Foreign enclaves

Question 22

European migration to the Americans led to the decline of what 2 empires?

Accepted Answer

Aztec & Inca

Question 23

What helped spread the ideas of medicine, astronomy, and math?

Accepted Answer

Trade Routes

Question 24

Where did Shoguns rule?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 25

Where was Islam concentrated in 1500?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 26

What was the primary cause of the 30 Years War? Conflict between what 2 religions?

Accepted Answer

Protestants & Catholics

Question 27

Which trade route connected China to the Mediterranean?

Accepted Answer

Silk Road

Question 28

What did Martin Luther write in which he complained about the selling of indulgences?

Accepted Answer

95 Thesis

Question 29

Where was Cortez from? He conquered the Aztecs.

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 30

Who believed in salvation by faith alone and all humans were equal before God?

Accepted Answer

Luther

Question 31

What is the practice of lending money while charging high interest rates?

Accepted Answer

Usury

Question 32

What granted Huguenots freedom of religion?

Accepted Answer

Edict of Nantes

Question 33

What was the glorification of classical civilization and rebirth of knowledge?

Accepted Answer

The Renaissance

Question 34

Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?

Accepted Answer

Kepler

Question 35

Where was the Ottoman Empire located in 1500?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

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