World History - 2nd Semester Review (Vocab)

A self-described "Holy Man" who claimed to have magical powers?

Who increased his mutton output by allowing only his best sheep to breed?

How many times was King Henry VIII married?

King or Queens who held all of the power within their states boundaries

A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business

Armed with pitchforks and other farm tools, they broke into nobles homes and documents

The study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation

Who believed that without wars and epidemics to kill off people, most were going to be poor?

Who was known as Madame deficit?

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

The factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, 

The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime

For generations, many Germans, along with other Europeans, had targeted what group?

A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops

this refers to large, government owned farms?

A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people and wealthy farmers

The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war

A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

Who invented the printing press?

Kuomintang refers to what?

What President said he wanted to educate the Filipinos?

The period of Robespierre's rule

Thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method 

A merchant who wanted to give political power to parliament

The big winner in the War of the Spanish Succession was whom?

Who invented a spinning wheel he named after his daughter?

The everyday language of people in a region or country

A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians

Economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned

About what % of the people of France belonged to the 3rd estate?

A wealthy noble who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe

How many Jews died in death camps and Nazi massacres?

Who published Institutes of the Christian Religion? 

An independent geopolitical unit of people having a common culture and identify

Refers to the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions

A form of complete socialism in which the means of production would be owned by the people

Who invented the power loom?

Who invented the seed drill that allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows?

Machine of execution born in France

What countries strategic location appeared valuable to France and Britain?

Between 5 and 10 million peasants died as a direct result of what leaders?

The shift from making goods by hand to making them by machine

Who believed that it was his duty to defend Catholicism against the Muslims

By November 1917, who seized power in Russia?

90,000 frostbitten, half-starved German troops surrendered to what country?

The invention of the ____________ allowed Europeans to easily travel on rivers?

Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe

Who painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants?

A German submarine had sunk the British passenger ship________which killed 128 U.S. citizens?

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically 

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts 

The systematic killing of a racial, ethnic, or religious group

Who shot the archduke and his wife?

Who wrote about a poor Spanish Nobleman who went crazy after reading about heroic knights?

What Soviet leader sent troops to occupy the eastern half of Poland?

To the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "Master race"

A period of European history, lasting from about 1300 to 1600

The Zimmerman Note stated that what country would help "reconquer" the land it had lost?

The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation

What Russian leader organized his own police force whose duty was to hunt down traitors?

A sudden seizure of political power in a nation

A person who supports artists, especially financially

The perfection of this drug protected Europeans from becoming infected with Malaria?

A government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure

What President forced Japanese Americans into internment camps?

A 16th century movement for religious reform leading to rejecting Pope's authority

A system in which the government made all economic decisions is a _________________

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism

The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers Party

The nobles owned what % of the land and paid almost no taxes?

This set impossibly high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity?

Martin Luther wrote what famous document that attacked "pardon - merchants"?

What President declared December 7,1941 as a "date that will live in infamy"?

What painter painted the Mona Lisa?

8.5 million soldiers died in what war?

In March 1918, Russia and ___________ signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

_____________, invented in 1884, was the world's first automatic machine gun

The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

Who was just 24 when he became the sole ruler of Russia?

Government control over every aspect of public and private life

The process of developing machine production of goods

The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering a region

A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust

The resources that are needed to produce goods and services

The Prussian commanders threatened to destroy what French city (French Revolution)?

At least how many million Congolese died due to the abuses inflicted during Leopold's rule?

A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world

The Roman Catholic Church owned what percent of the land in France?

A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries

An adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western countries

An assembly of representatives from all three estates

What French King borrowed heavily to help the American Revolutionaries?

In the 1300s, the bubonic plague struck European cities hard, killing what % of the people?

At the Treaty of Versailles, the Allied leaders gave whom the territories were Germanies?

Who headed the Kuomintang?

A European who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people

A philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain

Who was the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps?