WHAP Period 4 Review

Question 1

What are two examples of African Crops?

Accepted Answer

Sugar & Tobacco

Question 2

What did Copernicus' heliocentric theory do to Europe?

Accepted Answer

Destabilized the orthodox views of the church

Question 3

How did slavery in the Americas differ from serfdom in Russia?

Accepted Answer

Serfs were local to Russia, Slave were taken from Africa

Question 4

What did the Enlightenment try to improve?

Accepted Answer

Popular Sovereignty (Right to Vote), Freedom of Speech, Religious Tolerance

Question 5

Why did the Europeans want colonies?

Accepted Answer

Chance to make a profit

Question 6

What is significant about the time period from 1450-1750?

Accepted Answer

Inclusion of the Americas in global trade

Question 7

What is a Renaissance Man?

Accepted Answer

Knows about art, poetry, education, and other fields.

Question 8

What happened to the Native American population after Columbus?

Accepted Answer

The population drastically decreased

Question 9

What did Renaissance paintings have in common?

Accepted Answer

Large Frescoes, Perspective, Realism

Question 10

What did the Printing Press do for Europe?

Accepted Answer

Spread new ideas and cultural trends through writing

Question 11

How did the Enlightenment threaten the monarchies in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Suggested individual rights

Question 12

What did the Catholic Church create as a part of its reform in the 1500s?

Accepted Answer

Jesuits

Question 13

Why was there a re-birth of interest in the Greek and Roman texts during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

The Muslim Empires reintroduced them to Europeans

Question 14

Which resource did not travel from America to Europe?

Accepted Answer

Cattle

Question 15

Which of the following was not a significant effect of the Columbian Exchange?

Accepted Answer

American diseases spread to Europe, Europeans became less powerful, World population declined

Question 16

Which philosopher is associated with Capitalism?

Accepted Answer

Adam Smith

Question 17

What was the Seven Years' War?

Accepted Answer

Was in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, The first global war, Set the groundwork for Great Britain to become dominant

Question 18

What did Peter the Great do to try to "westernize" Russia?

Accepted Answer

Studied new technology through travel, Improve the military, Encourage people to dress like Westerners

Question 19

Who fought and defeated the Aztec and Incas?

Accepted Answer

The Spanish

Question 20

What did Magellan's voyage around the world do for Spain?

Accepted Answer

Gave them a claim to the land in the Pacific Ocean

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