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7th Grade
02/02/2009

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Define the term Renaissance g
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The Renaissance is a rebirth of interest in learning.
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The Renaissace thinkes reexamined the ideas of ________1.______ and _____2.______ thinkers. People learned again about the ancient world's great poetry, plays, ideas, ideas, buildings, and sculptures.
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1. Greeks 2. Romans
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European thinkers were engaging in humanisti thinking, what is humanism?
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Humanism emphasized the importance of human nature and the abiliting of human beings to change the world.
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What was the first country to engage in the slave trade?
Definition
Portugal
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Where did Christopher Columbus land when he was searching for a shortcut to the Indian Ocean spice trade in 1492?
Definition
The Americans or West Indies
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True or Flase Trades and merchants formed the nw middle class in Europe
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True
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What is Absolute Monarchy?
Definition
Exercised almost complete control over there sybject.
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What is imperialism?
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Taking over other Countries and turning them into colonies.
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Why was the European Coal and Steel Cmmunity created in 1951?
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To control their steel and coal industirier, and there long term goal ofavoiding future wars.
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What was the name of the treaty that created the European Union in 1992?
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The Maastirct treaty.
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What was the percentage of Jewish poles killed dring the Holocaust?
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85%
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True or False Western Europe is now becoming more prosperous becasue goods and people can now move freely across its borders?
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True
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True or false Under communism, people were guaranteed jobs. Now, many poles emigrated to other places in europe to find work?
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True
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What was the first nation to emerge from the old Ottoman Empire?
Definition
Yogostavia
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What group attacked Croatian cirties and used terroe to drive out the peple?
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The Serbs
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When te Serbs withdrew fro Kosovo what troops took their place to keep the peace?
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NATO (north Atlantic Treaty Organization)
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True of False When the Soviet Union first collapsed, Business in Mocow boomed?
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True
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What percentage of Russans still live in poverty?
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25%
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Ture of Fale Criminal gangs, in Russia, often force honest people to pay them money?
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True
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Whatwas the name of the republic that russia sent troops into to keep it from secding in 1991?
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Chechnya
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Ture or False Today descendants of the Slavs make up most Eastern Europe's ethnic groups?
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True
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Define Ethnic group?
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A group of people that chare culture, languages, or religions that sets them apart from their neighbors.
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What country dominated Eastern Europe after the second world war?
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The Soviet Union of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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What two main ehnic groups lived i Czechoslovakia?
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The Czechand Slowvactes.
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Nmae tree important contributions to cililization made by either the Greeks or the Romans?
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1. Government 2. laws 3. poetry
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name five eastern europe states
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poland, russia ,belarus, Uuraine, and hungary.
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name five western europe states
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Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Iceland
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