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Semester Exam for History
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History
10th Grade
12/14/2008

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What did Thomas More write?
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Utopia
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When was Utopia written?
Definition
1516
Term
What language was Utopia written in?
Definition
Latin
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What did John Calvin do?
Definition
Started Calvinism
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What did John Knox do?
Definition
Became the leader of the Presbyterians
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Where was the Birthplace of the Renaissance?
Definition
Italy
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Who were the two main Renaissance Painters?
Definition
Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo
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What does Utopia mean?
Definition
"No Place"
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What did Martin Luther do?
Definition
Started the Reformation by making the 95 theses.
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How many new denominations came out of the protestants?
Definition
465
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Who invented the printing press?
Definition
Johann Gutenberg
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When was the printing press invented?
Definition
1440
Term
What was the first book made on the printing press?
Definition
The Bible
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How many wives did Henry VIII have?
Definition
6
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What did Henry VIII start?
Definition
The Church of England
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Who was the heir to Henry VIII throne?
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Elizabeth I
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Who was the Medici family?
Definition
A rich family that controlled Florence
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What was a Caravel? And what was special about it?
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A trade vessel that had triangular sails.
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What was a Kabuki?
Definition
A Japanese theater that did skits about modern day life
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How did China isolate themselves from the rest of the world?
Definition
They made it so only the government could preform foreign trade
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Who did Prince Henry become?
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Henry IV
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What was the Atlantic Slave Trade?
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The trading of slaves from 1500-1600
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What was the Encomienda?
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A system which native people farmed and worked for the Spanish
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What was the Middle Passage?
Definition
A voyage that brought slaves to the West Indies and the to North and South America
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What were Joint stock companies?
Definition
Companies in which investors bought stocks in a company
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What was New France?
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France's Colonial Empire in North America, In Quebec
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When was the English Bill of Rights written?
Definition
1689
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What was the English Bill of Rights similar to?
Definition
The American Bill of Rights
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What was Peter the Great?
Definition
A Czar of Russia in 1609
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What did Peter do?
Definition
He started the Westernization of Russia and built St. Petersburg
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What did Cardinal Richelieu do?
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Helped Louis XIII
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Who was Ivan the Terrible?
Definition
Czar of Russia in 1533
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How did Ivan the Terrible get his name?
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He used his secret police to kill boyars
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What was St. Petersburg used for?
Definition
Trade with Europe
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What was the Heliocentric Theory?
Definition
The theory that the sun was the center of the universe
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What was the Scientific Revolution?
Definition
When scientists came up with new theories and ideas
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What was On the Spirit of Laws?
Definition
A book written by Montesquieu
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What was Neoclassical Style?
Definition
A classical style from the Greeks and Romans
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What did Neoclassical stand for?
Definition
"New-Classical"
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Who was Montesquieu?
Definition
A French writer
Term
What did Montesquieu propose?
Definition
A separation of powers
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What is the Scientific Process?
Definition
Observation, Hypothesis, Test, Conclusion
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What did Thomas Hobbes write?
Definition
Leviathan
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When was Leviathan written?
Definition
1651
Term
What did Hobbes believe?
Definition
That everyone needs government
Term
What did Diderot do?
Definition
He made the Encyclopedia
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When was the Encyclopedia first written?
Definition
1751
Term
What was Bastille Day?
Definition
A storming of a prison for weapons during the French Revolution
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When was the Storming of the Bastille?
Definition
July 14, 1789
Term
What was Napoleon's main accomplishment?
Definition
The conquering of Europe
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What country did Napoleon not take over?
Definition
England
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What was the congress of Vienna?
Definition
A group of people who met to redistribute the land after Napoleon's reign
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Who was one of the main people of the Congress of Vienna?
Definition
Klemens von Metternich
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What was the Enlightenment?
Definition
A time of rethinking of old ideas
Term
What was a plebiscite?
Definition
A vote of the people
Term
Who instated a plebiscite?
Definition
Napoleon
Term
When did Napoleons plebiscite take place?
Definition
In 1800
Term
What did Karl Marx do?
Definition
Made Marxism
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What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Definition
Bulk products, machines, and jobs
Term
What is Communism?
Definition
Political system in which everything is owned by the people
Term
What is Socialism?
Definition
A political system of production is owned by the public to operate welfare for it
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What is an enclosure?
Definition
Fencing around a large farm
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What were the effects of the steam engine?
Definition
Pull large objects and move peopl
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What did John Locke believe?
Definition
What people should improve themselves, a self-government
Term
Who was Desiderius?
Definition
A Christian Humanist
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When were the Jesuits founded?
Definition
1534
Term
Who founded the Jesuits?
Definition
Ignatius of Loyala
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What was the East India Company?
Definition
A strong Dutch trading company
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What were four products traded from the East?
Definition
Silk, livestock, grains, fruits, vegetables
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What were the West Indies?
Definition
Caribbean Islands
Term
What were the West Indies a part of?
Definition
The Middle Passage
Term
What was the Spanish Empire of North America?
Definition
The Aztecs
Term
What did Bartoleme De Las Casas do?
Definition
Spoke for South Americans, ended the encomienda system
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Who said "I am the State"?
Definition
Louis XIV
Term
To whom did Louis XIV say "I am the State" to?
Definition
The Pope
Term
What was the Seven Years War?
Definition
A conflict in Europe and North America
Term
What were some reasons the Americans beat the British?
Definition
Fighting on homeland, knew the land, better motivation
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What was the Articles of Confederation?
Definition
Confederate version of the U.S. Constitution
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How many men did Napoleon lose on his attack of Portugal?
Definition
300,000
Term
When did the attack on Portugal take place?
Definition
1808
Term
What was crop rotation?
Definition
The rotating of crops to replenish the soil with one crop after the soil was drained from one crop
Term
Who was William Wilberforce?
Definition
He was part of Britain's parliament which abolished slavery
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What were three inventions of the Industrial Revolution?
Definition
Cotton Gin, Sewing Machines, and the Printing Press
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What was the most influential invention of all time?
Definition
The Printing Press
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What were some reforms of Napoleon?
Definition
Centralized government, public schools, and abolished the freedom of the press
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