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Ms. Kearny's final exam study questions
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History
9th Grade
05/17/2010

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Who was the leader of the Franks?
Definition
Clovis
Term
What dynasty of Frankish kings did Charles Martel found?
Definition
Caroligian Dynasty
Term
Who was the King of the Lombards?
Definition
Charlemagne
Term
What is a tithe?
Definition
A tax on imcome to the Church
Term
Who was Alcuin?
Definition
An Anglo Saxon monk who set up a palace school for Charlemagne in France
Term
What is illumination?
Definition
Decorating the first letter of a paragraph and margin of a page with a design
Term
What is feudalism?
Definition
A social system, class distinctions, polititcal system, military defence and economic system based on agriculture.
Term
What was a fief?
Definition
A piece of land given to a vassal
Term
What was a vassal?
Definition
A lesser lord
Term
What is a moat?
Definition
A water filled ditch around a castle.
Term
What is a donjon or keep?
Definition
A wooden tower
Term
What is a barbican?
Definition
The outer wall of a castle
Term
What is the entrance gate of a castle?
Definition
the weakest point
Term
What is chivalry?
Definition
 A code of conduct for knights to be true to their word and protect women.
Term
What is a troubadour?
Definition
A wandering poet who sings songs of perfection and women's beauty
Term
What is a manor?
Definition
A lord's estate
Term
Who was St. Patrick?
Definition
Apostle of Ireland
Term
Who was St. Boniface?
Definition
Apostle of Germany
Term
Who was St. Benedict?
Definition
Created monastery at Monte Cassin and followed Benedictin Rule
Term
Who was St. Francis of Assisi?
Definition
he created the stations of the cross and nativity scene
Term
Who was St. Dominic?
Definition
he created the rosary
Term
What is excommunication?
Definition
being cut off from the Church and not being able to receive sacraments on Christian burial
Term
What is monasticism?
Definition
living in a monastary way of life for monks in unison
Term
What was a trade fair?
Definition
A sign a econonmic revival. Booths rented money changed coins and evaluated. Free market. Customs, languages and food were spread.
Term
What was a guild?
Definition
an association of merchants and artisans
Term
Give the 6 points of a Gothic Church
Definition

1) pointed arches

2) ribbed vaults

3) thin walls

4) flying buttresses

5) great height

6) large stained glass windows

Term
Who was Dante?
Definition
he wrote Divine Comedy
Term
Who was Chaucer?
Definition
He wrote Canterbury Tales
Term
Who was St. Thomas Aquinas?
Definition
he wrote Summa Theologica
Term
What were some famous medieval universities?
Definition
Oxford and Cambridge
Term
What was scholasticism?
Definition
Use of reason to support Christian beliefs
Term
Who was Roger Bacon?
Definition
founder of experimental science
Term
Who was Pope Urban II?
Definition
calls religious war to rescue Holy Land
Term
Who was Saladin?
Definition
Muslim leader who offers to negotiate a treaty with the Christians
Term
What was usury?
Definition
the lending of money at interest
Term
What were the 5 results of the Crusades?
Definition

1) power and prestige of Church increases

2) science and technology quicken

3) increase town and trade growth

4) culture broadens

5) encourages learning

Term
Who was William the Conqueror?
Definition

takes England in the Battle of Hastings.

Duke of Normany-first of kings

Salsbury oath

Term
Who was Henry I?
Definition

paid officials

 loyalty to king

increased royal income

created royal treasury

Term
Who was Henry II?
Definition

expanded power of courts

created circuit courts, common law, jury system

had conflict witht the church

had Thomas'a Becker killed

Term
Who was King John?
Definition

forced to sign Magna Carta

excomunicated from Church

levied heavy taxes

Term
Who was Thomas a'Becket?
Definition

archbishop of Canterbury

feuds with Henry II ver taxes and is murdered

Term
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
Definition

impose unity on diverse people of Spain

impsosed unity of relgion, Inquision

Term
Who was John Wycliffe?
Definition

translates bibile to English

didn't believe in sacraments

 

Term
Who was Joan of Arc?
Definition

Claims to hear heavenly voices to save France

joins army and inspires troops

condemned as witch

sainted

Term
What was the Domesday Book?
Definition

a survey to decide on taxes owed

a census

Term
What was the Salisbury Oath?
Definition
An aliegiance to the king
Term
What is common law?
Definition
a legal system based on custom and court rulings
Term
How was the life of Thomas a'Becket intertwined with Henry II?
Definition
They feued over taxes and Thomas was murdered by Henry II
Term
What is the Magna Carta?
Definition

limit the kings power

taxes can't be levied with approval of great Council

everyone guaranteed trial by jury

Term
What is the English government called? Explain its divisions.
Definition

Parliament:

king

house of lords

house of commons

Term
What was investiture?
Definition
When a lay person presents bishops with stagg and ring to symbolize their office
Term
What were the 2 largest cities of the Moslem world in Spain?
Definition

Granada

Cordoba

Term
What was the Reconquista?
Definition
effort to expel the Muslims
Term
What was the Inquisition?
Definition

court for hertics

accuses people of heresy

Term
What was the Babylonian Captivity of the Pope?
Definition

Philip kidnaped pope

When the papacy was in Avigon and the Church was weathy and corrupt

Term
What was the Great Schism?
Definition

rule by 3 popes

1054 AD

Term
What is another name for the Thirty Years War?
Definition
The war of Roses
Term
What dynasty begins after the War of Roses?
Definition
Tudor
Term
Who was Savonarola?
Definition

A monk who preaches for reform in Florence

persecuted as a Heretic and burned at the stake

Term
Who was Martin Luther?
Definition

He drew up 95 Thesisis and is excommnicated

started Lutheran Church

prophet of the reformation

Term
Who was John Calvin?
Definition

theolgian of reformation

believed in predestination

wrote Institutes of Christian Religion

set up theocracy

Term
Who was Henry VIII?
Definition

wrote pamphet attacking Luther

wanted to divorce his wife

excommunicated from Church

crated the Church of England

Term
Who was St. Ignatius of Loyola?
Definition
founded the Jesuits
Term
Explain the Diet of Augsburg.
Definition
Each prince in Germany can decide which religion, Catholic or Lutheran, would be followed in his lands.
Term
What is predestination?
Definition
the belief that God preordains where you go at death
Term
What is another name for French Calvinists?
Definition
Huguenots
Term
What title did the Pope give Henry VIII? Why?
Definition

Defender of the faith

Henry VIII wrote a book defending the sacraments

Term
What was the Act of Supremacy?
Definition
King Henry becomes the head of both the Church and the state
Term
What was the Counter Reformation?
Definition
movement by Catholics to right what the Prodestants had begun
Term
What does the word "Renaissance" mean?
Definition
reawakened interest in the classical learning in Greece and Rome
Term
What is a humanist?
Definition

a person who has interest in people and beauty, rhedoric, grammar, history, and poetry

pious Christians who hoped to use the wisdom of anciets

Term
Who was Machiavelli?
Definition

wrote The Prince - gave advice on how to be a ruler

(more feared, less loved)

Term
Who was Petrarch?
Definition

known for sonnets to Laura

 

Term
Who was Castiglione?
Definition
wrote The Book of the Courtier- about a refined educated peron
Term
Who was Da Vinci?
Definition

painted Last Supper, Mona Lisa

 

Term
Who was Giotto?
Definition
painted frescos of St. Francis
Term
Who was Fra Angelico?
Definition
painted The Annunciation
Term
Who was Botticelli?
Definition
painted Primavera and The Birth of Venus
Term
Who was Michelangelo?
Definition

sculptor and painter

David, Moses, Pieta

Term
What is an Alliance?
Definition
An agreement or treaty between nations to join together fr common purpose
Term
What is an Armistice?
Definition
An agreement ot end fighting and stop war
Term
What is mobilization?
Definition
Preparing military forces for war
Term
What is a reparation?
Definition
a payment
Term
Who was General Joseph Joffre?
Definition

Commander of the French troops

mobolized troops in taxi cabs to front lines

Term
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Definition

He was the US president during WWI

went to Peace Conference

14 points

Term
Who was James Montgomery Flagg?
Definition

created posters for WWI

"I want you for the US army"

Term
Who was Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
Definition
murdered with his wife by a Serbian terrorist
Term
Who was General John J. Pershing?
Definition
commander of the US troops
Term
What event caused WWI to begin?
Definition
The assassination of Archduke Francis Fernidad
Term
What small country did Austria-Hungary first declare war on?
Definition
Bosnia
Term
Explain the sifnificance of the Battle of Jutland.
Definition

important naval battle off the coast of Denmark

British maintains surpremacy of the seas

Germany retreats

Term
Explain the significance of the Battle of Verdun.
Definition

"Bloodiest battle"

in France

Germans try to break stalemate

Term
Explain the significance of the Battle of Tannenburg
Definition

Russia loses 1.2 million men

 

Term
What event brough England into WWI?
Definition
Germany marched through Belgium, going against Belguim's agreement of neutrality.
Term
What is meant by the term fighting a two front war?
Definition

a country is fighting at two fronts

In WWI, Germany fought Russia in the East and Grance in the West.

Term
What were the US soldiers who entered WWI called?
Definition
dough boys
Term
When did WWI end?
Definition
November 11, 1918 at 11 o'clock
Term
What were the 14 points?
Definition
Woodrow Wilson's plans for peace
Term
Who were the word leaders present at the WWI peace conference?
Definition

England - Lloyd George

Italy - Vittorio Orlando

France - Georges Clemenceau

USA - Woodrow Wilson

Term
What is meant by the term collective security?
Definition
all nations agree to protect each other
Term
What was the League of Nations?
Definition
formed nations who agree to help one another keep world peace and solve conflicts
Term
What was Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan?
Definition

"He kept us out of war"

"Save the world for democracy"

Term
Who was Erasmus?
Definition
humanist who ridiculed the Catholic church
Term
Who was Raphael?
Definition

known for Madonnas

Madonna of the Chair

Term
Who was Bellini?
Definition

founder of the Venetian school

expierimented with oil paints

Sacred Allegory

Term
Who was Titian?
Definition
Venus of Urbino
Term
Who was Tintoretto?
Definition
Paradise
Term
Who was Donatello?
Definition
Gattemelata
Term
Who was Ghiberti?
Definition
Gates of Paradise
Term
Who was Bramante?
Definition
rebuilt St. Peter's in Rome to shape of Greek cross
Term
Who was Van Eyck?
Definition
oil paints
Term
Who was Durer?
Definition
Praying Hands
Term
Who was Rembrant?
Definition
Nightwatch
Term
Who was Shakespeare?
Definition

English playwright

wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories

Romeo and Juliet , MacBeth, Hamlet

Term
Who was Cervantes?
Definition
wrote Don Quixote
Term
What family patronized the arts of Florence?
Definition
de Medici family
Term
What is perspective?
Definition
a sense of depth and distance in art work
Term
Why is the moveable type considered a great invention?
Definition
the production of books increased which lowered the price, therefore making books more accessible to common folk
Term
Who invented to printing press?
Definition
Gutenburg
Term
What are frescoes?
Definition
paintings on wet plaster
Term
What river is Florence located on?
Definition
Arno
Term
Who was the Universal Man of the Renaissance? Why was he so names?
Definition

Leonardo da Vinci

He liked to learn many different things and inspired the  people of his time with his knowledge

Term
Who was Vasco da Gama?
Definition
sailed around the tip of Africa to India
Term
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
Definition

sailed around the tip of So. America

found that the world was round

route Atlantic to Pacific found

circumnavigated the globe

Term
Who was Vasco de Balboa?
Definition
discovers the Pacific Ocean
Term
Who was Francisco Coronado?
Definition
found the Grand Canyon and buffalo
Term

Who was Hernando de Soto?

 

Definition
went from Florida to Mississippi
Term
Who was Francis Drake?
Definition

Enlish

rounded So. America

beat Spanish Armada

Term
Who was John Cabot?
Definition

sailed for England and landed on the coast of Newfoundland

Found codfish industry

gave England claim to No America

Term
Who was Jacques Cartier?
Definition

French

named gulf of St. Lawrence

Term
Who was Hernando Cortes?
Definition

arrives in Mexico city and tricks Aztecs

captures Aztecs

Term
Who was Francisco Pizzaro?
Definition
captures Incas of Peru
Term
Who was Henry Hudson?
Definition
found Hudson river
Term
Who was Fr. Marquette, S.J.?
Definition

French Jesuit

crossed present day state of Wisconsin, travelled Great Lakes, claimed all land touching Mississippi River for France.

Term
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
Definition

Father of New France

found Quebec

first permanent French settlement

trade post at Montreal

Term
Who was Robert de la Salle?
Definition

reached mouth of Mississippi river

named Louisiana

Term
Who was Walter Raleigh?
Definition

leader of English colony on Roanoak Island

37 ppl disappear

Term
What are conquistadors?
Definition
Spanish conquerers
Term
What is another name for the Moluccos Islands?
Definition
The Spice Islands
Term
What does the term "encomiendas" mean?
Definition
the right to demand work from the Natives
Term
What was tiangular trade?
Definition
merchants buy slaves, slaves sold to West Indies, products shipped to Europe and Americans
Term
What were patroonships?
Definition
a vast Dutch estate
Term
What is an entrepreneur?
Definition
a merchant who is willing to take a risk in hope of making a profit
Term
What was merchantilism?
Definition
economic theory- a nation's strength depends on keeping and increasing its gold supply by exporting more goods than imported.
Term
Who was Thomas Edison?
Definition

USA

invented 1094 inventions

phonograph and light bulb

Term
Who was Eli Whitney?
Definition
invented interchangeable parts adn cotton gin
Term
Who was Henry Ford?
Definition
invented the assembly line
Term
Who was John D. Rockerfeller?
Definition

owner of Standard Oil

first billionaire and millionaire

Term
Who was Louis Pasteur?
Definition

wroked on germ theory

 pasteurization

vaccine for anthrax and rabbies

Term
Who was Robert Kock?
Definition

"father of bacteriology"

isolated the TB germ

 

Term
Who was Joseph Lister
Definition
knighted for discovery of antiseptic surgery
Term
Who was Edward Jenner?
Definition
invented smallpox vaccine
Term
Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
Definition
created funcional design
Term
Who was Charles Darwin?
Definition

The Origin of Species

The Desceny of man

believed in natural selection

Term
Who was William Wordsworth?
Definition

wrote lyrical ballads

Tintern Abbey

Term
Who was Victor Hugo?
Definition
wrote Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Term
Who was Eugene Delacroix?
Definition
wrote Liberty at the Barricades
Term
Who was John Constable
Definition
Hove Bach
Term
Who was Joseph Turner?
Definition

painted Fighting Temeraire

painted water scenes, storms, and fires

Term
Who was Charles Dickens?
Definition

English social reformer

Oliver Twist

David Copperfield

Term
Who was Leo Tolstoy?
Definition

Russian social reformer

wrote War and Peace -best book ever written

Term
Who was Edouard Manet?
Definition

First modern painter

Luncheon on the Grass

Term
What family line did Elizabeth I follow?
Definition
Tudors
Term
What family line began after Elizabeth I's death?
Definition
Stuarts
Term
How is the Enlish Parliament organized?
Definition

House of Lords

House of Commons

Term
What is meant by the term DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS?
Definition
the king is chosen by God
Term
Who fought the English Civil War? the leaders?
Definition

the roundheads - Oliver Cromwell

the cavaliers - Charles I

Term
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
Definition

he was the leader of the roundheads

Lord Protector of England

Term
What are the 2 political parties of England and their beliefs?
Definition

Tories - dominant Anglican church, broad royal powers

Whigs- religious toleration, Parliament

Term
What was the Glorious revolution?
Definition

England became a limited monarchy

no blood was shead

William and Mary came to power

Term
What were the 3 provisions of the English Bill of Rights?
Definition

1) King may not suspend laws or gree subjects from obeying laws

2) king may no levy tax without Parliament's consent

3) king may not interfere in Parliamentary elections

Term
What was the Act of Toleration?
Definition
all except the Catholics ca attend religious services
Term
What is the chief spokesman to the English Cabinet called? Who was the first such person?
Definition

Prime Minister

Robert Wapole

Term
What was the exclusion Act?
Definition
tried to prevent James from ascending to throne
Term
Who was Edgar Degas?
Definition

"keyhole art"

dancing girls

Dancers Practicing at the bar

Term
Who was Pierre Auguste Renoir?
Definition

painted with paintbrushes strapped to his arms

Lady with the Yellow Hat

Young Woman in the sun

Term
Who was Paul Cezanne?
Definition

father of modern art

The Card Players

Still Life

Term
Who was Ludwig Beethoven?
Definition

greatest music genius of the western world

Fifth Symphony

Ninth Symphony

Term
Who was Franz Liszt?
Definition
Hungarian Rapsody
Term
What is a corporation?
Definition
A domnant form of business owned by many investors
Term
What is limited liability?
Definition

investors were not responsible for an company debts

only loose what they invest in the company

Term
What is a monopoly?
Definition
a giant corporation buying out small companies
Term
Caracteristics of romanticism
Definition
glorigy the individual, feelings of nationalism, beauty, look to past, revival in religion
Term
What is realism?
Definition

rebellion against romaticism

criticize the envents of the day

didn't write about the past

Term
King Louis XIV
Definition

"none his equal"

built Versallie

he was the state and absolute moarch

Term
Maxmilliam Robespierre
Definition

leads Reign of Rerror and committe of Public safety

promoted relgious toleration and wanter to abolish slavery

Term
Louis XVI
Definition

ruler during the French revolution

married to Marie Antoinette

weak and indecisve ruler

overthrown and killed for high treason

Term
Napoleon
Definition

dictator after the French Revolution

rises to power and declares himself emperor of France

"little corpral"

won battles over Austria, Eygpt, and India

Term
Lord Nelson
Definition
defeats NaPo at the battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain
Term
Wher did Louis XIV live?
Definition
Versailles
Term
Who was Henry Navarre?
Definition

a protestant who inherits the throne and becomes Henry IV

converts to Catholcism

issues the Edict of Nantes

Term
What was the Edict of Nantes?
Definition
fives the Huguenots freedom to worship and right to establish Church
Term
Who was Jean Colbert?
Definition

finance minister to Louis XIV who followed mercantilist policies and France became wealthy

 

Term
Be able to descrive life at Versailles
Definition
big cermonies, major ritual, great culture and drama
Term
When is Bastille Day? What does the day commemorate?
Definition

citizens storm the Bastille

attack against injustice and inequality

July 14th

Term
What was the "Declaration of the Rights of Man"
Definition

most notable document in Europe

men are born and remain equal in rights

Term
What was the slogan of the Rench people who rallied to save Paris?
Definition
liberty, equality, and fraternity
Term
What was the Directory?
Definition

government before NaPo

weak and corrupt

made of 5 directors

Term
What were the accomplishments of NaPo and the Revolution?
Definition

Feudalism ended, revolutionary ideas spread, and naionalism grew

 

Term
Where was NaPo's final defeat?
Definition
 Battle of Waterloo
Term
Copernicus
Definition

Polish astronomer- mathematician

helped develop scientific meothod

Helocetric Theory

Term
Johannes Kepler
Definition

German astronomer who laid founation of modern astronomy

found that planets move in eliptical patterns

Term
GAlileo Galilei
Definition

Heliocentric Theory

known for law of falling bodies

invented to telescope

Term
Isaac Newton
Definition

law of gravity

wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

invented Calculus

Term
Joseph Priestly
Definition

created the Phlogiston Theory, a burning theory whch said something was given off in the process of burning

found oxygen

Term
Antoine Lavoisier
Definition

disproved Phlofiston theory and named oxygen

lights the city streets of Paris

Term
Ambroise Pare
Definition
discovered ointment to prevent inferction after surgery and stitches
Term
Rene Decartes
Definition

analytical geomry

believes human reasoning is best road to understanding

Term
William Harvey
Definition
discovered blood circulation
Term
Thomas Hobbes
Definition

thought the rebellion against the government was never justified

he believed when left alone, people naturaly fight

ruler should have absolute power

wrote Reviathan of English Philosopher

Term
John Locke
Definition

wrote Two Treaties of Government

entitled to life, liberty, property

Term
Voltaire
Definition

writer and philosopher

later exiled to England

ruler should be enlightend

supported relgious toleration and freedom of thought

Term
Baron de Montesquieu
Definition

wrote The Spirit of the Laws

believed in 3 branches of government

Term

Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

Definition

Fr. writer and Philosopher

wrote Discourse on Arts and sciences

Social Contract

believed in the noble savage

Term

Denis Diderot

 

Definition
French who wrote 35 volume Encylopedia
Term
Maria Theresa
Definition
passed laws to limit serfdom by regulating the amount of unpaid work required by peasants
Term
Johann Bach
Definition

greatest Church composer for organ

composed Ave Maria

Term
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Definition

court composer to Joseph II of Austria

child prodigy

The Magic Flute

Marriage of Figaro

Term
Jonathan Swift
Definition
wrote Guliever's Travels
Term
Edward Gibbons
Definition
wrote the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Term
Christopher Wren
Definition
architected St. Paul's in London
Term
Josiah Wedgewood
Definition
made China that had social messages
Term
Thomas Gainsborough
Definition
painted Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Term
Francisco Goya
Definition

painted Naked Maja

Clothed Maja

Term
Edward Jenner
Definition
vaccine for smallpox
Term
Adam Smith
Definition

Laissez-faire economics

wrote Wealth of Nations

Term
What is another name for the "Age of Enlightenment"?
Definition
Age of Reason
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