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Fall Finals
World History Fall Finals
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History
9th Grade
12/14/2011

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Cards

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Humanism

Definition

 

 

 

movement based on the ideas and readings of ancient Greece

Term

 

 

secular

Definition

 

 

 

worldly, not really religious

Term

 

 

justification by faith

Definition

 

 

 

 

 

Martin Luther's concept that faith alone is enough to bring salvation

Term

 

Who were the Medicis?

 

What was their affect on the Renaissance?

Definition

 

very rich family from the Italian Renaissance

 

 

supported the fine arts and helped the arts blossom

 

 

 

Term

 

 

Who painted the Last Supper?

 

Where is it?

 

Definition

 

 

 

Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

Santa Maria Convent in Milan, Italy

Term

 

 

 

Michelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel

Definition

 

 

Fresco painting on the ceiling

Term

 

 

 

Where is the Mona Lisa?

 

 

What is it missing?

 

Definition

 

 

The Louvre, in Paris

 

Eyebrows

Term

 

 

 

What do we call the writing in da Vinci's notebook?

Definition

 

 

 

mirror writing

Term

 

 

 

Johannes Gutenberg

Definition

 

 

 

 

printed the complete edition of the Bible using movable metal type

Term

 

 

Where did Martin Luther nail his thesises on the Church?

 

What were Luther's issues with the church?

 

What did Luther do while in hiding?

 

Definition

 

 

On the front door

 

indulgences and the sale of indulgences is bad and against the bible

 

Rewrote the bible in different languages

Term

 

 

 

Who got which side of the Line of Demarcation?

 

Why was it redrawn?

 

Definition

 

 

Spain- land to the west 

Portugal- land to the east

 

to divide the world's land between the 2 countries

Term

 

 

 

What are the 3 g's?

 

Definition

 

 

 

 

God

Gold

Glory

Term

 

 

 

 

Who was America named for?

 

Definition

 

 

 

 

Amerigo Vespucci

Term

 

 

 

 

What was the middle passage?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Middle section of the triangular trade, in which enslaved Africans were brought by ship to America

Term

 

 

 

 

Causes of inflation in Spain

Definition

 

 

 

Government borrowing money from foreign bankers

 

flow of gold and silver from America

Term

 

 

 

How many times did Elizabeth I get married?

 

Successes of Elizabeth's rule

Definition

 

never married

 

 

 

expanded overseas

defeated spanish and english navy

made protestantism the religion of the country

established poor laws

Term

 

 

 

 

Who was the last Tudor monarch?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Queen Elizabeth I

Term

 

 

 

 

Who was the first Stuart monarch?

Definition

 

 

 

 

James I

Term

 

 

 

What was the Edict of Nantes?

Definition

 

 

 

Allowed Protestant worship to continue in areas where the Protestants were a mojority, but cut it off from Paris and Catholic strongholds

 

Term

 

 

How many wives did Henry VIII have?

 

 

Why did England break away from the Church?

Definition

 

 

6

 

 

 

Term

 

 

 

Who was the Richelieu?

Definition

 

 

 

 

gained the throne from Henry VI.

favored absolute monarchy

built up french army and economy

 

Term

 

 

 

 

What was the pragmatic sanction?

Definition

 

 

 

 

decree issued by a ruler on an important question

Term

 

 

 

 

What was Ivan's nickname?

 

Definition

 

 

 

 

the Terrible

Term

 

 

 

 

What was Peter's nickname?

Definition

 

 

 

 

The Great

Term

 

 

What did Peter do while he ruled?

 

Where was his capital?

 

What were Peter's main goals?

 

Definition

 

 

adopted French rituals

 

St. Petersburg

 

Mondernize Russia

Term

 

 

 

 

Details of Catharine's rule

Definition

 

 

 

studied and accomadated to people's needs

 

expanded Russia's southern borders

 

 

Term

 

 

 

Where was Copernicus born?

 

What did he do?

Definition

 

 

 

Poland

 

thought earth was round and rotated around the sun on its axis

Term

 

 

 

 

What were Kepler's contributions to science?

Definition

 

 

 

 

proved planets move in ellipses 

 

Term

 

 

 

Where was Galileo from?

 

What did he use to study?

Definition

 

 

 

Italy

 

telescope

Term

 

 

 

 

Who invented the scientific method?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Francis Bacon

Term

 

 

 

 

Who invented calculus?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Isaac Newton

Term

 

 

 

 

How were the theories of gravity developed?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Newton saw an apple fall from a tree

Term

 

 

 

 

Who invented chemistry?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Robert Boyle

Term

 

 

 

What were Hobbes views on the state of nature?

 

What were Lockes?

 

Definition

 

 

 

thought an absolute government would put a cap on the humans' natural chaos

 

people that believed in natural state

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What is deism?

Definition

 

 

 

 

religious philosophy of the 1700s based on reason and the idea of natural law

Term

 

 

 

 

Which dynasty is Charles II from?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Stuart dynasty

Term

 

 

 

What were supporters of the king called during the war?

 

Supporters of Parliament?

Definition

 

 

 

Roundheads

 

royalist

Term

 

 

 

 

What was the Glorius Revolution?

 

Definition

 

 

 

 

The English revolt against the unreasonable demands of the king

Term

 

 

 

 

What is the Restoration?

Definition

 

 

 

 

when many christian believers came together and only believed in the new testament

Term

 

 

 

 

What was Oliver Cromwell's title?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Lord Protector

Term

 

 

 

 

What is divine right?

Definition

 

 

 

 

political theory that a ruler derives his or her power directly from God and is accountable only to God

Term

 

 

 

 

Who was the first president of the United States?

Definition

 

 

 

 

George Washington

Term

 

 

 

 

What is the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd estates?

Definition

 

 

 

1st- clergy

2nd- nobles

3rd- peasants

Term

 

 

 

 

Who was the king during the French Revolution?

Definition

 

 

 

 

 

Louis XVI (16)

Term

 

 

 

 

What was the Declaration of Rights of Man?

Definition

 

 

stated all people are equal before the law

 

granted freedom of: speech, press, and religion

 

protected against unreasoned arrest and punishment

 

didn't grant equal rights to women

Term

 

 

 

 

Who were the Jacobins?

Definition

 

 

 

formed the Mountain

 

sat on high benches at the rear of the hall

Term

 

 

 

 

Who led the Reign of Terror?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Robespierre

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Who takes over France after the Directory?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Napolean Bonaparte

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Who overthrew the government to end the French Revolution?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Robespierre

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Who was the 1st person to circumnavigate the world?

Definition

 

 

 

 

 

Magellan

Term
 
 
 
 
Englishmen that made King's army during the English Civil War
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cavaliers

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What part of Europe turned protestant during the reformation?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Northern part

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Who thought people in the state of nature would be just fine?

Definition

 

 

 

 

John Locke

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Who did Queen Mary mary?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Philip II

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Where was Galileo born?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Italy

Term

 

 

 

 

Where was the Spanish Armada sent to invade?

Definition

 

 

 

 

England

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What were the goals of the French, English, and Spanish in regards to the Indians?

Definition

 

 

French- trade & convert them to Christianity

 

English- let them be and adapt their ways

 

Spanish- kill them

Term

 

 

Who was the most powerful monarch in Spanish history?

 

Who did he hate?

 

Details of the Spanish Armada

Definition

 

 

Phillip II

 

Elizabeth

 

their naval troops invaded England

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Which king of France ruled the longest?

 

Where did he live?

Definition

 

 

 

Louis XIV (14)

Sun King

 

Palace of Versailes

France

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Why did some want to exclude James II from the throne?

Definition

 

 

 

he appointed Catholics to government and university positions, and he allowed free worship by all Christians

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