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World History Q1 Exam
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12th Grade
10/02/2011

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which nation did prince henry help to take the lead in overseas exploration?
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Portugal
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In the 1400s, which good motivated europeans to explore and trade with asia?
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Spices
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Who conquered the Inca Empire?
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Fransisco Pizzaro
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Did the Spanish have a larger army than the Aztecs?
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no
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What did the encomienda system provide for new spain?
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cheap labor
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did the spanish settlers first colonize the pacific coast of South America?
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no
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did columbus create the first permanent European settlement in the US?
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no
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did columbus capture the earliest slaves in the new world?
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yes
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did columbus create the gold tribute system?
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yes
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did columbus bring sugar to the new world?
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yes
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who was the priest that described atrocities against the Tainos and helped negotiate an end to rebellion?
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Bartoleme de las casas
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how did columbus describe the tainos?
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intelligent handsome and naïve
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what was the taino response to the Spaniards?
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they forced the Spanish to abandon the system of encomienda on hispaniola
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what are the seven pillars?
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1. killing culture (columbus trying to convert tainos to christianity)
2. grabbing the land (claiming the land for spain)
3. hatching hierarchy (establishing status columbus made himself governor)
4. developing Europe (took the resources to develop Europe)
5. exploiting the land (took down the land to make money, deforestation) not their home
6. growing for Europe (cash crop) brazil coffee
7. consuming colonially (take natural resources from colonies to mother countries and manufacture goods and sell them back)
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mercanitism
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the idea that gold and silver is the only way to get wealthy. All of the colonial powers including the Netherlands, France, Spain, and England used mercantilism and competed for gold and silver to gain wealth and power.
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the system of empire
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the system all europeans were born into that gave tem a role in the system that they had to follow. It could be used to blame for the reason that the tainos were killed. It's the set rulesthat aren't written down, but everyone follows. However it is possible to speak out against the system, as a friar did during the age of exploration.
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which regions had the least extensive trade routes in 1450?
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north america
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in the year 1450, the majority of the gold in circulation in the world came from:
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west africa
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in the middle ages, Arabs provided the main trading link betwee East Africa and
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Europe
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to become known as a renaissance patron, one most needed to be
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wealthy
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the intelectual and cultural movement known as humanism arose from the study of
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classical greek and roman culture
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martin luther
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urged the supression of a peasant revolt in germany
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which religious leader believed I predestination and set up a thoecracy in Switzerland?
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John Calvin
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which group founded superb schools and trained missionaries?
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Jesuits
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what in the 1400s did not weaken the Church
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the formation of the jesuit order
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martin luther's 95 theses were primarily an attack on the Church's
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methods of raising money
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who said, "god preordained…part of the human race…to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation"
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John Calvin
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said, "a prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise"
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machiavelli
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declared himself head of the church of england
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henry VIII
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argued for a christianity of the heart rater than the rituals of the church in In Praise of Folly
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erasmus
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opposed a german peasant rebellion while supporting a new religion in protest of the church
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martin luther
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demonstrated the limitless potential of humans to create and achieve by completing the dome of the cathedral in florence
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brunellesci
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muslim ruler who ruled over mali and an exensive trade network in north africa
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Mansa Musa
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said "we should always be disposed to believe thathtat which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides
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Ignatius of Loyola
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led seven voyages in the indian ocean and perhaps travelled as far as north america
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Zheng he
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banker who dominated the economic, political, and artistic life of florence during the renaissance
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Cosimo d'Medici
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as a part of the west african trade, salt was generally carried on caravans headed
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south
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aztec 1400s accomplishment
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accurate calendar
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china 1400s accomplishment
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printing
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swahili 1400s accomplishment
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flush toilets
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the best synonym for secular is
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worldly
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who sucsessfully expelled muslims in 1492
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ferdinand and isabella
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who turned a wealthy textile family into the largest anking and political power in europe?
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Cosimo d'Medici
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who preached against injustices during diego columbus's rule of Hispanola?
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Antonio de Montesinos
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who forced spaniards to guarantee taino freedom after years of rebellion?
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enrique
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who failed to circumnavigate the globe, but captained the ship that succeeded to do so?
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Ferdinand Magellen
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who painted the Sistine Chaple and sculpted a macho version of david?
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michelangelo
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who was the first european to reach the cape of good hope?
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Bartolomeu Dias
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who threw down the bible offered to him by a friar upon his first meeting with the spanish?
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atahualpa
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who petitioned the portugues to end slave trade which devastated his country?
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king Nzinga Mbembe
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who was the first european to sale across the indian ocean?
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vasco de gama
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conquered an empire using 600 men, some horses, a few guns and indigenous allies
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Hernando Cortez
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sculpted a scandelous version of david
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donatello
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captained four 300 ship fleets visiting africa, India, and possibly the new world
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zheng he
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who relied on writings about cortes to develop his highly successful strategy in cuzco?
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Fransisco Pizzaro
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preached that all humans are sinners and only some are predestined to reach heaven
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John Calvin
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funded research into naval techniques as well as voyages to west africa
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prince henry
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last incan rebel to fight the spanish until his execution 50 years after their arrival
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tupac amaru
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ruler of a vast trading empire that effectively protecting transport of gold and salt
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Mansa Musa
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what disasters affected the 14th and 15th century Europe?
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famine, plague, and civil upheavals
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