First Semester

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First Semester

• World History Final Exam

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• The Spanish explorers brought these to the
  Americas.

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• Horses

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Africa is the continent where we have found the
earliest existence of
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Humans
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This Spanish explorer invaded Mexico and
conquered the Aztecs.
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Cortez
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The climate and geography in Egypt, India, the
Tigris and Euphrates Valley, and ____ encouraged
nomads to stop their wandering ways and to build
permanent civilizations.(name the fourth area)
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China
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European goods were traded for these, which were
then brought to colonial plantations in the
Americas.
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Slaves
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What type of government selects representatives
to rule?
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Republic
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What is considered to be the birthplace of the
Republic form of government?
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Rome
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• The ________ was one of three governing bodies of
  the Roman Republic, it was most powerful because
  it controlled the public funds and decided
  foreign policy.

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• Senate

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• Who spread the Greek Culture in his quest to rule
  the world?

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• Alexander the Great

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A _____ Age is when a civilization experiences
peace and prosperity, with great advancements in
art, literature, math, and science.
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Golden
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The Holy Book of Islam is
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The Quran
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The most sacred holy text of Judaism is
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The Torah
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The most holy collection of writings for those
who practice Hinduism are the
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Vedas
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Name the religionChurch of the Holy
Sepulcherworship on SundaysHoly Trinity
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Christianity
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Like archaeologists, ___ studies bones,
artifacts, and anything else a culture leaves
behind to better understand what life was like in
earlier times.(name the occupation)
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Anthropologists
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These were sold by the Catholic Church. Those who
bought them considered them to be tickets into
heaven.
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Indulgences
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Jerusalem is perhaps the most troubled city in
history, in part because these three religions
claim it to be their own.
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JudaismChristianityIslam
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He started his own religion in order to get a
divorce from his wife, something the Pope refused
to do for this man who had been called the
Defender of the Faith by the Catholic Church.
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Henry VIII
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A civilization that has many different religions
and ethnic groups is described as having Cultural
_______.
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Diversity
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The fundamental goal of Buddhism is to end
suffering and sorrow by
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stop wanting what you dont have
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Written in Babylon, this code established written
laws and helped to create a stable society.
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Code of Hammurabi
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People today admire the art and architecture left
behind by these three great civilizations of
South and Central America.
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AztecIncaMaya
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The Aztec and Incas could not defeat the
conquistadors of _____ because their advanced
weapons, armor and use of horses made the
invaders too powerful. (name the country)
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Spain
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_____ is the belief that the soul sheds one body,
and returns to inhabit another one.
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Reincarnation
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Some of the earliest forms of known writing are
Mesopotamian cuneiform and Egyptian _____.
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Hieroglyphics
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The Neolithic Revolution refers to a time when
people developed languages and government and
formed organized communities because they were
settling in one place rather than wandering from
place to place as _____.
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Nomads
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Who taught these?honor your familyrespect
your eldersthe educated should run for
officethe group is more important than the
individual
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Confucius
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The Ancient Greeks were great sailors and trade
was very important to them. This is not
surprising because they had great ____ where
ships could easily dock and thousands of miles of
coastline.
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harbors
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Large empires understood early on that you need
to build quality ___ so people can easily travel
across your vast empire.
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Roads
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Surplus ___ was very important to early
civilizations because it allowed the population
of small villages to grow, it let people do jobs
other than farming, and people could stay in one
place rather than living as nomads.
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Food
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This religion separates people into different
social groups, called castes.
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Hinduism
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Name the religion KarmaDharmaSamsaraVegetarian
ism
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Hindu
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The geography of Greece prevented it from
becoming a strong united empire. Instead, many
small ___-___, such as Athens and Sparta were
formed.
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city-states
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What do we have today that in part came from
Ancient Rome?our alphabeta republic form of
governmenta belief in the need for a set of ___
and a court of justice
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laws
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Christians, Jews and Muslims all have guides to
ethical behavior, including the Ten Commandments
and the Five ___ of Islam
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Pillars
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The kingdoms of western Africa had great wealth
from gold, ivory, and ____, which is used to
improve the taste food and to help preserve it.
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salt
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The Japanese Samurai followed a code of behavior
called Bushido.The European Knights followed a
code called ___.
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Chivalry
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These are all reasons for the collapse of the __
__.economic problems attack by German
barbariansweak governments run by frequently
assassinated rulers
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Roman Empire
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The Birthplace of Democracy is considered to
be____, ____
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Athens, Greece
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Europeans tried many times to win back the Holy
Land from control by Muslims. What were these
series of battles called?
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The Crusades
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Name the social system with a King who rules over
nobles who own the land and knights who protect
the manors.
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Feudalism
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In Feudalism, it was the_____ who did most of
the work and paid most of the taxes.
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peasants
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People exchanged both goods and ideas in
the West Africa Trading System, during the
Crusades, and as they traveled back and forth
to China along the ___ Road.
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Silk
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The Shinto belief is most often practiced in ___,
a country where nature is dramatically present in
the form of earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons and
tsunamis.
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Japan
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The Shinto respect for ___ is an important theme
in the artwork of Japan.
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nature
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They could not agree on who should be the leader
of their faith(a pope-like figure) and so they
divided into 2 groupsthe Shiites and the
Sunni.Name the Religion
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Islam
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Some rainforest cultures, both past and present,
clear the land by cutting down the trees, burning
them, and fertilizing the soil with the ashes.
This is called Slash and ____.
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Burn
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Name the religionHajjAllahQuranMuhammad
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Islam
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In the guild system, you could work as an ____ or
journeyman until you had learned all of the
skills offered by the master craftsman.
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apprentice
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Many cultures believe that the authority of kings
come from God, who has put them in office. In
Europe, this is referred to as _____ Right.
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Divine
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In Asia, those who have Divine Right are referred
to as having a
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Mandate of Heaven
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The manors in a Feudal society made everything
the people there needed to live. They were
considered to beself-_____.
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sufficient
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What Church takes a look at itself and defines
its major beliefs and practices during the
Counter Reformation?
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The Roman Catholic Church
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Many consider him to be one of the most important
explorers of the timenot because of where he was
going, but because of the trade that resulted
from his journeys.
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Christopher Columbus
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The Renaissance in Europe was a time when a great
deal of emphasis was placed on the ancient
cultures of __ and __.
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Greece and Rome
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Triangle trade refers to the path that ships from
Europe took. Carrying finished products for
factories, they next sailed to Africa where they
picked up __ to be sold in the Western Hemisphere.
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slaves
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After unloading their cargo and the slaves in
North and South America, the ships completed the
triangle by loading up ___ ___ from
their colonies in the Americas and sailed back to
Europe.
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raw materials
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The literacy rate of the world increases
dramatically with this invention.
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Printing Press
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During the ___ ___ these men become famous for
starting their own religions.Martin Luther
Henry VIIIJohn Calvin
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Protestant Reformation
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The quest by Christians to gain back the Holy
Land is called
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The Crusades
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The Holy Land is in the present day country of
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Israel
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Who would have said The ends justify the
means.andHave you read my book, The
Prince?
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Machiavelli
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The Renaissance begins in ___ because the people
theresuch as the Medici familyhad the money to
become patrons of the arts.(name the country)
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Italy
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Name the ArtistThe Last SupperMona Lisathe
worlds first Renaissance Man
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Name the ArtistSistine Chapelsculpture of
DavidI just carve away the marble from the
figure that is within.
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Michelangelo
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Name the AuthorHamletRomeo and JulietteI
included over 1500 words that had never been
published before in my writings.
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Shakespeare
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Mercantilism is the belief that countries should
have ___ for 2 reasons. First, as good places to
get resources from.Second, they make great
markets for buying your finished products.
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Colonies
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This is the name for the 10 tax the Catholic
Church collected from people.
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Tithe
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An ___ monarchy is when a King has complete power
and believes that his people should never
challenge his authority.
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Absolute
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During the Enlightenment, great thinkers such as
Locke and Montesquieu were called____.
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philosophes
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An example of a great philosophe of the
Enlightenment, John Locke wrote that man had
natural rights, such as the rights to life,
liberty, and ___.
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property
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The Kings and Queens of England do not have the
power today that they once did, because
Parliament ended up with most of the power after
the __ Revolutionso named because there was no
bloodshed.
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Glorious
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The power of the English ___ was limited by Magna
Carta, the Petition of Right, and the English
Bill of Rights.
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King
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Name the Enlightenment philosopherFreedom Of
Speech
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Voltaire
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Name the Enlightenment AuthorA government with
checks and balances
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Montesquieu
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Name two great Czars that expanded Russia in
search of warm water ports.
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Peter the GreatCatherine the Great
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He taught Laissez-Faire economics, stating that
the government needed to stay out of the way of
businesses.
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The Father of EconomicsAdam Smith
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The King spent to much of his peoples money
helping the American colonists win their
revolution.The middle class and peasants paid
most of the taxes.The estates voted by order,
not by head.The ideas of the Enlightenment
influenced the people to act.All of these are
causes of the ___ ___.
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French Revolution
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He tried (but failed) to block Englands ports
and to take over Russia, but he did successfully
take control of the areas now known as Italy,
Germany and Spain.Name Him
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Alexander I pulled Napoleon into Russia and used
the ___ ___ strategyletting Russias
huge size and its brutal winters do what the
people of Russia could not.
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scorched earth
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Uprisings in Latin America and the slave colonies
in the Caribbean were all inspired by the
writings from the Enlightenment and the nearby
American ____.
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Revolution
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Before the French Revolution, the peasants and
middle class made up 97 of the population, but
did not have much of a say in the government
because votes were done by social classes, called
_____, and the 1st and 2nd always voted against
them.
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Estates
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Liberals in Europe wanted to eliminate absolute
monarchs, allow people to run their own business,
allow all males to vote, and to write ___ that
protected the basic rights of the citizens.
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Constitutions
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During the Age of Enlightenment, people stopped
believing in magic and were less superstitious.
This is why this period is also known as the ___
___ ___.
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Age of Reason