JEOPARDY!!!

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JEOPARDY!!!

• Review for World II Mid-Term

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Renaissance Reformation
Absolute Monarchs
French Revolution
Exploration Asia and America
Enlightenment
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100What was to keep them secret?

• This is what women artists often were forced to
  do with their art work during the Renaissance.

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200What was the Prince?

• The name of the famous essay written by Niccolo
  Machiavelli where he coined the phrase the end
  justifies the means.

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300Who was Johannes Kepler?

• He was the astronomer and mathematician who
  determined that planets moved in elliptical
  orbits around the sun.

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400Who was Desiderius Erasmus?

• He was the Dutch Humanist who influenced Thomas
  More, John Calvin, Huldreich Zwingli, and Martin
  Luther.

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500Who were the Peasants or the Peasant revolt
of 1524?

• What group in European society tried to stage a
  revolt and win the support of Martin Luther after
  he posted his 95 theses on the church door at
  Wittenberg?

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100What was they had inflation caused by huge
gold imports, failed to create a middle class and
businesses, the failure of the Spanish Armada,
and weak rulers?

• Name two reasons why Spain failed to hold onto
  its vast global Empire after 1700.

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200What was Islam?

• This religion had a huge impact on the culture
  and history of the people of western and northern
  Africa.

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300What was triangular trade?

• This was the trading of slaves for raw materials,
  and then raw materials being exchanged for
  manufactured goods making enormous profits for
  the countries involved.

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400What was native economies were destroyed?

• This is often what happened to native economies
  when European countries colonized African and
  Asian nations.

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500What was mercantilism?

• This was the economic theory that was used to
  justify the Age of Exploration, where in order
  for one country to gain another must lose, and
  there is a limited, fixed amount of wealth in the
  world.

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100Who were the Bourbons?

• This was the royal family name of the kings of
  France from Henry IV until Louis Philippe was
  deposed in 1848.

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200What was the Peace of Augsburg?

• This was the Treaty signed in 1555 by Charles V,
  The Holy Roman Emperor, that allowed German
  princes the choice to remain Catholic or become
  Protestant. ( Which meant everybody in the
  country had to be the same religion as the
  Prince, Count, Duke, etc.)

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300What was Poland?

• This country completely disappeared in 1795,
  absorbed by Russia, Prussia, and Austria and
  doesnt reappear until after World War I.

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400What was Parliament ?

• By Bringing William and Mary to the throne of
  England after the Glorious Revolution this
  assembly becomes the real power in Great
  Britains government.

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500What was the Anglican church?

• The Puritans became increasingly unhappy with the
  practices of this English church right before the
  English Civil War. ( Its why they came to the
  U.S.)

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100Who was John Locke (Life, Liberty and
Property)?

• The Declaration of Independence was based on the
  writings of the English physician and philosopher
  ( Philosophe).

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200What was France?

• During the 1700s into the late 1800s, Britains
  greatest rival around the globe was this country.

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300Who was George III (Hanover Dynasty)?

• He was the English Monarch who was King during
  the American Revolution, ( he went a little
  crazy).

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400Who was Benjamin Franklin?

• He was the American statesman and scientist who
  proved that lightning was a form of electricity.

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500Who was John Locke? ( also written into
Common Sense by Thomas Paine)

• Taxation without representation was an idea that
  was written into the Magna Carta, what other
  English philosopher went further and suggested it
  would deprive people of their property, a natural
  right.

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100What was to force Great Britain to surrender?

• This was the ultimate goal of Napoleons
  Continental system, the economic blockade of
  Europe.

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200What was Great Britain?

• This was the European power that came to the
  assistance of Spain and Portugal during their
  guerilla war against the French forces of
  Napoleon.

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300What was the military invasion by Austria
and Prussia, as well as declaring war on Great
Britain and the Netherlands?

• This is why the French Revolution took a
  disastrous turn toward violence and, the Reign
  of Terror, after 1793 and the execution of Louis
  XVI.

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400What was the financial crisis caused by
deficit spending in 1789?

• This was Louis XVIs reason for calling the
  Estates General for the first time in 175 years,
  since 1614.

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500What was a plebiscite?

• A ballot, like the one used by Napoleon to
  approve many of his ideas by the French people,
  that required a simple yes or no vote is known as
  this.

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Industrial Revolution
Industrial Life
Mid-Term Questions
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200What was illegal?

• This is what most governments declared labor
  unions in the early Industrial Revolution.

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400What was the government supported and helped
business and trade?

• This how business and trade was treated by the
  government in Great Britain as opposed to the
  rest of the European countries, ( except the
  Netherlands).

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600What was the telephone?

• This was the invention that usually associated
  with Alexander Graham Bell. ( what did he invent?)

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800What was and still is capitalism?

• This is the economic system where individuals and
  the market place determine the factors and the
  levels of production.

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1000Who was Jeremy Bentham or John Stuart Mill?

• He was the industrial philosopher who would most
  likely support the idea of cooperation as opposed
  to competition in business?

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200Who was Prince Klemens von Metternich?

• He was the Austrian Prince who tried to stop the
  spread of Revolution and Nationalism after the
  fall of Napoleon.

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400What was 1848?

• This is the year called the Year of Revolutions,
  where Revolutions broke out in almost every
  country in Europe and the Communist Manifesto was
  published.

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600Who were Simon Bolivar, Bernardo OHiggins,
and Jose San Martin?

• These were the three great South American
  Generals who led the independence movement in
  South America.

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800What are and were mestizo?

• This is the name given to the people of Latin
  America who are a mixture of Native American and
  European, usually born in the Americas.

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1000Who were the Middle class, or bourgeoisie?

• This was the social class that wanted political
  power and often led many of the European
  Revolutions after the Age of Napoleon.

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200Slavery became a southern institution, which
almost destroys the nation?

• This was the result of Whitneys, invention, the
  cotton gin in the southern United States.

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400What was the skyscraper?

• This was the invention or development made
  popular by Louis Sullivan after the Bessemer
  process allowed steel cables and girders to be
  mass produced.

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600What was Communism?

• This was the economic philosophy that stated that
  all History is a class struggle and the final
  outcome will be a period of dictatorship followed
  by cooperation and harmony. ( In reality, a harsh
  dictatorship that often ignores human rights)

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800What was to finance industrial growth and
overcome competition?( It takes money to make
money)

• This is why corporations are formed and sometimes
  monopolies and Cartels that dominated the early
  American industrial Revolution.

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1000What was that all life must change or adapt
or perish? ( Imperialists used this to justify
racism and colonialism)

• The central idea of Charles Darwins natural
  selection, written about in his book On the
  Origin of Species.

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200What was killing disease causing bacteria
and germs?

• The development of antiseptics by Joseph Lister
  were crucial in doing this, which lowered the
  death rate significantly during the Industrial
  Revolution.

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400What was habeas corpus A Latin Moment,
You may have the body?

• This was the British safeguard against unlawful
  imprisonment.

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600What was the English Bill of Rights?

• This was the English Document, that limited the
  power of the King, and William and Mary were
  forced to sign before accepting the crown.

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800What was the Edict of Nantes? ( was written
in France, it let all Protestants stay and dance)

• This was the French royal decree issued by Henry
  IV, the first Bourbon king of France, which
  allowed French Huguenots or Protestants to remain
  in the country.

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1000What was the Act of Union? ( This created
the Kingdom of Great Britain)

• This was the Act of 1707 which merged the two
  countries of Scotland and England.

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200What was Portugal? African culture also
played an important part after the importation of
over 3 million slaves.

• This was the European country that influenced the
  South American culture that developed in Brazil.

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400What was they were corrupt and inefficient?
A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee.

• This was the reason most people were dissatisfied
  with the French government of the Directory.

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600What was from Islamic Africa and the Middle
East?( Big Library at Alexandria)

• This is where most of the ideas came from during
  the Italian Renaissance and the Age of
  Exploration.

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800What was New Zealand?

• This was the first republic that allowed women to
  vote in 1893.

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1000What was they didnt want them, barely
tolerated them, considered them unwashed
barbarians?

• This was how the countries of China, Japan, and
  Korea felt about European Explorers and
  foreigners in general.