Social 8 Final Exam– make sure you can answer the following:
1.
What is worldview? What factors shape a society’s worldview?
Unit 1: Renaissance Europe
2.
What was European feudal system based on?
3.
What factors contributed the most to the expansionist perspective of Europeans during
the Renaissance?
4.
What was the world view held during the Middle Ages / Medieval Period?
3. What caused the Crusades?
4. What events created the social conditions which allowed the Renaissance to begin in
Europe?
5. What is a city-state?
6. What factors that influenced the population in the countryside to move to the city
states in Italy – Florence, Venice, Genoa?
7. What is a capitalist society?
8. Why were the ideas of the Renaissance slower to move outside of Italy?
9. How did artists, writers, scholars, scientists, mathematicians, etc spread the ideas of
humanism and the Renaissance?
10. How did art change during the Renaissance?
11. What factors contributed to the lack of focus on science and mathematics during the
European Middle Ages?
12. What were the roles of family members during the Renaissance?
13. What was the Protestant Reformation? Who was Martin Luther?
14. What is ethnocentrism?
15. How did Renaissance Europe demonstrate their expansionist viewpoint?
16. How has Canada’s worldview developed out of the western worldview of Europe at the
end of Renaissance?
Unit 2: Japan
17. When was the Edo period? Meiji period?
18. Who was the ruler of Japan during the Edo period? Who held the actual power?
19. What was the role of the wives and children of the daimyo living in Edo?
20. What was the purpose of the policies imposed on the diamyo by the Shogun?
21. What was Japanese society like before the Meiji restoration (1868)?
22. What effect did the isolation have on the people of Japan?
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23. Which social class experienced a change in status toward the end of Japan's Edo
Period as they gained wealth and power?
24. What were the Exclusion Laws created by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1641 to eliminate
perceived threats to Japan's independence and culture from foreign nations?
25. What was Japan's feudal system and hierarchical social structure like during the Edo
Period?
26. Why did the Bakufu expect the diamyo to obey the rule of 'Alternate Attendance'?
27. What was the National Seclusion Policy?
28. How were the Ainu forced to assimilate with Japan?
29. What was the purpose of the Iwakura mission?
30. What was the main challenge for the Japanese leaders at the start of the Meiji period?
31. What was the Charter Oath?
32. What is a constitutional government?
Unit 3: Spanish & Aztec
33. How did the history of the Aztec affect their worldview?
34. What symbolized that the Aztecs had reached their promised land? Why?
35. How did the culture of the Aztec reflect their worldview?
36. How did the political & economic systems reflect the Aztec worldview?
37. How did the Aztec Emperors become the most powerful rulers in the Valley of Mexico?
38. How did the history of Spain affect its worldview?
39. How did the Spanish social systems reflect the Spanish worldview?
40. How did the belief of Spanish nobles differ from the Aztecs?
41. How did the culture of the Spanish reflect their worldview?
42. How did geography influence the Spanish to explore?
43. What was the Cortes?
44. What was The Reconquista?
45. What was the Spanish Inquisition? Why did Spanish monarchy reinstate it?
46. What did the Spanish monarchs and Aztec emperors both want?
47. What was the Aztec understanding of the Spanish before their arrival?
48. What was the Noche Triste?
49. What were the reasons that allowed the Aztecs to be conquered by the Spanish?
50. How did Cortes and Moctezuma act according to their differing worldviews?