PAP WORLD HISTORY
BELTON HIGH SCHOOL
2015
PAP FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2015
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Reasons Europeans began exploring the oceans in the late 1400s.
2.
Results of the printing press in Europe
3.
Impact of the Columbian Exchange
4.
Reasons conquistadors were able to conquer Meso-American civilizations
5.
Technological innovations of various Meso-American and South American civilizations
6.
Hardships of African slaves being transported in the Middle Passage
7.
Results of Atlantic slave trade on West Africa
8.
Documents/events in English history leading to limits of power for English Monarchs
9.
Effects of the Industrial Revolution
10.
Philosophy of John Locke
11.
James Watt
12.
Sources of knowledge during the Scientific Revolution

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13.
characteristics of the Scientific Revolution
14.
Thinkers of the Enlightenment and their ideas
15.
Effects of the American and French Revolutions
16.
What was the Reign of Terror and who was in charge of it?
17.
Napoleon’s goals that gained him the support of the French people
18.
characteristics of an absolute monarch
19.
How did Enlightenment thinkers believe society could be improved?
20.
Benefits of the railroads in industrial Great Britain
21.
What is a workers union?
22.
The Bill of Rights
23.
compare/contrast socialism and communism
24.
causes of the French Revolution

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2015
25.
contributions of Sir Isaac Newton
26.
goals of the Congress of Vienna
27.
The first industry to mechanize in the Industrial Revolution and how they achieved mechanization
28.
Why did European imperialists want land in Africa during the 19 th century?
29.
Why did Europeans build roads, railroads, etc. in their colonies in the 19 th
century?
30.
Causes of the Opium Wars
31.
During the Age of Imperialism, where did Europeans use direct control of its colonial territories?
32.
Reasons for Imperialism
33.
Cities that Cecil Rhodes was hoping to unite by building a railroad in Africa
34.
The immediate cause of WWI
35.
Reason for U.S. entry into WWI
36.
characteristics of trench warfare

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2015
37.
How the Bolsheviks gained peasant support during the Russian Revolution
38.
Examples of aggression leading to WWII
39.
Causes of the Great Depression
40.
Events leading to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor
41.
What happened when democracies in Eastern Europe failed to meet the needs of their people after the World Wars?
42.
Reasons the Nazis were able to come to power in Europe
43. Motives for Japanese imperialism in the early 20 th
century
44.
Winston Churchill
45.
Purpose of NATO
46.
Established principles of responsibility and individual accountability for war crimes and human rights violations following WWII
47.
Bay of Pigs
48.
Causes for the rise of the Cold War
49.
How were the boundaries for independent African nations most often determined in the mid 20 th century?

PAP WORLD HISTORY
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2015
50.
Reason for students protests in Tiananmen Square
51.
goals of the Hutu-led regime in Rwanda
52.
Goals of the Solidarity movement in Poland
53.
Impacts of globalization
54.
Mother Teresa
55.
Sites of 20 th
century genocides
56.
Reason for division of India after its independence from Britain
57.
Gandhi’s method of protest against British rule and oppression
58.
goals of Kwame Nkrumah
59.
radical Islamic Fundamentalism has given rise to this
60.
Neolithic Revolution
61.
How is the geography of the River Valley civilizations similar?
62.
Characteristics/contributions of ancient Rome

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63.
Characteristics of democracy
64.
Characteristics/contributions of ancient Greece
65.
Commonalities of Confucian teachings, the Ten Commandments, and Buddha’s teaching of the Eightfold Path
66.
The rigid social structure of India
67.
What western Europe was like after the fall of Rome
68.
Medieval form of government in which land was exchanged for services
69.
The primary unifying force of Western Europe during the Middle Ages
70.
Characteristics/events for the Protestant Reformation
71.
Effects of the moveable type printing press
72.
Characteristics of the Renaissance
73.
Beliefs of Islam