WORLD HISTORY
Semester 1 Final Review Guide
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Date _____________ Period ___
Vocabulary
Genghis Khan
Elizabeth I
Hernan Cortez
Byzantine Empire
Inquisition
Natural Right
American Revolution
Suffrage
WORD BANK
Mansa Musa
Martin Luther
Francisco Pizarro
Feudalism
Triangular Trade Network
Nationalism
Estate
Urbanization
Temperance Movement
Henry VIII
Christopher Columbus
Mongols
Scientific Revolution
Columbian Exchange
Republic
Socialism
Corporation
SET 1: Early Civilization
1. Mali’s greatest leader who converted to Islam and created strong ties with Muslim states in the Middle East
and Europe.
2. Central Asian group whose use of horses allowed them to control land from China to Eastern Europe in the
early 1200s
3. Mongol leader
4. System during medieval Europe for protection
5. Formed from the Roman Empire and ruled for 1000 years in Eastern Europe
SET 2: Renaissance and Absolutism
6. Church court that used secret testimonies, torture, and execution.
7. New way of thinking about the natural world using mathematical laws and careful observations
8. Reformation leader who questioned the actions of the Catholic Church and began the Protestant
Reformation
9. Leader who broke away from the Catholic Church and formed the Church of England after his conflict with
the Pope
10. Leader during the Renaissance who stabilized England as Protestant nation
SET 3: Exploration, Conquest, and Trade
11. Spanish conqueror of the Inca
12. Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs
13. Italian explorer sent by the King and Queen of Spain in 1492 to seek trade routes to Asia.
14. Atlantic trade network that arose during the 1500s linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
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15. Global exchange of goods, ideas, plants, animals, and disease in the 1500s.
SET 4: Enlightenment and Revolutions
16. Strong feeling of pride and devotion in one’s country
17. Government ruled by elected representatives
18. Event that contributed to France’s debt before the revolution
19. Belongs to all humans at birth; including life, liberty, and property
20. Term for a social class in France
SET 5: Industrial Revolution
21. Movement of people to the cities
22. System where the government has more control in the economy and provides the basic needs of the
people
23. Business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock
24. Giving women the right to vote
25. Campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
Multiple Choice Section
Set 1: Early Civilization
26. Name the religion spread along trade routes between Middle East, Asia, and Africa as illustrated by the
Mughal and Ottoman Empires.
27. Name the two highly valued items were most traded between West and North Africa.
28. Name the trade route East Africa was most connected to.
29. East Asian countries, such and Korea and Japan, were influenced by which major power?
30. What famous trade network ran from Asia to the Middle East?
31. Name the religion spread into East Asia from India.
32. Name the East Asian power that had a form of Feudalism similar to Medieval Europe.
33. Which institution held the most power in people’s lives in Medieval Europe?
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34. What happened as a result of society becoming more stable and trade grew during the Middle Ages?
35. In the Middle Ages, which regions of the world did Europeans trade with?
36. What was an effect of the Black Death on Europe during the late Middle Ages?
37. The Crusades were a series of wars between____ and ____.
38. What was an impact of the Crusades on Europe?
39. Because of its connection with the Byzantine Empire, what was the dominant religion of Russia?
40. Name the main religion of the Ottoman Empire.
SET 2: Renaissance and Absolutism
41. What was the name given to the time period associated with breakthroughs in perspective, engravings, and
the European printing press that focused on a rebirth of classical learning of Greece and Rome?
42. How did Italy’s location help make it the starting point of the Renaissance?
43. How was Renaissance art different from the art of the Middle Ages?
44. What was an effect of the use of the printing press?
45. What factor led to the Protestant Reformation?
46. Describes the Catholic Reformation.
47. What new ideas developed during the Scientific Revolution?
48. A government where the ruler has complete control over the lives of its people is known as
49. What country had a Limited Monarchy?
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50. Name Peter the Great’s goals for Russia.
SET 3: Exploration, Conquest, and Trade
51. What was European motivation for exploration in the 1400s?
52. Who controlled trade between Asia and Europe in the 1400s?
53. How were the Portuguese able to gain a vast trading empire in the Indian Ocean in the early 1500s?
54. Why did Chinese traders demand payment for their goods in gold or silver?
55. Name the religion Spain worked to spread throughout the Americas in the 1500s.
56. Name the area of South America that was not controlled by the Spanish.
57. How did some West African kingdoms become powerful during the 1600s?
58. Who benefitted most from the Atlantic Slave Trade?
59. What was the overall impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas?
60. Which was a cause of the global population explosion?
SET 4: Enlightenment and Revolutions
61. What did the European Enlightenment most want to change?
62. Who wrote that people have a natural right to overthrow a government that violates their rights?
63. Who would have opposed the Enlightenment?
64. What was the largest Estate in France?
65. Name the MAIN cause of the French Revolution.
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66. Name of the document during the French Revolution that declared all men were equal under the law.
67. Name of prison in Paris attacked by the citizens to get gunpowder on July 14, 1789.
68. Name the period during the French Revolution was characterized by many arrests and executions,
between September1793 to July 1794.
69. Celebrating a victory over Napoleon while focusing on the containment of France, creating lasting peace by
establishing a balance of power, and protecting the system of monarchy describe the goals of which
following event?
70. Name an effect Napoleon’s invasion of Spain had on Latin America.
71. What was an effect of national ideas in Latin America?
SET 5: Industrial Revolution
72. “A gradual change in the way people lived and worked”, describes what time period?
73. What was a consequence of improved farming methods in the 1700s?
74. What two reasons did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?
75. What caused the growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution?