World History Final Review Sheet
_________________________ opened Japan to Western trade and influence in 1853.
The Prince, written by _________________________ was a book about politics during the Renaissance.
An ______________________ is a government which is ruled by a few.
The practice by which secular rulers chose church officials and gave them the symbols of their office is called
______________________________________.
The Vikings were made part of the European civilization by the _________________________ who settled and
converted them to Christianity.
The slaughter of European civilians, including European Jews, by the Nazis is called __________________.
The chief reasons for European exploration is ____________, _____________________, and ___________.
The _____________________________ is the period of political tension following WWII.
Mao Zedong was convinced that a Chinese revolution would be driven by _________________________
__________________________________.
Mohandas Gandhi protested British laws by practicing ______________________________________.
The Tokugawa dynasty was responsible for the Great Peace, which was a time period the _______________
became the managers of the lands of the ____________________________.
______________________ led Muslim forces to retake Jerusalem from the crusaders.
Lutheranism and Calvinism agreed on most doctrines except _______________________________.
Otto von Bismarck and Emperor Meiji used ________________________________ to unify their respective
countries.
The _________________________________ was signed after WWI and thought by many Germans to be too
harsh.
The ____________________________ was designed to restore the economic stability of European nations after
WWII.
According to Islamic belief, Muhammad is _________________________________________.
The Zhou dynasty ruled China because it claimed to have the _____________________________________.
The samurai lived by the strict code, Bushido, which was based on _____________________ to the samurai’s
lord.
The immediate cause that triggered WWI was the _______________________________________________
________________________________________.
_______________________________ is the code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold.
The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice in order to delay the ________________________________________
_____________________________________.
The Bay of Pigs refers to the ________________ attempt to overthrow the ____________________________.
Napoleon’s rise to power succeeded because he restored order after the _______________________________.
The belief that Europeans had a moral responsibility to civilize primitive peoples is called ___________
_________________________________________________.
Voltaire and other philosophes believed that the universe was ________________________________.
Suyleyman the Magnificent received his name because he unified _______________________________ under
the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
Serfs were different from peasants in that serfs were ___________________________ to the land upon which
they worked and lived.
Under the leadership of __________________________ the Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent
revolution.
Copernicus, Galileo and Newton influenced the ___________________________________ during the
Enlightenment.
It was through the Muslim world that Europeans were able to rediscover the works of
______________________________________.
___________________________ is remembered for his law code.
The Imperialistic policies of England, France and Japan all relied on the _________________________,
________________________________, and _________________________ domination over the local people.
WWI was a _____________ war.
Homer’s two epic poems were ______________________ and _________________________.
____________________ was the first Protestant faith.
The Truman doctrine stated that the U.S. would provide __________________ to nations threatened by
Communist expansion.
The Phoenician alphabet was the basis for the ________________________________.
The Warsaw Pact sought to create a military alliance between the ___________________________ and various
_____________________________________________.
Merchants and artisans living in walled cities came to be called _____________________________.
The Silk Road was the _________________ between the Roman Empire and China.
In 1206 Temujin was elected Genghis Khan after which he ______________________________________.
The Inquisition was the court created by the Catholic Church to _____________________________________.
Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire became known as the _____________________________
in WWI.
The most important gift a lord could give a vassal was _________________________.
Leonardo da Vinci was a __________________, ________________, ________________ and _____________.
Farming in ancient Mesopotamia resulted in an abundance of food which enabled
__________________________________.
In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of a social contract the entire society agrees to be governed by its
_______________________________________.
The ________________________ brought by the Crusaders to Europe allowed for easier ocean navigation.
Emperor Kangxi and the ________________ dynasty were tolerant of other religions, including Christianity.
The Black Death killed 38 million people, resulting in severe __________________________________.
At the Yalta Conference the Allies agreed to the establishment of the _________________________________.
On Dec. 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked __________________________________.
The greatest period of peace and stability within the Roman Empire is known as the _____________________.
The use of ____________________________________ caused the U.S. to join the Allies in WWI.
The Berlin Wall was built in order to prevent East Germans from defecting to __________________________.
As a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Great Britain gained control of _________________ and __________
___________________.
The Mogul Empire was stretched to its farthest boundaries by ______________________.
Under Shah Abbas the Safavid dynasty reached its ____________________________.
John Hay proposed the __________________________ policy for China.
Judaism differed from other religions of the time because it was ___________________________ while others
were __________________________.
The first written governmental document of the U.S. was the __________________________________.
Sputnik I made Americans fear that the __________________ was ahead of the U.S. in the production of
missiles.
The name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America was called ______________________________.
Literature written in the language of everyday speech is called _____________________________________.
John Locke suggests that people were molded by their ___________________________.
The _________________ made Japan one of the major political powers of the world.
The rise of ___________________ and the use _____________________ were common to the Industrial
Revolutions of Germany, England and Japan.
The publication of Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis attacked the _________________________________.
Christian humanists believed that if people read the basic works of ________________________ they would
become more pious.
Two days after Hitler’s invasion of ________________________, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
The Magna Carta was a document that was used to limit the power of the ________________________.
The Ottoman’s expanded their control in the fourteenth century, taking over the _____________________ and
the _________________________________.
Vasco de Gama’s discovery of a route to India by sea proved to be very _________________________.
The Aztec accepted the Spanish because they took the __________________________ of the Spanish to be a
sign from Quetzalcoatl that was returning.
The Russian word perestroika describes the reform of Gorbachev meaning ________________________.
The revolutions of England, U.S., France and Haiti all were consequences of exploration of rulers through the
idea of __________________________.
______________________________ went to his grave believed he had discovered a new passage to Asia,
instead he had discovered the Americas.
The Safavid rulers supported the Shiites because they believed that Shah Ismail was the successor to the prophet
________________________________.
The conquests of Alexander the Great created the _________________________________.
The purpose of Stalin’s 5 year plan was the transform the USSR economy from _______________________ to
__________________________.