World Midterm Review Sheet – January 2014
Exam Schedule:
Thursday, January 23
Friday, January 24
Monday, January 27
Tuesday, January 28
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Period 1
Period 3
Period 5
Period 7
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Period 2
Period 4
Period 6
Period 8
Exam Structure:
The Test is valued at 200 points
100 Multiple Choice/Matching Questions – on scantron – 1 point each for 100 points
15 Map Questions – on scantron – 1 point each for 15 points
5 Identifications – on lined paper – 7 points each for 35
1 Full 5 Paragraph Essay – on lined paper (Introduction with Thesis, Body, Conclusion) – 50 points
Part I: The Renaissance & The Reformation
Ch. 14: Sec. 1-4
Renaissance
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
Renaissance Characteristics
Florence, Italy
Cosimo & Lorenzo de Medici
patron
Francisco Petrarch
humanities
Niccolo Machiavelli
Baldassare Castiglione
Leonardo da Vinci
perspective
Raphael
Michelangelo
Botticelli
Donatello
Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer
Desiderius Erasmus
Sir Thomas More
vernacular
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Effects of the Printing Press
Johann Gutenberg
Reformation
Problems of the Catholic Church
indulgence
relics
Johann Tetzel
Martin Luther
95 Theses
Diet of Worms
Anabaptists
Anglicans
Lutherans
predestination
John Calvin
Calvinists
Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth I
Act of Supremacy
Puritans
Counter-Reformation (Catholic Reformation)
St. Ignatius de Loyola
Jesuits
Council of Trent
Index
Part II: Exploration, Colonization, & the Commercial Revolution
Ch. 15 Sec. 1, 3 & 4 / Ch. 16 Sec. 1-5
Why didn’t Ming continue to explore?
Aztecs
Motivations for European exploration
Montezuma
Portugal
Spain
astrolabe
caravel
cartographers
dead reckoning
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartholomeu Dias
Vasco de Gama
Pedro Cabral
Isabella & Ferdinand
Christopher Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas
Line of Demarcation
Ferdinand Magellan
circumnavigation
Northwest Passage
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
Henry Hudson
Sir Francis Drake
Dutch East India Company
British East India Company
China and Japan’s reaction to Europeans
Tokugawa Japan
Hernan Cortés
Incas
Francisco Pizarro
Atahualpa
colony
viceroy
Council of the Indies
encomienda
Bartolome de las Casas
plantation
Life in the Spanish colonies
New France
The 13 English Colonies
Slave trade
Middle passage
West Indies
The Columbian Exchange
Commercial Revolution
disease – small pox
Triangular Trade
inflation
capitalism
entrepreneurs
joint-stock company
mercantilism
Part III: The Age of Absolutism, Constitutionalism, the Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
Ch. 17 Sec. 1-5 / Ch. 14 Sec. 5 / Ch. 18 Sec. 1 & 2 Reasons for why Spanish Power declined English Civil War
1600s
Cavaliers
Maria Theresa of Austria
Roundheads
Hapsburgs
Oliver Cromwell
Prussia
“New Model Army”
Fredrick William II the Great
Commonwealth
Peter the Great
The Restoration
Westernization
Charles II
warm-water port
James II
Catherine the Great
Glorious Revolution
Constitutionalism
William and Mary
Tudor Monarchs
English Bill of Rights
Parliament
habeas corpus
James I
limited monarchy
Charles I
Scientific Revolution
René Descartes
Francis Bacon
Scientific Method
hypothesis
Ptolemy
geocentric
Nicolaus Copernicus
heliocentric
Tyco Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
telescope
Sir Isaac Newton
gravity
Laws of Motion
Enlightenment
Natural Laws
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Natural Rights
Baron de Montesquieu
separation of Power
checks and balances
Philosophes
Voltaire
Denis Diderot
The Encyclopedia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
salon
Wollstonecraft
physiocrat
Adam Smith
laissez faire
Part IV: The French Revolution & Napoleon
See chapter review sheet
Ch. 19 Sec. 1-5
Maps (you should be able to locate the following on a map)
Major countries/civilizations that we’ve studied
France, England, Russia, Spain, Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Greece, China, Japan
Arabian Peninsula
Trade Routes – Silk Road
Caribbean Islands
South America: Incan and Aztec Empires
Colonial Settlements of the New World
European Voyages of Exploration Routes – Columbus, Magellan, Diaz, da Gama
Possible Essays:
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Introduction paragraph
Thesis statement which addresses the question (last sentence of the introduction)
3 or more body paragraphs which use factual, historical information in support
A conclusion paragraph which summarizes the main points of your essay
1.
Define the term Renaissance and its major characteristics. Use examples. Then identify and
explain at least THREE reasons why it began in the Italian city-states. EVALUATE which
cause is the most influential.
2.
Define the term Protestant Reformation. Explain key causes of the Protestant Reformation.
Who were the major figures involved in this movement? What were their beliefs? How did the
Protestant Reformation change the religious face of Europe?
3.
Define the Columbian Exchange. Use at least THREE specific examples to explain how the
Columbian Exchange helped both the Old World and the New World. Then using at least
THREE specific examples, explain how the Columbian Exchange harmed both the Old World
and the New World.
4.
Define Constitutional Monarchy. Then discuss how THREE of the following lead to the
development of England’s Constitutional Monarchy.
Reign of Charles I
Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth
James II
Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights
Cabinet & Prime Minister
5.
Make three comparisons using TWO of the following Absolute monarchs.
Phillip II of Spain
Louis XIV of France
Peter the Great of Russia
Be sure to make meaningful comparisons for THREE of the following topics:
religion
society
foreign policy
economy
culture
6.
Was Napoleon Bonaparte FOR or AGAINST the ideals of the French Revolution as Emperor of
France? Choose one side and argue it citing THREE main reasons.