Honors World History Final Review Guide – Semester 2
Late Middle Ages
Changes to society
Commercial Revolution
Three-Field System
Guilds
Vernacular
Burghers
Scholastics
Thomas Aquinas
Battle of Hastings
Evolution of gov’t in England
Evolution of gov’t in France
Mongols
Great Schism
John Wycliffe and Jan Hus
Black Death
Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
Renaissance
Birthplace of Renaissance
Medici Family
Humanism
Secularism
Patron of the arts
Renaissance Man v. Woman
Renaissance v. Medieval Art
Artists of the Renaissance
Niccoló Machiavelli
Shakespeare
Christian Humanism
Erasmus and Thomas More
Printing Press
Reformation
Problems in the Church
Causes of the Reformation
Martin Luther
Political consequences of
Luther’s actions
Peace of Augsburg
Henry VIII
Anglican Church
Spanish Armada
Calvinism/Presbyterianism
Predestination
Anabaptists
Catholic Reformation
Council of Trent
Jesuits
Exploration
Reasons for exploration
Technology
Prince Henry
Dias/De Gama
Treaty of Tordesillas
Trans-Atlantic Slavery
East India Companies
Trading empires in Asia
Christopher Columbus
Aztecs and Incas
Cortes and Pizarro
Joint-Stock Company
Mestizo
Encomienda System
North American colonies
Triangle Trade
Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
Absolutism
Characteristics of absolutism
Causes of absolutism
Philip II of Spain
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV
Intendants
Edict of Nantes
Thirty Years War
English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell
Constitutional Monarchy
Habeas Corpus
Restoration
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Frederick the Great
Maria Theresa
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Scientific Method
Philosophes & their core beliefs
Salons
Social Contract
Hobbes/Locke/Rousseau
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Beccaria
Wollstonecraft
Diderot
Baroque v. Neoclassical art
Enlightened Despots
Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment
Heliocentric v. Geocentric
Medieval v. New ways of thinking
Copernicus/Galileo/Kepler
Newton/Boyle
Descartes/Bacon
Vesalius
Areas of discovery/inventions
French Revolution
Causes of the Revolution
Old Regime (including social order)
Estates-General
Legislative bodies and forms
of government
Political Spectrum
Tennis Court Oath
Storming of the Bastille
Great Fear
Declaration of Rights of Man
Émigrés/Sans-culottes
Jacobins
Reign of Terror
Rise of Napoleon
Reforms made by Napoleon
Napoleon’s empire
Three Costly Mistakes
Congress of Vienna
Industrial Revolution
Definition
Enclosures
Crop Rotation
Why Great Britain?
Factors of Production
Improvements in transportation
Textile industry
Effects of railroads
Urbanization & its effects
Class tensions
Positive/negative effects
Adam Smith
Laissez Faire
Karl Marx/Engels
Socialism
Communism
Utilitarianism
Utopianism
Collective bargaining
Spread of IR to other countries
Reform movement