World History Review
Final Exam
• Christian humanists believed that :
• If people read the classics, and especially the
basic works of Christianity, they would be
more pious
• By studying salivation, it would assure one’s
salvation
• Serfs were different from peasants in that
serfs
• Owned the land they worked on
• Legally bound to the land they lived on
• The publication of Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis
• Were ignored until Luther died
• Attacked the sale of indulgences, and started
the Protest Reformation
• Who led Muslim forces to take Jerusalem from
the Crusaders
• Justinian
• Saladin
• What was the first Protestant faith?
• Lutheranism
• Christian humanism
• While Babur est. the Mongul empire, who
stretched it to its furthest boundaries?
• Timbus
• Akbar
• The Zhou dynasty claimed its rule in China
because
• It had an army of artists
• It had the mandate of heaven
• It was through the Muslim world that the
Europeans
• Recovered the works of Aristotle and Greek
philosophers
• Discovered tobacco
• WWI was a ____ ,meaning that it involved a
complete mobilization of resources and
people.
• Trench war
• Total war
• Which war made Japan one of the major
political powers of the world?
• Taiping War
• Gulf War
• According to Islamic belief, Muhammad is
• Prophet of Allah
• An angel
• The Silk Road was
• A great wall
• A trade route
• The consequences of Alexander the Great
created the
• Dark Ages
• Hellenistic Era
• This was a code of ethics that knights were
supposed to uphold
• Chivalry
• The Fief
• __ literature was literature written in the
language of everyday speech in a particular
region
• Biblical
• Vernacular
• The Black death killed nearly 38 million people
resulting in severe
• economic consequences
• A severe famine
• ___ went to his grave believing he had
discovered a westward expansion to Asia
• Columbus
• Vespucci
• Vasco da Gama’s discovery to India by sea
proved to be
• Long
• Very profitable
• The samurai lived by a strict code known as
Bushido, which
• Was based on loyalty to the samurai's lord
• Sworn to a life of privacy
• The slaughter of Europeans, particular Jews,
by Nazi’s is called
• Holocaust
• Cold War
• The Truman doctrine stated that the US would
provide ___ to nations threatened by
communist expansion
• Money
• jeeps
• What was the immediate cause of WWI?
• Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
• Invasion of Belgium
• Merchants and artisans living in walled cities
came to be called
• Journeyman
• Bourgeoisie
•
• John Locke’s ideas suggest that people were
• born good or evil
• Molded by their experiences
• What caused the United States to join the
allies in fighting WWI?
• Submarine warfare
• Sinking of the Titantic
• The Vikings were made part of the European
civilization by
• Frankish policy
• Desire to sail to America
• Which of the following contributed to
revolutions in England, the US, France, Haiti,
and Latin America?
• Absolutism
• Shortage of food
• L. da Vinci was an excellent example of
Renaissance Italy’s ideal because he was
• A policeman
• An artist, inventor, and mathematician
• Why did Napoleon’s rise to power succeed?
• He restored order after the reign of Terror
• His perversion to height
• On December 7, 1941, the Japanese
• Attacked Pearl Harbor
• Invaded Alaska
• What are common factors in Germany,
England, and Japan’s Industrial Revolution?
• Art and science
• Rise of technology and factories
• Under Shah Abbas, the Safavid dynasty
• Reached its height and glory
• Lost a lot of land
• What was the White Man’s burden?
• Belief that Europeans had to civilize many
people
• They could carry more luggage
• What invasion brought by the Crusaders
helped navigate oceans?
• Gps
• astrolabe
• Rousseau’s concept of social contract
• General will
• Women should be equal to men
• Which dynasty was tolerant to Chinese
missionaries
• Qing
• Xin
• The chief reasons for the exploration of the
world by Europeans were god, glory, and
• Greed
• gold
• Who wrote The Prince?
• Dante
• Machiavelli
• The religion of Judaism differed from other
religions of the time in that:
• Was monotheistic
• Was polytheistic
• Suyleyman the Magnificant reviled his name
because he did which of the following
• unified Muslim culture
• Allowed free elections
• What did the Imperalistic policies of England,
France, and Japan have in common?
• Political, economic, and social domination
over local people
• Cultural exchange of people
• At the Yalta Conference, the Allies agreed to
• Establishment of the UN
• Allow free elections
• Who opened Japan to Western trade and
influence in 1853
• Commodore Perry
• Ben Franklin
• As a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763
• Austria regained control of Prussia
• Great Britain gained control of India and North
America
• Two days after Hitler’s invasion ___, Britain
and France declared war on Germany.
• Poland
• France
• What is the importance of the Phoenician
alphabet?
• Basis for English alphabet
• Had capital letters
• Hammurabi is remembered for
• Creating the Post Office
• His law, a collection of 282 laws
• Farming in ancient Mesopotamia resulted in
abundance of food, which
• Enabled civilization to emerge
• Produced inflation
• The__ was the period of political tension
following WWII.
• Yalta Era
• Cold War
• The Aztec practiced human sacrifice in order
to
• Delay destruction of the world
• Pay debts to enemies
• Lay investiture was a practice by which
• Craftsmen joined the church
• Secular rulers both choose nominees to to
church officials and gave them symbols of
their office
• Mao Zedong was convinced that a Chinese
revolution would be driven
• by poverty-stricken rural peasants
• Angry middle class
• Ghandi protested British law by
• Civil disobedience
• Terrorism
• When Sputnik was launched in 1957, many
Americans feared
• production of missiles
• Martians
• Why did the Aztec initially accept the Spanish?
• They thought they were a sign of Quetzalcoatl
was returning
• They fixed their teeth
• The period of great peace in the Roman
Empire was known as
• Pax America
• Pax Romana
• The Berlin Wall was built in order to
• Prevent east from flowing to west
• Prevent food from leaving
• What was the first written governmental
doctrine in the US?
• Dec. of Indep
• Stamp Act
• The Safavid rulers were eagerly supported by
Shiites, who believed
• Shah Ismail was a direct successor of
Muhammad
• They had beautiful wives
• The purpose of Stalin’s 5 year plan was
• To transform from agricultural to industrial
• Boost food production
• Sparta was an oligarchy which meant it was
• Ruled by a few
• Ruled by a king
• Calvin agreed with Luther on most important
doctrines except
• Predestination
• Who spoke better German
• Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey were
• Epic poems
• land
• The most important thing a lord could give to
a vassal was
• A piece of land
• A boat
• The Tokugawa dynasty:
• Allowed samurai class to become managers
• Practice yoga
• The Inquisition was
• A court
• An organization
• The Treaty of Versailles was
• A treaty that the Germans felt was unfair
• A defensive alliance
• Which of the following people influenced the
Scientific Revolution?
• Copernicus, Galileo, Newton
• DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael
• Under the leadership of ____ the Bolsheviks
became a party dedicated to violent
revolution
• Lenin
• Rasputin
• The Russian word perestroikia, is used to
describe the reform movement led by
Gorbachev means:
• Restructuring
• conquest
• The Marshall plan was designed to
• restore economic stability
• Develop military strategy
• To Voltaire and other, the universe was
• A flower
• A clock
• ___ proposed an open door policy for China
• Jeremy Smith
• John Hay
• What was the name for the journey of slaves
from Africa to America?
• Bering Crossing
• Middle Passage
• The Magna Carta was a document that
• Limited the monarch’s power
• About the Catholic church
• The Warsaw pact sought to
• Create a military alliance between the Sov.
Union and Eastern Europe
• Provide economic assistance
• In 1206, Temujin was elected Genghis Khan,
after which he
• Devoted himself to conquest
• Converted to Islam
• Otto vonBismark and Emperor Meiji used
different means to reach the same goal in
their respective countries:
• Theocracy
• nationalism
• The Bay of Pigs refers to
• US attempt to overthrow Cuban gov’t
• Sov. Union invasion of HUngary
• Austria-Hungry, Germany, and the Ottoman
Empire became known as
• League of Nations
• The Central Powers