WHG1 - Final Exam Review
Meyers 2014
WORLD RELIGIONS
1. How did Buddhism spread across Asia?
2. How did leadership issues divide Islam after Muhammad’s death?
3. Know the similarities/differences between Hinduism and Buddhism.
4. What do Muslims believe about Muhammad and his prophecy?
5. What is the difference between monotheism and polytheism?
6. What is the first covenant between God and the Jewish people?
7. What is the main source of information about the life of Jesus?
8. Who built the temple in Jerusalem that was later destroyed?
9. Why did Roman rulers oppose Christianity?
CHAPTER 13
1. Describe how the Church controlled societal behaviors (rewards, punishments).
2. How did the invasions of the Germanic tribes lead to the fall of the Roman Empire?
3. How was feudal society organized during the Middle Ages?
4. Know the significance of the Frankish leaders from Western Europe.
5. What battle strategies and weaponry were used in trying to capture a castle?
6. What is the impact of the Treaty of Verdun?
7. What is the significance of the Concordat at Worms?
8. What is the Song of Roland about?
9. What relationship did the pope have with Emperor Henry IV?
10. Where did the Vikings come from? Magyars? Muslims?
11. Which person was first associated with increasing the Church’s secular role?
12. Who were the three masters of knights?
13. Why is Eleanor of Aquitaine famous?
CHAPTER 14
1. How did changing to the three-field system impact crop production?
2. How did serfs attain freedom in the Late Middle Ages?
3. List the good/bad outcomes of the Crusades.
4. What are the differences between Romanesque and Gothic architecture?
5. What caused the Great Schism? And how was it resolved?
6. What made the legislative body in medieval England?
7. What steps were needed to become a master in the guild?
8. What was the impact of the Hundred Years’ War?
9. What was the nature of a craft guild?
10. What were the problems of the Church?
11. Where did the plague come from? And how was it spread?
12. Who was involved in the Magna Carta?
13. Who was Joan of Arc?
CHAPTER 15
1. Between 800 and 1500, what was found in the Maghrib? Where is it located?
2. How did the rulers of Ghana grow rich?
3. In general, where were the Muslim states of Africa established?
4. In the stateless societies of Africa, how were conflicts most commonly settled?
5. The city-state of Kilwa became an important trading center mainly because of its location in
relation to _____________?
6. The original Almohads and Almoravids were both a part of which group?
7. The Swahili language is a mixture of what languages?
8. What did Portugal's initial interest in Africa mostly seem to concern?
WHG1 - Final Exam Review
Meyers 2014
9. What do archaeologists believe that the Great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe was mainly intended
to do?
10. What does it mean if an African society is matrilineal?
11. What event that had the greatest effect on the growth of Islam in East Africa?
12. What is the meaning of the phase Mutapa?
13. What people broke away from Mali's empire and gained control of the all-important trade routes?
14. What was the chief means of social and political organization in African stateless societies?
15. Where did most of the raw materials that exchanged hands in the East African trade come from?
16. Who was Mali's first great leader?
CHAPTER 17
1. How did the printing press impact society?
2. How was Henry VIII unique in terms of marriage?
3. Humanism arose from the study of what two ancient cultures?
4. What are indulgences?
5. What are the 3 branches of Protestantism?
6. What are the reasons for Italy becoming the birthplace of the Renaissance?
7. What did the Anabaptists believe?
8. What does utopia mean in Greek?
9. What is a “Renaissance man”?
10. What was agreed upon at the Council of Trent?
11. What was Henry VIII’s main reason for splitting with the Catholic Church?
12. What was the first full-sized book printed by Gutenberg?
13. What was the Medici family’s contribution to the Renaissance?
14. What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?
15. What were the causes of the Reformation?
16. What were the three main ideas of Luther’s teachings?
17. What years make up the Renaissance?
18. Who are some examples of artists of the Renaissance?
19. Who declared himself head of the English Church in 1534?
20. Who wrote Hamlet?
CHAPTER 19-1/20
1. Be able to describe the location of Columbus’ landings
2. Be able to describe the policy of mercantilism
3. Columbian Exchange pathways of products (pg. 572)
4. Detail the causes/effects of the Treaty of Tordesillas (Line of Demarcation)
5. Explain how Prince Henry influenced exploration
6. How did American financial success affect Europe?
7. How did disease affect the natives?
8. Know the motives for European exploration
9. Reasons for African labor vs. Native labor force?
10. What impact did the slave trade have on Africa?
11. What is the purpose of joint-stock companies?
12. What trade good was popular in 1400s from the East?
13. What was the main economic activity in New France?
14. Which countries took turns dominating Indian Ocean trade?