Transcript The Literature Review Game Show

World History Jeopardy
Review Game – 1st Semester
Government
Renaissance &
Reformation
Imperialism
Who Am I?
Potpourri
100
100
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
500
Government for 100
The economic policy that let owners of
industry set working conditions without
government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Government for 200
Adult men gained the right to vote as
power shifted from monarch to elected
legislatures in this European nation.
What is Great Britain?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Government for 300
He organized a secret police force to hunt
down alleged traitors to his leadership in
the years after the death of his wife.
Who is Ivan IV (the Terrible)?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Government for 400
“Divine Right” justified this type
of rule.
What is Absolute Rule?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Government for 500
This group paid the majority (98%)
of taxes in France prior to the
Revolution.
What is the Third Estate?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Renaissance & Reformation for 100
The first full size book produced by
Gutenberg’s printing press.
What is the Bible?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Renaissance & Reformation for 200
Selling pardons to release ‘sinners’
from penalties.
What are Indulgences?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Renaissance & Reformation for 300
Painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist – all
around Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Renaissance & Reformation for 400
Access to ancient manuscripts and
Roman ruins made this nation the
birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Italy?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Renaissance & Reformation for 500
The Renaissance was a rebirth of
these
What is art and learning?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Imperialism for 100
.The
driving force behind Imperialism.
What is world-wide industrialization?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Imperialism for 200
The “jewel in the British crown”
What is India?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Imperialism for 300
The desire to improve the balance of
trade between Great Britain and China
led to a war over the sale of this
product.
What is Opium?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Imperialism for 400
Meeting of European nations in 1884-85
to divide Africa into colonies.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Imperialism for 500
The cause of inadequate food supplies
in Africa during the colonial era.
What is Growth of Cash Crops?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Who Am I? for 100
I discovered the universal law of
gravity after being hit on the head
with a falling apple (or so the story
says.)
Who is Issac Newton?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Who Am I? for 200
As one of France’s most powerful
ruler’s, I expected everyone to do
my bidding. I am the state!
Who is Louis XIV?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Who Am I? for 300
I led many voyages of exploration
throughout SE Asia and as far west as the
Eastern Coast of Africa.
Who is Zheng He?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Who Am I? for 400
I was the first to support the suncentered or heliocentric theory to
describe our universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Who Am I? for 500
After touring Europe, I became the
first Russian ruler to attempt to
modernize my nation.
Who is Peter the Great?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Potpourri for 100
Language meaning “from the soldier’s
camp”
What is Urdu?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Potpourri for 200
Foreshadowing other wars yet to be
fought, the Russians led by Czar
Alexander I defeated Napolean’s
invading army by using this strategy.
What is scorched-earth?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Potpourri for 300
Technological advances had this
impact on the production of goods.
What is Production increased?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Potpourri for 400
Improvements in medicine and
scientific instruments were a result of
this ‘revolution.’
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Potpourri for 500
No one was safe from this during the
Reign of Terror.
What is the Guillotine?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.