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JEOPARDY!!!
Review for World II Mid-Term
Exploration
Renaissance
Absolute
Asia and
+Reformation
Monarchs
America
Enlightenment
French
Revolution
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What was to keep them secret?
This is what women artists often
were forced to do with their art
work during the Renaissance.
200:
What was the Prince?
The name of the famous essay written
by Niccolo Machiavelli where he
coined the phrase “ the end justifies
the means”.
300:
Who was Johannes Kepler?
He was the astronomer and
mathematician who determined
that planets moved in elliptical
orbits around the sun.
400:
Who was Desiderius Erasmus?
He was the Dutch Humanist who
influenced Thomas More, John
Calvin, Huldreich Zwingli, and
Martin Luther.
500:
Who were the Peasants or the
Peasant revolt of 1524?
What group in European society tried
to stage a revolt and win the
support of Martin Luther after he
posted his 95 theses on the church
door at Wittenberg?
100:
What was they had inflation
caused by huge gold imports,
failed to create a middle class and
businesses, the failure of the
Spanish Armada, and weak
rulers?
Name two reasons why Spain failed
to hold onto its vast global Empire
after 1700.
200:
What was Islam?
This religion had a huge impact on the
culture and history of the people of
western and northern Africa.
300:
What was triangular trade?
This was the trading of slaves for raw
materials, and then raw materials
being exchanged for manufactured
goods making enormous profits for
the countries involved.
400:
What was native economies were
destroyed?
This is often what happened to native
economies when European
countries colonized African and
Asian nations.
500:
What was mercantilism?
This was the economic theory that
was used to justify the Age of
Exploration, where in order for one
country to gain another must lose,
and there is a limited, fixed amount
of wealth in the world.
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Who were the Bourbons?
This was the royal family name of the
kings of France from Henry IV until
Louis Philippe was deposed in 1848.
200:
What was the Peace of Augsburg?
This was the Treaty signed in 1555 by
Charles V, The Holy Roman
Emperor, that allowed German
princes the choice to remain
Catholic or become Protestant. (
Which meant everybody in the
country had to be the same religion
as the Prince, Count, Duke, etc.)
300:
What was Poland?
This country completely disappeared
in 1795, absorbed by Russia,
Prussia, and Austria and doesn’t
reappear until after World War I.
400:
What was Parliament ?
By Bringing William and Mary to the
throne of England after the Glorious
Revolution this assembly becomes
the real power in Great Britain’s
government.
500:
What was the Anglican church?
The Puritans became increasingly
unhappy with the practices of this
English church right before the
English Civil War. ( It’s why they
came to the U.S.)
100:
Who was John Locke (Life, Liberty
and Property)?
The Declaration of Independence was
based on the writings of the English
physician and philosopher (
Philosophe).
200:
What was France?
During the 1700s into the late 1800s,
Britain’s greatest rival around the
globe was this country.
300:
Who was George III (Hanover
Dynasty)?
He was the English Monarch who was
King during the American
Revolution, ( he went a little crazy).
400:
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
He was the American statesman and
scientist who proved that lightning
was a form of electricity.
500:
Who was John Locke? ( also
written into Common Sense by
Thomas Paine)
Taxation without representation was
an idea that was written into the
Magna Carta, what other English
philosopher went further and
suggested it would deprive people of
their property, a natural right.
100:
What was to force Great Britain
to surrender?
This was the ultimate goal of
Napoleon’s Continental system, the
economic blockade of Europe.
200:
What was Great Britain?
This was the European power that
came to the assistance of Spain and
Portugal during their guerilla war
against the French forces of
Napoleon.
300:
What was the military invasion
by Austria and Prussia, as well
as declaring war on Great
Britain and the Netherlands?
This is why the French Revolution took a
disastrous turn toward violence and, “the
Reign of Terror”, after 1793 and the
execution of Louis XVI.
400:
What was the financial crisis
caused by deficit spending in
1789?
This was Louis XVI’s reason for
calling the Estates General for the
first time in 175 years, since 1614.
500:
What was a plebiscite?
A ballot, like the one used by
Napoleon to approve many of his
ideas by the French people, that
required a simple yes or no vote is
known as this.
Industrial
Revolution
Revolutions Industrial
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200:
What was illegal?
This is what most governments
declared labor unions in the
early Industrial Revolution.
400
What was the government
supported and helped business
and trade?
This how business and trade was
treated by the government in Great
Britain as opposed to the rest of the
European countries, ( except the
Netherlands).
600:
What was the telephone?
This was the invention that usually
associated with Alexander Graham
Bell. ( what did he invent?)
800:
What was and still is
capitalism?
This is the economic system where
individuals and the market place
determine the factors and the levels
of production.
1000:
Who was Jeremy Bentham or
John Stuart Mill?
He was the industrial philosopher
who would most likely support the
idea of cooperation as opposed to
competition in business?
200:
Who was Prince Klemens von
Metternich?
He was the Austrian Prince who tried
to stop the spread of Revolution and
Nationalism after the fall of
Napoleon.
400:
What was 1848?
This is the year called the Year of
Revolutions, where Revolutions
broke out in almost every country in
Europe and the Communist
Manifesto was published.
600:
Who were Simon Bolivar,
Bernardo O’Higgins, and Jose
San Martin?
These were the three great South
American Generals who led the
independence movement in South
America.
800:
What are and were mestizo?
This is the name given to the people
of Latin America who are a mixture
of Native American and European,
usually born in the Americas.
1000:
Who were the Middle class, or
bourgeoisie?
This was the social class that wanted
political power and often led many
of the European Revolutions after
the Age of Napoleon.
200:
Slavery became a southern
institution, which almost
destroys the nation?
This was the result of Whitney’s,
invention, the cotton gin in the
southern United States.
400:
What was the skyscraper?
This was the invention or
development made popular by Louis
Sullivan after the Bessemer process
allowed steel cables and girders to
be mass produced.
600:
What was Communism?
This was the economic philosophy
that stated that all History is a class
struggle and the final outcome will
be a period of dictatorship followed
by cooperation and harmony. ( In
reality, a harsh dictatorship that
often ignores human rights)
800:
What was to finance industrial
growth and overcome
competition?( It takes money
to make money)
This is why corporations are formed
and sometimes monopolies and
Cartels that dominated the early
American industrial Revolution.
1000:
What was that all life must
change or adapt or perish? (
Imperialists used this to justify
racism and colonialism)
The central idea of Charles Darwin’s
natural selection, written about in
his book “On the Origin of Species”.
200:
What was killing disease causing
bacteria and germs?
The development of antiseptics by
Joseph Lister were crucial in doing
this, which lowered the death rate
significantly during the Industrial
Revolution.
400:
What was “habeas corpus
– A Latin Moment, “You
may have the body”?
This was the British safeguard against
unlawful imprisonment.
600:
What was the English Bill of
Rights?
This was the English Document, that
limited the power of the King, and
William and Mary were forced to
sign before accepting the crown.
800:
What was the Edict of Nantes?
( was written in France, it let
all Protestants stay and dance)
This was the French royal decree issued by
Henry IV, the first Bourbon king of
France, which allowed French Huguenots
or Protestants to remain in the country.
1000:
What was the Act of Union? (
This created the Kingdom of
Great Britain)
This was the Act of 1707 which
merged the two countries of
Scotland and England.
200:
What was Portugal? African
culture also played an important
part after the importation of over
3 million slaves.
This was the European country that
influenced the South American
culture that developed in Brazil.
400:
What was they were
corrupt and inefficient? A
camel is a racehorse
designed by a committee.
This was the reason most people
were dissatisfied with the French
government of the Directory.
600:
What was from Islamic Africa
and the Middle East?( Big
Library at Alexandria)
This is where most of the ideas came
from during the Italian Renaissance
and the Age of Exploration.
800:
What was New Zealand?
This was the first republic that
allowed women to vote in 1893.
1000:
What was they didn’t want
them, barely tolerated them,
considered them unwashed
barbarians?
This was how the countries of China,
Japan, and Korea felt about
European Explorers and foreigners
in general.