Transcript The Age of Exploration

Exploration
Renaissance
Scientific
Revolution
Reformation
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Exploration for 1
Question: Which Italian
traveler visited the court
of Kublai Khan?
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Exploration for 1
Answer: Marco Polo
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Exploration for 2
Question: The defeat of the Spanish Armada
weakened Spain’s naval power. How did this event
enable other European Nations to build their own empires
in the New World?
A. The Spanish Navy could no longer control the seas.
B. The Spanish abandoned attempts to colonize the New
World.
C. Spain and England allowed other nations to build
empires in the New World.
D. Spain and Portugal agreed to share land in the New
World
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Exploration for 2
Answer: A. The Spanish Navy
could no longer control the seas.
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Exploration for 3
Question: The Aztec empire
which was conquered by Cortes
was based in which modern day
country?
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Exploration for 3
Answer: Mexico
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Exploration for 4
Question:
Which development in
navigation allowed European explorers during
the Age of Exploration to identify their location?
A. compass
B. Lateen sails
C. quadrant
D. telescope
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Exploration for 4
Answer: C. quadrant
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Exploration for 5
Question:
What information can you
infer from the map below?
A. The earliest explorers were French
B. French explorers focussed on areas in Canada
C. Drake circumnavigated the world
D. Balboa discovered Mexico
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Exploration for 5
Answer:
B. French explorers focussed on
areas in Canada
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Renaissance for 1
Question: The Renaissance
was centered around which
Italian City?
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Renaissance for 1
Answer: Florence
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Renaissance for 2
Question: Which
Renaissance author write
The Prince?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Shakespeare
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Aquinas
Machiavelli
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Renaissance for 2
Answer: D. Machiavelli
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Renaissance for 3
Question:
In the Middle Ages,
people worked for the glory of God,
in the Middle Ages, people worked
for the glory of:
A. the king
B. the state
C. the individual
D. the community
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Renaissance for 3
Answer:
C. the individual
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Renaissance for 4
Question:
In what way did the
Renaissance contribute to the Age
of Exploration?
A. creating a resurgence in feudalism
B. fostering curiosity about the physical world
C. emphasizing the supernatural rather than the
natural
D. linking earthly exploration to a happy afterlife
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Renaissance for 4
Answer:
B. fostering curiosity about the
physical world
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Renaissance for 5
Question: What
Renaissance philosophy
stated that individuals
were “noble beings”
capable of greatness?
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Renaissance for 5
Answer: Humanism
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Scientific Revolution for 1
Question: Which famous
Italian scientist first used
a telescope to study the
sun and moon?
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Scientific Revolution for 1
Answer: Galileo Galilei
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Scientific Revolution for 2
Question:
From the graphic, which
scientist can you assume was the latest
scientist to publish a theory about the
Solar System?
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graphic to
enlarge
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Scientific Revolution for 2
Answer: Kepler
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Scientific Revolution for 3
Question:
How did the scientific
method differ from the way in which
the ancient Greeks tried to
understand nature?
A. It used logic as a main tool.
B. It relied on the teachings of the Church.
C. It advocated observation and
experimentation.
D. It challenged the concept of natural laws.
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Scientific Revolution for 3
Answer:
C. It advocated observation and
experimentation.
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Scientific Revolution for 4
Question: Which English
thinker developed
Calculus and numerous
theories used in Physics?
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Scientific Revolution for 4
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton
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Scientific Revolution for 5
Question:
Which scientist during
the scientific revolution was forced
to recant his beliefs about the
relationship between the earth and
sun?
A. Galileo Galilei
B. Nicholas Copernicus
C. Sir Isaac Newton
D. Enrico Fermi
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Scientific Revolution for 5
Answer:
A. Galileo Galilei
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Reformation for 1
Question: What was reformed
during the Reformation?
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Reformation for 1
Answer: The Christian Church
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Reformation for 2
Question: Which German
thinker is credited with beginning
the Reformation?
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Reformation for 2
Answer: Martin Luther
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Reformation for 3
Question: What is the Church
founded by King Henry VIII
commonly called?
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Reformation for 3
Answer: Anglican Church
(Church of England)
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Reformation for 4
Question: The belief that God
knows in advance who will attain
salvation is called:
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Reformation for 4
Answer: Predestination
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Reformation for 5
Question:
Which of these ideas
was accepted by both the Catholic
and Lutheran Churches?
A. Right of priests to marry
B. Priests dressed in costly elaborate robes
C. Belief in one supreme God
D. Services conducted in Latin
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Reformation for 5
Answer:
C. Belief in one supreme God
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Question:
Martin Luther believed
that Christians could attain
salvation only by:
A. faith.
B. good works.
C. attending church.
D. obeying the pope.
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Grab Bag for 1
Answer:
A. faith.
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Grab Bag for 2
Question: Who painted this
picture?
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Grab Bag for 2
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
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Question:
The difference
between the cost of making
something and the price a buyer
must pay is called:
A. capital.
B. interest.
C. loss.
D. profit.
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Answer:
D. profit.
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Question:
The scientist credited
with discovering the first mercury
thermometer is:
A. Galileo
B. Fahrenheit
C. Calvin
D. Celsius
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Answer:
B. Fahrenheit
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Grab Bag for 5
Question: Which factor contributed
most to the start of Europe’s
Commercial Revolution?
A. the increase in trade resulting from the
discovery of new lands
B. the division of newly discovered lands
between Spain and Portugal
C. the British defeat of the Spanish Armada
D. The search for the Northwest Passage
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Answer:
A. the increase in trade
resulting from the discovery of new lands
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