History Midterm Version 1

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Henry IV was king of

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France

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James VI was king of

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Scotland

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Frederick II was king of

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Prussia

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Charles XI was king of

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Sweden

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Peter III was king of

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Russia

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Elizabeth I was queen of

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England

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Petrarch is known as the father of humanism.

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TRUE

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The Medici family were French nobility.

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FALSE

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Among the great renaissance painters were De Vinci, Michelangelo, and Donatello.

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TRUE

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The printing press was brought to Europe by the Arabs.

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FALSE

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Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire.

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TRUE

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Goa is the Chinese city where Portuguese were given permission to reside in 1557.

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FALSE

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Ferdinand and Isabella were the monarchs who invaded England during the Glorious Revolution.

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FALSE

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Philip II was the Catholic monarch who ruled Spain at approximately the same time his sister-in-law ruled England.

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TRUE

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Henry IV enacted the Edict of Nantes which gave the French Huguenot equal rights in France.

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TRUE

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John Knox established the Presbyterian church in Scotland and led a revolt against Mary Queen of Scots.

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TRUE

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Mercantilism is the economic system associated with absolutism and advocated profit seeking, state regulation of the economy, colonial expansion, and military strength.

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TRUE

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Bishop Bossuet and Thomas Hobbes were both advocates of the Devine Right of Kings.

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TRUE

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Marie Theresa was the Habsburg monarch who was also known as Her Motherly Majesty.

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TRUE

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The Hohenzollern was the royal house associated with the rise of Prussia.

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TRUE

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Geocentrism is the theory that the sun is the center of the universe.

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FALSE

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The French physiocrates advocated laizzes-faire economics.

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TRUE

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Versailles was a medieval fortress that symbolized the old French regime and fell by attack by a Parisian mob during July 1789.

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FALSE

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The Louisiana purchase increased the land area of the United States by 200% when a deal was made with Napoleon.

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TRUE

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The attempts by Joseph II to bring Austria into a more enlightened era failed completely.

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TRUE

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“Madame Deficit” was the name given to Louis XVI's wife because she was recognized as causing much of France's financial problems.

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TRUE

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These people pushed the Khoi Khoi and San into the Cape of South Africa.

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Bantu speaking peoples

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He was the Great Zulu warrior who became king of his people after consolidating the Zulu tribes

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Shaka

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The Boers and Zulu fought successful wars against this power finally pushing them from the Transvaal.

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British

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The Khoi Khoi

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became servants of the Boers, migrated into the interior as the Boers took over land, and fought skirmishes against the Boers

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Moshoeshoe settled arguments by

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mafisa, diplomacy, and fighting

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Afrikaner's ancestors came from

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Boer people

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Boer is a Dutch word meaning

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farmer

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The British did not interfere in South Africa greatly, but did want to maintain

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the wool and wine industry

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Boers believed they were entitled

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To 6000 acres of land for each man

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This power cleaned the Atlantic of Spanish warships

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Dutch

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Tennis Court oath was

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a commitment by the Third Estate to create a constitution for the people

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Under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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the church became a subdivision of the state, priests and bishops were elected, and church lands were confiscated and sold

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Which of the following proclaimed, “It would be better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the governing of men.”

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Voltaire

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According to “The Declaration of the Rights of Men” among the basic rights of individuals is/are

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all men are free and equal, governments exist to preserve individual freedom, free speech, equal taxation, and criticizing government

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The Terror ended on July 28, 1794 with the beheading of this man

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Robespierre

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These two enlightened despots corresponded with Voltaire

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Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great

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These people are responsible for founding the state of Maryland (1632 – 1635)

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Catholics

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These two women were independent spirits in American history

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Anne Bradstreet and Anne Hutchinson

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Peter the Great was

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Peter Mikhailov the carpenter, founder of the new capital St. Petersburg, and a ship builder in Holland

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Among the Medici were

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cleargy and royalty

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Colbert was the finance minister of this king

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Louis XIV

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Among Colbert's projects were

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state controlled industry and a 300 mile canal

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This woman influenced Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes

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madame Maintenon

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This philosopher's political thoughts tremendously impacted the American Revolution.

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John Locke

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This philosopher's thoughts greatly influenced the leaders of the first phase of the French Revolution

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Rousseau

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He was the Czech teacher whose death created small wars which plagued Bohemia for years

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John Hus

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Europe's commercial revolution began with the explorations sponsored by this man

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Prince Henry

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Portugal's naval technology included:

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astrolabe, and compass, shipbuilding, and map making, and the lateen sail

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This trading company replaced the Portuguese in the far East

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Dutch East India Company

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The Treaty of Tordesillas was

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the agreement between Spain and Portugal to share the world

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Poland was eventually carved up by these three great powers.

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Prussia, Russia, and Austria

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This company founded the Cape Colony in South Africa.

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The Dutch East India Company

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She was “Her Mother Majesty” and ruler of the Habsburg empire in Austria

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Marie Theresa

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Frederick the Great was descended from these knights, predecessors to the Prussian empire

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Hohenzollern

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This treaty was significant in shaping the map of Europe; it marked the end of the War of Spanish Succession.

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Treaty of Utrecht

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This Aztec ruler lost his empire to the Spanish

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Monteczuma

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This is an economic system based on private ownership of property, individual risk, and market determination of the price of goods.

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capitalism

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This man challenged the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire

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Martin Luther

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This Church was created because a king needed a divorce

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Anglican

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His fleet circumnavigated the world

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Magellan