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Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent example of Renaissance Ital's social ideal because he was
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*a painter, scultor, architect, inventor and mathematician.
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Who was called the father of Italian Renaissance humanism
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*Petrarch
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Chaucer's the canterbury tales in an important work because of the use of what language which was important why
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*use of english vernacular important in making dialect the main ancestor of the modern english language.
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What movement had a profound effect on education?
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*humanist
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Christian humanists believed what?
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*if people read they could improve themselves.
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The publication of Martin Luther's ninety-five theses did what?
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*attacked abuses in the sale of indulgenies.
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Huguenots
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*were French Protestants influenced by John Calvin.
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The thirty years war involved all the major European power except which nation?
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*England
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Absolutism is
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*a system of government in which a ruler hold total power.
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To which religion did most Ottomans belong?
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*Sunni Islam
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The Safavids differed from many of their Islamic neighbors because they were ardent
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*Shias
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When the Moguls began establishing their dynasty in India, the continent was divided into which two religious kingdoms?
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*Hindu & Islam
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Who established the Mogul dynasty?
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*Babur
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What 3 things that explain why Aurangzeg is considered one of Indias most controversial rulers?
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1. brought empire to greatest size
2. plagued by religious intolerance 3. constant warfare |
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The overthrow of the Ming dynasty allowed the Manchus to
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*seize power and establish the Ging dynasty.
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Perhaps the greatest emperor in Chinese history
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*Kangxi
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The footbinding of Chinese women was originally considered
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*a status symbol
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Which rulers completed the resoration of central authority in Japan in the early 1600's?
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*Tokuqawa
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Under the Tokugawa class system, the eta were
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*out casts whose places of residence, dress, and hairstyles were regulated by severe laws.
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They were the mainland states of Southest Asia able to resist European intrusion?
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*They were distinct political intities.
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Galileo's observations seemed to indicate what about the heavenly bodies?
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*composed of material substance just like earth.
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Isaac Newtons universal law of gravitation showed
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*how law could explain all motion
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Francis Bacon, an english philospher, believed scientists should use
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*inductive reasoning.
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Who has been called "the father of modern rationalism?"
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*Rene Descartes
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Montesquieus's most lasting contribution to political thought was
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* his analysis of governments system of check and balances.
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The French National Assemby swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was
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*a vow to coninue to meet until they produced a french consistution.
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the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed
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* equal rights for al men and no political rights for women.
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According to the passage, how is law an expression of the general will?
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*all citizens are able to influence law's creation.
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According to the passage, are all citizens given public and why or why not?
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*No, all citizens are equal but only those with talent and skills earn public office.
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Under the Constitution of 1791 the, _____would make the laws.
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*legislative assembly
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Ther term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches,"implied that the members of this political group were
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*ordinary patroits with out fine clothing.
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Napoleon's coup d'etat overthrew the ____to establish his consulate.
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*directory
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In his final battle, Napoleon was defeated by a combined ----- and -------- army
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*British and Persian armies
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The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by
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*retreating hundreds of miles and buring their own villages and countryside.
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The Duke of Wellington defeated Napolean at
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*Waterloo in Belgium
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The industrial Revolution began in what country?
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*Great Britian
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The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was evident in the emergence of a
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*a middle class and working class.
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The pitful conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to
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*socialism, society owns and control the means of production.
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According to the principle of intervention, the great powers of Europe had the right to
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*send armies into countries where there were revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs to power.
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The effect of the Crimean War was to destroy
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*the Concert of Europe and leave Austria without friends among the great powers.
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Romantiusm
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*emphasized feelings and imagination as sources of knowing.
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Who proposed the germ theory of disease?
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*Louis Pasteur
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What was the "white man's burden?"
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*belief that Europeans had a moral responsibility to civilize indigerous peoples.
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If a colony was run by _____local elites were removed from power and replaced with a new set of officials from the mother country.
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*direct rule
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A major goal of David Lingstone's explorations was to find
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*a river to open central africa to commerce and christianity.
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The Boers were descendants of
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*original Dutch settlers of Cape Town and the surrounding area.
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By 1914 only ______ and _____ remained free states in Africa.
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*Ethiopia and Liberia
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Who were descendents of Europeans born in Latin America who lived there permanently.
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*Creoles
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In the Latin American colonial system, who were the mestizos?
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*largest group of people, mixed European and Native American decent.
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The son of Native American peasants, Benito Juarez brought ____ to Mexico, including ____ to the poor.
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*Liberal reforms, and land distribution.
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What was an external cause of decline for the Qing Dynasty?
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*Land used to grow opium, british opium trade, war with japan, growing influence of imperialists.
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What were two factors that caused the Tai Ping Rebellion?
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*Internal, peasant unrest, food shortages, Tai Ping Rebllion
*Peasant unrest and food shortages. |
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As a result of the Treaty of Nanjing, Britain was given the island of
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*Hong Kong
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The Tai Ping Rebellion appealed to many people because it called for reforms such as giving land to ____ and treating women as ____
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*peasants and equals.
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What is the practice of Europeans living by their own laws while on Chinese soil.
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*Extraterritoriality
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Who proposed the Open Door policy for China.
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*John Hay
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What group's slogan was "destroy the foreigner?"
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*Boxers
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Who founded the Revive China Society and later, the Nationalist Party?
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*Boxers
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Who founded the Revive China Society and later, the Nationalist Party?
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*Sun Yat Sen
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Who is considered to be the last emperor of China?
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*Henry Fu Yi
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Under the military pressure of Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet, Japan signed the
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*Treaty of kanagawa that opened trade relations with the United States
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The Western Front was characterized by ____ that kept both sides in virtually the same positions for four years.
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*French warfare
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Under the leadership of ____ the Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution.
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*V. I. lenin
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What kind of state is a government that aims to control the political, exonomic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.
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*A totalitorian.
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The purpose of Stalin's Five Year Plans was to
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*transfer the USSR from agricultural economy to industrial economy.
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The enabling Act allowed Hitler to establish a totalitarian state by
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*giving the government the power to ignore the constitution.
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A factor in leading many Germans to accept Hitler and the Nazis was
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*a belief that he ended Germany's economic depression.
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What were the Nurember Laws?
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*Laws that excluded jews from German citizenship and did not allow marriage between jews and germans.
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What is Ethnic cleansing
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*a term for genocide, the deliberate mass murder of particular racial, political or cultural group
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In November 1917, the ______ expressed support for a national home for the jews in Palestine.
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**Balfour Declaration
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy rejected
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*use of US military force in Latin America.
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Instituational Revolutionary Party
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*controlled the major groups within Mexican society, thereby giving it enormous control over the Mexican presidency.
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The Berlin Wall was built in order to stop
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*East Germans from defecting to west Germany
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One of the European Union's first goals was the establishment of
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*a common european currency.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement sought to establish cooperative trade guidelines between these three countries
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*Canada, US, and Mexico
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Which Latin American nation has suffered instability due to the international drug trade.
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*Columbia
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Modern African cultures are characterized by the tension between
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*traditional ways and modern western culture.
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The African Union aims to promote ____ in Africa.
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*democracy and economic growth.
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The Tiananmen Square demonstrations involved students who sought
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*the resignation of Communist party leaders.
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In her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson argued that the use of
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*pesticides was having a serious negative impact on the environment.
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The United Nationas provides
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*protection against human rights violations, peacekeeping and safe guards against nuclear protiferation.
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