World History Mid-Term Fall 09 Review

1. Compared to Medieval cities ancient cities were ______.
2. What were the contributing factors to the decline of the Maya
3. Who commanded the forces that destroyed the Aztec capital?
4. Where was the first European university?
5. Describe Romanesque style
6. know what Black Death was and how it spread
7. Earliest Central American civilization
8. Mayan civilization was composed of ….
9. What were some of the achievements of the Aztec?
10. What ended the war between France and Spain for control of Italy?
11. Why was da Vinci a great example of Renaissance Italy’s social ideal?
12. What did Christian humanists believe?
13. Ignatius of Loyola
14. Why did parents arrange marriages in Renaissance Italy
15. The High Renaissance in Italy is associated with which 3 artist?
16. Who did the Catholics and the Protestants considered to be dangerous radicals?
17. What were the final decrees of the Council of Trent?
18. indulgences
19. modern devotion
20. Who went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, but hadn’t.
21. mercantilism
22. Dominant religion on Southeast Asian mainland from 1500-1800
23. Treaty of Tordesillas
24. What did mercantilists believe
25. Middle Passage
26. Divine Right of kings
27. Puritans
28. Roundheads
29. Cavaliers
30. What did Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the king’s forces allow him to do?
31. Bill of Rights
32. Toleration Act of 1489
33. “Glorious Revolution”
34. Rump Parliament
35. What nations were involved in the Thirty Years War?
36. Peace of Westphalia
37. John Locke
38. John Calvin
39. What do John Locke’s ideas suggest?
40. Describe Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of a social contract?
41. Results of the Treaty of Paris 1763
42. What country granted diplomatic recognition to the new American state first?
43. What was the original intent of the Constitutional Convention
44. What did Galileo’s observations seem to indicate?
45. Francis Bacon
46. Rene Descartes
47. Robert Boyle
48. What was Montesquieu’s most lasting contribution to political thought?
49. Laissez-faire
50. Adam Smith
51. Serfs
52. Bering Strait
53. First civilization in Mesoamerica around 1200 B.C.
54. Chief motives for European expansion into the new world?
55. Vasco de Gama
56. Francisco Pizarro
57. What did the crowning of Henry of Navarre do?
58. Who destroyed both King and Parliament in England in 1600’s?
59. In who was the English Monarchy restored?
60. Cardinal Mazarin
61. First Russian ruler to take title of Czar
62. heliocentric theory
63. Galen
64. Mary Wollstonecraft
65. who tried to “lower religion to the level of the lowest people’s capacities?”
66. What happened at Yorktown?
67. manor
68. Cape horn
69. guild
70. bourgeoisie
71. serf
72. Montezuma
73. Tenochtitlan
74. Anasazi
75. Inca capital city
76. humanism
77. Desiderius Erasmus
78. Edict of Worms
79. predestination
80. Established the Church of England 1534
81. Anabaptists
82. indulgence
83. Consistory
84. Modern Devotion
85. Martin Luther
86. Gold Coast
87. John Cabot
88. Encomienda
89. Extremely profitable trade item from Southeast Asia
90. Sailed around Cape of Good Hope to India
91. discovered the Americas
92. the English seized this area and renamed it New York
93. Triangular Trade
94. Ibo
95. soldiers in the New Model Army of Oliver Cromwell
96. What laid the foundation for a constitutional monarchy in England?
97. Absolutism
98. Commander of Continental Army
99. America’s first constitution
100. Political philosophy in Machiavelli’s The Prince
101. How did Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke influence our government in U.S. Give examples