1st Partial 1st Semester

Question 1

What are the SDGs?

Answer 1

They stand for Sustainable development goals, which are goals set to be reached in 2030 to improve life quality.

Question 2

Who proposed the SDGs and when did they?

Answer 2

The UN in September 2015

Question 3

Which are the 17 SDGs?

Answer 3

1. • No poverty
2. • No hunger
3. • Good health and Well being
4. • Quality education
5. • Gender Equality
6. • Clean Water and Sanitation
7. -Affordable and Clean energy
8. • Decent work and economic growth
9. • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10. • Reduced inequalities
11. • Sustainable cities and communities
12. • Responsible consumption and production
13. • Climate Action
14. • Life below water
15. -Life on land
16. • Peace, justice and strong institutions.
17. • Partnership for the goals.

Question 4

What was the scientific revolution?

Answer 4

A period in the XVI and XVII century where there was scientific, mathematical, and political progress.

Question 5

Who proposed the Geocentric theory of the universe?

Answer 5

Ptolemaic

Question 6

When was Ptolemaic born?

Answer 6

100 AD

Question 7

Who supported the geocentric theory?

Answer 7

Aristotle and the church.

Question 8

Who proposed the heliocentric theory?

Answer 8

Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Kepler

Question 9

Which were the inventions / discoveries of Galileo?

Answer 9

The telescope, 4 moons of Jupiter, and the heliocentric theory.

Question 10

Who was René Descartes?

Answer 10

He was a philosopher who doubted about anything and everything, except his own existence.

Question 11

Who was Francis Bacon?

Answer 11

He was the person who invented the Scientific Method.

Question 12

Who wrote L’enciclopedie?

Answer 12

Diderot

Question 13

Who published the declaration of the rights of man?

Answer 13

Mary Wollstonecraft.

Question 14

What was Hobbes’ way of thinking?

Answer 14

He thought humans were evil and they needed someone to think for them. (No clue)

Question 15

What was John Locke’s way of thinking?

Answer 15

He thought every human had 3 natural rights, the right of life, liberty and property. (Locke= Lock the 3 rights)

Question 16

What was Montesquieu’s way of thinking?

Answer 16

He thought the government had to be split into 3 powers (Mon-tes-quieu, 3 syllables, 3 powers)

Question 17

What was Rousseau’s way of thinking?

Answer 17

He wrote the social contract which was an agreement between the people and the government. (RouSSEAU, SOcial contract)

Question 18

What was Voltaire’s way of thinking?

Answer 18

He thought the church and the government should be separated. (Voltaire, a V that separates the church and government)

Question 19

What was the effect of these ideas in the rest of the world?

Answer 19

A kick start in a lot of revolutions

Question 20

When was the Geocentric theory proposed?

Answer 20

2nd century

Question 21

When was the Heliocentric theory proposed?

Answer 21

16th century

Question 22

When was the universal Law of Gravitation Discovered?

Answer 22

1687

Question 23

When was the social contract published?

Answer 23

1762

Question 24

Who and when was the Bill of rights declared?

Answer 24

June 8, 1789, James Madison

Question 25

When was the bill of rights officially approved and what was its use?

Answer 25

25/September/1789, served as an introduction to the constitution.

Question 26

What triggered the American revolution?

Answer 26

The Boston Massacre.

Question 27

When was the first bill of rights proposed?

Answer 27

1668 In the glorious revolution to the King of England

Question 28

What territories were controlled by GB before the American revolution?

Answer 28

The 13 colonies and Canada

Question 29

What was the objective of the 1st continental congress and where/when was it held?

Answer 29

1774 in Philadelphia, to take arms against the british.

Question 30

What was the objective of the 12nd continental congress?

Answer 30

1775, Set an army led by G.W.

Question 31

Who helped the Americans in the revolution?

Answer 31

The French

Question 32

When and where were the British defeated?

Answer 32

In 1781, Yorktown

Question 33

What was the name of the treaty that recognized American Independence?

Answer 33

The treaty of Paris.

Question 34

Who were some Important figures of the American Revolution?

Answer 34

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin

Question 35

What motivated the French Revolution?

Answer 35

Inequalities between the nobility, clergy and Commoners.

Question 36

what percent of the population were the clergy, nobility and bourgeoisie?

Answer 36

0.5%, 2% and 97% respectively.

Question 37

What was the French revolution?

Answer 37

A period where the people wanted to overthrow the Monarchy and install a new government

Question 38

What was the first action of the French revolution, and when was it (year)?

Answer 38

The storm of the Bastille (1789)

Question 39

Who were the ones who started the revolution?

Answer 39

The bourgeoisie, or the common people in general.

Question 40

When was Louis XVI killed and how?

Answer 40

The Guillotine in January 21 1793

Question 41

What was the reign of terror?

Answer 41

The part of the revolution where a lot of people was being beheaded and it ended with the execution of Robespierre

Question 42

What happened after the Monarchy was overthrown

Answer 42

The directory was established

Question 43

Who was napoleon?

Answer 43

A person who got power form the directory, became emperor of france and had the ambition of conquering all of europe.

Question 44

What did Napoleon had to do so that the pope won’t get mad?

Answer 44

Declare France as catholic.

Question 45

When did the Napoleonic empire started going downhill?

Answer 45

When napoleon got defeated in Russia

Question 46

What was the congress of Vienna?

Answer 46

A congress that made people the great powers in Europe not to take over the whole continent and protected the people.

Question 47

When and where was Napoleon exiled to the first time?

Answer 47

Elba, April 12 1814

Just after Abdicating

Question 48

When was Napoleon defeated a second time?

Answer 48

Waterloo June 18 1815

Question 49

Where was Napoleon exiled the 2nd time?

Answer 49

To St. Helena.

Question 50

Why did the 7 Years war started?

Answer 50

Because the king Charles VI of Austria died without a male heir and her daughter Maria Theresa claimed the throne. The kind Frederik II of Prussia too advantage of the confusion and attacked Austria.