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2nd Semester Exam World History Flashcards

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Comet is named after this English astronomer

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Halley

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Wrote “The Sceptical Chemist”

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Boyle

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Developed a smallpox vaccine

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Jenner

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Father of Modern Chemistry

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Lavoisier

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Discovered Uranus and made a 40-foot long telescope

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Herschel

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Dismissed from the throne of his country

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James II

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Used a telescope to confirm the earth’s orbit around the sun

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Galilei

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Theorized that the earth revolved around the sun

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Copernicus

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Theorized that the earth revolved around the sun

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Copernicus

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Studied the body’s circulatory system

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Harvey

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Studied calculus and the laws of gravity and motion

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Newton

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Explorer who named the Solomon Islands

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Mendaña

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Navigator who accompanied Mandaña

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Quiros

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Colonized Tahiti for France

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Bougainville

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First governor of Australia

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Phillips

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Found a passage through the Great Dividing Range

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Blaxland

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Missionary to New Guinea

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Chalmers

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Explored Australia for England

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Cook

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18
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Provide good growing conditions for plants

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High Islands

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Especially vulnerable to damage from storms

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Low Islands

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Aborigine game

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Mark Grook

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Used Tahiti to demonstrate man’s natural goodness

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Enlightenment Philosophers

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Sailed a Balsa boat to the Pacific Islands

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Heyerdahl

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Founded the Safavid dynasty

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Shai Ismail I

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Founded the Ming dynasty

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Taizu

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Descendant of Tamerlane

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Babur

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Second founder of the Safavid dynasty

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Abbas

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Ottoman ruler (r. 1451-81)

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Mehmet II

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Admiral of a large Chinese fleet

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Zheng He

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Fortress city captured by the Ottomans

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Ottoman Empire

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Greatest Mughal Ruler

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Akbar

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Original location of the Ottoman Empire

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Anatolia

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Restored native Chinese rule

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Ming Dynasty

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French writer during the Enlightenment

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Voltaire

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First kaiser of the united Germany

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Wilhelm I

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United the German territories into one country

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Bismarck

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Nationalist who founded Young Italy

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Mazzini

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Queen of France during the French Revolution

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Marie Antoinette

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Army general who became dictator of France

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Bonaparte

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Prime minister of Sardinia who united northern Italy

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Cavour

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King of France during the French Revolution

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Louis XVI

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First king of united Italy

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Emmanuel II

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Italian nationalist who formed the “Red Shirts”

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Garibaldi

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Invented the reaping machine

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McCormick

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Invented the spinning jenny

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Hargreaves

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Invented the cotton gin

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Whitney

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Improved the steam engine

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Watt

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Invented the flying shuttle

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Kay

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Developed a seed drill

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Tull

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Developed a self-propelled steam engine and tractor

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Fowler

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Used patents to control the sale of inventions

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Awkright

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Led the British parliament to end the British slave trade

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Wilberforce

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Developed a threshing machine

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Meikle

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Helped Karl Marx write the Communist Manifesto

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Engles

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Increased the number of eligible British voters

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Disraeli

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Wrote about hardships in England’s Industrial Age

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Dickens

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Jewish captain in the French Army

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Dreyfus

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Described Russian life in his book War and Peace

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Tolstoy

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Emperor and founder of France’s Second Empire

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Bonaparte

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Popularized evolution with his book Origin of Species

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Darwin

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French chemist who stemmed the spread of diseases

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Pasteur

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Patented the first telegraph

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Morse

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Scottish scientist who laid a foundation for Einstein

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Maxwell

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Preached the gospel in South Africa for 53 years

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Moffat

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Imperialist king of Belgium

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Leopold

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British missionary explored the Zambezi River

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Livingstone

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African general of the Wassaoulou Empire

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Ture

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African language into which the Bible was translated

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Yoruba

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Disproved claims of racial inferiority of the black man

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Horton

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First African bishop in the Anglican Church

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Crowther

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Wrote a letter to Germany, rejecting colonization

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Macemba

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President of Liberia who practiced diplomacy

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Roberts

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Reporter who found Livingstone in Africa

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Stanley

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Ottoman who laid the foundation for a modern Turkey

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Mahamud II

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Radical who wanted society without government

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Bakunin

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Russian Eastern Orthodox writer

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Dostoevsky

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Russian czar who abolished serfdom

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Alexander II

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British general in India

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Clive

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Ruler who worked to modernize China

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Guangxu

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Called himself a “Heavenly King” and Christ’s brother

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Hong Xiuquan

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Missionary to China

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Goforth

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Staged a coup against her adopted son

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Cixi

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Pressured Japan to open for trade and end its isolation

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Perry

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Leader of the Nazi party

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Hitler

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Russia’s first dictator

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Lenin

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American president who created the Federal Agencies

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Roosevelt

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American president who began the League of Nations

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Wilson

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Father of Modern Physics

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Einstein

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Chinese Communist leader

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Mao-Zedong

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Struggled to unite China through the Kuomintang Party

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Sun Yat-Sen

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Assassinated heir of the Austrian throne

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Ferdinand

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Facist leader of Italy

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Mussolini

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Russia’s second dictator

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Stalin

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American general in North Africa and Europe

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Eisenhower

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Developed abstract expressionistic painting

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Pollock

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Emperor of Japan

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Hirohito

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British general that defended Egypt

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Montgomery

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German concentration camp

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Auschwitz

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German general in Africa

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Rommel

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Japanese general who strengthened Japan’s military

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Hideki Tojo

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