FINAL Flashcards
The study of classical texts caused humanists to focus on what subject?
Individual and human potential (humanities)
What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?
Art and Learning
What were Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More?
Christian Humanists
For what is the Medici Family famous for?
Being rulers and supporters of the arts
What was the first full sized book Gutenberg printed?
The Gutenberg Bible
What were John Calvin’s major teachings?
Predestination
Why was the caravel an important development in navigation?
The caravel was sturdier and triangular sails allowed the ship to sail
Effectively against the wind
Why did Lord McCartney give a letter from King George III to Qian-long?
Increase trade
What did Hongwu do first to help China become a dominant power?
He overthrew the Mongols and Established the Ming Dynasty
What type of poetry presents images rather than expresses an idea?
Haiku
What was the main economic activity in New France?
Fur trade
Why did Europeans see Africans As a better source of labor than Native Americans?
Africans were strangers to America resulting in hardly any escapes
Which European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
Spain
What did the encomienda System provide for new Spain?
Military protection
Which king Became France’s most powerful ruler and boasted, “I am the state”?
Louis XIV
Why did Peter the Great build the city of St. Petersburg?
The city was on a seaport and it would be easier to travel west
By the end of the 1600s,what had England’s system of government become?
A constitutional monarchy
Who Declared himself the head of the English church?
Henry VIII
What did Francis Bacon help develop?
The scientific method
The idea of a democracy is explained in what essay?
Social contracts
How did philosophes influence catherine the great?
Proposal on reforms of Russia’s laws
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Which philosophes influenced the Bill of Rights?
Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke
About which percentage of population belong to the third estate?
97%
What happened on July 14 Bastille Day?
Prison raid for gunpowder
What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime?
He created a code of laws, public education, set up a fairer tax code, and stabilized the currency
How did Admiral Nelson win the battle of Trafalgar?
Split french ships
What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna?
to establish a new balance of power
How did landowners and aristocrats view wealthy members of the middle class?
Looked down upon
What were the goals stated in the “slogan of revolution”?
Liberty, equality, and fraternity
which documents stated, “men are born and remain free and equal in rights?”
Declaration of the Rights of Man
What was the industrial revolution?
Increased output of machine made goods
What was the benefit of being a stockholder in a corporation?
Stockholders are not personally responsible for a corporation’s debts, but share in its profits.
What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?
Unions
What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurred in the 19th century Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe?
Industrialization
What did Britian do In order to keep industrial secrets for the United States?
forbade engineers, mechanics, and toolmakers from leaving the country.
What were three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?
land, labor, and capitol.
What type of Policy did Japan institute to control foreign ideas?
Closed country policy
Who were the first europeans to arrive on Japanese soil?
Portuguese
Korea was a vassal state of which country during the 1700s
China
Which region was referred to as the “powder keg” of Europe?
Balkan region
Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World War I?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Which action on November 11, 1918 brought World War I?
Armistice
What were the fourteen points?
Plan for a post war world
Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the treaty of Versailles?
Germany
what is the Schlieffen plan?
Defeat France in the west and Russia in the east
which nations actions cause the United States to fight in World War I?
Germany. The sent the Zimmermann not to New Mexico
What did the war become once the participation countries began devoting all of their resources to the war effort?
Total war
