Global-Week 10

Question 1

Louis XIV

Answer 1

Ruler of France, known as the Sun King, controlled the nobles, built the Palace of Versailles, and bankrupt his country

Question 2

Hernan Cortes

Answer 2

Spanish conquistador who landed in Mexico and destroyed the Aztec people

Question 3

Located in Southern Mexico & Central America
Slash and burn techniques
Polytheistic
Built temples
Played a scared ball game
Good at engineering, math, and agriculture, Developed accurate calendars

Answer 3

Maya

Question 4

Divine Right

Answer 4

belief that the king is a representative of gods power here on earth

Question 5

Catherine the Great

Answer 5

Modernized and westernized Russia, obtained a warm water port and granted limited reforms for her people

Question 6

Oliver Cromwell

Answer 6

Leader of Parliament during the English Civil War, who took over as dictator after they won

Question 7

Encomienda system

Answer 7

Economic system in which the Spanish forced the natives to work on plantations in a slave like atmosphere

Question 8

Qing Dynasty

Answer 8

Chinese Dynasty that was controlled by the Manchu’s, continued Chinese isolation and held on to traditional Chinese beliefs.

Question 9

Closed Country Policy/Isolationism

Answer 9

Japanese policy of isolationism under the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Question 10

Located in South America
Used forced labor (slavery) for farming
Used steppe farming methods

Polytheistic
Human sacrifice
Built long roads thousands of miles long
Strong government

Answer 10

Inca

Question 11

Limited Monarchy/Constitutional Monarchy

Answer 11

Type of government where subjects enjoyed basic rights and power was shared between the monarch and Parliament

Question 12

Glorious Revolution

Answer 12

Bloodless revolution in which King James II was replaced with William and Mary in return they had to agree to share power with Parliament creating a Constitutional Monarchy

Question 13

Conquistador

Answer 13

Spanish conquerors

Question 14

Charles I

Answer 14

Attempted to establish an absolute monarchy and collect taxes without Parliament’s consent which led to a Civil War in which he lost his head

Question 15

Atlantic Slave Trade

Answer 15

The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas

Question 16

English Bill of Rights

Answer 16

The Great Charter, in which nobles forced King John to sign guaranteeing rights which were later extended to all subjects

Question 17

Located in American Southwest & Mesoamerica

Floating garden called chinampas
Advanced agricultural practices helped support population
Polytheistic
Human sacrifice 
Large powerful empire
Great engineers

Answer 17

Aztec

Question 18

Capitalism

Answer 18

economic system based on private ownership and the investment of resources, such as money, for profit

Question 19

Absolutism/Absolute Monarchy

Answer 19

when a monarch has total control over his/her government and people

Question 20

Peter the Great

Answer 20

Modernized and westernized Russia forced subjects to adopt western customs to include the beard tax

Question 21

Parliament

Answer 21

English law-making body

Question 22

Triangular Trade

Answer 22

The transportation of goods, slaves and raw materials between Europe, Africa and the new world.

Question 23

Columbian Exchange

Answer 23

Global transfer of foods, plants and animals during the colonization of the Americas

Question 24

Ming Dynasty

Answer 24

Chinese Dynasty that kicked the Mongols out of China and re-established traditional Chinese and Confucian values and withdrew into isolation from the Europeans.

Question 25

Phillip II

Answer 25

Ruler of Spain, was the “defender” of Catholicism and lost in a war with Protestant England

Question 26

Magna Carta

Answer 26

Bill passed in Parliament in 1689 in which the monarchy could not collect new taxes or raise an army without Parliament’s consent