History Exam 2

Question 1

Who wrote Discourse on Method in 1637

Answer 1

rene descartes

Question 2

Who was the sun king during absolutism

Answer 2

louis xiv

Question 3

Who wrote social contract and emile

Answer 3

jean-jacques rousseau

Question 4

In this novel Voltaire ridicules enlightenment thinkers

Answer 4

candide

Question 5

Who wrote the Spirit of Laws

Answer 5

montesquieu

Question 6

Ruled Austria from 1780-1790

Answer 6

joesph ii

Question 7

Country that successfully rebelled from France

Answer 7

haiti

Question 8

Who led American naval forces in American Revolution

Answer 8

john paul jones

Question 9

Who wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women

Answer 9

mary wollstonecraft

Question 10

The Brothers— are famous for German fairytales

Answer 10

grimm

Question 11

Woman who wrote the chariot

Answer 11

emily dickson

Question 12

Who wrote the charge of the light brigade

Answer 12

alferd lord tennyson

Question 13

Put these in order- Scientific Revolution
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Newton
Galileo
Kepler

Answer 13

Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
Newton

Question 14

Put these in order- Britain Constitutional Crisis
James II
Cromwell
Charles II
Charles I
James I

Answer 14

James I
Charles I
Cromwell
Charles II
James II

Question 15

Put these in order- Russia
Elizabeth I
Catherine the Great
Ivan IV the terrible
Peter the Great
Times of Troubles

Answer 15

Ivan IV
Time of Troubles
Peter the Great
Elizabeth I
Catherine the Great

Question 16

Put these in order- North America
Lexington and Concord
Yorktown
Seven Years War
Boston Tea Party
Stamp Act

Answer 16

7 years war
Stamp Act
Boston Tea Party
Lexington and Concord
Yorktown

Question 17

Reading- Galileo

Answer 17

Period- 1615
Country- Italy
Historical- Continued Copernicus- the sun is the center of the universe, he wrote to Duchess Christina insulting

Question 18

Reading- Thomas Hobbes

Answer 18

Period-1651
Country- England
Historical- thought absolutism was the only way for man, Social contract

Question 19

Reading- John Locke

Answer 19

Period- 1690
Country- England
Historical- ‘life, liberty, and property’, natural rights

Question 20

Reading- Thomas Jefferson

Answer 20

Period- 1776
Country- US
Historical- Independence, continued Locke’s theory, state rule themselves

Question 21

Reading- Bishop Bossuet

Answer 21

Period-17th century
Country- France
Historical- Divine Right, citizens never question kings rule but kings must follow rule

Question 22

Reading- Romanticism Poet
Emily Dickson

Answer 22

Romanticism Context-
1730-1830, Western Europe, rejected physical world and focused on thoughts and feelings with songs and fairytales
Emily Dickson
Chariot- 19th century
talks about death in the chariot and flirts with immorality