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Japanese name for heads of noble families

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daimyo

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Who was the greatest Japanese poet?

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Matsuo Basho

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status symbol in Qing society

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foot binding

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Who was the first person to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the earth?

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Copernicus

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What did Francis Bacon believe scientists should do?

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use inductive reasoning

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What did John Locke’s ideas suggest?

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people are molded by their experiences. tabula rassa

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What was Rousseau’s idea of a social contract?

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an entire society agrees to be governed

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What was the Ptolemaic system?

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it is geocentric and had round, not ovular, ellipses

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What did Galileo’s observations indicate?

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planets and stars are made of a material like earth, not pure light

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Who wrote “On the Fabric of the Human Body”?

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Vesalius

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Who is the “father of modern rationalism”?

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Descartes

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What was Montesquieu’s laying contribution to political thought?

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checks and balances

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What economical system did Adam Smith believe in?

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laissez-faire

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What is the idea of laissez-faire?

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the state does not regulate the economy

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Who was the most famous rococo artist?

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Tiepolo

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What is the heliocentric theory?

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The sun is the center of the universe

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Who invented a system of naming the elements?

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Lavoisier

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Who made Prussia a great European power?

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Frederick the Great

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Who is the “greatest figure of the enlightenment”?

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Voltaire

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The War of the Austrian Succession became because who ascended to the throne?

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Maria Teresa

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20
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Who wrote Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy?

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Margaret Cavendish

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Who wrote the first encyclopedia?

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Diderot

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How did the Seven Year’s War end?

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England took over French territory in North America and India

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23
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Who wrote On Crimes and Punishments?

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Beccaria

24
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What astronomer discovered a comet?

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Maria Winklemann

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What does tabula rassa mean?

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Blank mind

26
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Who was the leader of Russia during the Enlightenment?

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Catherine the Great

27
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Who was Leonardo da Vinci?

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“The Renaissance Man”. artist, inventor, architect…

28
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Who was Brunelleschi?

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A famous Renaissance architect.

29
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What artist is most famous for his Madonnas?

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Raphael

30
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Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

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Michelangelo

31
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Who wrote The Book of the City of Ladies?

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Christine de Pizan

32
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Who wrote The Prince?

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Machiavelli

33
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What artist popularized oil paints?

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Jan van Eyck

34
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Who is the father of humanism?

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Petrarch

35
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Who is the father of Christian humanism?

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Erasmus

36
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Who founded the Jesuits?

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Ignatius of Loyola

37
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Who invented Calvinism (or Zwinglism)

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Zwingli

38
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Who wrote The Book of the Courtier?

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Castiglione

39
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What were the three great city states?

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Venice, Florence, Milan

40
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Who ruled Venice?

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A doge

41
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Who ruled Florence?

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merchants, until Medici family took over

42
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Who ruled Milan?

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The Visconti family, then the Sforza family

43
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What was the first Protestant religion?

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Lutheranism

44
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What declaration accepted the division of Christianity in Germany?

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The Peace of Augsburg

45
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Why is The Canterbury Tales important?

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It used vernacular English

46
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What was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century?

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mercantilism

47
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what was the dominant religion on the south east Asian mainland from 1500 to 1800?

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Buddhism

48
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what is the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports overtime?

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balance of trade

49
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what were the chief motives for European expansion into the New World?

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God, gold, and glory

50
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Who was the first European to reach India by sailing around Africa?

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Vasco de Gama

51
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what explorer conquered the Incan Empire?

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Pizarro

52
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What crop did slaves in the Americas originally harvest?

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sugarcane

53
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what explorer conquered the Aztec empire?

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Cortez

54
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Who wrote a letter to the king of Portugal protesting the impact of slave trade on his kingdom?

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King Afonso

55
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The Portuguese were pushed out of the spice trade in Southeast Asia by who?

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The Dutch

56
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what three Stranmore not monarchies resisted foreign intrusion?

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Burma, Thailand, Vietnam

57
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what islands were known as the spice Islands by the Europeans?

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Moluccas

58
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what did the Treaty of tordesillas do?

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established a line of demarcation between Spanish and Portuguese territories

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