Midterm

Question 1

What civilization laid the foundations of Democracy?

Answer 1

Ancient Greece

Question 2

What are 3 main things that lead to the collapse of empires?

Answer 2

Society decay, cultural diversity, invasions, economy instability, heavy taxes, expansion/too large, governmental corruption.

Question 3

What does monotheistic mean?

Answer 3

Believes in one God

Question 4

What does the spreading of religions lead to?

Answer 4

More people adopting common customs and faiths

Question 5

How did the early explorers change the world (what did they spread around the world)?

Answer 5

They helped to spread ideas around the world

Question 6

What are 4 effects of an increase in trade?

Answer 6

The spread of universal religions, increases in population, the spread of ideas.

Question 7

List 3 positive effects of trade.

Answer 7

The spread of universal religions, increases in population, the spread of technological developments, spread of ideas.

Question 8

List 3 negative effects on trade

Answer 8

Spread of disease, technology used against people who do not already have it (guns/gunpowder)

Question 9

List 5 European countries that colonized in the Anericas.

Answer 9

Italy, Spain, England, France, and Portugal.

Question 10

Describe the role of peasants in feudal society.

Answer 10

Unequal taxation, limited rights, an lots of works in order to be protected, bound to land, but not to slaves.

Question 11

What type of government did absolute monarchy lead to the desire to have?

Answer 11

Democratic Government

Question 12

In feudal society, list at least 3 groups of people who collected taxes.

Answer 12

Churches, feudal lords, and monarchs

Question 13

Which 4 continents dealt the most with slave trade?

Answer 13

North America, Europe, Africa

Question 14

Which organization controlled or influenced most of Europe during the Early Middle Ages?

Answer 14

The Catholic Church

Question 15

List 4 effects of the printing press

Answer 15

Literacy rate increased, more people questioned previously accepted ideas, book became more common.

Question 16

List 4 reasons why early cities were successful.

Answer 16

Located near water, access to trade routes, technological advantages, and systems or rules/laws

Question 17

List 3 things that affected the culture of the Middle East.

Answer 17

Foreign invaders, locations, spread of Islam

Question 18

List 4 characteristics of Enlightenment thought

Answer 18

Values of personal right (liberty, natural rights, separation of powers), all individuals have natural rights.

Question 19

Who did Martin Luther challenge during the reformation?

Answer 19

The Catholic Church

Question 20

List 4 reasons for the division of the Catholic Church during the Reformation

Answer 20

Power of the pope, selling of indulgences, tithes, refusal to accept new scientific ideas

Question 21

List 3 examples of primary resources

Answer 21

Journals, diaries, historical documents

Question 22

List 3 reasons why Islam spread the way that it did.

Answer 22

A shared culture, teaches of Muhammad, an a common language.

Question 23

What city is important to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

Answer 23

Jerusalem

Question 24

How was Africa organized before European influence?

Answer 24

Into small, unorganized kingdoms

Question 25

What were 3 things brought from Asia to Europe?

Answer 25

Gunpowder, silk, spices, civil service exams

Question 26

List 4 characters of the Americas before the European conquest.

Answer 26

Thriving cultures, economic centers, polytheistic faiths, successful systems of mathematics

Question 27

List 3 reasons why empires are successful.

Answer 27

Superior military, powerful leaders, plentiful resources

Question 28

List 4 people who contributed to the Enlightenment.

Answer 28

Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire.

Question 29

What kind of an economy is used into the exchange of livestock (animals) for spices?

Answer 29

Barter economy

Question 30

Why did knowledge within the middle class increase from 1500-1700?

Answer 30

Printed materials became cheaper and more readily available

Question 31

List 3 things that led to an increase in global population

Answer 31

Crop rotation, iron plows, horse drawn plows, and increases/advantages in medicine

Question 32

Before money was used to decide who was Rick or poor, what was used to measure how rich someone was?

Answer 32

How much land a person had

Question 33

List 4 things which lead to war and conquest.

Answer 33

Increase in population, decrease food supply, powerful neighboring societies, lack of available resources.

Question 34

List 4 things that can lead to revolution.

Answer 34

Class conflict, unequal taxation, limited rights of citizens, spread of now ideas, lack of available resources

Question 35

Why did Native American population decrease after 1500?

Answer 35

With them, EuropeN explorers brought diseases which Native Americans were not immune to.

Question 36

The triangular trade exchanged what?

Answer 36

Raw goods, manufactured goods, and slaves.

Question 37

The Colombian Exchange was a result of which historical theme?

Answer 37

Exploration

Question 38

What did Marco Polo introduce to Europe which led to global domination?

Answer 38

Gunpowder led to European domination of the world.

Question 39

List 3 reasons why revolutions typically start.

Answer 39

Class conflict, unequal taxation, limited rights.

Question 40

List 3 causes of development of class conflict?

Answer 40

Unequal taxation, limited rights of citizens, spread of new idea, lack of available resources.

Question 41

List 4 democratic values that can be traced back to enlightenment.

Answer 41

Liberty, the common good, popular

Question 42

List 3 long term results of the crusaders

Answer 42

Cultural exchanges between the Middle East and Europe grew, Christians and Muslims had hatred towards each other, trade increased.

Question 43

List 3 characteristics of successful empires.

Answer 43

Superior military, plentiful resources, powerful leaders.

Question 44

List two examples of political unity and cultural creativity are a part if what empires?

Answer 44

Renaissance, Italy, and Islamic Empire

Question 45

What did scientists do during the scientific Revolution?

Answer 45

Challenge old ideas/challenge the Catholic Church, come up with LOGICAL ways to explain everyday occurrences.

Question 46

Why were Crusaders led during the 11th century?

Answer 46

The efforts of the pope to unite European rulers and noble in support of the church

Question 47

What "road" connects Asia and Europe?

Answer 47

The Silk Road

Question 48

The or cultural differences between northern Africa and sub-Saharan Africa is a result if what?

Answer 48

The influence of Islam

Question 49

What did Mongol empire do in Europe?

Answer 49

They unified Asia

Question 50

What culture did the Byzantine empire preserve?

Answer 50

Roman

Question 51

List 3 similarities between Christianity and Islam

Answer 51

Monotheistic, divided into multiple branches, accept Jesus as an important person

Question 52

List 3 similarities between Maya, Aztec, and Inca.

Answer 52

Developed advances and complex societies before the arrival of Europeans

Question 53

Where was the Ottoman Empire located during the 1400s-1500s?

Answer 53

Had strategic location between Europe Asia

Question 54

Many cultural traits that developed in India prior to the 18th century (1700s) were the result of _________.

Answer 54

Foreign Influence

Question 55

List 3 reasons why slacks were imported from Africa

Answer 55

Deaths of large numbers of natives, desire for large number of people's to work plantations

Question 56

What spread from the Byzantine Empire spread to Russia?

Answer 56

The use of the alphabet

Question 57

Hat modern democratic political ideals come from the thinking of the Enlightenment?

Answer 57

The Enlightenment

Question 58

What were the long term effects of the French Revolution?

Answer 58

Spain's decline in power, spread of revolutionary ideas, strengthening of monarchs.

Question 59

What were the world wide affects of the Spain decline after Napoleons conquest of Europe?

Answer 59

Revolutions took place in Latin-American countries, freeing them from Spanish Rule.