Mrs.Englard Exam# 1

Question 1

The Ottoman Empire came to power after what empire?

Answer 1

Byzantine empire

Question 2

Who are the two absolute rulers who believed in religious tolerance?

Answer 2

Akbar the great and Suleiman the magnificent

Question 3

What did both Mughal and Ottoman Empire both worship?

Answer 3

Islam

Question 4

Which city did suleiman expand the Ottoman Empire by modernizing the military

Answer 4

Constantinople

Question 5

What do u call japan who has a series of island and has an irregular coastline?

Answer 5

Archipelago

Question 6

Which two country influenced japan?

Answer 6

Korea and China

Question 7

What isolated japan by keeping it out Christian influence

Answer 7

Tokugawa shogunate

Question 8

What do u call the time period where there was a new wave of thinking and questioning

Answer 8

Enlightenment

Question 9

What was the enlightenment also known as?

Answer 9

The age of reason

Question 10

Who believed that people are born selfish and need an absolute ruler to control them?

Answer 10

Hobbes

Question 11

What did John Lockes believe in?

Answer 11

John Lockes believed that all people have natural rights of life, liberty, and property. He also says that people have the right to overthrow the government that fail to protect these rights

Question 12

What did Baron de Montesquieu believe in?

Answer 12

He believed that in order to prevent kings from being too powerful, the government should be divided into three branches (legislative, executive, and judicial) so that there was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances

Question 13

Who poked fun of authority and protested for freedom of speech and religion?

Answer 13

Voltaire

Question 14

Who petitioned for the rights of women?

Answer 14

Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 15

What did Rousseau believe in?

Answer 15

Rousseau wrote the social contract and he believed that society is a social contract (an agreement in which all people agree to work for the common good in society)

Question 16

Who was known as the enlighten despot?

Answer 16

Catherine the great

Question 17

What was the scientific revolution?

Answer 17

It was a sudden and dramatic change in how people viewed the world. Science and reason were used to explain the world.

Question 18

Who was Copernicus?

Answer 18

Astronomer who developed the Heliocentric theory which is the idea that the planets revolve around the sun

Question 19

Who was Galileo Galilei?

Answer 19

Astronomer who proved that Copernicus was correct. He was put on trial by the Catholic church contradicted theirs.

Question 20

What were some effects of the scientific revolution?

Answer 20

It resulted in the spread of new ideas throughout Europe, challenged the traditional authority of the Catholic church since they proved that many of their ideas were wrong, and the new ideas of this period led directly to the enlightenment.

Question 21

What were some key ideas of the enlightenment?

Answer 21

Philosophers believed that society could be improved by using reason and natural laws (universal rules that are always true), governments receive their authority from the people (not from god), democracy and this period and the scientific revolution encouraged the spread of new ideas and the use of reason

Question 22

What were the key effects of the Enlightenment?

Answer 22

Philosophers believed that people could overthrow unfair government which it helped cause political revolutions in France, Latin America, and the United States and enlightened despots who were European kings and queens who believed in enlightenment ideas and rules using their principles.

Question 23

What is a political revolution?

Answer 23

An event where the people of a country overthrow an existing government and create a new government