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1
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Which of the following actions by Athenians angered members of the Delian League?

A

Athens moved the League’s treasury to Athens

Athenians started using the League’s treasury to make purchases for Athens

Athens would not let member states secede from the Delian League

Athens treated member states as subject states

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Who led the Athenians during the Second Peloponnesian War?

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Pericles

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True or false: All Greek city-states were democracies

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False

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What is an example of Pan-Hellenism?

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Olympic Games

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What was the major flashpoint that led Darius to launch the First Persian War?

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The Athenians tried to help Ionians repel Persian Rule

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What were Athenian rulers called when they ruled with harshness in order to break the power of their fellow aristocrats?

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Tyrants

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What is the term for separate and independent city-states?

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Polis

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Who was the ruler of the Persian Empire during the Second Persian Invasion?

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Xerxes

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What was it called when Athenians voted to exile leaders who were becoming too powerful?

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Ostracism

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What is the name of the fighting formation where Greek soldiers defended themselves and their neighbors with armor while wielding long spears and short swords?

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Phalanx

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11
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What characterized the art of the Greek Classical Age?

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Realism and Naturalism

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What is the theory of ethics in which pleasure is regarded as the chief good?

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Hedonism

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What is the philosophy that taught that happiness could be obtained by accepting one’s lot and living in harmony with the will of God, whatever that might be?

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Stoicism

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Which form of Greek religion emphasized spirituality and rituals centered around fertility, death, and resurrection and gods like Dionysus and Demeter?

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Mystery Cults

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True or False: Plato taught Socrates and then Socrates taught Aristotle

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False

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True or False: The plebeians were a few dozen families who made up the Roman aristocracy and controlled political power.

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False

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17
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Which political office in the Roman Republic protected plebeians from patrician magistrates?

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Tribune

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Whose deaths after a campaign to help plebeians demonstrated that the checks and balances in Roman politics could now be circumvented by violence?

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Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

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19
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Who was Hannibal?

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The Carthaginian general who marched his armies into Roman territory by way of the Alps and Pyrenees

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What was the name of the practice in Rome where a politician’s name was posted publicly as an outlaw and then anyone could kill this politician without penalty?

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Proscription

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21
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Who was the Chief Accuser of Socrates?

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Meletus

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22
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How is Socrates executed?

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Poising

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23
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In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, what do the shadows in the cave represent?

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Illusions NOT Reality

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What was the name of the political system that began to operate under Caesar Augustus?

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Principate

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What was the name of the political system that began to operate under Diocletian?

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Republic

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26
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What was Mithraism?

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A belief system based on Eastern Mediterranean mystery cults popular with Roman soldiers

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27
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Which Roman emperor reformed and systematized the seasons into a calendar?

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Julius Caesar

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28
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Which subject was not included in the trivium, the first stage of liberal arts instruction?

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Arithmetic

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29
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Which subject was NOT included in the quadrivium, the second stage of the Liberal Arts?

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Grammar

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30
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In 313, Constantine issued which law which granted religious toleration to Christians?

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Edict of Milan

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31
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The Council of Nicaea focused on discussing the orthodox position of which topic?

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The divinity of Christ

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32
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What is the Eucharist?

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Communion (The bread and wine)

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33
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Which Roman enemy lived in modern-day Germany, resisted subjugation by Rome, and became known as the Barbarians by the Romans?

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The Goths

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34
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Who was Theobald?

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A count who had compassion on Abelard and sheltered him after Abelard fled his monastery

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35
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Who was Anselm?

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A teacher of Abelard’s accused of persecuting Abelard out of jealousy

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36
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Where was Abelard born?

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Brittany, near Nantes

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37
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Who was Astrolabe?

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Abelard and Heloise’s son

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38
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What was the Paraclete?

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The oratory Abelard set up and Heloise eventually ran.

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39
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What was the Paraclete?

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The oratory Abelard set up and Heloise eventually ran.

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40
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Who was Fulbert?

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Heloise’s uncle

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41
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Where was Abelard residing when he met Heloise and began to tutor her?

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Paris

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42
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At the Battle of Tours, who the army to defend the Frankish kingdom from the Saracen invasion?

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Charles Martel

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43
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In 843, which agreement broke apart Charlemagne’s empire into three sections each under its own dynasty?

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The Treaty of Verdun

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44
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True or False: Charlemagne had little control over his nobles.

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False

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45
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Where was Charlemagne’s capital?

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Aachen

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46
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Who staved off the Magyar invasion in the Kingdom of the Germans as well as expanded his kingdom down to Italy? He would later force the Pope to crown him the new Holy Roman Emperor.

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Otto I

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47
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In 1215, barons forced which king to sign the Magna Carta?

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John I

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48
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In 1054, the Great Schism split Roman Catholicism from which Christian denomination?

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity

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49
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From 1309-1377, the Babylonian Captivity saw seven successive popes reside in which French city?

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Avignon

50
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Which medieval heresy alleged that the devil ruled material things while God ruled the spirit?

A

Catharism

51
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Which council in 1414-1417 gained the resignation of the three popes of Pisa, Avignon, and Rome and then elected one universally recognized pope?

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Constance

52
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What is another name for the Angevin royal dynasty of England?

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Plantagenets

53
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Which meeting ended the Investiture Crisis in 1122?

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The Concordat of Worms

54
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Who called the First Crusade?

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Urban II

55
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According to Pavlac, England perfected the use of which weapons during the Hundred Years War? (Choose ALL that apply)

A

Longbows

56
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Which two countries participated in the Hundred Years War?

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England and France

57
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Which dynasty won the Wars of the Roses?

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The Tudors

58
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Which family from Florence is credited with playing a key role in patronizing and supporting the Italian Renaissance?

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The Medicis

59
Q

The Peace of Westphalia ended which war?

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The Thirty Year’s War

60
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Which Spanish ruler launched the Spanish Armada against England in 1588?

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Philip II

61
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Jean Calvin created a Calvinist theocracy in which Swiss city?

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Geneva

62
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One of the key culminations of the Counter Reformation was which reformist Council?

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Council of Trent

63
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Which of the following was NOT a result of the Counter-Reformation?

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A blanket ban on all indulgences

64
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Which country enacted a certain (very limited) version of religious tolerance with the Edict of Nantes?

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France

65
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Which economic theory posits that a state’s prosperity depends on its supply of gold and silver and that the total volume of trade is unchangeable. Its adherents therefore advocate that the government should play an active role in the economy by encouraging exports and discouraging imports.

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Mercantilism

66
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Which Portuguese explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope AND THEN continued on to reach India?

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Vasco da Gama

67
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In 1494, The Treaty of Tordesillas split the New World between which two European states? (Choose two)

A

Spain and Portugal

68
Q

After 1682, the tsars of Russia adopted a policy of Westernization as showcased in which Russian city?

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St. Petersburg

69
Q

What is the belief that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are responsible to no one except God?

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Divine Right

70
Q

Frederick II was famous for his well-trained army, his vision of expansion, and ruling over which European state?

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Prussia

71
Q

Which ruler’s ascension to the Austrian Throne prompted the War of Austrian Succession?

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Maria Theresa

72
Q

Who was the commander of the Parliamentarians and later ruled over the Commonwealth?

A

Oliver Cromwell

73
Q

In the Glorious Revolution, Protestant William and Mary claimed the English throne from Mary’s Catholic father. Who was Mary’s father?

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James II

74
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Some Puritans became separatists and resisted any engagement with the Anglican church. What are these “separatists” known as today?

A

Pilgrims

75
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Nicolaus Copernicus’s Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies argued in favor of which scientific theory?

A

Heliocentricism

76
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Which of the following were not key goals of the Enlightenment?

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Pietism

77
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Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)?

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Mary Wollstonecraft

78
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The Seven Years War had many names, what was it called in India?

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The Third Carnatic War

79
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Who was the king of France during the early years of the French Revolution?

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Louis XVI

80
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True or False: Only members of the Third Estate signed the Tennis Court Oath.

A

False

81
Q

“Olympe de Gouges,” the nom de plume of ­­_________, wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.

A

Marie Gouze

82
Q

During the Reign of Terror, who was the leader of the Jacobins and the Committee of Public Safety?

A

Maximilien Robespierre

83
Q

What is the practice of relying on observation and experiment?

A

Empiricism

84
Q

Who edited the first French encyclopedia?

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Diderot

85
Q

What is a “maroon” in the context of Saint Domingue?

A

A Runaway

86
Q

Which Haitian revolutionary gathered “Free Black” revolutionaries to his side but refused the idea of letting enslaved men join his army?

A

Vincent Ogé

87
Q

Who did Napoleon send to retake control of Haiti?

A

General Leclerc

88
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Although Napoleon Bonaparte’s real power came from his ability to control the French army, what did he do to get the French people to endorse his seizure of the French state?

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Held a Plebiscite

89
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What was the significance of the Napoleonic Code?

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It proclaimed the equality of all adult male citizens

It limited the rights of women gained in the French Revolution

It established new laws based on rationalist principles

It spread throughout Europe and is still the foundation of laws in Italy, Holland, Latin America, and even Louisiana

90
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Which Napoleonic battle is commonly referred to as “The Battle of Three Emperors” and spelled the end of Austria’s fight against Napoleon in 1805?

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Battle of Austerlitz

91
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Where did the Battle of Waterloo take place?

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Belgium

92
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There was limited readings this week because of our Peer Review Class. However, its always better when a quiz is out of 10 than when it is out of 7. Check “True” if you agree and get 3 points.

A

True

93
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How did Mary Prince’s personal account of her experiences as an enslaved person become a best-seller in England?

A

Prince narrated her story to a female guest at the house where Prince worked as a free woman

94
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1/1

How was Mary Prince able to earn a bit of money as an enslaved woman?

A

When the Woods travelled she took in washing and sold food to captains of ships

95
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Why was Mary Prince punished so severely for marrying Daniel James?

A

Prince did not receive permission from the Woods to marry.

96
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At the end of her narrative, why does Mary Prince stay in Britain and not return home to the West Indies to join her husband?

A

Prince is free in Britain but if she returned to the West Indies she would once more become the property of the Woods family

97
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Who are the Pringles?

A

The family who took Prince in at the end of her narrative and treated her well as a free servant

98
Q

Where was Sharpe’s Rebellion?

A

Jamaica

99
Q

Who were the Kru?

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African sailors who patrolled African coasts for illegal slavers

100
Q

Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

A

James Hargreaves

101
Q

The Revolutions of 1830 brought liberal Louis-Phillipe to power in which country?

A

France

102
Q

Who was Klemens von Metternich?

A

An important arch-conservative Austrian diplomat in post-Napoleonic Europe

103
Q

Which two European powers controlled the Suez Canal from inception to investment to decolonization in the twentieth century?

A

British and French

104
Q

Which colonial war saw the first use of modern concentration camps?

A

Boer War

105
Q

The explosion of the battleship Maine sparked which war?

A

Spanish American War

106
Q

Who were the members of the Triple Alliance?

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Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary

107
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Who were the members of the Triple Entente?

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Britain, Russia, France

108
Q

The Balfour Declaration supported the creation of which state after WWI?

A

Israel

109
Q

Who proposed the Fourteen Points to Europe to settle post-war Europe?

A

Woodrow Wilson

110
Q

Which Chancellor of Prussia spearheaded the movement to unify Germany under the leadership of Prussia?

A

Otto von Bismarck

111
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Who, alongside Victor Emmanuel II, spearhead the effort to unite Italy under the leadership of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia?

A

Count Camillo di Cavour

112
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Who was the Republican mercenary who led the “Red Shirts,” conquered the Kingdom of Naples, and marched all the way to Rome?

A

Giuseppe Garibaldi

113
Q

What was the name of the conference where high-ranking Nazis coordinated the implementation of their horrific ‘Final Solution’”?

A

Wannsee Conference

114
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Which conference, in 1938, saw delegate nations express sympathy for the Jewish refugee crisis but refuse to open their doors?

A

Evian Conference

115
Q

At the previous question’s conference, held in 1938, which country DID offer substantial promises to Jewish refugees?

A

Dominican Republic

116
Q

True or False: Ghettos were supposed to be a temporary measure.

A

True

117
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True or False: Eastern European railroad employees protested and resigned when they started noticing that the trains full of Jewish “re-settlers” never came back with anyone on them.

A

False

118
Q

According to C.S. Lewis, the lack of the TAO produced people without what?

A

Chests

119
Q

The Munich Conference saw Britain, France, and Italy allow Germany to annex the Sudetenland. Which country therefore lost its sovereignty over that area?

A

Czechoslavakia

120
Q

Who was the Prime Minister of Britain during the majority of WWII?

A

Winston Churchill

121
Q

What event provoked the Americans into officially joining WWII?

A

Pearl Harbor

122
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What was the name of the German government that fell to the Third Reich in 1933?

A

The Weimar Republic

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