World Geography Final Flashcards
Prince Henry of Portugal was better known by this name.
Henry the Navigator
After establishing trade relations throughout the continent of Africa, The Portuguese gave this nickname to the continent’s western coast
The Gold Coast
By 1500, this Portuguese capital had become the trading center of Europe
Lisbon
Christopher Columbus was a native of this country
Italy
Christopher Columbus’s most famous voyages were made for this country
Spain
What was the name that many Europeans in the 1400s called the seemingly never-ending expanse of water that was West of the continent?
Ocean sea
Why was Portugal so interested in finding new routes to China/India?
There was not port in the Mediterranean Sea, so they wanted a better route to China/India so they could obtain more goods
What were two reasons why Columbus was able to convince Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to finance his trip west to find a shortcut to the East Indies?
- Columbus promised he would spread Christianity
2. If Columbus was successful, Spain would become very wealthy
What was the name of Columbus’s largest ship?
Santa Maria
What island did Columbus actually discover?
San Salvador
What is a sect?
A religious group that has broken away from an established church
What is The Prince?
Book that detailed how to gain and keep power and stressed that the ends justified the means
What is theocracy?
A government run by religious leaders
What is Patron?
A financial supporter of the arts
What is indulgences?
Money paid to the church to lessen a person’s time in purgatory
What is heliocentric?
The theory that they sun was the center of the universe and the Earth revolved around the sun
What is Utopia?
A perfect, ideal society
What is The Book of Courtier?
Book that describes the Ideal Man
What is Ghetto?
Separate sections of cities where usually only one ethnic group lives
What is Renaissance?
A cultural awakening or rebirth
What were a part of Humanities?
Grammar, Rhetoric, History NOT SCIENCE
Renaissance art reflected the humanist interest in
Individual achievement
Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinkers in that humanists
Used Greek and Roman writings to understand their own culture
Martin Luther was outraged over the selling of indulgences because
Popes had no authority to say when people could get into heaven
Anabaptists believed that infants should not be baptized because
Infants are too young to accept the Christian faith
What was the Elizabethan settlement?
A compromise in the Catholic and Protestant faiths in England
Who stated, “I think, therefore I am”?
Rene Descartes
Which of the following was allowed according to Martin Luther’s teachings?
Allowing clergy to marry
Which was NOT an effect of the invention of the Printing Press?
Increased Illiteracy
The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa were the work of the great artist
Leonardo da Vinci
The calculations of astronomer Johannes Kepler showed that
The planets move around the sun in oval orbits
What triggered the events that resulted in the formation of the Church of England (Anglican Church)?
Henry VIII wanted a divorce
What officially made Henry VIII the head of the Church of England (Anglican Church)?
The Acts of Supremacy
Today’s Baptists, Mennonites, and Amish can all trace their religious ancestry to the
Anabaptists
What were the 95 Theses?
It was a list of arguments against the sale of indulgences
Which was NOT an example of religious intolerance between 1450 and 1750?
Allowing religious sects similar to Christianity, such as Anabaptists
In the scientific method, a hypothesis is a
Possible explanation to be tested
How did Martin Luther react when peasant rebels took up his banner as a means of bringing about social change in Germany?
He denounced the peasants, and the rebellion was suppressed
Following the rise of Protestantism, this group met to oversee Catholic reform
The Council of Trent
Sir Isaac Newton was instrumental in the formation of this subject in mathematics
Calculus
What is Divine Right?
Authority to rule was given directly from God
What is Armada?
Fleet of ships
What is Huguenots?
French Protestants
What is westernization?
Embrace of western culture, ideas and technology
What is boyars?
Russian Landowning Nobles
Why did Charles the V abdicate ( give up) the Spanish throne in 1566?
He thought that is was impossible to rule 2 different empires
In 1571, Spain defeated the Ottoman Empire in a great victory for the Spaniards and Catholicism at the Battle of
Lepanto
What did Miguel De Cervantes write that is considered Europe’s 1st modern novel?
Don Quixote
In France, King Henry IV’s “Edict of Nantes” said that
Huguenots were granted religious toleration
French King Louis XIV gave himself the nickname
The Sun King
In France, what was the Estates General?
A legislative body made up of all of France’s social classes
Why did Peter the Great spend time in western Europe?
To learn about European technology and modernization
What was the symbol of Peter’s absolute power and desire to create a modern Russia?
St. Petersburg
What words describe Catherine the Great?
Enlightened and Efficient
What is an entrepreneur?
A person who manages and assumes the financial risk of new businesses
What is Jethro Tull?
Inventor of the seed drill
What is Jeremy Bentham?
British philosopher and economist who advocated utilitarianism
What is Proletariat?
Karl Marx’s name for the Industrial Working Class
What is Urbanization?
The movement of people to cities
What is Laizze-faire?
Philosophy where the government has a hands off approach to business
What is a turnpike?
A private toll road
What is anesthetics?
Drugs that prevents pain during surgery
What is a tenement?
An apartment building for the working class
What is James Watt?
Improved the steam engine in the late 1700s
During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?
People migrated from rural areas to cities
The first factories developed in what industry?
Textiles
Land enclosure in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in
Larger farms
1700s farming methods improved in all of the following ways EXCEPT
Farms got smaller, so farmers could focus more on their crops
The cotton gin was a machine that could
separate seeds from raw cotton
Great Britain was a leader in the Industrial Revolution for all of the following reasons EXPECT
Its farmland was mostly poor, causing many to find other types of jobs
The world’s first major rail line was located
In England, from Liverpool to Manchester
The putting-out system was a method of
Producing cloth in individual homes
The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the Industrial
Working Class
Laws called “Factory Acts” were passed in early 1800s to
Reform child labor
Many early factory workers were woman because
Employers could pay woman less than men
What was one reason that most Industrial Working class parents did not mind their children working?
Their families needed the income
During the Industrial Revolution John Wesley founded which new form of Christianity?
Methodism
According to laizzez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was
Running businesses that were free from government interference
According to Socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was
Shared ownership by all people of the means of production (factories, farms, railroads, etc)
The Luddites were a
Labor organization
Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because
Diseases was a natural means of population control
Which of the following best describes David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages”?
Wage increases will not raise the standard of living poor families because they’ll just have more children
“The greatest happiness for the greatest number” was a goal of
utilitarianism
Karl Marx hated capitalism because he believed that it
Created prosperity for a few and poverty for many