World History Midterm Exam

Question 1

What is the religion of the Hebrew people?

Answer 1

Judaism

Question 2

What is the Judaism code of morality and ethics?

Answer 2

The Ten
Commandments

Question 3

What religion was developed from the teachings of Jesus?

Answer 3

Christianity

Question 4

What items were exchanged west (brought TO the Americas) during the Columbian exchange?

Answer 4

Cattle, plants, disease

Question 5

What is ‘divine right’

Answer 5

The idea that monarchs represent God on Earth

Question 6

What kind of government did divine right support?

Answer 6

Absolute monarch

Question 7

Why did Peter the Great build St. Petersburg?

Answer 7

He wanted a seaport that would make travel to the west easier

Question 8

What was the political purpose of the Palace at Versailles?

Answer 8

Center of the arts during reign of Louis XVI (used to glorify Louis)

Question 9

Why was Ivan IV known as Ivan the Terrible?

Answer 9

He was a violent and unpredictable ruler.

Question 10

Who proposed the heliocentric theory?

Answer 10

Copernicus

Question 11

What did Isaac Newton explain?

Answer 11

Law of universal gravitiation

Question 12

Who influenced the American Bill of Rights?

Answer 12

The philosophs

Question 13

What ideas did the Enlightment promote?

Answer 13

progress in society, separation of church and government, and importance of the individual

Question 14

What percentage of the population belonged to the First Estate?

Answer 14

1%

Question 15

Second Estate?

Answer 15

2%

Question 16

Third Estate?

Answer 16

97%

Question 17

What is Bastille Day?

Answer 17

When a mob attacks and seizes Bastille

Question 18

What is the Declaration of RIghts of Man?

Answer 18

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Question 19

What was the reign of terror and who imposed it?

Answer 19

A time of lot of killing by gueltine under Robespierre’s rule

Question 20

What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 20

Balance of powers

Question 21

What was Napoleon’s Continental System?

Answer 21

Economic plan to strength Europe and weaken Britain

Question 22

How did Britain react to the Continental System?

Answer 22

With counters. They countered blockades b/c they had a stronger navy

Question 23

What was the result of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia?

Answer 23

Napoleon retreats, loses thousands of soldiers to raids and cold weather

Question 24

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 24

One of the most successful French generals. Strong, strict, well-liked general

Question 25

What strategy did Czar Alexander I use to defeat Napoleon?

Answer 25

Scorched earth policy

Question 26

Who was Jose de San Martin

Answer 26

Leader of Argentinean revolutionary forces

Question 27

Who was Miguel Hidalo?

Answer 27

Priest who launches Mexican revolt

Question 28

What is nationalism?

Answer 28

Loyalty to nation of people with common culture/history

Question 29

What did Mary Shelley write?

Answer 29

Frankenstien

Question 30

What were the achievements of Otto von Bismarck?

Answer 30

He created a united Germany under Prussia

Question 31

What were the achievements of Camillo di Cavour?

Answer 31

Unified Italy

Question 32

Compare and contrast the liberation of Mexico and Brazil

Answer 32

Brazil was bloodless and Mexico was not

Question 33

What were the goals of impressionism?

Answer 33

Economic expansion, political power, and spreading of culture/religion

Question 34

Realism

Answer 34

A way of thinking or kind of art/literture based on what is accurate/ possible

Question 35

Compare the unifications of Italy and Germany

Answer 35

Both led by Nationalism

Question 36

What was the Industrial revolution

Answer 36

a time where factories were created to produce good is mass. Everyone flocked to work in factories.

Question 37

What are the three factors of production

Answer 37

Land, Labor, Capital