History 200 Semester Exam Review

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100

This 1494 document, signed by the Pope, divided the known world between Portugal and Spain? 

Treaty of Tordesillas?  

200

This economic ideology assumes that there is a limited amount of wealth in the world and that a nation should strive for a positive trade balance. In the Age of Exploration, European nations used this ideology to justify their extraction of resources from the New World. 

Mercantilism 

300

One could purchase these from the Catholic Church in order to shorten the stay of a relative in purgatory. 

Indulgences

400

This 19th-century political ideology assumed that all history is the history of class struggle. 

Socialism

500

Sulieman the Great of the Ottoman Empire balanced Sharia Law with this type of law, which focused on secular life. 

Kanun Law

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100

This theory posits that the Earth is the center of the universe and that all objects, including the sun, revolve around the Earth. 

Geocentric theory

200

Place the following governments int he correct chronological order:

National Assembly, Estates General, Directory

Estates General, National Assembly, Directory

300

Incan form of communication that utilized messages coded in knots

Quipu

400

This is the name given to the interrogation and subsequent conversion or expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain? 

Spanish Inquisition

500

This is the term given to the pamphleteering of philosophical ideas to the masses in the 1700s? 

Low Enlightenment

3

100

This is the name of Portuguese ship that used lateen sails to sail in the open ocean as well as to tack along the African coast? 

Caravel

200

This person set up a navigational school for European explorers in the 1400s? 

Prince Henry the Navigator

300

Klemens von Metternich is associated with which 19th-century political ideology? 

Conservatism

400

Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a Church in this city in the Holy Roman Empire (Germany)? 

Wittenberg

500

This king created the Church of England (Anglican Church)

King Henry VIII

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100

The purpose of this was to solidify Catholic doctrine in the face of Protestant attacks on the Catholic Church? 

Council of Trent

200

He led the revolutionary efforts in Latin America? 

Simon Bolivar

300

His idea of the Social Contract, published in the Leviathan, influenced later philosophes? 

Thomas Hobbes

400

This philosophe, known as the Father of Liberalism, argued that all human beings are entitled to life, liberty, and property? 

John Locke

500

This philosophe suggested that individuals must bend to the "general will" of the society that they live in? 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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100

This foundational American document provided for a strong central government, but still made space for states' rights and individual liberties? 

The Constitution

200

This city was the administrative capital of the Aztec Empire? 

Tenochtitlan

300

Martin Luther's ideas were spread by the development of what technology? 

Printing Press

400

In the Ottoman Empire, Christian boys from SE Europe were kidnapped, converted to Islam, and ordered to serve the state, usually in the military. What is the name for this? 

Devshirme

500

This is the term for Marx's theory of history (thesis, antithesis, synthesis)? 

Dialectical Materialism