The greatest influence on the development of Western moral and ethical teachings can be traced back to what?
What are the Ten Commandments
100
Which characteristic did Aztec and Incan societies share?
What are complex religious ceremonies
100
When England's king declared himself head of the Church of England during the Reformation, England became this type of country
What is Protestant
100
Conflict with Mexico became highly likely following the granting of statehood to what republic?
What is Texas
100
Prior to the Civil War, which group had the MOST political power in the South?
What is Plantation Owners
200
Jewish scripture says that God's laws were delivered to the ancient Hebrews by who?
Who is Moses
200
What was the main cause of the decline of Native population in Central Mexico during the 1500s?
What is the introduction of disease by contact with Europeans
200
What was the Spanish Inquisition?
What is the religious court established to find and punish heretics
200
The preventing of European expansion to the Americas was the purpose of what?
What is the Monroe Doctrine
200
"Go west, young man, and grow up with the country" -Horace Greeley......this quotation is associated with what?
What is Manifest Destiny
300
Greece's political system based on independent city states was a result of what geographical occurences?
What are mountainous terrain and small islands
300
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations all developed what?
What are complex architectural structures
300
The findings of Galileo and Newton were significant because, from their time on, scientific thought was based upon what two things?
What is observation and experimentation
300
During the early 1800s, factories in New England were primarily located next to what?
What is a river
300
By the mid 1800s, California was being settled MOSTLY by people in search of what?
What is wealth from the discovery of gold
400
Ancient Greeks used myths about their gods PRIMARILY to what?
What is explain events in the natural world
400
The stories from this explorer encouraged Europeans to journey to Asia in search of wealth...
Who is Marco Polo
400
The systematic collection and articulation of natural laws, such as gravity and motion, was done by who?
Who is Isaac Newton
400
What agricultural invention, designed to increase production, had the effect of increasing the number of slaves needed for labor in the Deep South?
What is the cotton gin
400
The Indian Removal Act (1830) relocated thousands of Cherokees from Georgia to Indian Territory for the purpose of what?
What is making land available for white miners and farmers
500
The rise of this man led to the ending of city state power and the establishing of a unified nation for Greece.
Who is Alexander
500
The poems and plays of which person are representative of the English Renaissance?
Who is William Shakespeare
500
The Triangle Trade and Columbian Exchange are terms used to describe the movement of goods between Western Europe, West Africa and who?
Who are the Americas
500
The growing importance of cotton to the South created an economy and a society dominated by who?
Who are large landowners
500
While the American colonies were fighting a revolution against England and forming a new nation, New Spain was establishing new settlements in California using what type of system?