World History 1
The term Renaissance means...
Rebirth
Martin Luther disagreed with the Church's practice of...
(Indulgence)- letting people pay to forgive their sins
Columbus accidentally "discovered" America when he was hoping to...
Find a quicker route to India/Asia
This scientist created laws of motion and is credited with beginning the enlightenment.
Sir Isaac Newton
This philosophical movement emphasized "natural rights" and the idea that reason and logic, rather than tradition or religion, should govern human affairs.
The Enlightenment.
In this time period during the French Revolution, Robespierre and the Jacobins executed or imprisoned large numbers of enemies.
Reign of Terror
a philosophy that emphasizes individual rights and free market capitalism.
Liberalism
This was the name for an era of European history in which privateers and adventurers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and others set sail in search of "New" lands.
Age of Exploration.
What did the “Open Door Policy” mean?
Any country that wants to trade in China is allowed to
The Atlantic Slave Trade started after this group, initially used by colonial powers as a slave labor force, began rapidly dying off from European diseases.
Indigenous/Native Americans
The "A" in the "MAIN" Causes of WWI acronym stands for...
Alliances
This is a word (and MAIN cause of WWI) which means an intense pride in one's country OR the desire of a given ethnic group to form a country corresponding to that identity.
Nationalism
This was the name for the exchange of people, goods & diseases between the Old world & New World.
Columbian exchange; OR Triangle Trade.
This English king was a Protestant reformer who broke with the Catholic Church after the Pope refused to give him a divorce from his first wife Catherine
Henry VIII (8th)
The Enlightenment Thinker responsible for the separation of powers is
1. Montesquieu 2. Rousseau 3. Voltaire
Montesquieu
This is the increased buildup of arms and an intense glorification of the military in a given society.
Militarism.
Nicholas Copernicus promoted a model of the universe in which the sun is at the center this model was called the...
heliocentric
Which country was the first to get involved in trading opium in China?
Great Britain
During the reformation the Church was divided into...
The Protestant Church and Catholic Church.
This two-word term describes a relationship in which the citizens remain loyal to a government who, in return, provides safety and security.
Social Contract
This man started the reformation.
Martin Luther
This philosophy emphasizes the public ownership of goods, services and the means of production in a society.
This philosophy emphasizes private ownership of land and the means of production, as well as the free exchange of goods and services in a market economy.
Capitalism.
This MAIN cause of WWI refers to the domination of foreign lands by a powerful state far away.
Imperialism.
Czar Nicolas II was the leader during the Russo-Japanese War, the crushing defeats during WWI, and eventually dethroned during the ...???
Russian Revolution
This historical event was responsible for people moving into cities and a change from an agrarian, cottage economy to one dominated by industry and machine
Industrial Revolution
After Napoleon was defeated European countries sought to establish stability after years of war and revolution at the...
1. Treaty of Versailles 2. Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna
What is Manifest Destiny?
The idea that the U.S. should extend from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans
William and Mary became king and queen of England during a bloodless revolution called the...
Glorious Revolution
Fill in the blank for the French Revolution...
1. Weak leadership of Louis XVI and economic crisis
2. Creation of the French Republic
3. Rise of ...?
Napoleon
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after WWI was called...
Wilson's 14 Points
Toussaint L’Ouverture and Simon Bolivar led independence movements (revolutions) in
Latin America
This organization was created after WWI to provide a forum for resolving international disputes, but failed because it was weak and had no power to enforce any decisions it made.
League of Nations
Which event caused the Meiji Restoration to take place?
The Treaty of Kanagawa
Belief in a master race, rise of totalitarianism and nationalism and anti-Semitism are all causes of....?
Holocaust/genocide