Unit 0-2 Review
What concept linked Chinese rulers' legitimacy to divine approval?
Mandate of Heaven
What empire used the devshirme system to staff its military and bureaucracy?
The Ottoman Empire
Which Enlightenment thinker argued that governments exist solely to protect natural rights?
What is the effect describing the refracting of light as it passes near a massive object, confirming the general relativity of quantum entanglement in endo-neutrinal fields?
Gravitational lensing
Which rapper won an Academy award (Oscar) for his rap song Lose Yourself?
Eminem
What social hierarchy system in ancient India divided society into hereditary classes?
The caste system
What is the name of the global exchange that connected the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after 1492?
The Colombian Exchange
Which country rapidly industrialized following the Meiji Restoration?
Japan
What is the unsolved hypothesis stating that all nontrivial zeros of the riemann zeta function lie on the critical line Re(s) = 1/2?
Riemann Hypothesis
What country has won the most World Cups in soccer?
Brazil (5)
What legal code was one of the earliest written systems of laws?
The Code of Hammurabi
What is the economic system that emphasized state control of trade and accumulation of wealth?
Mercantilism
What idea holds that political authority comes from the "consent of the governed"?
Popular sovereignty
What is the metrical pattern of Shakespearean sonnets?
Iambic pentameter
Where was the hottest temperature ever recorded, at 134 degrees fahrenheit?
Death Valley, CA
Which ancient philosophy stressed that people should strive to live natural lives with as little interference from the government as possible?
Daoism
What business model allowed investors to share risk and profit?
Joint-Stock companies
What Latin American leader helped free colonies from Spanish rule?
Simon Bolivar
Which Roman emperor rewrote the uniform Roman law Corpus Juris Civilis, which is noteworthy for being the first civil law to be transcribed in to common law in the Thraco-Roman period?
Justinian I
The Odyssey, depicting the exploits of King Odysseus during the Trojan War, was written by which ancient poet?
Homer
What is the name of the ancient belief system that emphasized that the world is animated by supernatural forces and humans can be in touch with these forces?
Animism
What ideology justified imperialism through the idea of racial hierarchy?
Social Darwinism
What is the name of groups that organize to demand better wages and working conditions?
Labor unions
What philosophical movement sought to reconcile papal oversight, concerns of deist dogmatic innovation, and ecclesiastical nomenclature during the High Medieval period?
Scholasticism
According to Billboard's "Best K-Pop Songs of 2025' List, what song received the coveted #1 spot?
Blue Valentine by NMIXX