World History 9 Weeks Test

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How did the Portuguese make effective use of naval technology?
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According to John Locke, what was the purpose of government?
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The Europeans diseases were so devastating to the people of America because they had little or no resistance to them.
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Which movements major goal was the reform of the Christendom?
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What did Europeans want from the East?
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What is the difference in the value between what nation imports and what it exports?
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States that form part of a continent are called...
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What did Christopher Columbus believe about the size and shape of the earth?
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What was the name of the city located on the Malay Peninsula that was a central point in the spice trade?
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Many Africans were removed from their homes and shipped to large landed estates in America called...
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How did most Africans become slaves?
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In what type of art does elongated figures show suffering and hightened emotions?
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How did Renaissance artist portray the human body?
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Whom did Spain defeat in the Battle of Lepanto?
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An image painted on fresh, wet plaster is called a fresco
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Who conquered the Inca Empire?
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What hysteria began to end in 1650?
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The money and goods given by a wife's family at the time of marriage is called a what?
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Where was the 30 Years War fought?
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A body of nonelective government officials is called a...
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Who was the conquistador who overthrew the Aztec Empire?
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What type of artists paired ideals of the Renaissance art with 16th century feelings?
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John Locke believed people had certain...
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What was the Russian nobility defeated by Ivan the Terrible?
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A secular society places less emphasis on religion and more on a worldly spirit.
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Which family dominated Florence during the Renaissance?
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John Calvin emphasized the belief that God chose who could be saved and who wouldn't. This was known as what?
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After the Thirty Years War, who emerged as the dominant country in Europe?
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How profitable was Vasco de Gama voyages?
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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
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How did Ignatius of Loyola help to reform Catholicism?
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The Russian monarch was called...
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What European country conquered Brazil?
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The Renaissance was a rebirth of the ideas of which ancient civilization?
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What refers to the political system in which ultimiate authority rests with the monarch?
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A liberal society is one where a great number of people live in cities.
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When were children considered adults in Renaissance Italy?
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What cargo did Vasco da Gama bring back from India?
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Parliment abolished the monarchy and declared a republic or ...
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Phillip II sent a fleet of warships called what?
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A remission, after death, from all or part of the punishment due to sin is called a what?
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What reason for writing did Lope de Vega give those who asked?
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The set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century was called...
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Who are the soldiers who sell their services to the highest bidder?
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Eramus believed that to show people how to live a good life on a daily basis should be the chief concern of the Christian Church.
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The belief that the monarch receives power directly from God...
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How was the city- states of Renaissance Italy governed?
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Who were the Spanish conquerors who were motivated by religious zeal and the desire for riches and glory
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The study of history, grammar, rhetoric, and moral philosophy which believed believed to be the basis of the intellectual movement was called what?
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What is the name given to French Calvanists?