World History Semester 1 Final

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Which type of government is where power is in the hands of one person and that ruler has total control? Options: dictatorship, oligarchy, monarchy, republic

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dictatorship

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What is an object made by human beings?

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artifact

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What is the way of life of a society, which is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience?

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cultures

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Which of the following was a major result of the Renaissance? Options: new attitudes toward culture and learning, renewed reliance on faith rather than reason, original ideas about government structures, feelings of apathy toward all things

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new attitudes toward culture and learning

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The Declaration of Independence stated that governments were formed to:

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protect each individual's natural rights.

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A key component of the U.S. government under the Constitution is

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the separation of powers among different branches of government.

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Which Enlightenment thinker most directly influenced the idea expressed in the passage: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. . . .” —The Declaration of Independence? Options: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jacques Bossuet, Baron de Montesquieu

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John Locke

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Why did Columbus reach the Caribbean islands rather than the East Indies?

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He greatly underestimated the size of Earth and did not realize that North and South America existed.

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How were the Aztec and Inca empires impacted by Spanish conquistadors and European colonization?

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Conquistadors destroyed the empires, and then Europeans built new settlements.

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What was one main reason why the slave trade greatly expanded beginning around the 1500s? Options: Africans gave up trying to resist capture by European slave traders., Europeans started depending on enslaved people for labor in new colonies., Europeans needed more enslaved people to manage the arrival of new colonial goods., Arab merchants expanded the slave trade into South and East Asia.

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Europeans started depending on enslaved people for labor in new colonies.