World History Final

What explorer is well known for travelling to China and serving in the court of Kublai Khan?

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco da Gama 
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Marco Polo

Who was the first captain to successfully sail from Europe around the tip of Africa and reach India?

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco da Gama 
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Marco Polo

What does the term Renaissance mean?

• Ruler
• Rebirth
• Church Reform
• The First Reich

What term refers to the basic spirit of Renaissance society, which focused on worldly rather than spiritual and was concerned with the here and now?

• Secular
• Reformation
• Huguenots
• Heliocentric

What does the term vernacular mean?

• Heart
• Native Language
• 
  Foreign Language
• Artistic Style

Which protestant group was associated with being persecuted and hunted during the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre?

• Catholics
• Anabaptist
• Presbyterians
• Huguenots

What did the Pope deny Henry VIII that led to his break away from the Catholic Church?

• An Indulgence
• Divorce
• Land in Germany
• Devine Right

Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses were a call for

• religious Takeover of Europe
• reform of the Catholic church
• the King to give food to poor
• All of the Above

What is the invisible warrior brought by the Europeans?

• A Sneaky Wizard
• Soldiers dressed as natives
• Disease
• None of the Above

Which individual led the “roundheads,” in the English Civil War and would later become a military dictator?

• Charles I
• Louis XVII
• Oliver Cromwell 
• Maximillian Robespierre