World History Semester Exam Review A Block

What Spanish conquistador was responsible for conquering the Aztecs in Mexico?

• Pizarro

• Montezuma

• Cortez

• Columbus

It is believed that up to this percentage of slaves died during the Middle Passage.

• 50%

• 10%

• 30%

• 95%

African culture was impacted in many ways by the Atlantic slave trade. Which of the below was one of those ways?

• All African kingdoms prospered economically

• African kings were able to stop European invaders with new weapons

• Many cultures lost their fittest members - young men

• African empires became safer because they sold only criminals into slavery.

Which of the following places was stormed by a mob in search of weapons in the early stages of the French Revolution?

• Vienna

• the Bastille

• Versailles

• Eiffel Tower

Which of the following was a major cause of economic problems in France prior to the Revolution?

• a fair tax structure

• limited government spending on luxuries

• involvement in foreign wars including the American Revolution

• spending on food for the people

Most of the people who lived in France & Spain practiced what religion?

• Catholicism

• Judaism

• Protestantism

• Islam

What was the name of the Catholic Cardinal who was a chief adviser to Louis XIII?

• Mazarin

• Robespierre

• Jacobin

• Richelieu

What couple came to power as a result of the Glorious Revolution in England?

• Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

• William & Mary

• Romeo & Juliet

• Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

What writer of the Enlightenment argued that education would give women the tools they needed to succeed?

• Hobbes

• Wollstonecraft

• Montesquieu

• Locke

What writer of the Enlightenment argued that people must be tightly controlled or society will be in chaos. He wrote Leviathan.

• Wollstonecraft

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Locke