WORLD HISTORY FINAL EXAM

Which prompted European exploration during the Age of Discovery?

• search for a land route to China

• Muslim invasion of Spain

• the “mad scramble” for Africa

• intellectual curiosity

Which best describes the Columbian Exchange?

• the development of trade routes between the New World and European nations

• the division of the New World between Spain and Portugal

• the influx of colonists who arrived in the New World from Europe

• the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World

Which was not a cause of the Protestant Reformation?

• sale of indulgences

• worldliness and greed among church officials

• Council of Trent

• corruption in the church

Which characteristic of English government originated during the Glorious Revolution?

• constitutional monarchy

• Parliament

• the Commonwealth

• republican rule

Which was not an accomplishment of Galileo Galilei?

• creating a powerful telescope

• writing the Principia Mathematica

• confirming that the earth revolves around the sun

• discovering moons orbiting Jupiter

Which was a lasting impact of the U.S. Constitution?

• It established the world’s first republican government.

• It proclaimed the United States as a country independent from Great Britain.

• It established a written plan for government reflecting the will of the people.

• It promised freedom and equality to all people in the new United States.

Which characteristic allowed the Industrial Revolution to begin in England?

• numerous rivers

• large population of landowners

• long life expectancy

• mostly urban population

Which describes a human cost of industrialization?

• weakened democracy

• increased religious discrimination

• increased child labor

• growth of the slave trade

Which best describes an accomplishment of the woman suffrage movement?

• Women were admitted to universities in Europe by 1890.

• Women gained equal pay for equal work with men.

• Women gained the right to vote in Western nations.

• Women gained the right to join the military in most Western nations.

Which was not used to justify European imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

• the philosophy of Karl Marx

• social Darwinism

• a belief in European superiority

• a new wave of nationalism