World History Final Exam Review (SPRING)

Spanish conquistador who arrived in Peru in 1532, defeated the Incas, and conquered much of South America for Spain

• Moctezuma

• Francisco Pizarro

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortes

• Atahualpa

The second leg of triangular trade in which slaves were transported to the Americas

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Second Passage

• Middle Passage

A Russian tsar who took control of government in 1689 and used his power to modernize Russia

• Peter the Great

• Frederick II

• Catherine the Great

• Maria Theresa

• Louis XIV

Several acts of Parliament that limited the power of the monarchy and restated the rights of English citizens

• Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• English Constitution

Personal, elegant style of art and architecture made popular during the mid-1700s

• Baroque

• El Greco

• Rococo

• Humanist

English thinker who, with Descartes, rejected the assumptions of Aristotle; stressed experimentation and observation

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Francis Bacon

• Galileo

• Isaac Newton

Principal author of the Declaration of Independence

• Rene Descartes

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

A form of economic warfare that closed European ports to British goods; the foreign policy in which Europe adopted Napoleon's reforms

• Scorched-earth policy

• Reign of Terror

• Continental System

• Communism

• Socialism

German philosopher who, with Frederick Engels, published the Communist Manifesto predicting class struggle

• Napoleon

• Louis XVI

• Robespierre

• Karl Marx

• Eli Whitney

Leader of the Committee of Public Safety; chief architect of the Reign of Terror

• Napoleon

• Louis XVI

• Robespierre

• Marie Antoinette

• Eli Whitney