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Renaissance to Revolution

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What causes labor shortages in 14th Century Europe?

a)

French Revolution

b)

Crusades

c)

Bubonic Plague

d)

Columbian Exchange

2.

Which Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire?

a)

Cortez

b)

de Soto

c)

Magellan

d)

Pizarro

3.

During which time period were the artist styles of light, shadow, perspective to create the human form introduced?

a)

Enlightenment

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Age of Power

d)

Renaissance

4.

How did the Aztec Empire built a powerful empire?

a)

Alliance with Cortez

b)

Conquering other tribes

c)

Controlling gold and silver

d)

Human sacrifice

5.

What was the Inca economy based on?

a)

cattle

b)

conquest of other tribes

c)

farming

d)

fishing

6.

Who increase warfare because of the need for human sacrifice victims?

a)

Aztec

b)

Inca

c)

Mayan

d)

Olmec

7.

Which technology most aided European exploration?

a)

printing pass

b)

coal steam engine

c)

magnetic compass

d)

metal ships

8.

Which of the following was a cause of the enslavement of Africans during the Age of Exploration?

a)

Warfare

b)

Demand for agricultural labor

c)

Protestant Reformation

d)

Renaissance teachings

9.

What was the exchange of plants, people, and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa in the 16th Century?

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

Exploration

c)

Renaissance

d)

Reformation

10.

Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach the Indian coast.

a)

Cortez

b)

da Gama

c)

de Soto

d)

Magellan

e)

Pizarro

11.

First Spanish explorer to sail around the world.

a)

Cortez

b)

da Gama

c)

de Soto

d)

Magellan

e)

Pizarro

12.

First European explorer to travel the Mississippi River?

a)

Cortez

b)

da Gama

c)

de Soto

d)

Magellan

e)

Pizarro

13.

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs.

a)

Cortez

b)

da Gama

c)

de Soto

d)

Magellan

e)

Pizarro

14.

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas.

a)

Cortez

b)

da Gama

c)

de Soto

d)

Magellan

e)

Pizarro

15.

A system in which slaves, manufactured goods, and raw materials were exchanged between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

a)

The Navigation Acts

b)

Triangular Trade

c)

The Middle Passage

d)

Mercantilism

16.

What is the Middle Passage?

a)

Water Route Through North America

b)

European slave trade with India

c)

the journey enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

17.
What was one result of the Columbian Exchange
a)
Native American Indian populations continued to increase
b)
The African slave trade ended
c)
Diseases were spread to native populations
d)
Spain's empire in the New World declined
18.

What ideas did the Renaissance humanist stress?

a)

Divine right power of the monarchy

b)

Faith of the Catholic Church

c)

Money and getting rich

d)

music, art, literature

19.

The Renaissance saw a rebirth of humanism including a focus on

a)

Faith and God

b)

Islamic writings

c)

Mongol conquests

d)

Classical Greece & Rome

20.

What is the term for native languages?

a)

Foreign

b)

common

c)

Latin

d)

vernacular

21.

The art of which time period stressed use of light, shadow and perspective?

a)

Enlightenment

b)

Scientific Revolution

c)

Renaissance

d)

Reformation

22.

What are the certificates that would forgive sins, which is a corruption of the Catholic Church?

a)

Predestination

b)

Reincarnation

c)

Indulgences

d)

Four Noble Truths

23.

What was the significance of the printing press?

a)

the production of written work was slower, therefore written works were not available to everyone.

b)

there is no significance

c)

the production of written work was faster, however not everyone was able to read.

d)

the production of written work was faster, therefore written works were available to everyone.

24.

What was the purpose of Council of Trent?

a)

Stop the sale of Lutheran Bibles

b)

Break away from the Orthodox church

c)

End corruption in the Catholic Church

d)

Decide if John Calvin was a heretic

25.

The religious order that was formed during the Counter-Reformation to help strengthen the Catholic Church was called what?

a)
Huguenots
b)
Jesuits
c)
Protestants
d)
Anglicans
26.

Which Scientific Revolution figure wrote the universal gravitation laws and laws of motion?

a)

Nicolaus Copernicus

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

William Harvey

d)

Isaac Newton

27.

Which Scientific Revolution figure finds went against Church teaching and authority?

a)

Copernicus

b)

Galilei

c)

Harvey

d)

Newton

28.

Who Westernize Russia and centralized its government?

a)

Peter the Great

b)

Catherine the Great

c)

Louis XIV

d)

Louis XVI

29.

What was the theory of divine right most often used to justify?

a)

Absolutism

b)

Enlightenment

c)

Reformation

d)

Revolution

30.
What Model is where the sun is the center of the universe?
a)
Geocentric
b)
Heliocentric
c)
Earth's rotations
d)
Earth's planets
31.

Which two Enlightenment thinkers wrote about natural rights and separate of powers?

a)

Locke and Montesquieu

b)

Voltaire and Rousseau

c)

Bacon and Donatello

d)

Wollstonecraft and Rousseau

32.

Which council was meant to strengthened the Papacy, end Catholic Church abuses, and the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation?

a)

The Council of Nicaea

b)

The Council of Trent

c)

The First Vatican Council

d)

The Council of Constance

33.

Who based their writings on the idea that liberty and equality are natural human rights?

a)

Renaissance Artists

b)

Protestant Reformers

c)

Conquistadors

d)

Enlightenment Thinkers

34.

What did Enlightenment thinkers believe could solve social and political problems?

a)

Faith & the church

b)

ancient teachings

c)

Logic & reason

d)

Science alone

35.

Which Enlightenment thinkers defined natural rights as: Life, Liberty and pursuit of happiness

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Baron de Montesquieu

d)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

36.

What defeated Napoleon in Russia?

a)

Short supply lines

b)

Russian winter

c)

Russian army

d)

Spanish guerrilla warfare

37.

Napoleon did much while in power. Which is NOT one of his accomplishments?

a)

Setting up public schools

b)

Brining peace to Europe

c)

Napoleonic Code

d)

Hiring officals based on merit

38.

Which was a reason for the French Revolution?

a)

Surplus crops and unemployment

b)

Power of the nobles over the church

c)

Catholic Church's teaching

d)

draining the treasury to finance costly wars

39.

Locke claimed all men had a right to "life, liberty and property." What Enlightenment theory does this claim support?

a)

Social Contract

b)

Separation of Powers

c)

Freedom of Speech

d)

Due Process

40.

Why is the American Revolution called the embodiment of the Enlightenment?

a)

It eliminated social classes

b)

Secured the right to overthrow governments

c)

Proved oppression causes revolution

d)

Was built on the use of reason and created a most just government

41.

What was the first successful slave rebellion in Latin America?

a)

Nat Turner's Rebellion

b)

Haitian Revolution

c)

American Revolution

d)

San Martin's Rebellion

42.

Select all documents that influenced the U.S. Constitution?

a)

French Declaration of the Rights of Men

b)

English Bill of Rights

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Petition of Rights