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WorksheetsREVIEW: World History Final Exam
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which statement BEST describes an artistic impact of the Italian Renaissance?
The use of religious themes in art diminished drastically.
Art moved away from realism and toward mystery.
Art became more stylized to appeal to wealthy patron families.
The use of perspective allowed more accuracy.
What radical new perspective did Copernicus' find about the universe?
a geocentric perspective
a heliocentric perspective
hypothetical perspective
a lunar perspective
How did France’s social divisions in the late 1700s contribute to the French Revolution?
All of the estates in French society believed the government should be changed.
Members of the First Estate believed those in the Second Estate should have greater rights and privileges.
Members of the Second Estate demanded significant social and financial refor
Members of the Third Estate were dissatisfied with social and economic inequality.
How did France’s radical revolutionaries try to protect the revolution?
by writing a new constitution
by compromising with the monarchy
by dealing harshly with enemies of the revolution
by seeking peace with neighboring countries
My did Columbus reach the Caribbean islands rather than the East Indies?
He did not know that he had sailed far off course until he landed near present-day Argentina.
He greatly underestimated the size of Earth and did not realize that North and South America existed.
He was unaware that Earth was a sphere and so did not pursue his plan of sailing west.
He ran out of food and water and landed too soon.
The control of most trade between Asia and Europe in the 1400s by Arab and Italian merchants caused
disruption in trade of luxury goods brought overland to Europe.
Europeans outside Italy to search for direct access to Asia.
Renaissance curiosity to spark a major religious revival in Europe.
Europeans outside Italy to seek direct access to North Africa
Why were the results of Columbus’s first meeting with Native Americans in the West Indies important?
It had a sudden, short-term effect on European expansion.
It had a serious, far-reaching impact on Native Americans.
It had a major but gradual effect on Portuguese colonization.
It had an unexpected, long-lasting impact on trade with Africa.
How were the Aztec and Inca empires impacted by Spanish conquistadors an European colonization?
Conquistadors made peace with the empires, and then Europeans set up colonies.
The Aztec and Inca empires shrank and survived only into the 1700s.
Conquistadors destroyed the empires, and then Europeans built new settlements.
The Aztec and Inca resisted and expelled both conquistadors and European settlers.
What was one main reason why the slave trade greatly expanded beginning around the 1500s
Africans gave up trying to resist capture by European slave traders.
Europeans started depending on enslaved people for labor in new colonies.
Europeans needed more enslaved people to manage the arrival of new colonial goods.
Arab merchants expanded the slave trade into South and East Asia.
Why was there such a high death rate during the Middle Passage?
Africans were branded and separated from their families.
Africans died of diseases and mistreatment.
Many ships were sunk by pirates and privateers.
The captains of slave ships were poor navigators.
What was an effect of the movement of foods like corn and potatoes from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere?
Foods from the Americas contributed to population growth around the world.
Foods from the Americas contributed to a rise in food prices around the world.
Foods from Europe did not grow well in the Old World and famine resulted.
Foods from the Americas never became widely grown in Africa.
According to mercantilists, what was the purpose of colonies?
to export manufactured goods to parent countries
to import luxuries from parent countries at discounted prices
to provide inexpensive resources and raw materials to parent countries
to reduce competition and tariff
Complete the sentence with the best answer: "L'État, c'est moi." ("The state, it is me.")—Louis XIV.
This quote expresses a belief in
enlightened monarchy
divine right
popular sovereignty
limited monarchy
Among the causes contributing to the new imperialism in the 1800s, an early cause was the
rapid growth of new trade networks linking Asia and Africa.
desire of colonies to expand their global markets.
need for industrial nations to gain raw materials
formation of military alliances between European nations and outside powers.
How did the Scientific Revolution lead to the Enlightenment?
It revived the scientific thinking of ancient Greece and Rome.
It undermined the authority of the Church.
It encouraged people to use reason to solve problems.
It proved the existence of natural rights.
What was one of Britain’s primary contributions to industrialism?
Britain developed new farming practices that led to the second Agricultural Revolution.
The British government freely exported new technology, allowing industrialization to spread
British inventors developed new machines for the textile industry that led to the factory system.
British entrepreneurs invested in manufacturing and transportation all over Europe.
Industrialization spread because
Britain shared the new technology in order to gain new trading partners.
other nations wanted to have the same economic opportunities that Britain enjoyed.
Parliament relaxed Britain’s monopoly on industrial technology.
Britain had to trade its technology for labor and natural resources.
What was one long-term benefit of the Industrial Revolution?
Factory work allowed women to earn as much money as men.
Over time, poverty was eliminated in industrialized nations.
Governments took greater control over the economy.
In industrial countries, the overall standard of living improved.
How did conditions in Spanish America conflict with the ideals of the Enlightenment?
Creoles did not enjoy equality with peninsulares.
The economy was based on plantation agriculture.
The American Revolution served as a source of inspiration.
Spanish America was divided politically
What aspect of the French Revolution inspired creole leaders like Simón Bolívar?
the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity
the structure of the French social system
the importance of nationalism
the ability of the French to fight off foreign rule
