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WorksheetsAdvanced World History Semester Exam One Review
Total questions: 87
Worksheet time: 44mins
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the birth of the Renaissance in Italy?
A. a wealthy and powerful merchant class
B. the Protestant Reformation
C. Italy’s location on the Mediterranean
D. a renewed interest in their own Roman past
_____ was the intellectual movement that focused on worldly subjects.
A. Perspective
B. Absolutism
C. Humanism
D. Predestination
Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social ideal because he
A. was a politician, and politicians were considered the pinnacle of human achievement.
B. came from a wealthy family and greatly improved his family’s status in society.
C. wrote grand romantic poetry and insightful political treatises.
D. was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician.
Whose publication of the Ninety-five Theses led to the start of the Protestant Reformation?
A. Martin Luther
B. Ulrich Zwingli
C. John Calvin
D. Desiderius Erasmus
What belief (put forth by Calvin but not agreed to by Luther) advocated that God had determined in advance who would be saved?
A. absolutism
B. predestination
C. Christian humanism
D. secularism
Name the set of principles that dominated economic theory in the seventeenth century.
A. gravity
B. nationalism
C. mercantilism
D. feudalism
What was the initial reason European rulers encouraged overseas exploration?
A. They wanted to find new trade routes.
B. They wanted to conquer new lands.
C. They wanted to spread Islam.
D. They wanted to test new navigational tools.
Which explorer’s ships are credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world?
A. Sir Francis Drake
B. Ferdinand Magellan
C. John Cabot
D. Vasco da Gama
Founded in 1607, (a) was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What colony did English Puritans establish in the New England region of America in the 1600s?
A. Maryland
B. Virginia
C. South Carolina
D. Massachusetts Bay Colony
What vast global exchange included people, plants, technologies, and cultures?
A. American Exchange
B. Brazilian Exchange
C. Columbian Exchange
D. Danubian Exchange
What term described the pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, & the Americas?
A. absolutism
B. bureaucratic trade
C. triangular trade
D. enlightened absolutism
What term meant the idea that kings receive their authority to rule from God?
enlightened absolutism
Christian humanism
predestination
divine right of kings
The foundation for constitutional monarchy in England was laid by the
Toleration Act of 1489.
English Bill of Rights.
English Civil War.
Rump Parliament.
Which of the following was NOT one of the natural rights of humans according to John Locke?
life
liberty
property
pursuit of happiness
Nicholas Copernicus’ heliocentric theory stated that
one law could explain all motion in the universe.
the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.
Galileo’s theory of universal movement was incorrect.
the earth was the center of the universe.
Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation
was denounced by the Anglican Church as the work of the Devil.
refuted Galileo Galilei’s theory of universal movement.
was laughed at by Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus.
showed how one law could explain all motion in the universe.
The 18th century philosophical movement by intellectuals who were impressed with the achievements of the Scientific Revolution was called the
Enlightenment.
Reformation.
Renaissance.
Great Awakening.
Which philosopher put forth the idea of a governmental system of checks and balances?
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Baron de Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes
What did the Second Continental Congress approve, officially breaking ties between the American colonies and Great Britain?
Articles of Confederation
Olive Branch Petition
Great Charter
Declaration of Independence
The first national constitution of the United States of America was the
Articles of Confederation.
Bill of Rights.
Constitution of the United States.
Declaration of Independence.
What created a federal system in which power would be shared between the national and state governments in the United States?
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Constitution of the United States
Magna Carta
The three branches of the national government as defined by the U.S. Constitution are the
judicial, executive, and legislative.
Senate, House of Representatives, and Supreme Court.
president, Supreme Court, and judiciary.
executive, Senate, and Constitutional Convention.
What are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution called?
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Constitution of the United States
Declaration of Independence
Which English philosopher had the greatest impact on the development of the founding documents of the United States of America (Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights)?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adam Smith
The High Renaissance in Italy is associated with which three artists?
Raphael, Donatello, and Filippo Brunelleschi
Leonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck, and Albrecht Durer
Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo
Masaccio, Donatello, and Filippo Brunelleschi
Who invented the printing press in Europe in the mid-1400s?
Martin Luther
Johannes Gutenberg
Henry VIII
Leonardo da Vinci
What was the first Protestant faith?
Calvinism
Zoroastrianism
Christian humanism
Lutheranism
The Peace of Augsburg formally
made Martin Luther the patron saint of the Holy Roman Empire.
accepted the division of Christianity in Germany.
established the doctrine of Lutheranism.
ended the war between France and Morocco.
How did Henry VIII react when the Pope refused to annul his marriage?
He started a war.
He took over the English church.
He started the Reformation.
He fined the Roman Catholic Church.
Who went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, when in fact he had actually discovered the Americas?
Amerigo Vespucci
John Cabot
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
After whom are the American continents named?
Amerigo Vespucci
John Cabot
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Which Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztecs in present-day Mexico?
Amerigo Vespucci
Francisco Pizarro
Hernan Cortes
Hernando de Soto
Which Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca in present-day Peru?
Amerigo Vespucci
Hernan Cortes
Hernando de Soto
Francisco Pizarro
Which of the following resulted from encounters between the Spanish and Native Americans?
Spanish treasures flowed into the Americas.
The Native American population declined.
Native Americans defeated Spanish conquerors.
Spanish explorers treated Native Americans with respect.
Originally, African slaves were brought to the Americas to supply labor for the
molasses industry.
rubber plantations.
sugarcane plantations.
tobacco fields.
The journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas was known as the
Middle Passage.
Triangular Passage.
Central Passage.
Atlantic Passage.
The Thirty Years’ War involved all the major European powers EXCEPT
France.
Spain.
England.
Germany.
Which of the following resulted from the Thirty Years’ War?
German states were united.
The Hapsburgs gained power.
France lost territory to Spain and Germany.
France emerged as the dominant nation in Europe.
What officially ended the Thirty Years’ War in Germany in 1648?
Peace of Augsburg
Peace of Constantinople
Peace of Bohemia
Peace of Westphalia
The Stuart kings’ claims to absolute power were challenged by
the Tudors.
the Cavaliers.
Parliament.
the Church of England.
The Civil War in England was a conflict between the
Catholics and Puritans.
Cavaliers and Roundheads.
Catholics and Anglicans.
peasants and nobles.
What was the Glorious Revolution?
the agricultural revolution that improved food supplies in England
the battle between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers for control of England
the establishment of Protestantism as the English state religion
the invasion of England by William of Orange which overthrew James II
Louis XIV maintained complete authority as monarch by
executing the previous monarch’s entire family.
maintaining a network of spies to find conspirators against him.
distracting the nobles and royal princes with court life, to keep them out of politics.
bestowing lavish riches on any serf who supported his right to rule.
During the 1700s, which of the following countries battled for control of the German states?
Prussia and Austria
the Netherlands and England
Britain and France
Spain and Russia
Peter the Great wanted to
westernize, or Europeanize, Russia.
reduce the size of the army.
remove European influences.
share power with his nobles.
The work of William Shakespeare is perhaps the best example of _____ literature.
Gothic
Elizabethan
baroque
Mannerist
Thomas Hobbes claimed that any ungoverned society made human life
communal, rich, pleasant, civil, and long.
solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
freer.
more religious.
John Locke argued that before society was organized
humans had natural rights.
humans had no rights.
humans did not need rights.
humans did not want rights.
Locke’s arguments were used in the eighteenth century to
support demands for constitutional government.
support demands for absolutism.
restore papal influence.
justify slavery.
The scientific method was all of the following EXCEPT
a systematic procedure.
based on collecting and analyzing evidence.
reliant on the use of ancient authorities.
crucial to the evolution of science.
Who was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe?
Ptolemy
Nicholas Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Martin Luther
In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith gave all of the following roles to government EXCEPT
protection (the army).
defense (the police).
religion (the church).
public works.
John Locke’s ideas regarding knowledge suggest that people were
born either good or evil.
inherently self-centered.
naturally inclined to be stupid.
molded by their experiences.
In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of a social contract,
an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.
punishments are not exercises in brutality, and capital punishment is discarded.
the government should not interfere in economic matters.
women should be granted rights nearly equal to those of men.
Montesquieu’s ideas were used in
religious reform.
the United States Constitution.
Ptolemy’s geocentric model.
the theories of Copernicus.
Who composed The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni?
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frederick Handel
Who was the composer of the Messiah?
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frederick Handel
Which of the following was NOT an enlightened absolute monarch during the Age of Reason?
Alexander I
Joseph II
Catherine the Great
Frederick the Great
Who served as commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution?
John Adams
Balthasar Neumann
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 granted the Americans control of
the western territory from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River.
the eastern seaboard from Canada to Florida.
the entire continent of North America.
little beyond the land that made up the thirteen original colonies.
Match the definitions in Column I with the terms in Column II. Aristocratic privileges
nationalism
factions
coup d’etat
relics of feudalism
electors
Match the definitions in Column I with the terms in Column II. Individuals qualified to vote
nationalism
factions
coup d’etat
relics of feudalism
electors
Match the definitions in Column I with the terms in Column II. Dissenting groups
nationalism
factions
coup d’etat
relics of feudalism
electors
Match the definitions in Column I with the terms in Column II. Unique cultural identity of a people
nationalism
factions
coup d’etat
relics of feudalism
electors
Sudden overthrow of a government
nationalism
factions
coup d’etat
relics of feudalism
electors
The majority of people in France in the late 1700s belonged to which social group?
the bourgeoisie
the First Estate
the Second Estate
the Third Estate
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed
equal rights for all citizens, including equal political rights for women.
an end to the monarchy and the abolishing of a National Assembly.
equal rights for all men, but no political rights for women.
an end to the National police force.
The French National Assembly’s Constitution of 1791
set up a limited monarchy.
gave all men a vote.
abolished the monarchy.
satisfied the priests and lower classes.
The Committee of Public Safety was originally set up to
eliminate the king.
guard Marie Antoinette.
oppose the sans-culottes.
defend France against foreign enemies.
The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute
Austrian prisoners.
the sans-culottes.
enemies of the republic.
Robespierre’s followers.
Who was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety?
Maximilien Robespierre
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean Valjean
Victor Hugo
What machine was invented by a French medical doctor and used to execute thousands of people during the Reign of Terror?
the electric chair
the guillotine
the terminator
the decapitator
Which French general overthrew the Directory, established the consulate, and eventually became emperor of the French?
Maximilien Robespierre
Ferdinand Foch
Napoleon Bonaparte
Georges Danton
The most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was
the Religious Code.
the Food Code.
the Merchant Code.
the Civil Code.
The three major parts of Napoleon’s Grand Empire were
the First Estate, the Second Estate, and the Third Estate.
France, Morocco, and Algeria.
the French Empire, the dependent states, and the allied states.
Austria, Prussia, and Serbia.
Promotion within Napoleon’s government and military was based on
ability.
birth.
bribery.
rank.
Napoleon’s Continental System was designed to
defeat Prussia.
conquer Protestantism.
unify Italy.
stop British trade with Europe.
What were the two major reasons that Napoleon’s Grand Empire collapsed?
Napoleon’s greed and laziness within bureaucracy
the survival of Great Britain and the force of nationalism
the resentment of the clergy and the plotting of the accountants
France’s weak economy and the drain of Napoleon’s many wars
Napoleon’s final defeat came in June 1815 at
Leipzig.
Waterloo.
Paris.
Elba.
Which of the following would NOT be considered a part of Napoleon’s legacy for Europe?
equality before the law
freedom of religion
remnants of feudalism destroyed
spread of absolute monarchy
_____ was the intellectual movement that focused on worldly subjects.
A. Perspective
B. Absolutism
C. Humanism
D. Predestination
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the birth of the Renaissance in Italy?
A. a wealthy and powerful merchant class
B. the Protestant Reformation
C. Italy’s location on the Mediterranean
D. a renewed interest in their own Roman past
Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social ideal because he
A. was a politician, and politicians were considered the pinnacle of human achievement.
B. came from a wealthy family and greatly improved his family’s status in society.
C. wrote grand romantic poetry and insightful political treatises.
D. was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician.
What belief (put forth by Calvin but not agreed to by Luther) advocated that God had determined in advance who would be saved?
A. absolutism
B. predestination
C. Christian humanism
D. secularism
Whose publication of the Ninety-five Theses led to the start of the Protestant Reformation?
A. Martin Luther
B. Ulrich Zwingli
C. John Calvin
D. Desiderius Erasmus
Name the set of principles that dominated economic theory in the seventeenth century.
A. gravity
B. nationalism
C. mercantilism
D. feudalism
