Unit 5 Study Guide
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Ch. 19
1. The Line of Demarcation and Treaty of Tordesillas established a boundary between which two regions?
2. What are daimyos?
3. What Chinese Muslim admiral led seven voyages of exploration during the Ming Dynasty?
4. What did Vasco da Gama do that was so important for Portugal?
5. What European country was the first contact with Japan and brought firearm technology to the Japanese?
6. What factors helped spur European exploration? Name at least 2 factors.
7. What is haiku?
Ch. 20
8. As part of the Columbian Exchange, which of the following was carried east across the Atlantic to Europe?
9. Name at least three major impacts on Europe and the Americas due to the Columbian Exchange.
10. What did the encomienda system provide for New Spain?
11. What is a geographically extensive group of states and and peoples?
12. What is the term for Spanish explorers that took over land that once was held by indigenous people?
13. What is the theory that a nation’s power depended mainly on its wealth?
14. What was a result of the loss of native lives to disease to the European economic system in the Americas?
15. What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s?
16. Who conquered the Aztec empire?
17. Who was Atahualpa?
18. Who were the conquistadors?
Ch. 17
19. How did Italy’s location help it become the birthplace of the Renaissance?
20. The technique known as perspective is most useful in the creation of what?
21. What does Utopia mean?
22. What is an indulgence?
23. What was one of John Calvin’s major teachings?
24. What was the first full-sized book Gutenberg printed?
25. What was the religious and political impact of the Reformation?
26. What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?
27. What ways did Leonardo da Vinci represent the Renaissance Man?
28. What were some important effects of the invention of the printing press?
29. What were two ways the Renaissance changed European society?
30. Who declared himself the head of the English Church?
31. Who was the important Catholic Reformer who founded the Jesuit order?
Ch. 21
32. Compare the reign of Louis XIV and Peter the Great. Which ruler had a more lasting impact on his country? Explain.
33. Ivan IV was the first Russian king to take this title.
34. King James II was overthrown in a bloodless Revolution called the what?
35. The Thirty Years War was between what two religions in Germany?
36. What city was built that gave Russia the “window on the sea”, however caused as many as 100,000 peasant deaths to complete it?
37. What is absolutism and divine right?
38. What is the legal concept of habeas corpus?
39. What Spanish king inherited the throne from his father and was aggressive ruler who defended Catholicism?
40. What was the Edict of Nantes?
41. What was the name of the famous palace Louis XIV built during the reign that almost bankrupted the country?
42. What was the nickname of King Louis XIV?
43. Who was the Prussian King that expanded the country’s borders, but also enjoyed the arts and treated his people fairly?
44. Why was Peter the Great such a great reformer?