world civ I Final exam – Flashcards
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Who was the victor at the Battle of Hastings?
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William of Normandy
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What was one of the root sources of Florentine prosperity?
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Florentine merchants' position as tax collectors for the papacy
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In what way was the Moche civilization similar to the Aztec?
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Both the Moche and the Aztec sacrificed prisoners of war
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In History of the World in 100 objects, you were asked to consider the Maya Relief of Royal Blood-letting. The relief showed a woman pulling a rope full of thorns through her tongue. This represented?
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A scene of the king and his wife in a devotional partnership, performing an important ceremony
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After the Olmecs, subsequent Mesoamerican peoples adapted a ballgame, which uses a mixture of sport and what else?
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Ritual
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Which nation won the Hundred Years' war, thanks in part to the efforts of Joan of Arc?
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France
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Where was the Largest Mayan religious and ceremonial center located?
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Tikal
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Why did the wealthy sponsor artists during the Renaissance?
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As a means of glorifying themselves and their families
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In Resources, Document 14-7, Thomas Aquinas argues the existence of God. His conclusion, arrived at in typical scholastic fashion,
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is that God exists and he used logic and reason to provide explanations for beliefs usually accepted on faith alone
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Who had the most advanced economy in the world before the eighteenth century?
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China
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How did the Inca link their empire together?
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They had an advanced system of roads that held the empire together
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What did the encomienda system, established by the Spanish Crown, allow Spaniards to do?
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Exact tribute and forced labor from the native people on a particular piece of land
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An important addition to the maritime revolution was...
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Learning to speedily return by sailing northwest to ride westerly winds
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The monarch that epitomized the Age of Absolutism was...
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Louis XIV
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Even before the discoveries of Columbus, Europeans participated in the world economy through what merchants?
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Venetian
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The Spanish "piece of eight' (refer to History of the World) or peso de ocho reales was...
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The world's first truly global money
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What crusade succeeded in capturing Jerusalem?
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First Crusade
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The Battle of Agincourt
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Was a lopsided English victory, saw the successful use of the English Longbow against armored knights, and destroyed the flower of French nobility
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Shakespeare's Othello reflects sixteenth-century uncertainty about which of the following
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Racial relations and religion
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What happened to Charlemagne's empire after his death?
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It was divided among grandsons and was weakened by internal power struggles
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what is the primary principle of the Magna Carta?
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That all Englishmen, even the king and the government, must obey the law
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What city dominated Europe's trade with Asia?
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Venice
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Which of the following fostered artistic growth in the Renaissance?
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The patronage of wealthy merchants and prelates
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In Resources, Document # 14-3, Nicetas Choniates is horrified at the sacking of Constantinople during the 4th Crusade. His Recounting of the terrors inflicted on the city included all of the following except
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were acting just as the Muslims did when they captured Christian (or Latin) cities
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Which of the following was one of the central Ideals of the Italian Renaissance?
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Recognition of individual achievement
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The Hebrew Astrolabe (see History of the world in 100 Objects) can help us do all of the following except
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Know when the next solar eclipse would take place
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In the Sixteenth century, there was a huge increase in the use of enslaved Africans in Brazil in order to produce what crop?
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Sugar
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The Aztec success in conquering Mexico can be attributed primarily to which of the following?
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The strong state religion and view of war as a religious duty
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How far west did Zheng He explore in the fifteenth century?
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Egypt
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Seventeenth-century Dutch Trade was based on which of the following commodities?
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Spices
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By the time it subsided, the Black Death that started in 1348 had killed
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30-50% western Europeans
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What happened to the last Arab-held territory in Western Europe in 1492?
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It was captured by the Spanish
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Who was the first European explorer to realize that Columbus had discovered an unknown Continent?
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Amerigo Vespucci
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What was the Demesne?
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The lord's portion of the land
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Who did Medieval people blame for causing the Black Death?
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Jews
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Where did Venetian and Genoese merchants originally purchase slaves?
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The Balkans
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How was Henry II of England able to claim lordship over Aquitaine?
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He married a wealthy heiress, Eleanor
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In the twelfth century, England developed, and came to be governed by, what law?
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Common
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The Albigensian Inquisition was against what group?
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the Cathars
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What was the central food crop in the high altitude of the Andes?
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Potatoes
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Plague doctors wore bird like masks to...
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Protect themselves from the plague
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What are Clovis points?
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Stone spear tips
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What have increasing numbers of archeologists concluded about the earliest migrants to the Americas?
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That the first peoples traveled by both foot and boat
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Anglo-Saxon kings unified England in order to deal with which of the following problems?
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Viking invasions
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What helped end serfdom in Europe?
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The Black Death
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The Black Death
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Was spread by Yersinis Pestis... Rats
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The Treaty of Verdun resulted in
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The division of the holy Roman Empire among Charlemagne's grandsons
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The Lewis Chessmen (refer to the History of the World) tell us a great deal about
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The structure and power relations in medieval society
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The danse macabre was an art form that flourished in the late 14th century and reflected
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the impermanency of life
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William and Mary ascended the English throne after promising to
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Agree to a Bill of Rights
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With the spread of new ideas at the beginning of the Renaissance, how did the wealthy begin to view life?
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As an opportunity for enjoyment and not just a painful pilgrimage to heaven
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What happened when Christopher Columbus returned to the island of Hispaniola for a second time?
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He forcibly enslaved the indigenous people and subjected them to forced labor
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The Domesday Book was
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A survey designed to establish a tax base for the monarchy
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The man who was Lord Protector of England (and never King) was
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Oliver Cromwell
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What is the purpose of flying buttresses on Gothic cathedrals?
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They supported the weight of the roof and the walls
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the Paracas textiles (refer to History of the World) were found on the Paracas peninsula south of Lima, Peru. We believe they were used
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for the clothing of mummies
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Louis XIV's influential court was at
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Verailles
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Joan of Arc
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Led the French to victory in a decisive battle during the 100 Years War
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What event occurred in the Byzantine Empire in the late fifteenth century that limited Europe's access to spices from the East?
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Ottoman armies conquered Constantinople and took control of trade routes to the East
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Martin Luther's "Ninety-five theses on the power of Indulgences" was a response to which of the following?
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The local Archbishop's promotion of the sale of indulgences
