HONORS World History Semester Review Sheet
Know the following items and terms and you will do well on the Semester TEST! 160 questions on tes, all are multiple choice, the test on Tuesday will have 110 question,s and the test on Wednesday will have 50 questions.
What is Polytheistic?
What is Monotheistic
What is a Tribute?
Who were the Incas?
What civilization was in the Andes Mountains in South America?
What civilization grew up on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and created an accurate calendar?
What civilization was in the Valley of Mexico was a warrior tribe and their capital in now Mexico City?
Who conquered the Aztecs?
Know at least one Aztec Word.
What native group built cities on cliffs and built pueblos?
What is a Kiva?
Who was Charlemagne?
What is a Fief?
What is a Guild?
What is, and who practiced Chivalry?
Who was chosen by God to be the father of many nations in Judaism?
What is the eight day festival in Judaism celebrated by lighting a menorah?
What is a religious leader in Judaism called?
What Religion is the Torah the holy book of?
What is a Jewish house of worship called?
Who is the ONE GOD of Hinduism?
What is the religious leader in Hinduism called?
What is KARMA in the Hindu faith?
When a Hindu is reborn into another body what is it called?
What is the earliest Hindu text called?
What is death by hanging on a cross called?
What are the first 4 books of the New Testament called?
Jesus was considered the WHAT in Christianity [or savior]?
What is rising from the dead called?
What are the holy scriptures of Christianity?
What is a shrine or place of worship in Buddhism?
What is the founder of Buddhism known as? What was his real name?
What is DHARMA in Buddhism and Hinduism?
What is the name of GOD in Islam?
What are the followers of Islam called?
What are the holy scriptures of Islam?
What are the duties of Islam’s followers called?
What is a Jihad?
Who is the prophet of Islam?
What does the term Secular mean?
What was the Medieval form of government- Kings/Knights/Serfs & Service?
A lesser Lord that owed loyalty to someone above them was called a:
What were peasants called during the Middle Ages?
What did a Knight wear under his plate armor?
What was the BLACK DEATH?
What were the Holy Wars called when Europe tried to regain the Holy Land?
What is the common everyday language called?
What was a CZAR?
Who is a Griot?
Who was the King of Mali in Africa that converted to Islam?
What is a person that supports the arts called?
What is the study of classical culture, that focused on worldly subjects called?
Who was the leader of Florence, Italy that was a patron that helped start the Renaissance?
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Who sculpted “David”?
Albrect Durer specialized in what type of art?
Who wrote “THE PRINCE”?
Who wrote about a Utopia?
What did Johann Gutenberg invent?
Who was the greatest playwright of the Renaissance?
What was an INDULGENCE?
What Monk started the Protestant Reformation?
That Monk believed in Salvation by ______alone.
What is a THEOCRACY?
What person set up a Theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland and believed in Predestination?
What King in England created the Church of England, and had 6 wives?
What is to ANNUL something?
Who became King at age 10 after Henry VIII’s death?
What happens if you are CANNONIZED?
Who was BLOODY MARY?
Who was the VIRGIN QUEEN in ENGLAND, daughter of King Henry VIII, and probably the most successful of all English Monarchs?
What was the Council called to begin the Catholic Reformation?
What was the INQUISITION?
Who was TERESA of AVILA?
What is someone called that is blamed for problems?
What were Jews placed in, in cities?
What was the HELIOCENTRIC theory?
Who invented the astronomical telescope?
What is the SCIENTIFIC Method?
What did DESCARTES say that became famous?
What force did Newton discover?
Some of the first chemists were ALCHEMISTS that tried to turn metal to what?
What is a CARTOGRAPHER?
Sailors got a disease that was called ______and was from a lack of vitamin C.
The King and Queen of Spain got WHO to try to find a western route to the Indies?
What was the LINE OF DEMARCATION?
What is CIRCUMNAVIGATE?
What is MATRILINEAL?
Field that rice grows in are called WHAT?
Most Asian Countries ______trade and contact with European Explorers and Traders.
What is an OUTPOST?
What were Indian troops called that fought for the British and French?
What is an ABSOLUTE MONARCH?
What is DIVINE RIGHT?
What was the time from 1550-1650 called in Spain?
What was the Greatest Navy on Earth Called from Spain?
Who was the French King known as the SUN KING that ruled France for 72 years?
What was the family name of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I of England?
What is it called when a monarch rules only with the authority of a constitution or approval of the
people?
What did Peter the Great want to do in Russia, he wanted to ______it or make in more like
Western Europe.
What was the EDICT OF NANTES?
What is HABEAS CORPUS?
What was the war that lasted from 1756-1763 called, it was actually the first world war?
What were the land owning nobles in Russia called?
What was the TRIANGULAR TRADE?
What was the MIDDLE PASSAGE?
What was a BOER?
What was the COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE?
What was a TARIFF?
What was a MONOPOLY?
Who wrote the MESSIAH a baroque masterpiece?
Joseph II was an ______because he used Enlightenment ideas to bring change to Austria.
Life, Liberty, and Property are examples of:
Robert Walpole was the first British [England’s], or political leader?
Francois-Marie Arouet was a philosophe better known as:
What philosophe believed people were basically good?
What English King dissolved cabinet and made colonists pay for wars?
What is BAROQUE?
What is CENSORSHIP?
When people give up their natural state to be governed it is called?
A ______is a handful of advisors to a leader.
What is LASSEZ FAIRE?
What person wrote Leviathan, believed in Social Contract, but once governed it is absolute?
Who came up with the idea of 3 branches of government?
Who believed in Social Contract, but thought you could break it, and that it should not be absolute?
What is the title for the political leader of England?
What is DEFICIT SPENDING?
What is SUFFRAGE?
A ______is a ballot for a leader with only a YES or a NO, in support of their reign.
If you give up a throne you are said to ______it.
Who was Napoleon’s FIRST wife?
Who was Napoleon’s SECOND wife, who bore him a son?
Who was the Austrian Prince that led the Congress of Vienna?
Who were the Bourgeoisie?
What was an ÉMIGRÉ?
What is a feeling of pride in one’s country called?
What is a BLOCKADE?
Who was the King of France that was beheaded during the Revolution?
Who was the Queen of France that was beheaded during the Revolution?
Who proclaimed himself Emperor of France after the Revolution?
Who was the leader of the Reign of Terror, beheaded thousands, and was eventually beheaded himself?
What was the device used to carry out almost all the beheadings during the French Revolution?
What was the palace that Louis XVI built, that was the home to French Monarchs, and has been the site of numerous treaties?
What is the TRI COLOR?
What is ANNEX?
What type of warfare is it when you use hit and run tactics?
______is the National Anthem of France.
What is a PARISIAN?
What is a FACTION?
What CODE gave France such things as the idea of equality?
What did the Russian’s carry out as they retreated from Napoleon’s Army?
What is LEGITIMACY?
What was the BASTILLE?
What was the COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY?
Napoleon’s final defeat came at the Battle of ______.
The Congress of ______was held to redraw the map of Europe and set up a Balance of Power.
What does CIRCA mean?