Midterm Review

What Reformation person believed in SALVATION BY FAITH ALONE What Reformation person believed in SALVATION BY FAITH ALONE? Who believed in PREDESTINATION? Luther, Calvin

2. What was the key FIRST development which led to civilizations developing? How did river valleys directly aid in this development? Agriculture, irrigation/soil

3. What do you call the Indian social structure 3. What do you call the Indian social structure? What religion influenced its development? Caste system, Hinduism

4. What civilization first experimented with democracy? Athens, Greece

5. What was the first written legal code. What was Rome’s called 5. What was the first written legal code? What was Rome’s called? What was Rome’s update called? Hamurrabi’s Code, 12 Tables, Justinian Code

6. What country had a LIMITED MONARCHY system 6. What country had a LIMITED MONARCHY system? What document established it? England, Magna Carta

7. What was the single unifying institution for western Europe during the middle ages? Roman Catholic Church

8. Both knights and samurai had ethical codes—what were they called? Code of Chivalry and Bushido

9. Who wrote THE PRINCE? Machiavelli

10. What was the #1 reason slaves were imported into the New World? Sugar plantations

11. What about the Conquistadors most influenced the new world population? Disease

12. What economic concept drove the drive toward new world exploration and colonization? Mercantalism

13. What country spearheaded the Counter Reformation 13. What country spearheaded the Counter Reformation? What tool did they use? Spain, the Inquisition

14. Which Enlightenment thinker most influenced the American Revolution? Where do you see elements of his influence? John Locke, TJ Declaration of Independence

15. What is Copernicus most known for? Heliocentric Universe

16. Which Enlightenment thinker argued for the need for checks and balances in a 3 branch system? de Montesqieu

17. Which Enlightenment thinker argued for a SOCIAL CONTRACT as a basis for government? Rousseau

18. First invented by the Chinese, then re-imaged in Europe in the 1640s, what invention most contributed to the concepts of simultaneous history we have studied? Who? Gutenburg’s Printing Press

19. We are going to Mars. In order to spread the risk, what should we form? Joint stock company

20. When religion and government overlap, what is the government called? Who argued that they should be separated? Theocracy, Voltaire