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302746427Which Portuguese navigator who opened sea routes between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean and discovered Cape of Good Hope?Bartholomew Dias.0
302746428Which Spanish explorer and military commander who conquered the Aztec Empire?Hernan Cortez.1
302746429Define mercantilism.The economic theory that equates wealth to power, that the world has a fixed amount of wealth, and that to increase wealth meant to gain precious metals.2
302746430Name one of the two epidemics brought by Europeans which plagued the Native Americans.Influenza, smallpox.3
302746431Which was the smaller branch of Islam after Muhammad's death?The Shi'a.4
302746432Which English playwright and author wrote such classics as 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth?'William Shakespeare.5
302746433What was the name of the offspring of a Native American and a Spaniard?Mestizo.6
302746434What Turkish group was located in the middle of Eurasian trade?The Ottomans.7
302746435Which German monarch practiced enlightened absolutism, or religious tolerance?Frederick the Great.8
302746436Where did the most infamous Inquisition take place?Spain.9
302746437What intensely obvious name was given to the counter-reformation against Protestantism?The Catholic Reformation.10
302746438Which three Italian city-states jumpstarted the Italian Renaissance?Milan, Venice, and and Florence.11
302746439Who was exiled by the Diet of Worms?Martin Luther.12
302746440What religious group was granted tolerance by the Edict of Nantes?French Huguenots.13
302746441What was the Middle Passage?The triangular trade agreement between England, the New World, and Africa to provide slaves, raw materials, and processed goods.14
302746442What were the four G's of exploration?God, gold, gain, and glory.15
302746443Which Portuguese explorer was also a viceroy?Vasco da Gama.16
302746444What was the name of the period between 1450-1750, which was highly prosperous in the fields of exploration, discovery, and wealth?The Age of Exploration.17
302746445What does a cartographer make?Maps.18
302746446Which Chinese explorer and naval admiral conducted voyages in Asia, Africa and the Middle East?Zheng He.19
302746447What is Jacques Cartier known for?The settlement of Canada, claimed for today's France.20
302746448What did the English, Dutch, and French hope would lead them to India?The Middle Passage.21
302746449Define commercialization.The introduction of a new product of service into the active market.22
302746450What three groups participated in Triangular Trade?England, the New World, and Africa.23
302746451What disease wiped out most of 16th century Central America?Measles.24
302746452What is a crop that provides most of a plantations profit?A cash crop (eg, tobacco.)25
302746453Which larger Muslim sect believed that the next leader of Islam should be elected from Muhammad's friends and family?The Sunni.26
302746454What were the Reformations?The movements of either the Protestants or the Catholic Church to cleanse the morals of the clergy.27
302746455What sweep of culture was a rebirth and recovery from the information lost during the Middle Ages?The (Northern/Italian) Renaissance.28
302746456What was the encomienda system?The enforced labour of Native Americans by the Spanish colonies.29
302746457What was the language/culture group of the Caribbean islands settled by the French?Creole.30
302746458What was a leader of the Indian kingdoms?The Zamindar.31
302746459What ethnic group spread across India between the 16th and the 18th centuries?The Mughals.32
302746460How much control does and absolutist monarchy have?Total, complete, etc.33
302746461Which longest-reigning French sovereign revoked the tolerance granted by the Edict of Nantes?Louis XIV.34
302746462Which English king split from the church so that he could divorce his wives?Henry VIII.35
302746463What daughter of Henry VII ruled England without a husband?Elizabeth I.36
302746464Who owned Versailles Palace?Louis XIV.37
302746465What was the purpose of the Council of Trent?To reestablish the goals and beliefs of the Catholic Church.38
302746466Who founded Humanism?Erasmus.39
302746467Where was the Thirty Years' War fought, and who were the combatants?In Germany; Catholics and Protestants.40
302746468Name one of Leonardo daVinci's works.The Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, etc.41
302746469What procession ultimately excommunicated Martin Luther?The Diet of Worms.42
302746470What was the name given to French Protestants?Huguenots.43
302746471What cardinal unified France?Cardinal Richelieu.44
302746472What Hussite was burned at the stake for treason?Jan Huss.45
302746473What was a form of organized agriculture which utilized slave labour and often consisted of multiple farms and a small town?Plantation farming.46
302746474Define 'balance of trade.'The difference between the monetary value of a country's exports and imports over a period of time.47

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