World History AP Test Flashcards

9092192515	At the End of the English Civil War, the monarch was executed and replaced by...	Oliver Cromwell	0
9092199899	The scientist who asserts that mathematical laws governed the univers was...	Issac Newton	1
9092216750	Early Portuguese explorations focused on Africa, however, the eventual explicit goal of Portuguese explorers was to...	Find passage to India	2
9092237548	John Calvin denied human faith could merit salvation, instead, he preached that salvation has granted by God to those...	Who are predestined	3
9092250376	Cortes had which advantages in conquering	All of the above; firearms and horses, the Aztecs had only recently established their empire at the expense of other tribes; smallpox	4
9092271094	The empires of Mali in West Africa and of Delhi in South Asia both utilized	Islamic administration	5
9092335244	The largest and most powerful Andean empire before the Europenas arrived was the...	Inka (Inca)	6
9092348448	One of the most important developments of the Catholic Church in response to the Protestant Reformation was when Ignatius of Loyola founded the ...	Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)	7
9092372614	Christopher Columbus was a Ganoese mariner employed by...	Spain	8
9092380001	The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought about what in England?	A constitution and a bill of rights	9
9092386815	What was the overarching significance of the Versailles palace?	The gigantic palace symbolized the French monarch's triumph of the rights of the nobility	10
9092407481	The business practice of selling shares to individuals to raise money for trading enterprises and to share the risk and profits was termed...	Joint stock company	11
9092416334	What new crops helped the rural poor of Europe avoid starvation?	Potatoes and corn	12
9092484010	The English Reformation led by Henry VIII differed from what Martin Luther had started because the king...	All of these( and more); Wanted an annulment from his Catholic wife, seized the land of monasteries and churches to give to his supporters, challenged the pops authority in England	13
9092520925	Martin Luther insisted that the only way to salvation was through...	Religious faith	14
9092525845	Columbus insisted that he had reached...	The Indian Ocean	15
9092546481	Early 16th century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru were the...	Conquistadors	16
9092557003	What was the primary form of administrative record-keeping in the Inka Empire?	khipus	17
9092607265	By 1450, daring mariners had explored many regions of the world, but none had traversed the entire expanse of...	All of the Above; The Pacific Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, The Indian Ocean, The North Sea	18
9092625002	The movement that began with Martin Luther's denunciation of indulgences and led to the rejection of the pope's authority was the...	Protestant Reformation	19
9092636301	The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 divided the New World between...	Spain and Portugal	20
9092646573	The Holy Roman Empire was ruled by Charles V, a member of this dynasty, during the Counter Reformation...	Habsburgs	21
9092658109	Why did the peoples of the New World lack immunity to the diseases of the Europeans?	Their long isolation from other countries	22
9092669785	The scientific Revolution demonstrated that the workings of the universe could be explained by applying which of the following?	All of the Above; Experimentation, Careful observation, Mathematical calculations, Rational inquiry	23
9092692209	The second leg of the Atlantic Circuit, transporting slaves across the Atlantic to plantation colonies, was known as	The Middle passage	24
9092706146	The most significant challenge posed by early modern astronomers was that of the heliocentric universe, first argued by...	Nicholas Copernicus	25
9092714235	Th most profitable and strongest colonization by Europe was in ...	The Americas	26
9092719628	To promote his ideas, Luther used...	The printing press	27