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04/23/2007
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Why did Stone Age people practice slash-and- burn agriculture?
 Definition
to claer land for farming
Term
which development most enabled aerly peoples to form permanent settlements
 Definition
advances in agrucultural production
Term
Hammurabi’s Code of ancient Mesopotamian society was important because it
 Definition
listed the laws and the corresponding punishments
Term
The art and architecture of ancient Egypt were designed to emphasize the
 Definition
religous idea of eternal life
Term
It is visible from great distances. It is a
reminder to all who see it of the wealth
and power of the leader of the people who
built it and of his glory and greatness as a
god here on the Earth.


The speaker in the passage above is referring to th
 Definition
egyptian pharaoh and his pryamid
Term
Cuneiform and hieroglyphics were important achievements in the development of
 Definition
written language
Term
Jewish scripture says that God’s laws were
delivered to the ancient Hebrews by
 Definition
moses
Term
Greece’s mountainous terrain and its series of small islands influenced the ancient Greeks to
develop
 Definition
a political system based on independent city-states
Term
The legacy of ancient Greek myths and epics, such as the Iliad, continues to provide
people with
 Definition
heroic figures and great adventures
Term
atlas — a collection of maps
herculean — very powerful
labyrinth — a maze
olympian — majestic, honored


All of these words used in the English language
today originated in myths of the
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greeks
Term
How did the rise to power and reign of Alexander most affect Greece?
 Definition
he anded the power of the city-states and establised a unified nation
Term
How did the rise to power and reign of Alexander most affect Greece?
 Definition
he endedthe power of the city-states and established a unified nation
Term
The Chinese people turned to the teachings of Confucius because his ideas were thought to
help
 Definition
restor order in china
Term
What was the main contribution of Emperor Shi Huangdi to China?
 Definition
he unified most of china under one government
Term
The origins of checks and balances in the U.S. political system can be traced to the
 Definition
roman republic
Term
The wars with Carthage (264–146 B.C.) gave the Roman Empire control of
 Definition
noth africa
Term
Which shows the importance the Mongols placed on improving trade contacts with other
civilizations?
 Definition
the establishment of caravan routes
Term
Which of these describes how paper was introduced into medieval Europe?
 Definition
the chinese introduced it to the arabs, who passed it to europeans
Term
How did the location of cities in the West African empires of Ghana and Mali influence
their growth?
 Definition
thier loction on major trade routes allowed them to proper economically
Term
How did the location of cities in the West African empires of Ghana and Mali influence
their growth?
 Definition
thier loction on major trade routes allowed them to proper economically
Term
Endurance, cunning, physical strength, and courage were the ideal characteristics of
 Definition
japanese samuri
Term
Endurance, cunning, physical strength, and courage were the ideal characteristics of
 Definition
japanese samuri
Term
In medieval Europe, law and order were maintained by the
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nobility
Term
During medieval times, which of these groups was legally tied to the land?
 Definition
serfs
Term
During the medieval period in Europe, the political power of the kings and great nobles
was often constrained by the actions of
 Definition
highchurh officals
Term
How did the Crusades affect the economies of Central and Western Europe?
 Definition
cloth and spices brougth back by crusaders led to greater interest in trade
Term
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations each developed
 Definition
complex architectural structures
Term
The stories from Marco Polo’s travels encouraged Europeans to
 Definition
journy to asia in search of wealth
Term
Which of these is not a characteristic of Renaissance painting?
 Definition
subject matter limited to christian themes
Term
�� Artist, architect, mathematician
���� Studied anatomy to draw more
realistic human figures
�� Painted a mural depicting the last
meeting of Jesus and his disciples
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da vinci
Term
�� Artist, architect, mathematician
���� Studied anatomy to draw more
realistic human figures
�� Painted a mural depicting the last
meeting of Jesus and his disciples
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 Definition
da vinci
Term
The poems and plays of which person are representative of the English Renaissance?
 Definition
william shakes speare
Term
England became a Protestant country during the Reformation when its
 Definition
king declared himself head of the church of england
Term
What was the Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834)?
 Definition
the religious court established to find and punish heretics
Term
The findings of Galileo and Newton were significant because, from their time on,
scientific thought was based upon
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observation andexperimentation
Term
The systematic collection and articulation of natural laws, such as gravity and motion, was
done by
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isaac newton
Term
The “Triangle Trade” and “Columbian Exchange” are terms used to describe the
movement of goods between Western Europe,
West Africa, and
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the americas
Term
Ideas of John Locke
• Rulers receive the right to govern
from the people.
• Unjust rulers can be forced from
power.
Based on the quotation above, which form of
government would John Locke most oppose?
 Definition
dictatorship
Term
What were both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights designed to do?
 Definition
limted the power of the monarch
Term
The Great Awakening of the mid-1700s affected the British colonies by
 Definition
encouraging greater religious enthusiasm
Term
The Great Awakening of the mid-1700s affected the British colonies by
 Definition
encouraging greater religious enthusiasm
Term
One goal of the Declaration of Independence was to
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wxplian why the colonies felt the need to be free from british rule
Term
In designing the legislative branch, the writers of the Constitution mainly based their ideas
on the
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english parliament
Term
Use the excerpt to answer the following question.



The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the states, are reserved to the
states respectively, or to the people.
—Tenth Amendment to
the U.S. Co
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balance between national amd state governmemt power
Term
Which of these Founders favored a strong national government and a loose interpretation
of the United States Constitution?
 Definition
alaxander hamilton
Term
Which of these parts of the United States Constitution contains fundamental liberties of
American citizens?
 Definition
amendments 1-10-bill of rights
Term
Which of these groups most likely supported the political ideas and policies of Alexander
Hamilton?
 Definition
business owners
Term
Which of the following acquisitions secured control of North America’s longest river, added
substantially to the Native American, Spanish,
and French populations of the country, and
essentially doubled the size of the United States?
 Definition
louisiana purchase
Term
In his Farewell Address, George Washington urged the American people to
 Definition
value and maintain a sense of national unity
Term
Conflict with Mexico became highly likely following the granting of statehood to
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texas
Term
What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
 Definition
to prevent european expansion in the americas
Term
Which statement best describes the location of factories in New England during the early
1800s?
 Definition
they were located next to rivers
Term
During the 1800s, the movement of large numbers of immigrants from many different
countries into large American cities resulted in
the rapid growth of
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ethnic neighborhoods.
Term
What agricultural invention, designed to increase production, had the effect of
increasing the number of slaves needed for
labor in the Deep South?
 Definition
the cotton gin
Term
The slave-based agricultural system in the South encouraged the development of
 Definition
a rigid social class system.
Term
The slave-based agricultural system in the South encouraged the development of
 Definition
a rigid social class system.
Term
Prior to the Civil War, which group had the most political power in the South?
 Definition
plantation owners
Term
Go west, young man, and grow up with
the country.
—Horace Greeley
Hints Toward Reform


Greeley’s quotation is associated with which
of these?
 Definition
manifest destany
Term
By the mid-1800s, California was being settled mostly by people in search of
 Definition
wealth from the discovery of gold.
Term
Texas has been absorbed into the Union
in the inevitable fulfillment of the general
law which is rolling our population
westward.
—Democratic Review, 1845


The quotation above describes the
nineteenth-century American belief in
 Definition
Manifest Destiny.
Term
The Indian Removal Act (1830) relocated thousands of Cherokees from Georgia to Indian
Territory for the purpose of
 Definition
making the land available for white miners
and farmers.
Term
While the American colonies were fighting a revolution against England and forming a new
nation, New Spain was establishing new
settlements in California using what type of
system?
 Definition
mission
Term
Who was the most important leader of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
 Definition
Harriet Tubman
Term
The main goal of abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison was to
 Definition
end slavery immediately
Term
What led the newspapers to speak of “Bleeding Kansas” in 1856?
 Definition
fighting between pro slavery and anti slavery forces
Term
States’ rights played a major role in all of the following except the
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monroe doctrine
Term
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is similar to the Declaration of Independence in
that both documents
 Definition
support the ideals of self-government and
human rights.
Term
What was the first major goal of President Abraham Lincoln’s administration?
 Definition
to maintain the unity of the country
Term
What is one reason that the Union strategy for defeating the South included a naval blockade
of Southern ports?
 Definition
to prevent southern efforts to sell cotton in europe in exchange for war supplies
Term
One goal of post–Civil War Congressional Reconstruction was to
 Definition
ensure civil rights for former slaves
Term
During Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau
 Definition
established schools for former slaves
Term
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States were intended
to solve problems relating to
 Definition
cuvil fights
Term
Attention Workingmen!
MASS-MEETING TO-NIGHT, at 7:30 o’clock,
AT THE
HAYMARKET, Randolph St. Bet Desplaines and Halsted.
Good Speakers will be present to denounce the latest atrocious act
of the police shooting of our fellow workmen yesterday afterno
 Definition
labor strife
Term
A large percentage of the immigrants who came to the United States during the late 19th and
early 20th centuries settled in large cities
because
 Definition
the growing industries were usually located in cities
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