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Honors World History Midterm Review

Your midterm will be given in four sections: multiple-choice (50 items), matching (25 items), mini DBQ (2 documents), and reading skills (1 reading with questions). Each section will be timed, you will receive 40 minutes for the multiple-choice items, 15 minutes for the matching section, and 30 minutes for both the mini DBQ and reading portions. The exam will include content on the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Exploration, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Absolutism, and the French Revolution. In addition to this review sheet, you should study all of your notes, handouts, worksheets, readings, etc. to prepare for this exam. Middle Ages

• Feudal system • Importance of religion • Lifeless artwork • Black Death/Plague

Renaissance • “Rebirth” • Hostility to Dark Ages • Fascination with ancient world • Individualism • Italian city-states • Art techniques

o Perspective o Geometry o Fresco o Anatomical

• Artists and artwork o Donatello o da Vinci o Rafael o Michelangelo

• Patrons o Medici family

• Machiavelli and Castiglione • Humanism • Secular

Protestant Reformation

• Martin Luther o 95 Theses o Diet of Worms o Indulgences

• John Calvin o Predestination

• Henry VIII and Elizabeth I o Annulment v. divorce o Anglican Church/Church of England o Act of Supremacy

• Influence of the printing press

Exploration • New technology

o Astrolabe o Sextant o Magnetic compass o Caravel

• European geography o Locate and identify major countries exploring the world o Label 7 continents o Label major bodies of water

• Motivations to explore (God, gold and glory) • Major explorers and supporting countries (Columbus, Magellan, da Gama, etc.) • Triangle trade

o Atlantic slave trade o Middle passage o Columbian Exchange

Scientific Revolution • Scientific method • Geocentric and heliocentric theories • Major scientists

o Copernicus o Galileo o Newton o Descartes o Bacon

• Important discoveries o Calculus o Gravity o Light v. color o Astronomy o Alchemy

Enlightenment

• Characteristics of Enlightenment thought • Major philosophers

o Hobbes o Locke o Montesquieu o Voltaire o Rousseau

• Revolutionary concepts o Freedom of speech o Self-government o Democracy o Checks and balances o Deism (rational religion)

• Influence on United States of America

Absolutism • Divine right

o Despots • Constitutional monarchy • Military dictatorship • Basic chronology by country • Tudors and Stuarts • English Civil War

o Parliament o Oliver Cromwell

• Restoration and Glorious Revolution o English Bill of Rights o Magna Carta

• Czars/Tsars of Russia o Ivan IV (Terrible) o Peter I (Great) and St. Petersburg o Catherine II (Great)

French Revolution • House of Bourbon • Henry of Navarre

o St. Bartholomew massacre o Edict of Nantes o Huguenots

• Louis XIV o Sun King o Versailles

• Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette • Estates-General and social classes • Revolutionary governments (all four) • Storming of the Bastille • Tennis Court Oath • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen • Reign of Terror

o Robespierre o Guillotine o Jacobins

• Napoleon