World History Exam 1 Questions With
Verified Answers
John Knox - Correct Answer - Presbyterian that introduced Calvinism to Scotland
John Locke - Correct Answer - Social Contract Theory, Inspired French Revolution; Life
Liberty And Property
Voltaire - Correct Answer - Author of Candide; Defender of Religious Toleration
Westphalia - Correct Answer - The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in
1648 and splits the Holy Roman Empire
Scholar Officials/Literati - Correct Answer - Confucian scholar bureaucrats of China-
Goes through exams that covers Confucianism
Marathas (Deccan Plateau) - Correct Answer - Warrior groups from India that
established Hindavi; Swarajya; Central Hindu Force
Thomas Hobbes - Correct Answer - Author of Leviathan; The Government Required
The Consent Of The Governed; Social Contract
Galileo Galilei - Correct Answer - Italian astronomer that discovered the Earth's
revolution around the sun; Uses The Telescope; Suspected of Heresy; Father Of
Modern Physics
Angela Merici - Correct Answer - Italian Religious Educator; Helped Sick, Handicapped
Via Company Of Saint Ursula that educated girls
Dream Of the Red Chamber - Correct Answer - Novel written by Cao Xueqin,
considered to be China's most distinguished novel; Qing Dynasty
Aurangzeb - Correct Answer - Mughal Emperor that controlled almost the whole country
of India; Intolerant of Hinduism
Nuclear Family - Correct Answer - A couple and their dependent children, regarded as a
basic social unit.
Isaac Newton - Correct Answer - English mathematician and scientist who invented
differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about
the nature of light, and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation, presented in
Principia Mathematica (1687), was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple.
, Pedro Cabral - Correct Answer - Claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500. He had intended
to follow Da Gama but was blown off course.
Henry The Navigator - Correct Answer - This Portuguese prince who lead an extensive
effort to promote seafaring expertise in the 14th century. Sent many expedition to the
coast of West Africa in the 15th century, leading Portugal to discover a route around
Africa, ultimately to India.
Hideyoshi - Correct Answer - A unifier of Japan, fights China over Korea- replaced by
Tokugawa
Foreign Devils - Correct Answer - The nickname the Chinese gave to foreigners from
western developed countries, such as in Portugal
Vespucci - Correct Answer - This was the man who first said that the Americas were
completely separate from Asia, thus the continent was named after him
Boers - Correct Answer - White Dutch farmers in South Africa; Afrikaners
Copernicus - Correct Answer - Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the
center, and not Earth.
Zheng He - Correct Answer - Chinese admiral during the Ming Dynasty, he led great
voyages that spread China's fame throughout Asia
Treaty of Tordesillas - Correct Answer - A 1494 agreement between Portugal and
Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the
Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line
would belong to Portugal.
Bourgeoisie - Correct Answer - The middle class, including merchants, industrialists,
and professional people
Daimyo - Correct Answer - A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of
samurai
Robert Clive - Correct Answer - British commander who defeated the French in India;
Battle Of Plassey
Johannes Kepler - Correct Answer - Assistant to Brahe; used Brahe's data to prove that
the earth moved in an elliptical, not circular, orbit; Wrote 3 laws of planetary motion
based on mechanical relationships and accurately predicted movements of planets in a
sun-centered universe; Demolished old systems of Aristotle and Ptolemy
Mandarins - Correct Answer - In China, Powerful Confucian Scholar Bureaucrats
Verified Answers
John Knox - Correct Answer - Presbyterian that introduced Calvinism to Scotland
John Locke - Correct Answer - Social Contract Theory, Inspired French Revolution; Life
Liberty And Property
Voltaire - Correct Answer - Author of Candide; Defender of Religious Toleration
Westphalia - Correct Answer - The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in
1648 and splits the Holy Roman Empire
Scholar Officials/Literati - Correct Answer - Confucian scholar bureaucrats of China-
Goes through exams that covers Confucianism
Marathas (Deccan Plateau) - Correct Answer - Warrior groups from India that
established Hindavi; Swarajya; Central Hindu Force
Thomas Hobbes - Correct Answer - Author of Leviathan; The Government Required
The Consent Of The Governed; Social Contract
Galileo Galilei - Correct Answer - Italian astronomer that discovered the Earth's
revolution around the sun; Uses The Telescope; Suspected of Heresy; Father Of
Modern Physics
Angela Merici - Correct Answer - Italian Religious Educator; Helped Sick, Handicapped
Via Company Of Saint Ursula that educated girls
Dream Of the Red Chamber - Correct Answer - Novel written by Cao Xueqin,
considered to be China's most distinguished novel; Qing Dynasty
Aurangzeb - Correct Answer - Mughal Emperor that controlled almost the whole country
of India; Intolerant of Hinduism
Nuclear Family - Correct Answer - A couple and their dependent children, regarded as a
basic social unit.
Isaac Newton - Correct Answer - English mathematician and scientist who invented
differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about
the nature of light, and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation, presented in
Principia Mathematica (1687), was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple.
, Pedro Cabral - Correct Answer - Claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500. He had intended
to follow Da Gama but was blown off course.
Henry The Navigator - Correct Answer - This Portuguese prince who lead an extensive
effort to promote seafaring expertise in the 14th century. Sent many expedition to the
coast of West Africa in the 15th century, leading Portugal to discover a route around
Africa, ultimately to India.
Hideyoshi - Correct Answer - A unifier of Japan, fights China over Korea- replaced by
Tokugawa
Foreign Devils - Correct Answer - The nickname the Chinese gave to foreigners from
western developed countries, such as in Portugal
Vespucci - Correct Answer - This was the man who first said that the Americas were
completely separate from Asia, thus the continent was named after him
Boers - Correct Answer - White Dutch farmers in South Africa; Afrikaners
Copernicus - Correct Answer - Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the
center, and not Earth.
Zheng He - Correct Answer - Chinese admiral during the Ming Dynasty, he led great
voyages that spread China's fame throughout Asia
Treaty of Tordesillas - Correct Answer - A 1494 agreement between Portugal and
Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the
Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line
would belong to Portugal.
Bourgeoisie - Correct Answer - The middle class, including merchants, industrialists,
and professional people
Daimyo - Correct Answer - A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of
samurai
Robert Clive - Correct Answer - British commander who defeated the French in India;
Battle Of Plassey
Johannes Kepler - Correct Answer - Assistant to Brahe; used Brahe's data to prove that
the earth moved in an elliptical, not circular, orbit; Wrote 3 laws of planetary motion
based on mechanical relationships and accurately predicted movements of planets in a
sun-centered universe; Demolished old systems of Aristotle and Ptolemy
Mandarins - Correct Answer - In China, Powerful Confucian Scholar Bureaucrats
