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This 50-card flashcard set covers major world history topics spanning the Renaissance through the early 1700s. It includes questions on European rulers like Charles, Elizabeth I, and Louis XIV; colonial explorers including Christopher Columbus and Henry Hudson; and Asian leaders such as Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, and the Mughal emperors. Use it for quiz-bowl preparation, history exams, or semester review.
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- How many kings did Charles have in his family?
- Did the pope agree to crown Charles "Holy Roman Emperor"?
- Which country was Christopher Columbus looking for when he sailed west from Europe ?
- Who was living in South America?
- In addition to the land he inherited from Charles, Philip also inherited a problem. What was it ?
- Several of William's subjects sent a petition to Philip's court .What did the petition ask?
- When Mary ,Queen of Scots, was very young , who ruled in her place ?
- How long was Mary a prisoner?
- When Elizabeth died, what 2 countries did James rule?
- For what accomplishment is James most famous?
- On what date did the ships arrive in North America?
- Who married Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas?
- Whom did Henry IV hire to find the Northwest Passage for France?
- What was the city the Champlain found on his third trip to New France?
- Henry Hudson wanted to find a path to Which country?
- What name was given to the large body of water Hudson discovered?
- What large country did Hideyoshi plan to add to his empire ?
- What did the Koreans Navy use to fight against the Japanese?
- When hideyoshi died , to whom did he leave his power?
- What city did Ieyasu make the capital of Japan? What do we call it today?
- What did John Rolfe plant in Virginia?
- At first, whom did the tobacco farmers hire to work in their fields ?
- who was Nzinga?
- When the Portuguese leader tried to make Nzinga sit on the floor for their meeting , what did Nzinga do?
- When the Ottoman empire grew weaker ,which great and cruel ruler rescued it ?
- How did Murad keep rebels from forming new plans?
- What religion did most of the Japanese people belong to?
- Which nation was allowed to send one ship per year to Japan?
- Were the Han Chinese pleased with the Ming emperor?
- what name did the Manchu call themselves to show that they were batter then their Han (southern) subjects?
- What nickname was emperor Jahangir given?
- What do we call the beautiful mausoleum that Shah Jahan built?
- How many years did Aurangzeb rule?
- What was the name of the new city that the English built?
- During the civil war, what was the nicknames given to the two sides?
- What title did Parliament give to Cromwell?
- What animals did the people of London killing order to stop the plague? What animal was really to blame?
- Nine months after the plague, there was a great fire in London. how did it get started?
- How old was Louis XIV when he became king of France?
- What was the name of the enormous palace that Louis ordered to be built?
- In the years after the Thirty Years War , how many little states was Germany divided into?
- What was "the first Reich"?
- How did Galileo's observation about the sky disagree with ideas of Aristotle and Ptolemy?
- what do we sometimes call the period when the ideas of Newton, Locke and others became popular in Europe?
- What machine, invented by farmer Jethro Tull, helped farmers get more of their seeds to sprout?
- Scientific farming produced a new king of "revolution." What is this revolution called?
- In medieval times, did Russia seem more Eastern or Western?
- What western idea did Peter not want his people to find out about?
- what was the nineteen-year-old king of Sweden ,Charles XII ,like?
- How did Peter catch the illness that led to his death?
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