West Civ - Semester 1
Exploring the Foundations of Western Civilization
Test your knowledge of Western civilization with our comprehensive quiz! Covering key figures, events, and concepts from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, this quiz will challenge your understanding and let you learn more about our shared history.
Featuring:
- 29 Questions
- Multiple Choice, Drop List, and Text Responses
- Engaging content for history enthusiasts
Nicolaus Copernicus...
Believed in freedom of speech
Made the heliocentric theory
Invented the seed drill
Was a figure in the French Revolution
Thomas Jefferson...
Was the second US president
Fought in the French Revolution
Invented a cure to malaria
Wrote the US Declaration of Independence
Jacobins
A group who ruled during the Reign of Terror in France
The family name of the Austrian monarchy
Protesters of the Industrial Revolution
What the Europeans called African Natives
(Hugo) De Grotius
Wrote many basics for international law
Protested for the rights of the 3rd estate
Studied criminology
Introduced crop rotation
Popular sovereignty is...
Another way of saying "White man's burden"
Rule by the consent of the people
The fifth amendment to the US constitution
Not unpopular sovereignty
The Restoration was...
The return of monarchy to England after Oliver Cromwell
When Napoleon escaped and once again ruled over France
When Nigeria gained independence from Great Britain
When the Americans began to draft the Constitution
A set of laws established under the rule of Napoleon was called..
Napoleon's Laws
The Laws of Napoleon
The Napoleonic Code
Magna Carta
The Bill of Rights was...
A document of all the amendments to the US constitution
A document stating all of the rights of the US citizen
The first ten amendments to the US constitution
The first ten amendments to the French constitution
The time in French history led by Maximilien Robespierre is called..
The French Revolution
The industrial revolution
Absolute rule
The reign of terror
The enclosure movement...
Was when landowners put fences around their land
Was when land that had previously been communal became private
Resulted in farmers being forced off of the land
All of the above
The growing of different crops to avoid exhausting the soil
A share in the ownership of a company, most of the time to then sell off for a higher price
The economic concept that the more there is of something, the less it costs and vice versa.
A system of ethics determining whether something was right or not based on how useful it was.
Women who protested for the right to vote
To stop buying something as a form of protest
Marie Curie
1) A suffragette
2) The first woman to win a Nobel Prize
3) Discovered two elements
1 & 2
2&3
John Kay...
Invented the spinning jenny
Invented the flying shuttle
Was an enlightenment thinker who believed in freedom of speech, press, and religion
Was an enlightenment thinker who published over 30 books on natural rights
George Stevenson
Invented the steam engine
Created railroads
Discovered germs & highlighted the importance of soap
Discovered the element, Americium
A book stating the argument that government should not interfere in economic affairs was called ____(1)____ and was written by ____(2)____
(1) The communist manifesto
(1) The wealth of nations
(1) Laissez Faire
(2) Karl Marx
(2) John Adam
(2) Adam Smith
The Boers were....
Dutch settlers in the Dutch East Indes
Dutch colonisers in South Africa
The general name given to the Dutch working class by other EU powers
All of the above
A Scottish missionary who traveled deep into africa to promote Christianity
Military genius, expeditionary sent by the Ottomans to govern Egypt
Ruled Hawaii where she tweaked the constitution to increase her power. - later overthrown
French Indochina
French colony established in China
French colony established in Vietnam
French colony established in Thailand
French colony in "The New World" (Now known as Canada)
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