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World History

Leaders

Question: Jose de Martin was a military officer who liberated...
Answer: part of Spanish-speaking South America

Question: The Independence movement in Mexico was started by whom?
Answer: Padre Miguel Hidalgo

Question: In the 1860s, the expansion of Prussia was achieved under the leadership of...
Answer: Otto von Bismarck

Question: Camillo di Cavour expanded Piedmont-Sardinia's power and also
Answer: Unified Italy

Question: Who was the leader of the Red Shirts?
Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi 

War!

Question: Who attacked who to begin the Franco-Prussian War?
Answer: France attacked Prussia 

Question: How did Admiral Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: He divided the French fleet and attacked smaller groups of ships

Question: What strategy did Czar Alexander I use to defeat Napoleon in Russia?
Answer: Scorched-earth policy 

Question: What happened to Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: He was mortally wounded by a sniper towards the end of the battle. (He died)

Question: Why did Napoleon attack Portugal?
Answer: To enforce the Continental System

All Things French...and Napoleon, of course

Question: Salons helped to spread...
Answer: Enlightened thinking

Question: About what percent of the French population was in the Third Estate?
Answer: 98%

Question: What was the time between Napoleon's exiles called?
Answer: The Hundred Days

Question: What was Napoleon's personal emblem?
Answer: The honey bee

Question: What was the slogan of the French Revolution?
Answer: Liberty, Equality, and Brotherhood (fraternity) 

A Movement in the Arts

Question: The Romantics idealized the past, particularly the...
Answer: Middle Ages

Question: What does the Erl-king represent?
Answer: DEATH!

Question: Which artistic style accurately depicts the oppressive working conditions and hard times of the poor? 
Answer: The Realist

Question: What was a main characteristic of impressionism?
Answer: Positive view of the lives of the middle class

Question: One of romanticism's first composers was...
Answer: Ludwig von Beethoven

Could be ANYTHING!

Question: Who was the ancient physician who developed the idea of the four humors of the body?
Answer: Galen

Question: What does Plebiscite mean?
Answer: A vote of the people

Question: What did the American colonists protest as "taxation without representation"?
Answer: Stamp Act

Question: The American Revolution was influenced by British taxes, political scientists, and ...
Answer: the philosophers of the enlightenment

Question: The enlightened philosophers influenced Catherine the Great. In the end she....
Answer: liked proposed ideas but did not implement any of them