Benchmark Jeopardy

Benchmark Jeopardy

FINAL BENCHMARK REVIEW PART 1

Standards 7-1 to 7-5.4

Type of colony used to trade items, along a particular route.

Trading Post Empires

Traveled around the southern tip of Africa to get to India. He sailed for

Portugal.

Vasco da Gama

China and Japan practiced ___________. This is a policy of

turning inward from the world.

isolationism

ships left Europe, and then went to Africa, then to the Americas, and

back to Europe

Triangular Trade

When a nation builds up a large supply of gold and silver through

trading

Mercantilism

He believed in limited governments. He outlined the structure of

governments which were the three branches. (Separation of Powers)

(Check and balance system)executivelegislative

judicial

Baron de Montesquieu

a document stating the rules and principles on which a nation is run.

Written constitution

The division of power among the three branches of government.

(Montesquieu)

Separation of Powers

Sets forth the goals and ideals that the people of that nation believe

and share.

Preamble

Improved the telescope and used it to prove that the sun was the

center of the universe.

Galileo Galilei

Enslaved captives were forced to migrate to the Americas came

from

Africa

This nation set up the largest trading post empires in the

Americas

Spain

The Removal of James II from the throne of England

The Glorious Revolution

What was the underlying, deep rooted cause of the French

Revolution?

Unequal Tax Burdens

He led the Haitian Revolution

Toussaint-Louverture

HE invented the steam engine

James Watt

This leader used guerilla warfare to united Southern Italy

with Northern Italy

Giuseppe Garibaldi

He led the construction of the Panama Canal

Theodore Roosevelt

These two nations in Africa remained independent from European control in 1914

Ethiopia and Liberia

This first big territory added to the United States by purchasing

it from Russia

Alaska

An area in which the imperial power held exclusive trading

rights

Sphere of Influence

The Zulus were defeated by this country during the Zulu War

Great Britain

The spark that started World War I

The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Russia pulled out of WW1 because…

They were having a civil war in their own nation (Russian

Revolution)

After the Russo-Japanese, Japan became a

World power

The United States entered World War I

German U-Boats attacked American ships