Global 10- Regents Exam Questions
with Verified Solutions
Industrial Revolution - ANS-great increase in machine production that began in England
in the 18th century
Galileo Galilei - ANS--proved Copernicus correct
-was put on trial by Catholic Church because his ideas contradicted them
Sir Isaac Newton - ANS--mathematician and astronomer who developed calculus
-THEORY OF GRAVITY
-LAWS OF MOTION
Johannes Kepler - ANS--astronomer who discovered how planets move
Descartes - ANS--mathematician, scientist, philosopher
Enlightenment - ANS--to become aware of great knowledge about something
-the Scientific Revolution led to this period in European History
Monarch - ANS--KING
Absolute - ANS--TOTAL, COMPLETE, UNLIMITED
Absolute Monarchs - ANS--Kings with total, complete, and unlimited power over the
nations they ruled
Peter the Great - ANS--King of Russia
-modernized and westernized Russia
Louis XIV - ANS--King of France
-Palace of Versailles
Philip II - ANS--King of Spain
Divine Right - ANS-idea that kings received power to rule directly from God
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - ANS-developed idea of absolutism
Absolutism - ANS--TOTAL
-absolute monarchs has TOTAL control over the nations they ruled
, -Peter the Great
-Louis XIV
-Philip II
Revolution - ANS--CHANGE
-Scientific
-Political
-Industrial
Enlightenment - ANS--LOGIC and REASON
-philosophers (thinkers) believed society could be improved
-believed in democracy
-John Locke
-Baron de Montesquieu
-Voltaire
-Rousseau
Nationalism - ANS--LOYALTY to one's country
-common culture, language, and history
-Italy
-Germany
-Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire
-Ireland
Imperialism - ANS--COLONIZATION
-when a strong country takes over a weaker country (colony)
-causes and effects
-Europeans
-India, China, Africa
-Japan
United Nations (UN) - ANS-an international peacekeeping organization to which most
nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and
economic development
iron curtain - ANS-a phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary
line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from
countries in Western Europe
containment - ANS-the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence—
especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during
the late 1940s and early 1950s
Truman Doctrine - ANS-a U.S. policy, announced by President Harry S. Truman in
1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or
external opponents
with Verified Solutions
Industrial Revolution - ANS-great increase in machine production that began in England
in the 18th century
Galileo Galilei - ANS--proved Copernicus correct
-was put on trial by Catholic Church because his ideas contradicted them
Sir Isaac Newton - ANS--mathematician and astronomer who developed calculus
-THEORY OF GRAVITY
-LAWS OF MOTION
Johannes Kepler - ANS--astronomer who discovered how planets move
Descartes - ANS--mathematician, scientist, philosopher
Enlightenment - ANS--to become aware of great knowledge about something
-the Scientific Revolution led to this period in European History
Monarch - ANS--KING
Absolute - ANS--TOTAL, COMPLETE, UNLIMITED
Absolute Monarchs - ANS--Kings with total, complete, and unlimited power over the
nations they ruled
Peter the Great - ANS--King of Russia
-modernized and westernized Russia
Louis XIV - ANS--King of France
-Palace of Versailles
Philip II - ANS--King of Spain
Divine Right - ANS-idea that kings received power to rule directly from God
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - ANS-developed idea of absolutism
Absolutism - ANS--TOTAL
-absolute monarchs has TOTAL control over the nations they ruled
, -Peter the Great
-Louis XIV
-Philip II
Revolution - ANS--CHANGE
-Scientific
-Political
-Industrial
Enlightenment - ANS--LOGIC and REASON
-philosophers (thinkers) believed society could be improved
-believed in democracy
-John Locke
-Baron de Montesquieu
-Voltaire
-Rousseau
Nationalism - ANS--LOYALTY to one's country
-common culture, language, and history
-Italy
-Germany
-Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire
-Ireland
Imperialism - ANS--COLONIZATION
-when a strong country takes over a weaker country (colony)
-causes and effects
-Europeans
-India, China, Africa
-Japan
United Nations (UN) - ANS-an international peacekeeping organization to which most
nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and
economic development
iron curtain - ANS-a phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary
line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from
countries in Western Europe
containment - ANS-the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence—
especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during
the late 1940s and early 1950s
Truman Doctrine - ANS-a U.S. policy, announced by President Harry S. Truman in
1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or
external opponents
