Summer 2025 - World History A - Final Review

What is the system for exercising authority called?

• democracy

• aristocracy

• government

• monarchy

What is a government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives called?

• monarchy

• direct democracy

• oligarchy

• republic

What is a government in which citizens elect the leaders who make government decisions called?

• monarchy

• democracy

• republic

• aristocracy

Fill in the blank in the diagram: Under Solon, all free adult males were (a)   of Athens.

• merchants

• foreigners

• slaves

• citizens

The Scientific Revolution was:

• a) a time when ancient myths were created

• b) a movement to ban all scientific research

• c) an era focused solely on religious teachings

• d) a period of major advances in science and understanding of the natural world

The (a)   theory held that the earth was the center of the universe.

• geocentric

• heliocentric

• atomic

• evolutionary

What is the scientific method?

• A type of telescope

• A law of gravity

• A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas

• A theory about the sun

What is the Age of Reason also known as?

• Industrial Revolution

• Reformation

• Enlightenment

• Renaissance

Who was the author who wrote about women's rights?

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

What are checks and balances?

• Author of the Declaration of Independence

• Document declaring American independence from Britain

• First ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution

• System in which each branch of government checks, or limits, the power of the other two branches