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Paradise Valley Christian Preparatory 7th American History 1 Name: Date: Study Guide Unit 1: Introduction and Western Heritage Introduction 1. What year do historians generally agree was the founding of America? What was this event? 2. How long was the colonial period? 3. What three dates and events are significant for this unit? 4. What civilization was breaking down in the late 15th century? 5. What are the three major components of this civilization? Heritage of Classical World 6. What four ideas or traditions are passed down to the Americans from the Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations? 1. 2. 3. 4.
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Study GuideUnit 1: Introduction and Western Heritage

Introduction1. What year do historians generally agree was the founding of America? What was this event?

2. How long was the colonial period?

3. What three dates and events are significant for this unit?

4. What civilization was breaking down in the late 15th century?

5. What are the three major components of this civilization?

Heritage of Classical World6. What four ideas or traditions are passed down to the Americans from the Ancient Greek and

Roman civilizations?

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7. Define Monarchy, Republic, and Democracy.

8. Explain the cyclical change of power or as Mr. Muns put it, the ‘terror of the wheel.’

9. What was the solution to the terror of the wheel?

10. What branch of the American government matches with the three kinds of government?

11. What is pluralism?

12. Were the Romans proud of their pluralistic society? Was there any nation dissatisfied with this civil virtue?

Christian Heritage

13. What is meant by calling Christianity a ‘religion of the book” (Three things)?

14. List the three components of the Christian Worldview.

15. What are the two main ideas of ‘Creation’?

16. What are the two main ideas of ‘Fall’?

17. What are the two main ideas of ‘Redemption’?

18. What two application of this word view did our Founding Fathers base the Constitution on?

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Germanic Heritage19. How was society organized in the Middle Ages? (Opposed to democratic)

20. Fill in the blank: Those who ________, those who _______ and those who _________.

21. What major power dissolved into several independent nations marking the beginning of the end of the Middle Ages?

22. How much of Europe died as a result of the Black Plague? What was the unintended consequence of the loss of so many lives?

23. What does the term ‘renaissance’ mean?

24. What happened in 1453? How is this connected to the Renaissance?

25. Towns are considered the birth of what?

26. What two immunities did these new towns have that made them special and successful at creating wealth?

27. Who are the humanists?

Reformation

28. What was the original concern of the Reformation?

29. What event started the Reformation?

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30. State the three main ideas of the Reformation.

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