World History Events And Facts Test
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- 1.What was the role of the Catholic Church in Europe during the Middle Ages?
- A.
The church motivated people to question authority
- B.
It provided a sense of unity and a source of learning
- C.
The Church provided land to those who did not have.
- 2.What was the Neolithic Revolution?
- A.
The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle
- B.
The human adaptation to a nomadic life.
- C.
The period when humans adopted organized religion
- 3.The Nile River, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Indus River, and the Huang He River were __________________________
- A.
European colonial empires
- B.
The locations of river valleys civilizations
- C.
Medieval trade routes
- 4.What was the Code of Hammurabi?
- A.
The first written laws in history
- B.
A set of Egyptian religious regulations
- C.
A list of economic guidelines in Mesopotamia
- 5.What would Greek philosophers had in common?
- A.
An interest in monotheistic religions
- B.
They were all inventors
- C.
A belief in the value of human reason
- 6.What is a civilization?
- A.
A society were there is a social class, government, economy, and education among other characteristics
- B.
A population relying on hunting and gathering depending on migration
- C.
A society where there are no social classes and government is obsolete.
- 7.Which was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire?
- A.
Orthodox Christianity
- B.
Islam
- C.
Roman Catholic
- 8.Feudalism was _______________________
- A.
A political and social system protecting individual rights
- B.
The exchange of land for services
- C.
An economic system that used paper money as currency
- 9.Which of the following events contributed to the end of serfdom during the Middle Ages?
- A.
The Black Death
- B.
The Reformation
- C.
The Fall of the Roman Empire
- 10.Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Humanist scholars are representative of ____________________
- A.
The Middle Ages
- B.
The Renaissance
- C.
The Age of Democratic Reevolutions
- 11.One direct result of the Crusades was an increase of trade between Europe and the Middle East
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Thomas Aquinas wrote in the Middle Ages that men had no right to overthrow an unjust ruler
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.The trade across the Sahara Desert between Muslim merchants and West African kingdoms was primarily based on an exchange of gold and salt.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Which was an important reason Europeans began exploring the oceans in the 14000?
- A.
The Byzantine Emperor passed a series of laws prohibiting east-west trade
- B.
Technological innovations borrowed from other cultures made it possible for European to voyage further
- C.
The Pope ordered Europeans to reconquer the Holy Land.
- 15.Genocide is _______________________
- A.
The killing of animals to extinction
- B.
The study of genes
- C.
The systematic elimination of one ethnic group
- 16.What is globalization?
- A.
is the tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world.
- B.
Is the isolation of ideas, people, and goods.
- C.
Is the study of Geography and its effect on living things
- 17.What was an important result of the English Civil War?
- A.
It promised Englishmen the right to a trial by jury
- B.
It established the supremacy of Parliament over the king
- C.
It abolished England's hereditary nobility
- 18.The invention of new spinning and weaving machinery increased the number of workers in textile industry in Europe because the ________________________
- A.
Early textile machinery could not produce goods as efficiently as hand labor
- B.
Unions required that more workers be hired to maintain the machines
- C.
Demand for goods increased as goods became cheaper to produce
- 19.What was a major cause of the French Revolution?
- A.
Enlightenment demands for greater social equality
- B.
Economic successes of mercantilism
- C.
Tyrannical abuses of Louis XVI
- 20.Which of the following is not an event of the Cold War?
- A.
Korean War
- B.
Vietnam War
- C.
Treaty of Versalles
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