1) Which leader expanded power of English royal courts a) Phillip II Augustus b) Henry II of England c) Sunni Ali 2) Who became independent of Egypt around 1000 B.C a) Nubia/Kush b) Ming Dynasty c) Japan 3) Which dynasty overthrew Mongol rule a) Zhou Dynasty b) Qi Dynast c) Ming Dynasty 4) What were the Hindu warriors that opposed Muslim advanced called a) Sunni Ali b) Harun al-Rachid c) Rajputs 5) Whose rule increased the power of the French monarchy a) Fredrick II b) Phillip II Augustus c) Abu Bakr 6) Whose conquests gave Songhai control of trading empire a) Sunni Ali b) Harun al-Rachid c) Ibn-Rushd 7) Who ruled at the height of the Abbasid Empire a) Harun al-Rachid b) Abu Bakr c) Ibn-Rushd 8) Who wrote commentary on Aristotle's works a) Ibn-Rushd b) Abu Bakr c) Hijrah 9) Who was the first caliph? a) Abu Bakr b) The Arbs c) Kublai Khan 10) The legal heritage of Rome was preserved in The Body of Civil Law, complied under the order of which leader a) Constantinople b) Justinian c) Alexander the Great 11) Primarily intended to protect feudal rights, the Magna Carta eventually a) All men were substitute to become a indenture servant and pay their debts within a limited period b) all men were free/ guarded the rights of all English people 12) What was especially important in defining Catholic Church doctrine a) Church Priest and Nuns b) church council c) Church Cardinals 13) Why did the people of the Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago not unite into a single state a) people were divided into different communities b) People came together to live in harmony c) People were divided and created new seperate city-states 14) What does the emphasis on landscape in chinese painting reflect a) Light and Shading b) balance of nature c) Balance of the Dao 15) In West Africa, the artists that produced impressive bronze statues were artists from where a) Mali b) Benin c) Kush 16) Who wrote a medical encyclopedia stressing the contagious nature of disease a) Ibn Sina b) Muhammad Ali c) Bobby Shmurda 17) What is the departure of Muhammad from Makkah for Madinah called a) Hijabs b) Whurdu c) Hijrahs 18) What was the capital of the Abbasid dynasty a) Bangladesh b) Baghdad c) Palestine 19) An Avignon is Where a French pope took up residence in 1305 located in Southern France a) True b) False 20) Toltec: Rule of modern Mexico a) True b) False 21) The olmac peoples farmed along the muddy riverbanks in this area a) Yucatan Peninsula b) Pacific Ocean c) Gulf of Mexico d) Atlantic Ocean 22) The re-established states especially the kingdoms of France, England, and Spain a) New Monarchies b) French Expansion c) Papal States d) Existing European Colonies 23) One of two popular Christian pilgrim centers which contained the relics of St. Peter and St.Paul a) Mesoamerica b) Avignon c) Rome d) Venice 24) Born to a wealthy Italian family but abandoned all worldly goods and preached in poverty a) Hildegard of Bingen b) Pope Gregory Vii c) Papal States d) Saint Francis of Assisi 25) Location where the Maya civilization arose a) Yucatan Peninsula b) Tenochtitlan c) Gulf Of Mexico d) Mesoamerica 26) A city in north Italy a) Venice b) Rome c) Papal States d) Avignon 27) Took religion to the people outside the monastary a) Heresy b) Franciscans c) Inquisition d) Cistercians 28) The powerful ruler of the Incas who launched a campaign of conquest a) Hildegard of Bingen b) Herman Cortes c) Montezuma d) Panchacuti 29) A nun who became an abbess of a religious house for females in western Germany a) Pope Gregory Vii b) Saint Francis of Assisi c) Inquisition d) Hildegard of Bingen 30) The name we use for Mexico and before the Spaniards arrived a) Mesoamerica b) Tikal c) Tenochtitlan d) Rome 31) Convinced he was chosen by God to reform the Church a) Hildegard Of Bingen b) Henry Iv c) Pope Gregory VII d) Saint Francis Of Assisi 32) An urban center of 100,000 inhabitants located in present day Guatemala a) Mesoamerica b) Tikal c) Tenochtitlan d) Chichen Itza 33) The existence of two popes which divided Europe a) Heresy b) Great Schism c) Inquisition d) Black Death 34) Builders who constructed pyramids and palaces and controlled the upper Yucatan peninsula a) Toltec b) Inca c) Maya d) Aztec 35) The study of religion and God a) Law b) Theology c) Music d) Heresy 36) Mesoamerica; Territories in central Italy in which the Popes gained control a) True b) False 37) Black Death: The Aztec monarch who greeted the Spanish with gifts of gold when they arrived a) True b) False 38) Serfs: Peasants legally bound to the land a) True b) False 39) Money Economy: An economic system in which people invested in trade and goods in order to make profits a) True b) False 40) Manor: An agricultural estate run by a lord and worked by peasants a) True b) False 41) During the Italian Renaissance, people believed _____. a) they were witnessing a rebirth of ancient Greece and Rome b) they had entered a new age of human achievement c) well-rounded people could achieve in many areas of life d) All of these. 42) Which of the following city-states did NOT play a central role in the politics of Renaissance Italy? a) Florence b) Milan c) Naples d) Venice 43) Machiavelli's The Prince _____. a) described how a prince should acquire and keep political power b) based political power on Christian principles c) condemned the excesses of the Medici family d) attacked the corruption of the Church 44) What was the basis of humanism, a key intellectual movement of the Renaissance? a) interest in art and sculpture b) secularism c) study of the classics d) political theory 45) Dante and Chaucer were two authors who wrote their works in _____. a) classical Latin b) classical Greek c) French d) the vernacular 46) Frescoes _____. a) required the use of oil paints b) were painted on wet plaster c) were first produced in the Low Countries d) were first produced during the High Renaissance 47) A major goal of humanism in northern Europe was _____. a) to increase the use of Christian relics b) to spread secularism c) to reform the Catholic Church d) to encourage people to participate in civic life 48) The chief teaching of the Protestant Reformation was that _____. a) faith and good works were necessary to gain personal salvation b) good works alone were the key to salvation c) only through faith in God could humans be saved d) purchasing indulgences would bring salvation 49) Which of the following was a religious reform called for by Martin Luther? a) ending the Church's involvement in politics b) ending the sacrament of the Eucharist c) ending the sacrament of baptism d) allowing clergy to marry 50) Who of the following was NOT a Protestant reformer? a) Ulrich Zwingli b) Ignatius of Loyola c) Martin Luther d) John Calvin 51) Which of the following was a consequence of the revival of trade in Europe? a) the emergence of a money economy b) a regular exchange of goods between South Africa and Italy c) Latin literature d) the decline of old Roman cities as centers of trade 52) A desire for greater discipline prompted a group of monks to form the new order of _____. a) Benedictines b) Cistercians c) Franciscans d) Dominicans 53) The invention of _____ in the construction of Gothic cathedrals made the use of stained glass windows possible a) barrel vaults b) pointed arches c) flying buttresses d) ribbed vaults 54) Which of these overwhelmed Europe in the 1300s? a) the War of the Roses b) the emergence of vernacular literature c) the Black Death d) The Italian Wars 55) By the end of the 1400s, _____ had hundreds of independent states within its borders. a) France b) Germany c) England d) Spain 56) The Maya _____. a) developed a sophisticated calendar called the Long Count b) consolidated their power over much of what is modern Mexico c) developed democratic institutions d) sold captured nobles and war leaders into slavery 57) Which of these was the capital of the Aztec? a) Tula b) Tikal c) Tenochtitlán d) Cuzco 58) The Inca developed a well-organized empire, in which conquered territories _____ a) ran their own affairs b) appointed their own leaders c) were governed by a high-ranking noble sent to the region d) were semi-autonomous 59) Early European visitors were especially impressed by the sophistication of Inca _____. a) court theater b) poetry c) religious rituals d) buildings and monuments 60) Quipu was the Inca system of _____. a) writing b) record keeping c) government d) road building 61) In the year 1 of the Islamic calendar, Muhammad and his followers relocated to _____. a) Madinah b) Makkah c) Damascus d) Baghdad 62) Muslim contributions to later European culture included _____. a) the improvement of the astrolabe b) translations of and commentaries on Aristotle's works c) The development of algebra d) All of these. 63) _____ helped turn Ghana into a great trading empire a) Vast supplies of iron and gold b) Farming c) Slavery d) The ivory trade 64) _____ imported scholars and books to introduce his subjects to Islam. a) Sundiata Keita b) Mansa Musa c) Sunni Ali d) Muhammad Ture 65) Early accomplishments of the Tang dynasty included _____. a) the restoration of the civil service examination b) the building of the Grand Canal c) the reunification of China d) moving the capital to Hangzhou 66) Which of the following did the Mongols NOT conquer? a) Persia b) the Abbasids c) Western Europe d) the Song dynasty 67) Which of the following led to a strong central government in early Japan? a) the samurai b) the influence of the Yamatos c) the daimyos d) aristocratic control of tax-exempt farmland 68) After the creation of the sultanate of Delhi, the relationship between Muslim rulers and the Hindu people was one of _____. a) rivalry b) friendship and understanding c) conqueror and conquered d) reluctant tolerance 69) Which of the following was true about feudal Europe? a) Leaders swore an oath of allegiance to the pope. b) Men who served a lord in a military capacity were known as vassals. c) Lords relied mainly on foot soldiers dressed in coats of armor. d) Lords did not have any responsibility toward their vassals. 70) Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Byzantine Empire? a) Greek language b) Christian faith c) absolute power of the emperor d) lack of laws and legal material 71) Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey? a) Achilles b) Aristotle c) Socrates d) Homer 72) The central focus of Greek life was the _____. a) acropolis b) polis c) phalanx d) Greek temple 73) The art of _____ was the Spartan ideal. a) war b) debate c) tyranny d) law 74) During the Age of Pericles, the Athenians became deeply attached to their political system of _____. a) direct democracy b) oligarchy c) tyranny d) representative democracy 75) Greek culture spread in Southwest Asia during the Hellenistic Era because ____ a) Hellenistic rulers encouraged a massive spread of Greek colonists to Southwest Asia b) Greek administrators, architects, actors, and others moved to the new Greek cities. c) Greek soldiers provided new recruits for the army. d) All of these. 76) As the first emperor, _____ restored stability to the Roman Empire. a) Caesar b) Pompeii c) Octavian d) Hadrian 77) The Romans displayed their engineering skills by _____. a) learning how to use concrete in architecture b) building a dozen aqueducts in Rome c) building an extensive network of roads d) All of these. 78) The earliest written material outlining Christian beliefs were _____. a) the Old and New Testaments b) the Dead Sea Scrolls c) The Gospels d) letters written by Jesus' followers 79) When economic and military problems threatened the Roman Empire in the third century, Diocletian introduced changes that included _____. a) dividing the empire into four units b) reducing the administrative bureaucracies c) ending taxation d) hiring only Roman citizens in the army 80) The _____ were the last to sack Rome before Romulus Augustulus was deposed and the Western Roman Empire fell. a) Huns b) Vandals c) Barbarians d) Visigoths 81) Neanderthals were probably the first of the early humans to _____. a) develop a written language b) bury their dead c) use of stone tools d) make fires 82) The Neolithic Revolution ___ a) was a shift to systematic agriculture b) is reflected in cave drawings c) caused humans to melt metal to make tools and weapons d) occurred when early humans established new forms of government 83) The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was known as _____. a) The Fertile Crescent b) the Persian Gulf c) Mesopotamia d) Assyria 84) The basic unit of Sumerian civilization was the _____. a) province b) city-state c) ziggurat d) satrap 85) Pyramids were designed primarily as _____. a) shrines dedicated to the gods b) places of worship c) burial places for pharaohs d) burial places for high-ranking officials 86) The Egyptians' form of writing was called _____. a) cuneiform b) hieroglyphics c) script d) semitic 87) The religion of Israel was unique because it _____. a) could be accessed only by priests b) could be accessed only by prophets c) was unwritten d) had only one God 88) Cyrus was called "the Great" because he _____. a) showed unusual wisdom and compassion b) showed no mercy in his conquests c) created an empire that included the Greek mainland d) created a standing army of professional soldiers 89) The Mauryan Empire flourished under _____. a) Alexander b) the Kushans c) Maurya d) Asoka 90) The duty of following the Five Constant Relationships is central to _____. a) Buddhism b) Confucianism c) Daoism d) Legalism

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