World History Chapter 1

World History Chapter 1

Test

Multiple Choice

Which two religions originated in India?

• Legalism and monotheism

• Buddhism and Daoism

• Hinduism and Buddhism

• Judaism and Hinduism

Multiple Choice

In ancient India, the two major empires were the ____.

• The Mao and the Ming

• The Diwali and the Rhama

• The Gupta and the Hindi

• The Gupta and the Mauryan

Multiple Choice

The first flourishing Chinese civilization is marked by the

• birth of Confucius.

• founding of the Shang dynasty, which was quickly replaced by the Zhou dynasty.

• founding of the Xia dynasty, about which little is known.

• building of the first long canal.

Multiple Choice

The Roman Empire

• defeated the Persian Empire

• was the basis for much of Western civilization.

• unified ancient city-states.

• was the first democracy.

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Great Peloponnesian War was fought between Sparta and the Persian Empire.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What did the Greeks contribute to Western civilization?

• philosophy, agriculture, art, and law

• culture, literature, bronze working, and politics

• technology, literature, language, and politics

• philosophy, literature, art, and politics

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The Indian Ocean enabled African trade, in addition to bringing

• culture from Egypt.

• Chinese merchants.

• Portuguese invaders.

• contact with Mesopotamian civilizations.

Multiple Choice

The following were early Chinese dynasties:

• Makkah, Qin, Shang, Musa, Shin.

• Mali, Songhai, Song, Tang, Han.

• Sui, Tang, Mansa, Axum, Han.

• Sui, Tang, Song, Mongol, Ming.

Multiple Choice

European civilization in the centuries after the fall of Rome was formed by which three major elements?

• feudalism, gunpowder, Christianity

• the legacy of Rome, Germanic traditions, the Church

• common law, the legacy of Rome, feudalism

• Germanic traditions, gunpowder, feudalism

Multiple Choice

Why did King Charles I of England struggle with England’s Parliament?

• Parliament wanted King Charles to abolish slavery.

• Parliament wanted King Charles to limit the power the elite.

• Parliament challenged the divine right of kings.

• Parliament wanted King Charles to grant land and titles to the elite.

Multiple Choice

Why did the merchant class in the eighteenth century resent the aristocracy?

Multiple choice question.

• The merchant class had limited access to education and political power.

• The circumstances of the merchant class were no better than that of farmers.

• The merchant class had no opportunity to gain wealth.

• The lives of the merchant class were dependent on the decisions of the elites.