Thomas' Birthday Quiz 2022

In present-day Iraq, where did the European traders first encounter fine cotton from India carried by Arab merchants?

• Baghdad

• mosul

• Basra

As a result of the Scientific Revolution, the 1700's became known as the Age of what?

• Learning
• Discovery
• Empire
• Enlightenment

The Black Death helped end feudalism by creating...

• a shortage of labor. 
• a revolution.
• more advanced medicine.
• stronger families.

Protestants dominate which region of Europe?

• eastern Europe.
• southern Europe
• western Europe.
• northern Europe.

Before Christianity became the official religion of Rome, leaders of the Roman Empire...

• ignored Christians.
• made most Christians citizens.
• persecuted Christians.
• enslaved Christians

In the 1300's, people all over Europe were battling...

• an Ice Age.
• the Catholic Church.
• the Black Death
• Germanic Invaders

This man started the reformation.

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Socrates
• Martin Luther
• Alexander the Great

This city was the home of the first democracy.

• Athens
• Rome
• London
• Venice

The Holocaust occurred in Europe during...

• the Franco-Prussian War
• World War II
• World War I
• the Cold War

What was one early effect of the Crusades?

• The Roman Catholic Church declined.
• Trade increased. 
• Nobles gained more land.
• Peasants revolted.