IGH What do you know?

What is the most common food group eaten by agricultural societies?

• Cereals

• Dairy products

• Meat

• Fruit

Which two areas of the world did the Silk Road connect?

• Asia

• Europe

• Africa

• Australia

• North America

What percentage of the European population is thought to have died during the Black Death in the mid 1300s?

• 10% to 20%

• 30% to 50%

• 70% to 80%

• 100%

Which crops did Europeans bring back from the Americas starting in the late 15th century?

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From the 1500s to the late 1800s, approximately how many African people were enslaved and transported from Africa to the Americas?

• 5 million

• 10 million

• 12 million

• 15 million

• 20 million

What was the name of Haiti before it won its independence from France in 1804?

• St-Domingue

• Guadeloupe

• Santo Domingo

• Hispaniola

True or false? Women's work in the past was limited to housekeeping and childcare.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

What was the average life expectancy of British industrial workers in the 1830s?

• Approximately 20 years

• Approximately 30 years

• Approximately 50 years

• Approximately 70 years

• Approximately 40 years

What was the most profitable commodity that European powers exported into China in the nineteenth century?

• Wool

• Opium

• Sugar

• Automobiles

• Tea

Happening in 1893, which country was the first to ever grant women the right to vote?

• New Zealand

• Finland

• Canada

• Britain