World History II Benchmark Study Guide Quiz

Enlightenment thinkers' ideas about government include that people consent to government for self-protection. Which thinker is associated with this idea?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

Which empire should you be able to locate on a map, known for being in South America?

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

• Olmec

What intellectual movement focused on worldly subjects rather than religious subjects (Renaissance)?

• Humanism

• Scholasticism

• Mysticism

• Rationalism

What trade route was used to spread Islam in Africa?

• Silk Road

• Trans-Saharan

• Spice Route

• Amber Road

What document signed by William and Mary listed restrictions on the power of the monarchy (England)?

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Petition of Right

• Act of Settlement

What empire is best described by Islam, trade, and the Taj Mahal?

• Ottoman Empire

• Mughal Empire

• Roman Empire

• Byzantine Empire

Horses were brought from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere as a result of the Columbian Exchange. True or False?

• True

• False

Large numbers of deaths among native populations caused forced migration of Africans for slave labor.

• True

• False

Who formulated the law of Gravity?

• Copernicus

• Newton

• Galileo

• Kepler

What country did Francis Drake sail for?

• Spain

• Portugal

• England

• France