Font size
S
M
L
XL
WorksheetsWorld History Self-Check
Total questions: 83
Worksheet time: 42mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How did physical geography influence the lives of early humans?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
2.
What were the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
3.
How did the beginning of agriculture and the domestication of animals promote the rise of settled communities?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
4.
How does archaeology provide knowledge of early human life and its changes?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
5.
Why did ancient civilizations develop in river valleys?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
6.
Where were the earliest civilizations located?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
7.
When did the ancient river valley civilizations exist?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
8.
What were the social, political, and economic characteristics of early civilizations?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
9.
What religious traditions developed in ancient civilizations?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
10.
What were the essential beliefs of Judaism?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
11.
How did Judaism influence Western civilization?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
12.
What forms of language and writing existed in early civilizations?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
13.
How did Persia govern its empire?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
14.
Why were physical geography and location important to the development of Indian civilization?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
15.
What impact did the Aryans have on India?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
16.
Why was the caste system central to Indian culture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
17.
What were the accomplishments of the Mauryan and Gupta empires?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
18.
What are the beliefs of the Hindu religion?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
19.
How did Hinduism influence Indian society and culture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
20.
What are the beliefs of Buddhism?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
21.
How did Buddhism spread?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
22.
Why was the Great Wall of China built?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
23.
What were contributions of classical China to world civilization?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
24.
Why were Confucianism,Taoism, and Buddhism important in the formation of Chinese culture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
25.
How did the mountains, seas, islands,harbors, peninsulas, and straits of the Aegean Basin shape Greek economic,social, and political development and patterns of trade and colonization?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
26.
How did mythology help the early Greek civilization explain the natural world and the human condition?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
27.
How did democracy develop in Athens?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
28.
How did Sparta differ from Athens?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
29.
Why were wars with Persia important to the development of Greek culture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
30.
Why was the Peloponnesian War important to the spread of Greek culture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
31.
Why was the leadership of Pericles important to the development of Athenian life and Greek culture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
32.
What were some important contributions of Greek culture to Western civilization?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
33.
How did the empire of Alexander the Great establish a basis for the spread of Hellenistic culture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
34.
How was geographic location important to the economic, social, and political development of ancient Rome?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
35.
How did the government of the Roman Republic become more democratic in its decision making?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
36.
Why was Rome able to conquer Carthage and then go on to extend its influence across the entire Mediterranean basin and much of Western Europe?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
37.
Why did the Roman Republic fail to survive challenges by Julius Caesar?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
38.
How did military conquests alter economic and social life in Rome?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
39.
How did an imperial monarchy come to rule Rome?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
40.
What was the Pax Romana?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
41.
How did Christianity become established within the Roman Empire?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
42.
What were the essential beliefs of the early Christian faith?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
43.
How and why did Christianity spread?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
44.
What was the impact of the early Church in the late Roman Empire?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
45.
How did Roman achievements influence Western civilization?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
46.
Why did the Western Roman Empire decline?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
47.
Why was Constantinople established as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
48.
What was the influence of Justinian’s codification of Roman law on the Byzantine Empire and later legal codes?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
49.
What was Justinian’s influence on the expansion of the Byzantine Empire and its economy?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
50.
What were the contributions of Byzantine art and architecture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
51.
How did Greek and Roman culture survive within the Byzantine Empire?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
52.
What factors produced the division within the Christian Church?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
53.
Why did the Byzantine Empire have so much influence on religion, culture, and trade in Russia and Eastern Europe?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
54.
Where did the Islamic religion originate? Where did it spread?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
55.
What are the beliefs, traditions, and customs of Islam?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
56.
How did political and cultural geography facilitate trade and cultural activity in the early Islamic lands?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
57.
What were some major historical turning points that marked the spread and influence of Islamic civilization?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
58.
How did Islamic civilization preserve and extend ancient Greek, Persian, and Indian learning?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
59.
What were some contributions of Islamic civilization?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
60.
How and why did the Church grow in importance during the Middle Ages?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
61.
How did a feudal society develop in Europe during the Middle Ages?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
62.
How did Charlemagne revive the idea of the Roman Empire?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
63.
How did invasions by the Angles,Saxons, Magyars, and Vikings influence the development of Europe?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
64.
Where were the major trade routes in the Eastern Hemisphere from 1000 to 1500 A.D. (C.E.)?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
65.
How did trade facilitate the diffusion of goods and ideas among different cultures?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
66.
How has Japan’s geography influenced its development?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
67.
Why were Shinto and Buddhism important to the development of Japanese culture?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
68.
What were the characteristics of civilizations in sub-Saharan Africa during the medieval period?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
69.
What were the characteristics of the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
70.
How did European nation-states expand their territories and consolidate their power?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
71.
What were key events and effects of the Crusades?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
72.
What were the effects of the Mongol invasions?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
73.
What were the effects of the Ottoman invasions of Europe?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
74.
How did the Black Death (Bubonic plague) alter economic and social institutions in much of Asia and then in Europe?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
75.
How did European scholars begin to interpret and value ancient learning?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
76.
How did the Crusades stimulate trade between Europe and the Muslim Empire?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
77.
What were the economic foundations of the Italian Renaissance?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
78.
What were Machiavelli’s ideas about power?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
79.
How did the arts and literature of the Renaissance differ from those of the Middle Ages?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
80.
Who were prominent Italian Renaissance artists and writers?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
81.
How did knowledge of the classical Greeks and Romans foster humanism in the Italian Renaissance?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
82.
How did ideas of the Italian Renaissance change as they were adopted in northern Europe?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
83.
Who were important artists and writers of the Northern Renaissance?
a)
Easy
b)
Somewhat easy
c)
Somewhat difficult
d)
Difficult
Reset
