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Total questions: 73
Worksheet time: 37mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is an enterprising merchant?
a)
Inflation
b)
Entrepreneur
c)
Dictator
d)
Cavalliers
2.
The idea that a nation must export more goods than it imports
a)
Entrepreneurs
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Tariffs
d)
Inflation
3.
What are taxes on imported goods?
a)
Magna Carta
b)
Tariffs
c)
Emigres
d)
Cahiers
4.
What allowed people to store capital needed for overseas ventures?
a)
Domesday Book
b)
Joint Stock Comapny
c)
Magna Carta
d)
Encomiendas
5.
What is the economic cycle that involves a rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money?
a)
Divine Right
b)
Inflation
c)
Dynastic Cycle
d)
Recant
6.
Who was King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish colonies in the Americas?
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Charles V
c)
Hernan Cortes
d)
Francisco Pizarro
7.
A ruler with control over the government and people's lives
a)
National Assembly
b)
Absolute Monarch
c)
Divine Right
d)
Constitutional Monarchy
8.
What is the belief that authority comes from God?
a)
Dynastic Cycle
b)
Divine Right
c)
Habeas Corpus
d)
Columbian Exchange
9.
Who was Philip II of Spain's chief Protestant enemy?
a)
Peter the Great
b)
Elizabeth I
c)
Catherine the Great
d)
Frederick the Great
10.
What was Europe's first modern novel?
a)
The Prince
b)
Don Quixote
c)
The Bible
d)
Edict of Nantes
11.
What was the proclamation that granted Huguenots religious tolerance?
a)
Treaty of Paris
b)
Edict of Nantes
c)
Peace of Westphalia
d)
Magna Carta
12.
Who were the royal officials who carried out Louis XIV's policies in the provinces?
a)
Viceroys
b)
Intendants
c)
Mulattoes
d)
Peninsulares
13.
Who were supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War?
a)
Intendants
b)
Cavalliers
c)
Levellers
d)
Bourgeoisie
14.
The idea that no person can be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
a)
divine right
b)
habeas corpus
c)
tricolor
d)
mulattoes
15.
What did the English Bill of Rights help establish?
a)
constitutional government
b)
limited monarchy
c)
deficit spending
d)
absolute monarchy
16.
Who was the leader of the Roundheads in the English Civil War?
a)
James II
b)
Oliver Crowmwell
c)
Miguel de Cervantes
d)
Hernan Cortes
17.
What did the English Protestants fear from James II?
a)
Losing power to Germans
b)
Restoring Roman Catholic Church in England
c)
Drafting a constitution
d)
Restoring the Inquisition
18.
What were William and Mary required to accept it before taking the throne?
a)
Magna Carta
b)
English Bill of Rights
c)
Domesday Book
d)
Limited Monarchy
19.
What type of government does Britain have?
a)
Limited Monarchy
b)
Constitutional Government
c)
Dictatorship
d)
Absolute Monarchy
20.
What were the causes of the Thirty Years' War?
a)
Restoration of Catholic Church
b)
Loss of power by the German emperors
c)
Restoration of Inquisition
d)
The use of serfs
21.
Who was the King of Prussia known for his brilliant use of the army?
a)
Peter the Great
b)
Frederick II
c)
Louis XIV
d)
Ferdinand
22.
Who was Russian ruler who was efficient but ruthless?
a)
Elizabeth
b)
Catherine the Great
c)
Isabella
d)
Maria Victoria
23.
Who was the Russian ruler, who forced western technologies and social customs on the Russian people?
a)
Joseph the Great
b)
Peter the Great
c)
Frederick the Great
d)
Oliver Cromwell
24.
What was the great symbol of Peter's desire to forge a modern Russia?
a)
Versailles
b)
St. Petersburg
c)
Encomiendas
d)
Hangul
25.
What did both Peter and Catherine were determined to gain this to improve Russian trade with the West?
a)
take over the world
b)
warm-water port
c)
to draft a constitution
d)
abolish feudalism
26.
In order to avoid war, Russia, Prussia, and Austria agreed to partition what?
a)
France
b)
Poland
c)
England
d)
Prussia
27.
Which group made up the vast majority of French society?
a)
Nobles
b)
Third Estate
c)
Clergy
d)
Monarchy
28.
Who were the most affected by inflation of food in France?
a)
Monarchy
b)
Urban workers
c)
Priests
d)
Nobles
29.
What contributed to France's financial crisis?
a)
Thirty Years' War
b)
deficit spending
c)
Absolute monarchy
d)
Edict of Nantes
30.
What did the National Assembly vow in the Tennis Court Oath?
a)
create a republic
b)
draft a constitution
c)
destroy Versailles
d)
storm the Bastille
31.
What does the storming of the Bastille mean?
a)
end of the monarchy
b)
symbol of the French Revolution
c)
creation of a republic
d)
access of warm-water port
32.
Who was at the top of the Third Estate?
a)
Clergy
b)
Bourgeoisie
c)
Nobles
d)
Monarchy
33.
What was the National Assembly?
a)
a symbol of the French Revolution
b)
delegates of the Third Estate formed it, claiming that they represented the people
c)
Working-class men and women who desired more radical changes
d)
drafting of the constitution
34.
What is the Tricolor?
a)
symbol of the Russian Revolution
b)
red, white, blue
c)
Columbus' ships
d)
England's constitution
35.
Who were the sans-culottes?
a)
delegates of the Third Estate formed it, claiming that they represented the people
b)
Working-class men and women who desired more radical changes
c)
a symbol of the French Revolution
d)
drafting of the constitution
36.
What the peasant uprisings and the storming of the Bastille forced the National Assembly to do?
a)
Draft a constitution
b)
Abolish feudalism
c)
Destroy the monarchy
d)
Design a new flag
37.
What was the reason the Parisian women marched on Versailles?
a)
Tricolor
b)
Bread
c)
Inflation
d)
Taxes
38.
What did Lafayette head?
a)
Levellers
b)
National Assembly
c)
Cavalliers
d)
Republic
39.
What the sans-culottes and Jacobins demanded?
a)
Bread
b)
A republic
c)
A constitution
d)
The guillotine
40.
What are the features of civilization?
a)
Cities, entertainment, religion, diversity, social classes, arts & architecture, public works, and writing
b)
Cities, government, religion, job specialization, social classes, arts & architecture, public works, and writing
c)
latitude/longitude, place, human environment interaction
41.
What is the rise and fall of dynasties?
a)
Divine Right
b)
Dynastic Cycle
c)
Absolute Monarchy
d)
Magna Carta
42.
What was evidence that suggests that early people believed in life after death?
a)
They left writing evidence
b)
They buried their death
c)
Their churches teach them
43.
Who were the fierce warriors, trades and explorers?
a)
Cavalliers
b)
Vikings
c)
Levellers
d)
Incas
44.
What is the Domesday Book?
a)
first novel in Europe
b)
census collection for tax purposes
c)
a guide for the nobles
d)
a set of guidelines for the monarchy
45.
What document that affirmed feudal rights?
a)
English Bill of Rights
b)
Magna Carta
c)
Domesday Book
d)
Encomiendas
46.
In Islam, what is the final authority on all matters?
a)
Hajj
b)
Quran
c)
Mosque
d)
Sunni
47.
What is the Korean system of writing created in the 1440s, which helped spread literacy?
a)
Calligraphy
b)
Hangul
c)
Orthodox
d)
Protestant
48.
What reinforced women's subordinate position in China?
a)
communism
b)
footbinding
c)
divine right
d)
dynastic cycle
49.
What is the theory that the sun is the center of the universe?
a)
gravity
b)
heliocentric
c)
calculus
d)
rhetoric
50.
Who used the first printing press in the West to produced the Bible?
a)
Miguel de Cervantes
b)
Johann Guttenberg
c)
William Shakespeare
d)
Galileo
51.
Who produced the best-known work of Spanish Renaissance literature?
a)
William Shakespeare
b)
Miguel de Cervantes
c)
Niccolo Machiavelli
d)
Lope de Veha
52.
What is to recant?
a)
to go down on one's knees
b)
to give up one's view
c)
to repeat oneself again
53.
Who is the Renaissance writer that had the most far-reaching influence?
a)
Isaac Newton
b)
William Shakespeare
c)
Oliver Cromwell
d)
Thomas More
54.
Who was the first European to reach the New World and establish a colony?
a)
Hernan Cortes
b)
Christopher Columbus
c)
Francisco Pizarro
d)
Miguel de Cervantes
55.
Who was the Aztec ruler at the time of Cortes' conquest?
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Moctezuma
c)
Francisco Pizarro
d)
Miguel de Cervantes
56.
Who is the Spanish conquistador who reached the Inca empire and destro?yed it
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Francisco Pizarro
c)
Moctezuma
d)
Miguel de Cervantes
57.
How did people from the New World resisted Spanish influence?
a)
War
b)
Preserving their own religion, language, and culture
c)
Drafting a constitution
58.
Name two factors that helped hundreds of Spanish soldiers conquer millions of Native Americans
a)
Passivity & politeness
b)
Weapons & horses
c)
Diseases & sovereignity
59.
Who were the Spanish representatives of the king in America?
a)
cavalliers
b)
viceroys
c)
levelliers
d)
vikings
60.
What cause a drastic decline in the Native American population?
a)
black plague
b)
disease, starvation, cruel treatment
c)
they migrated
61.
People born in Spain
a)
mulattoes
b)
peninsulares
c)
mestizos
d)
creoles
62.
American-born descendants of Spanish settlers
a)
mulattoes
b)
creoles
c)
mestizos
d)
peninsulares
63.
People of Native American and European descent
a)
mulattoes
b)
mestizos
c)
creoles
d)
peninsulares
64.
People of African and European descent
a)
mestizos
b)
mulattoes
c)
creoles
d)
peninsulares
65.
Who was at the bottom of the New World's society?
a)
Serfs
b)
Native Americans and Africans
c)
Europeans
d)
Clergy
66.
What were the rights to demand work from Native Americans?
a)
Mayflower Compact
b)
Encominedas
c)
Magna Carta
d)
Joint Stock Compact
67.
Who claimed and explored New France?
a)
Louis XIV
b)
Jacques Cartier
c)
Cardinal Richeliu
d)
Vasco de Gama
68.
Where was the first permanent English colony?
a)
Raleigh
b)
Jamestown
c)
Quebec
d)
Williamsburg
69.
Who started a colony called Plymouth in Massachusetts?
a)
Protestants
b)
Pilgrims
c)
Hugenots
d)
Catholics
70.
What was the agreement detailing the rules for governing new colonies?
a)
English Bill of Rights
b)
Mayflower Compact
c)
Magna Carta
d)
Domesday Book
71.
What ended the many wars between England and France?
a)
Napoleon's crowning
b)
Treaty of Paris
c)
Reign of Terror
d)
Mayflower Compact
72.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
a)
migration of Europeans
b)
vast global interchanged
c)
decrease of Native Americans
73.
By the 1700s, what groups were benefiting most from economic change?
a)
clergy
b)
merchants
c)
nobles
d)
monarchy
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