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WorksheetsWorld History Final Review # 4
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What killed the MOST Native Americans after the arrival of Europeans in North and South America?
a)
War
b)
Disease
c)
Slavery
2.
A major effect of the Age of Exploration was...
a)
Most Europeans turned against the idea of slavery
b)
Native Americans remained enslaved for centuries after the Europeans arrived
c)
People of African descent lived lives of privilege
d)
Europeans settled and created colonies in North and South America
3.
Why did the African slave trade begin?
a)
Native Americans carried a prejudice toward people of African descent.
b)
Africans voluntarily sold themselves into slavery
c)
Because the European powers conquered all of Africa
d)
Europeans needed forced labor in the Americas & couldn't enslave Natives
4.
What statement BEST describes the Triangular Trade?
a)
The way Native tribes traded for food between one another
b)
How the printing press spread ideas around the Mediterranean World
c)
The exchange of slaves and other goods between Europe & the Americas
d)
Exchange of ideas between India and China
5.
What statement BEST describes the Columbian Exchange?
a)
Christopher Columbus military conquest of Native peoples
b)
The exchange of plants, animals, goods and slaves between Europe & Americas
c)
The establishment of large-scale plantations maintained by African slaves
d)
When certain numbers of Native Americans embraced Christianity
6.
Which country was the first to successfully send an explorer to the Indies.
a)
Porturgal
b)
China
c)
Africa
d)
England
7.
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was the first European explorer to sail from Europe to
a)
Spain
b)
Portugal
c)
India
d)
America
8.
Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan named the _________________ Ocean because he thought it was calm.
a)
Specific
b)
Atlantic
c)
Pacific
d)
Calmest
9.
Ponce de Leon discovered the peninsula of ____________________.
a)
Florida
b)
Italy
c)
Texas
d)
Alaska
10.
In 661, Ali was assassinated. The system of selecting a caliph died with him. A family known as the _____________ took power and set up a hereditary dynasty. This meant that rulers would come from one family and inherit the right to rule. The _____________ also moved the Muslim capital from Medina to Damascus, a newly conquered city that had been part of the Byzantine Empire.
a)
Umayyads
b)
Sunnis
c)
Shi’a (Shiites)
d)
A.
Umayyads
B.
Sunnis
C.
Shi’a (Shiites)
Abbasids
11.
In 733, Muslim forces moved northward across the Mediterranean Sea into the _____________. The _____________ is the southwestern tip of Europe where the modern nations of Spain and Portugal are located.
a)
Arabian Peninsula
b)
Iberian Peninsula
c)
Italian Peninsula
d)
Greek Peninsula
12.
Famous economists, defender of free-markets, author of The Wealth of Nations.
a)
Adam Smith
b)
John Locke
c)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d)
Thomas Hobbes
13.
Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights (Life, liberty, property):
a)
Montesquieu
b)
Voltaire
c)
Locke
d)
Rousseau
14.
Adam Smith’s doctrine that maintains that the state should not intervene in economics, from his book Wealth of Nations, is called ______.
a)
Laissez-faire
b)
Socialism
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Imperialism
15.
The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.
a)
a natural law
b)
checks and balances
c)
a social contract
d)
laissez-faire
16.
What did Thomas Hobbes believe?
a)
Humans should hurt other humans
b)
Humans were naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy
c)
Humans are all so kind and wonderful
d)
Humans should go to church every day
17.
Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:
a)
A dictatorship
b)
A democracy
c)
An absolute monarchy
d)
All of these
18.
Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Thomas Hobbes
b)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
c)
John Locke
d)
Adam Smith
19.
Who argued against harsh punishments and felt that punishment should be severe enough to outweigh the potenal benefits of the crime?
a)
Cesare Beccaria
b)
John Locke
c)
Montesquieu
d)
Thomas Hobbes
20.
What did Galileo use to support the heliocentric theory through observation?
a)
Thermometers
b)
Barometers
c)
Rulers
d)
Telescopes
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