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World History Full Year Review

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do we call the period of time between roughly 500 CE to 1500 CE?

a)

The Renaissance

b)

The Middle Ages

c)

The Reconquista

d)

The Ancient Times

2.

Who was the king of the Franks in 768, was known for loving education, and was later given the title Holy Roman Emperor?

a)

Charles Martel

b)

Charlemagne

c)

Pepin the Short

d)

William the Conqueror

3.

What do we call a piece of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides?

a)

A plateau

b)

A lake

c)

An island

d)

A peninsula

4.

What do you call someone who goes out and tries to convert others to a particular religion?

a)

A pagan

b)

A matyr

c)

A missionary

d)

A monastery

5.

What do you call the system of rule in which powerful lords divide their land among lesser lords in exchange for a pledge of loyalty and service?

a)

a bartering system

b)

the feudal system

c)

A fief

d)

totalitarianism

6.

A powerful lord granted a fief to a vassal. What is a fief?

a)

an estate

b)

a musical instrument

c)

a castle

d)

a group of peasants

7.

Who were warriors mounted on horseback?

a)

knights

b)

nights

c)

serfs

d)

lords

8.

What do you call the system of crop rotation in which 1 field would be planted with spring crops, 1 with winter crops, and 1 left unplanted?

a)

2 field system

b)

draft

c)

3 field system

d)

cottage industry

9.

What do you call a group of workers practicing the same craft, who have joined together to protect their economic interests?

a)

business

b)

club

c)

merchant

d)

guild

10.

Who beat their cousin at the Battle of Hastings to secure the English throne? Later he added the title, "The Conqueror" to his name.

a)

Harold

b)

William

c)

Gregory

d)

Richard

11.

What do you call a journey undertaken to worship at a holy place?

a)

A vacation

b)

A path

c)

A pilgrimage

d)

A sacrament

12.

What term refers to a court order to bring an arrested person before a judge or court?

a)

common law

b)

parliament

c)

writ

d)

habeas corpus

13.

What do you call an assembly of representatives who make laws in England?

a)

Congress

b)

Parliament

c)

Senate

d)

Judiciary

14.

The ___________, a series of military campaigns to establish Christian control over the Holy Land.

a)

Crusades

b)

Pilgrimage

c)

D-Day

d)

Reconquista

15.

The Crusades achieved their goal of forcing the Muslims out of the Holy Land.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

What do you call the peninsula where Spain and Portugal are located?

a)

The Crimean Peninsula

b)

The Iberian Peninsula

c)

Balkan Peninsula

d)

Italian Peninsula

17.

What was the movement to drive Muslims from Spain called?

a)

The Crusades

b)

The Munich Putsch

c)

The Reconquista

d)

The Schism

18.

The Hundred Years' War lasted from

a)

1337-1453

b)

1775-1783

c)

1861-1865

d)

1914-1918

19.

Who was the young peasant girl who heard voices from heaven telling her to lead the French army to victory?

a)

Jane of Ark

b)

Jean of Hark

c)

Queen Elizabeth

d)

Joan of Arc

20.

What was the name of the terrible epidemic that caused its victims to die within a few days, often in agony, covered in buboes?

a)

Covid-19

b)

Scarlet fever

c)

Yellow Fever

d)

Bubonic Plague

21.

Which of the following were Chinese dynasties? You must select all that apply.

a)

Tang

b)

Han

c)

Song

d)

Pho

22.

Some dynasties in China used a merit system to hire government officials. What does that mean?

a)

Jobs were given based on family connections.

b)

Jobs were given based on talent and skill.

23.

Urbanization is also known as

a)

the growth of cities

b)

the growth of farmland

c)

the growth of the emperor's power

d)

the growth of the empress' power

24.

What was the name of the white pottery of extremely fine quality that China produced?

a)

plastic

b)

celadon

c)

clay

d)

porcelain

25.

At one point, there was a copper shortage in China which lead to the use of ________ as currency.

a)

paper money

b)

credit cards

c)

silver coins

d)

shells

26.

During the Yuan dynasty, China was under rule by

a)

Russians

b)

Japanese

c)

Mongols

d)

Koreans

27.

Which of the following is a system of moral behavior, based on the teachings of Confucius?

a)

Confucianism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Shintoism

d)

Daoism

28.

Japan is a chain of islands, also called a(n)

a)

archipelago

b)

peninsula

c)

strait

d)

coral reef

29.

Japan is so mountainous that less than ______ of its land can be farmed.

a)

5%

b)

45%

c)

30%

d)

15%

30.

What do you call the highly trained warriors that came from Japan during feudal times? Their name means "those who serve."

a)

samurai

b)

ninja

c)

knights

d)

daimyo

31.

Which play in Japan was aimed at farmers, merchants, and other common folk?

a)

Kabuki

b)

Noh

32.

The Koreans developed their own secret technique of making ___________, a blue-green glaze.

a)

porcelain

b)

celadon

c)

copper

d)

block printing

33.

The world's largest desert, the ___________, covers most of northern Africa.

a)

Gobi

b)

Sahara

c)

Taklamakan

d)

Atacama

34.

What do we call the period of great cultural revival that swept through Europe from the 1300s through the 1500s. The term is French for the word "rebirth."

a)

Reconquista

b)

Reformation

c)

Renaissance

d)

Restart

35.

The person who painted this painting was considered a true Renaissance man. He was a painter, engineer, architect, musician, and inventor.

a)

Leonardo Da Vinci

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Albrecht Durer

d)

Donatello

36.

Who invented moveable type that would be used with a printing press? The first thing he printed was the Bible.

a)

Johann Gutenberg

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Martin Luther

37.

Which explorer is given credit for being the first to circumnavigate the world?

a)

Columbus

b)

Magellan

c)

Vasco da Gama

d)

Cabral

38.

Which tool borrowed from the Muslim world, helped sailors use the stars to find their location even when out of sight of land?

a)

compass

b)

astrolabe

c)

lateen sail

d)

cartography

39.

Which movement was also called the Age of Reason and encouraged people to use reason to understand the world and to improve life?

a)

The Reformation

b)

The Renaissance

c)

The Enlightenment

d)

The Scientific Revolution

40.

French Society was divided into Three Estates - which group made up the First Estate?

a)

clergy

b)

common people

c)

nobles

41.

French Society was divided into Three Estates - which group made up the Second Estate?

a)

clergy

b)

common people

c)

nobles

42.

French Society was divided into Three Estates - which group made up the Third Estate?

a)

clergy

b)

common people

c)

nobles

43.

What is the name given to the period of time from September 1793 to July 1794 when the government in France arrested more than 300,000 people and executed Louis XVI and Marie Antionette?

a)

The Reign of Terror

b)

The Period of Hope

c)

The Reign of Poor Judgement

d)

The Time of Horror

44.

The __________________ was a set of laws that protected basic freedoms and guaranteed equality before the law. Many of the laws and legal systems in Europe today are based on this set.

a)

The Consitution of 1791

b)

Declaration of the Rights of Man

c)

Tennis Court Oath

d)

Napoleonic Code

45.

Which war broke out after a Serbian nationalist killed the Austrian Archduke and Archduchess?

a)

World War I

b)

World War II

c)

French Revolution

d)

American Revolution

46.

In 1917, who lead the Bolsheviks, a radical socialist group?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Vladimir Lenin

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

47.

What event happened on December 7th, 1941 and brought the United States into World War II?

a)

D-Day

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

The Battle of the Bulge

d)

Midway

48.

Which event is considered the turning point of World War II and gave the Allies a foothold in France to start pushing the Germans back?

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

D-Day

c)

Midway

d)

Battle of the Bulge

49.

Hitler's plan to exterminate all European Jews was called the?

a)

Final Solution

b)

Ultimate Goal

c)

Concentration camps

d)

Holocaust

50.

Victory in Europe Day happened after Victory in Japan Day.

a)

True

b)

False