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URBAN HISTORY

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where did the Medieval Nobles live?

a)

In a castle on the manor

b)

Cities

c)

In the kings house

d)

In a knights manor

2.

Where did Renaissance Nobles live?

a)

Cities

b)

In a castle on the manor

c)

With the knights

d)

With the kings

3.

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy? (Choose all of the correct answers)

a)

Italy had been the center of the Roman Empire and interested in Greek and Roman art

b)

Italy’s cities have become very wealthy and enabled them to pay artists

c)

The region was divided into many small city-states and most of them were important cities of the Renaissance

d)

The king forced artists to come to Italy after he conquered most of Europe

4.
Poor, crowded, and unhealthy describe:
a)
Prospecting
b)
Tenements
c)
Country life
d)
A farmer's life
5.
As a result of the Scientific Revolution, the 1700's became known as the Age of what?
a)
Learning
b)
Discovery
c)
Empire
d)
Enlightenment
6.
Ancient Greece was made up of...
a)
nation states.
b)
city-states.
c)
democracies.
d)
counties.
7.
This city was the home of the first democracy.
a)
Athens
b)
Rome
c)
London
d)
Venice
8.

What type of planning did the City of Priene have?

a)

Grid Iron

b)

Organic

c)

Radial

9.

What did the Harappans use to build with?

a)

Mud & sand

b)

Fire baked bricks

c)

Wood

d)

Leaves

10.

What other city formed on the same river as the Harappan?

a)

Mohenjo-Daro

b)

Harappa

c)

Delhi

d)

Mumbai

11.

How were the roads arranged?

a)

There was no arrangement

b)

Triangular patterns

c)

In circles

d)

The roads were arranged into a series of grid-systems.

12.
An open space that served as a marketplace and public square, with temples and public buildings built around it was called 
a)
Colosseum
b)
Courtyard
c)
Forum
d)
Pantheon
13.
What Roman invention was a mixture of volcanic ash, lime and water when dried, was hard as a rock?
a)
Roads
b)
Concrete
c)
Gravel
d)
Courtyard
14.
What did Roman engineers build to bring water from the hills into the cities?
a)
Canals
b)
Ditches
c)
Underground pipes
d)
Aqueducts
15.
What did Roman cities use to remove waste?
a)
Aqueducts
b)
Arches
c)
Sewers
d)
Vaults
16.
What system did Roman engineers build to connect the empire?
a)
Aqueducts
b)
Roads
c)
Arches
d)
Sewers
17.

THE LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD SPANS FROM

a)

13TH TO 18TH CENTURY

b)

8TH TO 12TH CENTURY

c)

10TH TO 19TH CENTURY

d)

20TH TO 21TH CENTURY

18.

Cathedrals were important to cities for all of the following reasons EXCEPT...

a)

increased importance of city

b)

attracted religious pilgrims

c)

improved the economy

d)

made the king more important than the CHurch

19.

This image displays which castle defensive features?

a)

turrets

b)

outer wall

c)

portcullis

d)

murder holes

20.

A castle might be surrounded by a moat. What is a moat?

a)

a ditch often filled with water

b)

a jagged hill with caves

c)

a mound of dirt

d)

a wooden fence

21.

Natural Determinants for Ancient Greek city development?

a)

topography,climate,land

b)

topography,water,land

c)

topography,climate,construction material

d)

water,land,climate

22.

cities emerged as separate city states, instead of a single unified nation.

The disperse nature of fertile area was only available in form of isolated valley,

plains and plateau.

These conditions favored an arrangement of :

a)

urban nucleas

b)

surrounded by countryside

c)

surrounded by agricultural land

d)

ports

23.

Greek contribution to city planning

a)

colonizing movement

b)

connecting roads

c)

Urban form components

d)

grid iron planning

24.

The invention of formal city planning was attributed to (a)   of Miletus

25.

Name any two planned cities of Greek civilization?

(a)