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Semester Review

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

THE TIGRIS RIVER FLOWS THRU WHICH AREA?

a)

UR

b)

MESOPOTAMIA

c)

ARGON

2.

EUPHRATES DEALS WITH A

a)

RULER

b)

SUMARIAN EMPIRE

c)

RIVER

d)

LAKE

3.

GEOGRAPHY IS THE STUDY OF

a)

CULTURES

b)

RELIGION

c)

EARTH

d)

SCIENCE

4.

A ZIGGURAT DEALT WITH A

a)

PYRAMID MONUEMENT

b)

RIVER CROSSINGS

c)

GODS MOUNTAIN HOME

5.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBE A PHARAOH?

a)

RULER

b)

SOLDIER

c)

FARMER

6.

HIEROGLYPHICS HAD TO DO WITH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN

a)

WRITING

b)

THEOCRACY

c)

ECONOMIES

d)

LANGUAGE

7.

ANOTHER WORD FOR PAPYRUS WAS

a)

PAPAL LEADER

b)

DIVINE GOD

c)

PAPER

8.

PYRAMIDS WERE BUILT FOR WHAT PURPOSE?

a)

RELIGIOUS CHURCHES

b)

PALACES

c)

BURIAL TEMPLES

9.

THE PROCESS OF EMBALMING CORPSES IN ANCIENT EGYPT WAS CALLED

a)

PYRAMIDS

b)

CREMATION

c)

MUMMIFICATION

10.

MYTHS DEALT WITH STORIES OF WHO?

a)

ASIATIC INVADERS

b)

GODS

c)

CITY STATES

11.

ANCIENT GREECE MOST MILITARISTIC CITY-STATE?

a)

ATHENS

b)

THEBES

c)

SPARTA

d)

MYCENAE

12.

GREEK SOLDIER SENT TO WARN GREEK CITY-STATES OF THE ADVANCING PERSIAN ARMIES

a)

HECTOR OF TROY

b)

MARATHON MAN

c)

ACHILLES

13.

THE MAYOR OF THE PALACE WAS CALLED?

a)

MAJOR DOMO

b)

PRO BONO

c)

CON DOMO

14.

UNDER THE TREATY OF VERDUN, THE FRANKISH EMPIRE WAS DIVIDED INTO

a)

2 CITIES

b)

3 CITIES

c)

3 PROVINCES

d)

2 PROVINCES

15.

THE SCANDANAVIAN NORSEMEN KNOWN FOR THEIR ROUGH APPROACHES

a)

VIKINGS

b)

HUNS

c)

VISIGOTHS

d)

AVARS

16.

UNDER THE AGE OF CHIVALRY….WHO WAS EXPECTED TO DEFEND THE CASTLE

a)

KNIGHTS

b)

PEOPLE

c)

PEASEANTS

d)

LORDS

17.

IN A FEUDAL SOCIETY, A GREAT EMPHASIS WAS PLACED ON

a)

LAND

b)

MONEY

c)

SERVANTS

18.

TROUBADOURS ENTERTAINED MEDIEVAL CROWDS WITH

(a)  

19.

UNDER CHIVALRY, KNIGHTS WERE EXPECTED TO BE __________ & _____________.

(a)  

20.

A PAGE WAS A YOUNG BOY WHO WAS ASSIGNED TO HELP THE

a)

LORD

b)

SQUIRE

c)

SERF

d)

KNIGHT

21.

A SQUIRE WAS A SERVANT TO KNIGHT….HE BECAME A KNIGHT AT WHAT AGE?

a)

20

b)

21

c)

22

d)

23

22.

ANOTHER WORD FOR “FIEF”?

a)

LAND

b)

CASTLE

c)

PROVINCE

d)

LAND TAX

23.

A TITHE IS A

a)

TAX

b)

CHURCH TAX

c)

TAX EXEMPTION

d)

LAND TITTLE

24.

A VASSAL WORKED THE FEUDAL LAND FOR A

a)

FUEDAL KNIGHT

b)

FUEDAL LORD

c)

FUEDAL BISHOP

d)

SQUIRE

25.

AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL FOLK HERO AGAINST A CORRUPTED LORD

a)

ROBIN HOOD

b)

LANCELOT

c)

ARTHUR OF LANCELOT

26.

THE AZTECS WERE WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE?

a)

VIOLENT

b)

NOMADIC

c)

EXPLORERS

d)

HUNTER GATHERERS

27.

THE AZTECS CALLED THEIR CAPITAL CITY?

a)

MEXICO CITY

b)

TEOTHIHUACAN

c)

TOLUM

d)

TENOCHITITLAN

28.

THE AZTEC SUN GOD TOLD THE WANDERING AZTECS ABOUT BUILDING THEIR HOME ON THE SITE WHERE THEY SAW THEIR OMEN, THEY WOULD SEE A ___PERCHED ON A __ WITH A __ IN ITS MOUTH

(a)  

29.

THE AZTECS PRACTICED HUMAN SACRIFICES TO HONOR?

a)

HUMANS

b)

WEATHER

c)

KINGS

d)

GODS

30.

WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE AZTECS WHEN CORTES ATTACKED THE AZTECS

a)

MOCTEZUMA I

b)

MOCTEZUMA II

c)

MOCTEZUMA III

31.

THE GLOBAL TRANSFER OF FOODS, PLANTS AND ANIMALS DURING THE COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS IS CALLED THE?

a)

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

b)

MIDDLE PASSAGE

c)

ENCOMIENDA

32.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew landed on an island in the Caribbean Sea that he named?

a)

THE BAHAMAS

b)

SAN SALVADOR

c)

HISPANOLA

d)

CARRIBEAN

33.

The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America was known as the

a)

ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

b)

TRIANGULAR TRADE

c)

MIDDLE PASSAGE

34.

Lands that are controlled by another nation are called

a)

IMPERIALISM

b)

TERRITORIES

c)

DEPENDENCIES

d)

COLONIES

35.

The queen of France who spent so much money that she was called “Madame Deficit” was

a)

MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE

b)

KLEMENS VON MATTERNICH

c)

MARIE ANTONIETTE

36.

The pledge by Third Estate delegates to meet until they created a new constitution became known as the

a)

CONGRESS OF VIENNA

b)

ESTATES GENERAL

c)

TENNIS COURT OATH

37.

The increase in output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s was called

a)

FUEDALISM

b)

THE RENAISSANCE

c)

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

38.

The process of developing the machine production of goods is called

a)

INDUSTRIALIZATION

b)

MECHANIZATION

c)

TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION

39.

A person who organizes, manages, and takes the risk on a business is called

a)

TYCOON

b)

LEADER

c)

BOSS

d)

ENTREPRENUER

40.

WHAT BEST DESCRIBES PROPAGANDA

a)

one-sided information designed to persuade

b)

policy of glorifying war and keeping an army prepared for war

c)

the battlefields of northern France in World War I

41.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA DURING WORLD WAR 1

a)

WOODROW WILSON

b)

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

c)

HERBERT HOOVER

d)

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

42.

WHAT DIPLOMATIC POSITION DID THE USA TAKE FROM DURING YEAR 1 OF WW1?

a)

SURRENDER TO GERMANY

b)

JOIN ALLIES

c)

NEUTRALITY

43.

THE NAME OF THE USA CARGO SHIP FIRST SUNKED BY THE GERMANS IN 1915

a)

TITANIC

b)

SUSSEX

c)

LUISIANNA

d)

LUSITANIA

44.

THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM INVITED WHICH LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRY TO FIGHT THE USA?

a)

CUBA

b)

PUERTO RICO

c)

VENEZUELA

d)

MEXICO

45.

THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WAS LED BY GENERAL

a)

GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

b)

GENERAL JOHN PERSHING

c)

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

46.

THE USA SOLD WAR BONDS TO HELP FINANCE WWI….A WAR BOND WAS A

a)

CASHIERS CHECK

b)

BANK LOAN

c)

MONEY CERTIFICATE

47.

THE FEDERAL LAW THAT PROHIBITED AMERICANS FROM CRITICIZING THE PRESIDENT

a)

JIM CROW

b)

PATRIOT ACT

c)

SEDITION ACT

48.

THE U.S. SELECTIVE LAW STATED THAT AMERICAN MALES BETWEEN 21 & 30 YRS. OF AGE

a)

COULD BE DRAFTED

b)

WERE EXEMPT

c)

HAD TO PAY TAX

49.

THE USA MILITARY STRATEGY TO PROTECT ITS CARGO SHIPS FROM SINKING TO U-BOATS

a)

ZIG ZAG

b)

CONVOY

c)

CARAVAN

50.

WORLD WAR 1 ENDED ON

a)

NOV.10, 1918

b)

NOV. 11, 1918

c)

JUNE 28TH, 1919