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Ch 4 Geography Review--Europe: Early History

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The period of peace and prosperity initiated by Caesar Augustus was the ____.

(a)  

Choose from the below words
Pax Romana

Middle Ages

Renaissance

Protestant Reformation

2.

Socrates was a great ____.

a)

Roman general

b)

Greek general

c)

Roman philosopher

d)

Greek philosopher

3.

During the Age of Exploration, the Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India was ____.

a)

Vasco da Gama

b)

Bartholomeu Dias

c)

Michelangelo Buonarotti

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

4.

The Middle Ages ended and the pre-modern period began with the (a)   .

Choose from the below words
French Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
Renaissance
Pax Romana
5.

The inventor of movable type was ____.

(a)  

Choose from the below words

Geoffrey Chaucer

Johannes Gutenberg

John Locke

John Calvin

6.

A written document that granted privileges and freedoms to city residents was ____.

(a)  

Choose from the below words
a charter

an indulgence

a convent

a consul

7.

Renaissance writers reached a wider audience by writing in ____.

a)

Latin

b)

French

c)

the language of the educated

d)

the language they spoke every day

8.

When Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, he thought he had sailed to ____.

a)

the East Indies

b)

Africa

c)

France

d)

Portugal

9.

Sparta defeated Athens in the ____.

(a)  

Choose from the below words

Persian Wars

Alexandrian War

Peloponnesian War

Crusades

10.

Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under (a)   .

Choose from the below words
Caesar Augustus
Julius Caesar
Constantine I
Alexander the Great
11.

Workers’ organizations that controlled industries were called ____.

a)

guilds

b)

consuls

c)

apprentices

d)

Parliaments

12.

The mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by ____.

(a)  

Choose from the below words

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Napoleon Bonaparte

Miguel de Cervantes

13.

Alexander the Great conquered and spread the culture of (a)   .

Choose from the below words
Rome
the Ottoman Empire
the Byzantine Empire
Greece
14.

A castle was often part of a ____.

a)

manor

b)

convent

c)

monastery

d)

church

15.

A philosopher who believed that government should serve and protect the people and their freedom was ____.

a)

John Calvin

b)

John Locke

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Martin Luther

16.

Julius Caesar was killed by ____.

(a)  

Choose from the below words

a rival

the Huns

his nephew Octavian

supporters of the Roman Senate
17.

The idea that kings and queens ruled by the will of God was called the ____.

a)

divine right of kings

b)

Protestant Reformation

c)

Renaissance

d)

Columbian Exchange

18.

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Crusades?

a)

new trade routes

b)

mistreatment of Jews

c)

cooperation between Muslims and Christians

d)

growth of towns in western Europe

19.

During the Middle Ages, the political and social system was known as ____.

(a)  

Choose from the below words
feudalism

democracy

communism

anarchy

20.

Nobles who swore allegiance to the king were known as (a)   .