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Worksheets7F|10-13
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 16mins
The islands of Oceania are classified into three groups. One group is called Micronesia. Name one of the other two groups. (Name only one other group, and use only one word)
(a)
Which sea captain from Europe became the most famous explorer of the Pacific?
Abel Tasman
James Cook
John Paton
James Chalmers
Australia is almost the same size as:
Cambodia
Western Europe
The USA
Russia
The First Fleet left England in May of 1787 and sailed to New South Wales. Of the more than one thousand people on these ships, over eight hundred were:
women and children
slaves
convicts
black
Between 1405 and 1433 the Ming emperors of China sponsored seven naval expeditions. Who was the admiral of this fleet?
(a)
After the Ottoman Empire emerged from internal strife under Mehmet II (r. 1451-81), the goal became the conquest of:
Rome
Paris
Constantinople
Athens
The Ottoman threat finally ended in 1683 when the European forces were able to repel the Ottoman attack on:
Vienna
Tours
Paris
Warsaw
Which three of the following religions were tolerated in the Ottoman Empire:
Polytheism
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
Which dynasty did Shah Ismail I establish?
Ming dynasty
Yuan dynasty
Safavid dynasty
Moghul dynasty
The Safavid Dynasty laid the foundations for which modern-day state?
Palestine
Turkey
Iran
Afghanistan
Which English company was formed to develop trade with the East Indies?
Amazon
The Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie
ASEAN
The British East India Company
A flood of literature from Voltaire and other Enlightenment philosophers inspired the French to demand:
(mark all that apply)
equality
civil liberties
religious freedom
divine rule
In the eighteenth century, the great majority of French people were confined to:
rural areas
urban areas
the Third Estate
ghettos
The political and financial collapse in France in the eighteenth century occurred during the reign of:
Napoleon
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
William of Orange and his wife Mary
On 14 July 1789 a crowd stormed the fortress-prison in Paris and killed those assigned to guard it. What was the name of this fortress?
Louvre
Versailles
Arc de Triomph
Bastille
The Committee of Public Safety gained absolute authority in France and instituted a period of mass execution known as:
Black September
the Reign of Terror
Operation Barbarossa
the Pandemic
Who took advantage of the chaos in France and used his power to take control of the government?
Charles de Gaulle
Alberto Mussolini
Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis XIV
On June 18, 1815, the armies of Prussia and Britain confronted Napoleon and his forces in modern Belgium at:
Waterloo
Epstein
Tours
Vienna
Which two of the following countries gained their independence before WWI?
Belgium
Greece
Poland
Hungary
Initial progress toward German unification resulted from an economic union called the:
European Union
Zollverein
Sudentelande
Berlin Blockade
In 1862, King Wilhelm I appointed Count Otto von Bismarck as the chancellor of:
Germany
Prussia
Belarus
Russia
When Germany was unified, who was declared ruler of the German Reich?
Adolf Hitler
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Count Dracula
Herr Schindler
Giuseppe Mazzini, Count Camillo di Cavour, and Giuseppe Garibaldi worked to unify:
The Ottoman Empire
Sicily
Hungary
Italy
Around the 18th century. farmers developed new methods that resulted in an increased food supply. In which country did this agricultural change first occur?
America
Britain
France
Belgium
The changes in manufacturing were so great during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the period was called:
the Industrial Revulsion
the Great Leap Forward
the Machine Age
the Industrial Revolution
What provided consistent and reliable power for the Industrial Revolution?
Horses
Steam engines
Slaves
Solar power
Men who developed businesses and sold their inventions were known as:
entrepreneurs
crazy
the elite
politicians
What is "urbanization"?
the movement of populations from rural areas to towns and cities
building cities
planning town and city layouts
providing services to people in towns and cities
