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WorksheetsWorld History S1 Final Review PT 2
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
The First Crusade was launched with the stated goal of
Opening a trade route to China.
Preventing a Muslim invasion of Europe.
Ejecting the Moors from Spain.
Capture Jerusalem from the Muslims.
Rumors that the Black Death was spread by certain groups in society led to
Minority groups being targeted and tortured.
The creation of movements such as the flagellants and hedonists.
The persecution of priests and land owners.
A rise in social status for the homeless, beggars, and lepers.
The Black Death is thought to have originated in
China
Europe
Africa
Central Asia
The system of feudalism was designed or originated because
Serfs did not have enough resources to live on their own so they looked towards the wealthy.
Lords enslaved neighboring people.
Free men needed protection and the lord needed people to work his land.
The Catholic Church needed to defend the land acquired during the Hundred Years War.
The owner of a serf's house was usually the
The serf
The lord
The villain
The military
The art and literature of the Italian Renaissance were most strongly influenced by
Artistic and literary styles introduced from China.
Islamic traditions of painting and poetry.
The teachings of the Catholic Church.
Classical art and literature.
The Middle Ages took place between
1500-500 BCE
1000-500 BCE
500-1500 CE
100-1000 CE
Church bells and town bells were one of the most characteristic sounds of ____ Europe because churches used bells to ring the hours of prayer and to call people to Mass.
Medieval
Vassal
Renaissance
Feudalism
Which of the following is not true of medieval towns?
They were often heavily influenced by powerful guilds.
Trade played a very limited role in their growth.
They could become relatively self-ruling communes.
They began to grow during the 10th and 11th centuries.
Results of the plague included all of the following except
Transfer of wealth to people who normally would not have inherited it.
Millions died from the disease.
Society became less mobile.
Workers' services eventually became more valuable.
The Aztecs derive from the _____ Mexica people who inhabited central Mexico.
Indigenous
Altar
Conquest
Egalitarian
Which of the following is true of Maya calendars?
They were not very accurate.
None of them were used to aid agriculture.
There were different calendars for different purposes.
They were created without the use of astronomy.
Olmec civilization was based in what is now
Northern Belize
Southern Honduras
Northern Panama
Southern Mexico
A major debate related to Olmec civilization concerns
Why they left behind so little evidence of their civilization.
How they survived in their environment.
Why they did not expand into South America.
How much they influenced later Mesoamerican people.
Maya civilization can be described as a
Unified empire ruled by an emperor.
Single city-state with one ruler.
Small nation with a representative government.
Group of city-states with their own kings.
What was Tenochtitlan?
The capital of the Aztec Empire.
The Olmecs' original homeland.
The Aztecs' main enemy state.
A yearly Aztec religious festival.
A fundamental feature of Aztec religion was its
Peaceful and kindly gods
Belief in only one god
Practice of human sacrifice
Lack of a priestly class
The Inca Empire was located in
Central America
North America
The Caribbean
South America
Inca officials kept records by using quipus, which were
Counting ropes
Abacuses
Written records
Images carved on stone pillars
What caused the end of the Aztec Empire?
Drought
Conquest by the Spanish
A rebellion by Aztec farmers
Unknown factors
What was the first artifact from Olmec civilization to be discovered?
A massive stone head
A jaguar sculpture
A rubber ball
An obsidian knife
Between 1540 and 1640, through the use of forced native labor, the Spanish sent 18,000 tons of what precious metal back to Europe?
Silver
Uranium
Copper
Platinum
The Aztecs, centered on their capital, Tenochtitlán, came to control most of central Mexico through
Conquest
Improved farming
Noble marriage alliances
Spiritual conversions
Native Americans given to Spaniards as a labor system were called
Audiencias
Encomiendas
Consulados
Indentured Servants
Match the European empire with its settlement in the Americas:
Brazil
Spain
England
France
Portugal
Within the black community, _____ were often privileged, and they sometimes passed into the dominant white community because of their physical characteristics that allowed them to appear white.
Mulatto
Mercantilism
Mestizo
Plantation
Match the European empire with its settlement in the Americas:
Jamestown, Virginia
Spain
Portugal
France
England
By the 19th century, _____ made up a major portion of the population in Central America, Mexico and South America.
Mulattos
Creoles
Mestizos
Mercantiists
French Protestants were called
Lutherans
Huguenots
Calvinists
Anglicans
In his Ninety-Five Theses, which marked the opening of the Reformation, Luther seems to primarily be attacking
The sale of Church offices and the ability of the nobility to control the Church.
The sale of Church indulgences.
The political authority of the papacy in the German states.
The pope's interference in the work of monastic orders.
The Reformation came out of
Growing dissatisfaction with corrupt church officials.
A group of corrupt church officials calling for reform.
A desire by many French Catholics to develop their own religious sect.
An effort by royalty to become more closely aligned with the Catholic Church.
How was Martin Luther's attack on the Catholic Church different from previous criticisms?
He felt the Catholic Church had corrupted the religious doctrine.
He only wanted to start a church of his own and not improve the Catholic Church.
He wanted all Germans to observe Calvinism.
He thought the best way for religious redemption was the sale of indulgences.
How was the printing press an agent for change during the Reformation?
Martin Luther only allowed Calvinist material to be printed.
Only the books by reformers and other publications were allowed to be duplicated on printing presses.
German princes banned the use of the printing press for religious material.
An increase in literacy coincided with the printing and wide distribution of religious scriptures allowing people to interpret the information without the clergy.
The Reformation inadvertently caused tension between monarchs and princes causing
The Thirty Years' War.
The Holy Roman Empire to collapse immediately.
The Habsburg Empire to flourish in the void left by the Catholic Church.
Peace and harmony amongst the European monarchs and their subjects.
The Counter-Reformation is most closely aligned with
A peasant revolt in Germany aimed at the Protestant Reformation.
King Henry VIII's determination to extinguish the Protestant Reformation.
A covenant of Protestant leaders attacking the Catholic Church.
Jesuits sent to teach and reinforce the Catholic doctrine.
Francis Bacon believed that
Studying nature would have technological applications.
The study of nature would bring insights about the mind of man.
The inquiry into the nature of the universe was the only worthwhile pursuit.
He could harness the energy of the cosmos to power machines.
Tycho Brache, in observing a bright comet in 1577, established that it was further away from the Earth than
Mars
The stars
The sun
The moon
Galileo's trial, run by the Roman Inquisition, showed that the views of the Church were not compatible with
The new belief in free expression of political ideas.
The new experimental science of the 17th century.
The original scientific worldview as built by Aristotle.
The forces of the rising Protestant world.
William Harvey, in his 1629 work on the circulation of the blood, proved that the heart is essentially a
Sieve
Filter
Type of natural battery
Pump
Rene Descartes championed the _____ approach that was based on Galileo's earlier discoveries.
Qualitative
Humanism
Deductive
Immutable
Isaac Newton proved that the following acted between all material bodies
An ever decreasing force of matter
A non-reactive fluid
An attractive force
A repelling force
The scientific revolution occurred over a period of several hundred years. The most enduring legacy from this era is
The formulation of the scientific method.
The lack of experimentation in proving scientific theory.
The unification of religious and scientific thought.
The disregard for the formulation of a strong hypothesis prior to scientific investigation.
The real success of the Scientific Revolution is the establishment of which of the following?
The idea that human reason is capable of understanding universal natural law.
The belief that man is the measure of all things.
The understanding of the movement of bodies in space.
The complete dismissal of religious belief.
The British form of punishment, _____ was finally abolished in 1948, but was consistently used on slave ships and on plantations.
Commodity
Exploitation
Lucrative
Flogging
Slaves were transported to the Caribbean or American Southern colonies for raw goods such as _____, tobacco, or rice.
Molasses
Flogged
Lucrative
Commodity
What economic policy was dependent on the development of colonies by European countries?
Communism
Socialism
Free Trade
Mercantilism
The great African trading empires of the Middle Ages played important roles in the spread of
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
The slave trade's impact on West Africa included all of the following except
Decreased warfare.
Social and economic change and disruption.
Breakdowns of traditional power structures.
The arrival of European contagious diseases.
One estimate of the number of Africans transported to the Americas during the three centuries of the slave trade is
500,000
1 million
10 million
100 million
New developments in transportation during the Industrial Revolution supported economic _____ in rural areas.
current
advancement
soot
interchangeable
By 1914, the biggest car-owning country, with 75% of the world's cars, was
Germany
The United States
Japan
The United Kingdom
The concept of _____ parts revolutionized the mass production of manufactured goods.
interchangeable
combustion
current
soot
The difference between the steam engine and the internal combustion engine is that
The steam engine is more powerful.
The steam engine uses gasoline.
The internal combustion engine wasn't practical due to a lack of coal.
Combustion takes place within the internal combustion engine.
The wheel was not first invented for use in transportation, but rather used in
Pottery
Agriculture
Irrigation
Weaponry
Which of the following is a fundamental Jewish scripture?
Book of the Dead
Koran/Quran
New Testament
Torah
One purpose of the traditional Indian caste system was to establish
A sense of order and people knowing their place in society
Ambition for hard work and desire to raise one's social status.
A sense of equality and cooperation among diverse people.
A lack of interest in earthly wealth and status.
The Bhagavadgita, or the Song of the Lord, is one of the most loved and influential ___ in India.
castes
scriptures
disciples
hereticals
Christianity originated in the Roman province of
Assyria
India
Babylon
Judaea
Buddhists believe that a person's karma impacts
The consequences they will experience upon rebirth.
The gods' willingness to answer their prayers.
Only their experiences in their present life.
Their ability to understand religious texts.
One core Hindu concept is the belief in
Reincarnation
Only one God
The disintegration of the soul upon death
The equality of men and women
