WorksheetsWorld History Midterm
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 24mins
Read the quotation from a noted historian and then answer the question below.
"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity." —Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War, 1961 According to this quotation, this is why people study history.
History teaches us to avoid mistakes of the past.
History helps us become better thinkers.
History makes us better informed.
History helps us develop empathy.
These are not true of the "big picture" view of the world.
It approaches history as a study of separate regions with few interconnections.
It examines history from a global perspective and identifies common patterns.
It focuses on history based on the influence of classical civilizations of the Mediterranean world.
It values global connections and patterns over events on the national and regional levels.
A book about the war where the author says things like “I was drafted at age 18…”, “I flew to Vietnam a few months later…”, “We fought in five battles…” would be considered what type of source?
secondary source
primary source
biased source
none of these answers are correct.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share this belief.
Monotheism
Polytheism
Reincarnation
Resurrection
This topic would fall under the theme of social structures.
rise of industry.
gender roles and relations.
forms of government.
development of religion.
This is why the Silk Road was important between 300 to 1500 C.E.:
It crossed the Indian Ocean.
It was launched by the Vikings.
It was made up of water routes to Europe.
It was the world’s largest trading network.
Muslims spiritual and political leaders were called:
khans.
caliphs.
traders.
scholars.
The Aztecs adapt this achievement from the Maya.
floating gardens
use of causeways
chariots with wheels
system of two calendars
One reason why the Battle of 1429 had a different outcome from the Battle of 1364 during the Hundred Years Was this.
Joan of Arc led the French.
The English had heavy armor.
The French used the crossbow.
Peasants fought for the English.
This was the Justinian’s Code.
A new form of writing.
A school of philosophy.
An improved library system.
An organized set of laws.
The Magna Carta of England did this.
To strengthen common law.
To make the Church weaker.
To protect the rights of nobles.
To give the king more power.
In a Chinese meritocracy, selection of officials was based on:
birth
wealth
civil service exams
popular vote
This inference can be made about the African Trading Empires.
Ghana was the oldest and largest African trading empire.
The West African kingdoms primarily prospered through trade of gold and salt.
Ivory was a major good traded among the kingdoms.
Taxation of traders was the only way the kingdom of Zimbabwe grew wealthy.
Mansa Musa was famous for this reason.
Bringing Christian scholars to Mali
Building churches in Mali.
His extreme wealth and doubling the size of the Kingdom of Mali.
A caravan of silver.
This is one main feature of most Mesoamerican and South American empires had in common.
They all practiced polytheism and human sacrifice as part of their religion.
They all use Llamas to travel and trade.
They all traded gold, salt, copper throughout the Middle East.
They all developed a form of written language.
This idea is suggested about the developments during the Enlightenment.
An ideal society is governed by reason.
Government should be separated into three branches.
A free market is based on competition.
A ruler should always be ready for war.
The code developed under the sultan Suleyman the Magnificent was based on this system.
Hebraic law
The Justinian Code
The Napoleonic Code
Shari'ah law
Ottomans deal with different cultures and religions within their empire like this.
They created a legal code that emphasized the separation of church and state.
They banned the practice of non-Muslim religions in the empire and drove out those who would not convert.
They were generally tolerant and allowed separate communities to manage their own religious affairs.
They worked to convert people in the empire to Catholicism but allowed Jews to maintain separate communities.
Ottomans deal with different cultures and religions within their empire like this.
They created a legal code that emphasized the separation of church and state.
They banned the practice of non-Muslim religions in the empire and drove out those who would not convert.
They were generally tolerant and allowed separate communities to manage their own religious affairs.
They worked to convert people in the empire to Catholicism but allowed Jews to maintain separate communities.
In the late 1500s, the Dutch attack Spanish ships in the Caribbean because of this.
To maintain a monopoly of trade with Asia.
To take the silver that the ships were carrying.
To protect Dutch settlements from Spanish attacks.
To prevent the sailors from spreading deadly diseases.
This artist is most famous for his painting the “Mona Lisa” was:
Michelangelo.
Bruegel.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Raphael.
This was the primary reason for the death among American Indians after the arrival of explorers.
disease
warfare
overwork
imprisonment
The Columbian Exchange bring these changes in Europe.
Europe experienced a massive migration of people from the Americas.
Europeans could use coins for the first time now that they had gold and silver from the Americas.
American food plants such as corn and potatoes improved Europeans' diets.
Transportation in Europe improved because of horses brought from the Americas.
This is how Galileo Galilei added support for the heliocentric theory:
making mathematical calculations.
retracting his views under pressure.
observing the sky through a telescope.
formulating laws of gravity and motion.
This political change took place in Spain, Portugal, England, and France in the 1400s and 1500s?
Knights established councils to limit the power of the monarchs.
Kings gained power at the expense of local nobles and the Church.
City-states used their new economic power to achieve their independence.
Power to make laws passed from royal families to the growing middle class.
This period of history began because of the actions taken by Martin Luther.
The Protestant Reformation
The Scientific Revolution
The Italian Renaissance
The Glorious Revolution
In the passage below, Montesquieu referring to: "... Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separate from legislative power and from executive power. If it were joined to legislative power, the power over the life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislator. If it were joined to executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor...." —Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
Separation of governmental powers.
Enlightened absolutism.
A policy of mercantilism.
A social contract.
This is similar about the encomienda and mi'ta system.
It gave monetary compensation to enslaved Africans.
It provided food such as beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes to Europe.
English colonists brought serfs to the plantations to work.
Both systems provided free labor to Spanish conquistadors.
This idea accurately compares the social structure of Japanese with Western European feudalism.
In both Japanese feudalism and Western European feudalism, the social structure was rigid and based on birth.
In Japanese feudalism, the social structure was rigid and based on birth, while in Western European feudalism, social movement was possible.
Both Japanese feudalism and Western European feudalism had a flexible social structure that allowed for social movement.
In Western European feudalism, social status was primarily determined by individual achievements, while in Japanese feudalism, birth determined social status.
‘Divine Right’ mean:
The protection of individual rights.
The freedom of speech and gathering.
The belief that God chooses the king to rule, and they are only responsible to God.
The strong belief of unity and duty to a country or nation.
The Middle Passage normally goes from ________ to ________.
Africa to Europe.
Europe to Africa.
Africa to the Americas (West Indies, North and South America).
Africa to the Middle East.
The Glorious Revolution led to the establishment of Europe's first constitutional monarchy—a system of government that:
the monarch's powers are limited by a constitution.
the constitution dictates how the monarch is selected.
the monarch and Parliament are equal under the constitution.
the constitution limits how long the monarch can serve.
The Napoleonic Code was a law code that (a) in France.
Which of the three estates of Pre-Revolutionary France had the highest population AND paid the most taxes?
First Estate
Third Estate
Second Estate
The French Monarchy
This revolution led to the founding of (a) , the first black republic in modern history.
This factor allowed for the development of mass production.
the creation of more sophisticated advertising strategies
the specialization of workers in a single step of the manufacturing process
the use of chemical fertilizers and mechanized reapers and harvesters
the creation of vertical monopolies across a single industry
This is how few large companies come to dominate industrial economies by the late 1800s.
by buying smaller companies or driving them out of business.
by creating partnerships with national banks.
by establishing multinational corporations throughout the globe.
by lobbying national governments for favorable legislation.
Child-labor laws had little impact because:
they were often ignored and poorly enforced.
they were not passed by the government.
child laborers were not paid employees.
child laborers would go on strike.
The railroads guarantee the success of the Industrial Revolution because:
Goods could be moved faster from the factories and it would reduce prices of products.
People could travel from their homes in the countryside to the factories in the cities.
Entrepreneurs were encouraged to invest large amount of money in factories that were linked by railroads.
Everyone enjoyed riding on the railroads.
labor unions was developed mostly in response to:
Increasing unemployment.
Low wages and bad working conditions.
Government ownership of business.
Racial and gender discrimination.
This trend was most responsible for the change in Birmingham’s population.
Immigration from the colonies.
Improvements in urban health care.
Industrial growth in urban areas.
Famine in rural areas.
