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Unit 3 Quiz PRACTICE

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A land based empire is

a)

An empire based primarily on the distribution of new lands to closely held bureaucratic officials who then govern those lands as sole leader

b)

An empire based primarily on the spread of religion and the installation of strict religious laws

c)

An empire based primarily on maritime conquest

d)

An empire based primarily on the administration and control of new lands often acquired by military conquest

2.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of a land based empire

a)

Centralized bureaucracy with a strong central leader

b)

Diverse populations with cultural syncretism

c)

A focus only on their land without further expansion

d)

Strong military force

3.

All of the following are Islamic gunpowder empires except

a)

The Mughals

b)

The Ottoman Empire

c)

The Qing Dynasty

d)

The Safavids

4.

Who set the foundation for the rise of the Turkic empires

a)

Shah Abbas I

b)

Mehmed II

c)

Tamerlane

d)

Babur

5.

Towards the end of Emperor Qianlong’s reign in China during the Qing Dynasty

a)

The Chinese government built the great wall of China to ward off invaders

b)

Chinese bureaucracy became corrupt and imposed high taxes and mass killings on the civilian population

c)

Mongol attacks became too strong and led to a change in power

d)

China imposed a protectorate over Tibet

6.

_______Mehmed II took over Constantinople by the use of

a)

Bronze cannons

b)

Intelligence negotiations with the enemy

c)

Use of horses in battle

d)

Unique military strategies such as trenches

7.

What are the four main methods that rulers use to maintain their power structures?

a)

Tax collection system, used religious shamans to foresee military tactics, canons, and stealing money from serfs

b)

Used military professionals, put religion on their side, used architecture to emphasize authority, tax collection system

c)

Used military professionals, put religion on their side, tax collection system, and portraits of Dr. Richardson to emphasize authority

d)

Used composite bows, slaughter of local villages, put religion on their side, tax collection system

8.

What is one COMMON way that leaders financed their empires in the period 1450-1750?

a)

Taxes such as the Jizya and Tax farmers such as Zamindars and Intendants

b)

Mining salt and gold to sell for profit

c)

Using the revenue from the Silk Road trade

d)

Demanding money from other empires using the Zamindars and Intendants

9.

Which King most strongly asserted the Divine right of kings in Europe?

a)

Henry VIII

b)

Peter the Great

c)

Louis XIV

d)

Ivan the Terrible

10.

How did Japan eventually consolidate its power?

a)

The Japanese Emperor implemented strict laws that were enforced by the Samurai

b)

The Daimyo led a revolution against the Samurai to gain control over Japan and instal the Daimyo Shogunate

c)

The Daimyo fought with the Shogun to eventually bring Japan under one Shogunate (Tokugawa Shogunate)

11.

What was the dominant religion in Europe?

a)

Islam

b)

Hinduism

c)

Sikhism

d)

Christianity

12.

Martin Luther questioned

a)

The validity of the Bible

b)

The selling of indulgences and simony as a payment for church land that was later used for the building of more churches

c)

The selling of indulgences as payment for the absolvement of sins and simony as payment for a church position.

d)

The position of the pope in the Catholic church

13.

Who established the church of England and why?

a)

Henry VIII, because he was fed up with the divorce laws of the Catholic church

b)

Henry VIII, because he wanted to work his way into the highest position of the church

c)

Charles V, because he was fed up with the matrimony laws of the Catholic church

d)

Charles V, because he questioned the authority of the pope

14.

What two Islamic empires went to war because of Islamic Schisms?

a)

Ottoman and Mughal

b)

Ottoman and Safavid

c)

Ottoman and the Umayyad

d)

Ottoman and Abbasid

15.

Which Mughal leader established a fair and efficient government based on tolerance?

a)

Babur

b)

Suleiman I

c)

Akbar

d)

Mehmed II

16.

Who united the majority of the Rus people and became the foundation for the Russian state?

a)

Mehmet II

b)

Ivan the Terrible

c)

Ivan the Great

d)

Suleiman I

17.

This was the name of the Russian Tsar in 1682 that greatly expanded and centralized the Russian state, largely modeling it after western models.

a)

Ivan IV (The Terrible)

b)

Peter I (The Great)

c)

Ivan III (The Great)

d)

Tamerlane

18.

This was the capital of Russia in which he built near the Baltic coast in an attempt to set up a maritime empire modeled after Western European states.

a)

St.Petersburg

b)

St.Helena

c)

Moscow

d)

London

19.

This was the Russian leader who is considered the first to gain Russian independence and start the Russian state after he led the victory over the Golden Horde (Mongols).

a)

Ivan III (Ivan the Great)

b)

Peter the Great

c)

Vladimir Lenin

d)

Nicholas II

20.

What was the name of the powerful noble class in Eastern Europe that Ivan IV tortured, executed, and stripped of land and power?

a)

Boyars

b)

Janissaries

c)

Samurai

d)

Patricians

21.

__________ This is the name of a movement that protested the policies of the Catholic Church in the Early Modern Era and moved to reform the church, later breaking away and forming their own denomination.

a)

The Protestant Reformation

b)

The Renaissance

c)

The Age of Exploration

d)

The Scientific Revolution

22.

__________ This was the controversial practice of selling salvation by the Catholic Church in the 16th-century.

a)

Indulgences

b)

Simony

c)

Excommunication

d)

Transubstantiation

23.

__________ This was the great Qing Emperor from 1654 to 1722 who vastly expanded China’s borders, including much of Central Asia and Taiwan.

a)

Kangxi

b)

Qianlong

c)

Yongzheng

d)

Hongwu

24.

__________ the requirement of all Han males within the empire to adopt the Manchu queue hairstyle in order to show dominance over the Han peoples by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

a)

Queue Order

b)

Mandate of Heaven

c)

Great Leap Forward

d)

Cultural Revolution

25.

__________ NON RELIGIOUS leader who oversaw the church clergy and then reported to the Tsar.

a)

Holy Synod

b)

Patriarch

c)

Metropolitan

d)

Archbishop

26.

__________ The church fought against protestant attacks and instituted the inquisition, Jesuit missionaries, and the Council of Trent as an attempt to keep followers.

a)

Counter-Reformation (Catholic Reformation)

b)

Great Schism

c)

Age of Enlightenment

d)

Renaissance

27.

__________ The Final religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, known as the Thirty Years war, resulted in this.

a)

Peace of Westphalia

b)

Treaty of Versailles

c)

Edict of Nantes

d)

Congress of Vienna

28.

__________ The shift in religious authority meant people also began looking towards reason, experiments, and evidence instead of faith.

a)

The Scientific Revolution

b)

The Industrial Revolution

c)

The Renaissance

d)

The Age of Exploration

29.

__________ Strict Islamic code established by the Ottoman empire.

a)

Sharia

b)

Canon Law

c)

Hammurabi's Code

d)

Talmud

30.

What was the forced bureaucratic service of Christian boys within the Ottoman Empire called? AKA Blood Tax

a)

Devshirme

b)

Janissary

c)

Millet

d)

Timar

31.

What was the name of the captured boys who went on to become WARRIORS for the Ottoman empire?

a)

Janissaries

b)

Mamluks

c)

Samurai

d)

Spartans

32.

This gunpowder empire is Sunni Islam.

a)

Ottoman Empire

b)

Safavid Empire

c)

Mughal Empire

d)

Songhai Empire

33.

This gunpowder empire is Shia Islam.

a)

Safavid Empire

b)

Ottoman Empire

c)

Mughal Empire

d)

Songhai Empire

34.

Wives and concubines of the Sultan tried to promote their own children as heirs to the throne.

a)

Harem

b)

Divan

c)

Janissary

d)

Vizier

35.

__________ was a Byzantine era church which was changed to a Mosque during the Ottoman to show the shift to Muslim values.

a)

Hagia Sophia

b)

Blue Mosque

c)

Topkapi Palace

d)

Suleymaniye Mosque

36.

An example piece of architecture built to demonstrate Indian wealth and power.

a)

Taj Mahal

b)

Eiffel Tower

c)

Great Wall of China

d)

Statue of Liberty

37.

How did rulers demonstrate their wealth and power in the Ottoman Empire - a form of domestic policy? (OTHER THAN TAXES)

a)

Public works (such as building mosques, palaces, and other monumental architecture and LITTLE PAINTINGS SO EVERYONE COULD STARE AT THEM)

b)

By abolishing all taxes for citizens

c)

By refusing to engage in any foreign trade

d)

By limiting the construction of public buildings

38.

Besides Islam, what was something all three gunpowder empires have in common?

a)

Use of gunpowder weapons (such as cannons and firearms)

b)

Practice of democracy

c)

Originated in Europe

d)

Spoke the same language

39.

Provide the major ethnic and religious group that was largely forced to flee Spain and Portugal during the Inquisition between 1492 and 1497.

a)

Jews

b)

Moors

c)

Catholics

d)

Protestants

40.

This is the doctrine that provided a religious justification for increased monarchal control in Early Modern Europe.

a)

Divine Right of Kings

b)

Social Contract Theory

c)

Separation of Powers

d)

Enlightened Absolutism

41.

The new class of non-noble elites that rose to prominence in Early Modern Europe, most notably in England, Scotland, and the Netherlands and sought to protect these rights from the monarch/government?

a)

Gentry

b)

Bourgeoisie

c)

Serfs

d)

Clergy

42.

In England, Their job was to maintain peace, settle some legal matters, and carry out the Monarch’s laws.

a)

Justices of the Peace

b)

Sheriffs

c)

Parliamentarians

d)

Lords

43.

This is the name of the German Monk who questioned the Church in 1517 - issuing the start of the Protestant Reformation

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Martin Luther

c)

Ms. Boss

d)

Charlemagne

44.

What enabled religious and scientific ideas to spread quickly in 16th century Europe?

a)
Public speeches
b)
The internet
c)
The printing press.
d)
Television
45.

This was the decades long conflict between the Catholics and Protestants in the early 17th century that signified the last religious war in Europe, as well as the decline of Spain and the Catholic powers.

a)
Franco-Dutch War
b)
English Civil War
c)
War of the Roses
d)
Thirty Years' War
46.

This was the name of the Russian leader in the 16th century who used terror tactics to consolidate his monarchy power and crush any resistance from the boyar nobility.

a)
Peter the Great
b)
Catherine the Great
c)
Boris Godunov
d)
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
47.

These were the northern people who invaded Ming China and ended the last Han Dynasty in 1644 and started the Qing Dynasty.

a)
Mongols
b)
Japanese
c)
Tartars
d)
Manchus
48.

This was the system kept in place by the Qing Dynasty to filter and select government officials in order to maintain Han acceptance and stability.

a)
Civil service examination system
b)
Local clan selection
c)
Imperial appointment system
d)
Merit-based recruitment
49.

The European monarch who centralized France through military conflict and bureaucratic and military reform in the early modern era.

a)
Louis XIV
b)
Philip II
c)
Henry IV
d)
Charles V
50.

This is the name of the House of Parliament which is primarily made up of wealthy, landed NON-nobility.

a)
House of Lords
b)
Senate
c)
House of Commons
d)
House of Representatives
51.

These were the peasant warriors of the Russian Empire

a)
Cossacks
b)
Knights
c)
Samurai
d)
Vikings
52.

Zheng He's expeditions were cut short because...

a)
the discovery of new land routes to Europe
b)
a desire to expand trade routes
c)
increased funding for maritime exploration
d)
a shift in government focus towards internal issues and defense