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World History 1 Unit 1 Test: Prologue Test A
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Choose the statement that best answers the question.
1. What form of government is based on the idea that people can govern themselves?
a. absolute rule
c. democracy
b. constitutional monarchy
d. dictatorship
2. How are powers divided in a federal system?
a. The power is divided between the House of
Commons and House of Lords.
b. The power is divided among the judicial,
legislative, and executive branches.
3. What is a republic?
a. a government in which citizens elect leaders who
make government decisions
b. a government in which citizens rule directly and
not through representatives
c. The power is divided between the monarchy
and the Parliament.
d. The power is divided between the central and
state governments.
c. a government in which one person rules
d. a government in which the noble class rules
4. Which Enlightenment thinker believed that all human beings had a right to life, liberty, and property?
a. Thomas Hobbes
c. John Locke
b. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d. Baron de Montesquieu
5. When did the Reformation begin?
a. when William and Mary were crowned co-rulers and Parliament established limits on royal rule
b. when Martin Luther began criticizing the Catholic Church's practice of selling pardons for sins
c. when people began restoring old monuments and works of art and began believing in individualism
d. when Parliament restored the monarch, Charles II, to the throne
6. What Hebrew code focused more on morality and ethics and less on politics?
a. Roman law
c. Petition of Right
b. divine right
d. Ten Commandments
7. What was the Magna Carta?
a. the formal summary of the rights and liberties of
the people
b. the laws that reflected the customs and principles
established over time
c. the document signed by King John,
guaranteeing certain English rights
d. the assertion that the power of kings came
from God
8. What form of government did England establish during the Glorious Revolution?
a. constitutional monarchy
c. absolute monarchy
b. direct democracy
d. feudalism
9. What tradition, developed in southwest Asia, helped to shape democratic rule?
a. Roman law
c. emphasis on community
b. religious prophets
d. monotheistic religion
10. Which war led to the creation of a short-lived republic whose leaders resorted to a Reign of Terror during
a national crisis?
a. the American Revolution
c. the English Civil War
b. the French Revolution
d. the Seven Years' War
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
11. What was Greece's largest island?
a. Rhodes
b. Marathon
Dardame;;es
c. Crete
d. Olympia
12. What sea separates Greece from Asia
Minor?
a. Mediterranean
b. Ionian
c. Aegean
d. all of the above
13. Which is Greece's easternmost city?
a. Byzantium
c. Olympia
b. Pella
d. Athens
14. Troy lies near what narrow waterway
that
separates Europe from Asia Minor?
a. Sea of Marmara
b. Aegean Sea
c. Ionian Sea
d. Dardanelles
15. What is the largest area named on the map that was not part of the Greek World?
a. Knossos
c. Byzantium
b. Asia Minor
d. Crete
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
16. In which form of government did
social status play a role?
a. monarchy
b. aristocracy
c. oligarchy
d. direct democracy
17. What form of government was
practiced in Sparta?
a.
b.
c.
d.
monarchy
aristocracy
oligarchy
direct democracy
18. Where was monarchy the form of government around 1450 B.C.?
a. Athens
c. Sparta
b. Mycenae
d. all of the above
19. Which form of government sometimes had a ruler who claimed divine right?
a. monarchy
c. oligarchy
b. aristocracy
d. direct democracy
20. Which form of government was ruled by citizens?
a. monarchy
b. aristocracy
c. oligarchy
d. direct democracy
World History 1: Chapter 2 Test A
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Choose the statement that best answers the question.
map page 74 in WH tb
1. Which of the following did the Ottomans conquer first?
a. Damascus
c. Athens
b. Baghdad
d. Belgrade
2. On which continents had the Ottomans gained territory by 1481?
a. Europe and Asia
c. Asia and Africa
b. Europe and Africa
d. Europe, Asia, and Africa
3. By what year had the Ottoman Empire reached its farthest southern extent?
a. 1451
c. 1520
b. 1481
d. 1566
4. By what year did the Ottomans control Hungary?
a. 1451
c. 1520
b. 1481
d. 1566
5. In 1520, what region of the Ottoman Empire was separated from its main territories?
a. Mesopotamia
c. Greece
b. Algeria
d. Balkans
6. Which empire had
the smallest territory?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire
Kingdom of Mali
Mughal Empire
7. Which empire had the
second largest population?
a. Roman Empire
b. Han Dynasty
c. Han Dynasty
d. Mughal Empire
8. How many people were in the British Empire at its height?
a. 13 million people
c. 125 million people
b. 60 million people
d. 430 million people
9. How much larger was the Roman Empire's territory than the Mughal Empire's territory?
a. 1.9 million square miles
c. 2.6 million square miles
b. 2.2 million square miles
d. 3.1 million square miles
10. How much larger was the population of the Han Dynasty at its height than the population
of the Ottoman Empire?
a. 21 million people
c. 29 million people
b. 26 million people
d. 32 million people
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Each letter will
only be used once.
a. He encouraged religious tolerance in the Mughal Empire and presided
11. Akbar
over a great cultural and artistic age.
12. devshirme
b. Mehmed II was able to conquer this Byzantine city using cannons and
13. Shah Jahan
military strategy.
14. cultural blending c. This interaction of two or more cultures produces new languages and
15. ghazi
new ideas in art, religion, and society.
16. Shah Abbas
d. Christian boys were taken as slaves, converted to Islam, and turned into
warriors and government officials as part of this Ottoman policy.
17. Isma'il
18. Timur the Lame e. This was the term for a warrior for Islam who belonged to a military
society with a strict code of conduct.
19. Esfahan
a. Artists from many cultures worked together in this capital city
20. Constantinople
of the Safavid Empire.
b. This Shi'a warrior led the Safavids to conquer what is now Iran.
c. He drew from many cultural influences and reformed civilian and military
life in the Safavid Empire.
d. He built the Taj Mahal in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
e. This Central Asian conqueror interrupted the growth of the Ottoman Empire.
World History 1: Chapter 3 Test A
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Choose the statement that best answers the question.
1. Which European country was the leader in developing and applying 15th century sailing innovations?
a Italy
c Portugal
b Spain
d the Netherlands
2. Who were the first Europeans to arrive on Japanese soil?
a. Italians who traded firearms
c. Christian missionaries
b. shipwrecked Portuguese sailors
d. Dutch merchants from the Dutch East
India Company
3. Why was the caravel an important development in navigation?
a. It was able to sail against the wind.
c. It was able to withstand storms at sea.
b. It was able to sail in shallow waters. d. It was able to carry large numbers of
crew members.
4. Korea was a vassal state of which country during the 1700s?
a. Japan
c. Portugal
b. China
d. the Netherlands
5. During the 1500s, what was China's official trade policy?
a. China openly traded with all European c. China traded only with Japan and other
countries.
Asian countries.
b. Only the government was allowed to d. The government lowered taxes to
trade with foreign countries.
promote trade.
6. Why did Lord Macartney give a letter from King George III to Qian-long?
a. Great Britain wanted China to follow c. Great Britain wanted to import
certain trade rituals.
manufactured goods from China.
b. Great Britain wanted China to stop
d. Great Britain wanted to increase trade
trade with the Dutch.
with China.
7. Who captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as the
Cape of Good Hope?
a. Prince Henry
c. Bartolomeu Dias
b. Vasco da Gama
d. Christopher Columbus
8. What did Hongwu do first to help China become a dominant power?
a. He sent explorers to western Europe to c. He reduced government expenses and
learn about science and medicine.
lowered taxes.
b. He overthrew the Mongols and
d. He opened all ports to trade with
established the Ming Dynasty.
European countries.
9. What type of policy did Japan institute to control foreign ideas?
a. a closed country policy
c. a policy of colonization
b. a policy of persecution
d. a Zen Buddhist policy
10. What type of poetry presents images rather than expresses an idea?
a. kabuki
c. haiku
b. kowtow
d. Saikaku
Use the map on the following page to answer the following questions:
11. What was the easternmost city da Gama reached?
a. Nagasaki
c. Malacca
b. Macao
d. Calicut
12. Which European country controlled trade in the East Indies?
a. Portugal
c. England
b. the Dutch
d. France
13. Which European countries had the most trading posts in India?
a. Portugal and England
c. France and the Netherlands
b. Spain and France
d. England and the Netherlands
14. About how
many miles did a trader
sail to go from Mombasa,
Africa, to Calicut, India?
a.
b.
c.
d.
3,500
2,000
4,000
2,800
15. Where did
Dias' route stop?
a.
b.
c.
d.
east of Calicut
south of Mombasa
east of Cape Town
west of Fernando Po
map page 100 in WH tb
16. How many years after China
began voyages of exploration did
Portugal conquer the city of Ceuta in
North Africa?
a.
b.
c.
d.
5
93
10
52
17. How many years did it take
Europeans to reach Japan after they
conquered Ceuta?
a.
b.
c.
d.
128
122
132
154
18. Which European nation had the latest entry into the Asian trade?
a. Portugal
c. France
b. Italy
d. the Netherlands
19. How many years after Portugal gained control of the Strait of Malacca did the Netherlands seize
the port?
a. 13
c. 121
b. 108
d. 45
20. Which event happened before the other events in China?
a. policy of isolation
c. completion of the Forbidden City
b. exploration of foreign lands
d. Mongols driven out
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
World History 1: Chapter 4 Test A
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Choose the statement that best answers the question.
What was the main economic activity in New France?
a. finding gold and spices
c. finding religious freedom
b. building a fur trade
d. creating long-term colonial investments
Who conquered the Aztec empire?
a. Hernando Cortés
c. Ferdinand Magellan
b. Francisco Pizarro
d. Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Why did Europeans see Africans as a better a source of labor than Native Americans?
a. Africans had complete immunity to all diseases, so c. Africans were strangers in the Americas, so
they wouldn't die off.
they wouldn't have allies or places to hide.
b. Africans had no experience in farming, so they
d. Africans were already Christians, so they didn't
wouldn't try to do things their way.
have to be converted.
What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s?
a. financing wars in Africa
c. paying for the building of slave ships
b. funding colonies in the Americas
d. funding the digging of gold mines
Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?
a. an island in the Caribbean Sea
c. the coast of what is today Panama
b. the southern tip of South America
d. the eastern coast of North America
What did the encomienda system provide for New Spain?
a. more land
c. military protection
b. more settlers
d. a cheap labor source
What prompted a wave of new businesses and trade practices in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries?
a. the global transfer of foods, plants,
c. people pooling their wealth for a
and animals during colonization
common purpose
b. new wealth from the Americas and the d. European countries becoming able to
growth in overseas trade
sell more goods than they bought
Which European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
a. the Netherlands
c. England
b. France
d. Spain
As part of the Columbian Exchange, which of the following was carried west across the Atlantic?
a. livestock
c. potatoes
b. tobacco
d. tomatoes
Which of the following areas was originally founded as a settlement by the Dutch?
a. Quebec
c. New York
b. Montreal
d. Massachusetts
Use the Triangle Trade graph on the next page to answer the following questions:
11. What did ships transport on the "middle passage"?
a. coins, enslaved Africans, and sugar
c. rum, trade goods, and currency
b. gold and enslaved Africans
d. sugar, molasses, and enslaved Africans
12. Which places were part of all three triangular trade routes?
a. England
c. New England, New York, and Philadelphia
b. West Indies and southern colonies
d. Africa
13. What did England export?
a. salt, fruit, and wines
c. bills of exchange
b. sugar, molasses, and fruit
d. manufactured goods
14. What did the West Indies export both to England and to New England, New York, and Philadelphia?
a. sugar and molasses
c. fruit and bills of exchange
b. coins and enslaved Africans
d. sugar, coins, molasses, and enslaved Africans
15. What did New England,
Philadelphia, and New York export to
both the West Indies and Spain,
Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira
Islands?
a.
b.
c.
d.
cattle and grain
lumber and cattle
fish, lumber, and grain
fish and cattle
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16. In 1754, which nation DID NOT hold part of what is now the United States?
a. England
c. Russia
b. France
d. Spain
17. In 1754, which nation controlled Quebec?
a. England
c. Russia
b. France
d. Spain
18. After 1763, which nation(s) had direct access to the Pacific Ocean?
a. England
c. Russia
b. France
d. Spain
19. By 1763, which nation won control of territory that had been disputed in 1754?
a. England
c. Russia
b. France
d. Spain
20. In 1754, which nation(s) held part of what is now Canada?
a. England
c. Russia
b. France
d. Spain