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Final Exam for World History I
Multiple Choice
1) The earliest people who migrated to the Americas came from
______________.
a. Europe
b. Asia
c. Africa
d. Australia
2) Which of the following civilizations ruled an area that included the
Andes Mountains?
a. Olmecs
b. Mayas
c. Aztecs
d. Incas
3) The Incan road system was built primarily for the purpose of
allowing ___________.
a. People to travel to religious festivals
b. Farmers to carry tribute to the Sapa Inca
c. Armies and news to move rapidly throughout the empire
d. Trader to come into the empire.
4) The first people who migrated to North America came by way of a
land bridge across the present- day ___________.
a. Rocky Mountains
b. Mississippi River
c. Bering Straits
d. Yucatan Peninsula
5) _______ Empire was located on the Yucatan Peninsula.
a. Anasazis
b. Mayas
c. Aztecs
d. Incas
6) ___________ Empire was located in central Mexico.
a. Olmecs
b. Mayas
c. Aztecs
d. Incas
7) Why did the Aztecs make human sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli?
a. To get rid of prisoners of war
b. To give the sun strength to rise each day
c. To control unruly nobles
d. To show their strength to the people the conquered
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8) Who governed the Aztecs Empire?
a. There was no organized government
b. The army ran the government
c. Each city- state had a king
d. A council chose the emperor
9) Claiming to be the son of the sun , the Sapa Inca was both
emperor and ___________.
a. Tax collector
b. Chief religious leader
c. Coya
d. Poet
10) The first America civilization emerged along the _____________.
a. Mississippi River
b. Mexican Gulf Coast
c. Desert coast of South America
d. Amazon River
Matching
11) Led the French to several victories and was tried for witchcraft
12) Event during which the longbow and cannon were used for the first
time
13) Englishman who attacked Church corruption
14) Bohemian who called for reforms in the Church
15) Time when the papal court were on the border of southern France
a. Babylonian Captivity
b. Jon Hus
c. Joan of Arc
d. John Wyclliffe
e. Hundred Years War
Multiple Choice
16) How did monks and nuns improve life during the middle Ages?
a. They cared for the sick and poor
b. They gave land to the peasants
c. They opposed the feudal system
d. They excommunicated criminals
17) Which of the following groups conquered the former Roman
province of Gaul?
a. The Christians
b. The Franks
c. The Muslims
d. The Saxons
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18) Which of the following is credited to Charlemagne?
a. The defeat of the Muslims at the battle of Tours
b. The development of feudalism
c. The development of banking
d. The revival of Latin learning
19) Under feudalism, lords granted land to vassals in exchange for
which of the following?
a. Food
b. Military service
c. Farm labor
d. Housing
Matching
20) Believed that God ruled over an orderly universe
21) Wrote the Divine Comedy
22) Wrote the Canterbury Tales
23) The everyday language of ordinary people called the
______________
24) Those medieval minds who tried to resolve the conflict between
faith and reason believed in ___________.
a. Thomas Aquinas
b. Chaucer
c. Dante
d. Scholasticism
e. Vernacular
Multiple Choice
25) The manor economy was based on_____________.
a. Trade among many villages
b. Farming and self – sufficiency
c. Metalworking
d. Herding and weaving
26) New agricultural technologies in the Middle Ages led to
___________.
a. The end of Church influence
b. The end of feudalism
c. Increased food production
d. The creation of farmer’s guilds
27) The relationship between medieval Christians and Jews was one
___________________.
a. In which Jews rose to positions of power
b. In which Jews were persecuted by Christians
c. That improved during hard times
d. Of mutual toleration
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28) Cannon law applied to ________________.
a. Religious teachings
b. The responsibilities of serfs
c. The theft of goods
d. The settlement of property
Matching
29) The Christian effort to drive the Muslims from Spain was called
____________.
30) The purpose of the ___________ was to conquer the Holy Land.
31) __________ was the monarch of Christian Spain
32) __________ described the wonders he had seen in China.
33) At the ____________, Pope Urban gave a speech that began the
Crusades.
a. Marco Polo
b. Reconquaista
c. Council of Clermont
d. Ferdinand
e. Crusades
Multiple Choice
34) Knighthood arose because feudal society was filled with
_____________.
a. Chivalry
b. Warfare and danger
c. Peasants working the land
d. Inequality
35) Which of the following groups dominated the economic and
political life of towns during the middle Ages?
a. Nobles
b. Merchants guilds
c. Knights
d. The clergy
36) This emperor weekend Germany by becoming embroiled in Italy’s
affairs and spending little time in Germany.
a. Henry IV
b. James I
c. Fredrick II
d. Barbarossa
37) Which of the following did Saint Louis do during his rule as king of
France?
a. He tolerated Jews and heretics
b. He eliminated the royal courts
c. He ended serfdom in his lands
d. He collected new taxes from the middle class
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Matching
38) Law that is the same for all people
39) Clergyman who resisted Henry II’s efforts to increase royal power
40) Census commissioned by King William
41) Document that affirmed feudal rights
42) A group of men who determined which cases should be brought to
trail
a. Common law
b. Thomas Becket
c. Jury
d. Domesday Book
e. Magna Carta
Multiple Choice
43) For what purpose did English use the Domesday Book?
a. To set out sentences for criminals convicted of murder
b. To build an efficient system of tax collection
c. To undermine the war plans of the king’s enemies
d. To report on deadly diseases discovered in Europe
44) What did Henry II do to broaden the system of royal justice?
a. He established a Supreme Court
b. He stiffened the requirement necessary to become a lawyer
c. He taxed the rich and used the money to build a courthouse
d. He helped established English common law and the jury
system
45) Pope Gregory VII banned this practice.
a. Marriage between minors
b. Kings appointing bishops
c. Clergy marrying
d. Taxing of the clergy
46) Under the Concordat of Worms, this person had sole right to invest
bishops with fiefs.
a. The emperor
b. The pope
c. The bishop
d. The government
47) The Muslims acquired and passed on a range of ideas and
technologies through ___________.
a. Wars
b. Trade
c. Ambassadors
d. Tourists
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Matching
48) Sacred rituals that helped sinners to gain salvation
49) Tax paid to support the Church
50) Guidelines that regulated monastic life
51) Penalty that prohibited individual Christians from receiving the
sacraments
52) Church action that excommunicated an entire town or region
a. Tithe
b. Benedictine Rule
c. Excommunication
d. Interdict
e. Sacraments
Multiple Choice
53) The Crusades affected the world by ____________.
a. Increasing trade between Europe and the Middle East
b. Strengthening the system of serfdom
c. Weakening the power of the Church
d. Causing Europeans to isolated themselves from the world
54) Isabella set up the Inquisition in an attempt to _______________.
a. Drive the Muslims out of Spain
b. Extend religious toleration
c. Achieve religious unity
d. End war with the Church
55) The Black Death was caused by ______________.
a. Malnutrition
b. A disease spread by rates/ fleas
c. Lack of vaccines
d. Wounds suffered during the Hundred Year’s War
Matching
56) Written documents that set out the rights and privileges of a town
57) Money for investment
58) Lending money at interest
59) Association of merchants or artisans
60) Trainee working to join a guild
a. Apprentice
b. Capital
c. Charters
d. Guilds
e. Usury
61) In exchange for land, _________ pledged service to a greater lord.
62) _________ required knights to be brave, loyal, and true to their word.
63) Many young nobles were trained in riding and fighting in order to
become _____________.
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64) Most ____________ included one or more villages and the
surrounding lands.
65) A lord granted his vassal a __________, or estate.
a. Chivalry
b. Fief
c. Knight
d. Manor
e. Vassal
Multiple Choice
66) This conqueror was the leader of the Norman Conquest and united
most of England.
a. Wilbur
b. William
c. George
d. Ferdinand
67) The Anglos and Saxons settled from Continental Europe to this
country?
a. England
b. France
c. Germany
d. Spain
68) What was the main goal of the Crusades?
a. To win back the Holy Land
b. To make money
c. To find glory
d. To kill innocents
69) This unlucky king who singed the Magna Carta, in England, limiting
royal power.
a. King George
b. King Henry II
c. King John
d. King Edward II
70) Which of the following was a result of the Crusades?
a. Cooperation between religions
b. Acceptance of Jewish people
c. Stimulation of production of goods and trade with Middle
Eastern Markets
d. Permanent return of Jerusalem to the Christians
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71) These homes of Monks helped to preserve Greco- Roman culture
achievements during the Middle Ages.
a. Convents
b. Vatican’s
c. Chapels
d. Monasteries
72) What type of government means rule by a king or queen?
a. Democracy
b. Monarchy
c. Aristocracy
d. Tyranny
73) Byzantine artists made a lasting impact in __________.
a. Charcoal and watercolors
b. Sculpture and painting
c. Religious art and architecture
d. Carpet weaving and textiles
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74) Appointed by the Byzantine emperor
75) Dispute over these divided the Church in the Byzantine Empire and
in Western Europe.
76) After this, the pope and the patriarch excommunicated each other
77) Justinian, like earlier Roman emperors, was one of these
a. Autocrat
b. Icons
c. Patriarch
d. Schism
Multiple Choice
78) Eastern Europe is region of __________.
a. Democratic governments
b. Impassable mountain ranges
c. Diverse peoples and cultures
d. Isolated cities
79) Unlike Roman Catholics, Byzantine clergy practiced __________.
a. Christmas
b. Confession
c. Excommunication
d. Marriage
80) Of all Justinian’s works, he is best remembered for ___________.
a. His wife Theodora
b. His code of laws
c. His art
d. War with North Africa, Italy, and Spain
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81) The Byzantine Empire collapsed partly due to __________.
a. War
b. Disease
c. The Church
d. A strong central government
82) Under Ottomans, Constantinople became _________.
a. A city devastated by war
b. A Christian stronghold
c. A center of Muslim culture
d. A monument to Justinian
83) What did Ivan the Great believe about Czars?
a. They had absolute power
b. They ruined Russia
c. They would rule for twenty years
d. They should give in to the Mongol
84) Which of the following cities became the capital of Russia under
the Czar?
a. Kiev
b. Kulikovo
c. Constantinople
d. Moscow
85) Jewish refugees fled to Western Europe because ________________.
a. The land was to poor to support farming
b. They could not earn a living there
c. Christian Europeans persecuted them
d. They were looking for better economic climate
86) Poland was unlike Russia of Western Europe in ____________.
a. Allowing nobles more power than the monarch
b. Its attitude toward foreigners
c. Refusing to allow its people to engage in war
d. Limiting commerce severely
87) Chain of islands is called a ______________.
a. Archipelago
b. Shogun
c. Pagoda
d. Hangul
88) Supreme military commander in Japan was called a
________________.
a. Archipelago
b. Shogun
c. Pagoda
d. Hangul
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89) A three-line poem consisting of 17 syllables.
a. Haiku
b. Hangul
c. Shogun
d. Sejong
90) Mongol chieftain who became the world's most successful
conqueror.
a. Murasaki Shikidu
b. Genghiz Khan
c. Tang Taizong
d. Murasaki Shikidu
e. Giving peasants greater freedom
f. D. Imposing central government control on all Japan
91) Vietnam, Tibet, and Korea became ____________ (s) of China.
a. Tributary State
b. War lord
c. Pagoda
d. Li Bo
92) The greatest asset of the Mongol warrior was his ____________.
a. Skill in horsemanship
b. Advanced weaponry
c. Code of honor
d. Ability to negotiate with the enemy
e. Shilla
93) __________ were the fighting aristocracy of early Japan.
a. Haiku
b. Shogun
c. Samurai
d. Kabuki
94) The shogun distributed lands to the ________.
a. Haiku
b. Daimyo
c. Samurai
d. Kabuki
95) ________ emerged in Africa between 100,000 and 400,000 years
ago.
a. Stone man
b. Homo sapiens
c. Egyptians
d. Neonatal
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96) Homo sapiens migrated from _______ to Eurasia, Australia, and the
Americas.
a. Europe
b. America
c. Australia
d. Africa
97) Early humans were ____________________, survival depended on the
availability of wild plants and animals.
a. Farmers
b. Traders
c. Hunters and gatherers
d. Warriors
98) During the Neolithic era people made pottery and developed
_____________.
a. Cave art
b. Weaving skills
c. Fire
d. None of the above
99) Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age) people were __________ (migrated
in search of food, water, shelter)
a. Farmers
b. Traders
c. Nomadic
d. Warriors
100)
____________ people invented the first tools, including simple
weapons
a. Neolithic
b. Paleolithic
c. Neonatal
d. Cave man