History of the Ancient World Test Questions
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History of the Ancient World examines the major civilizations that emerged from the dawn of history until the early Middle Ages, emphasizing the social, political, economic, and cultural developments that shaped human society. This course explores the rise and fall of empires such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, and China, analyzing their contributions to law, government, philosophy, art, religion, and technology. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students gain insight into the interconnectedness of ancient societies and the enduring legacies that continue to influence the modern world.
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World History Volume I To 1800 7th Edition by William
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) The independent African state that emerged at the end of the second millennium B.C.E.was
A) Axum.
B) Mali.
C) the Maghreb.
D) Kush.
E) Zanj.
Answer: D
Q2) Mesopotamian civilization
A) developed during the Paleolithic Era.
B) was made of cities and located in a river valley.
C) was located between the Nile and the Niger rivers.
D) was the only early civilization with no cities.
E) was the birthplace of democracy.
Answer: B
Q3) By 100,000 B.C.E.,two groups of Homo sapiens had developed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) jati
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Q2) A major religion that was founded by Mahavira in the sixth century was
A) Daoism.
B) Jainism.
C) Chandrism.
D) Zoroastrianism.
E) Hinduism.
Answer: B
Q3) The language of the Vedas was Prakrit.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The Harappan economy
A) was based upon war and conquest.
B) is unknown, due to the lack of physical or written evidence.
C) was devoted to the maintenance of the god Seth.
D) was based primarily on agriculture.
E) was exclusively involved in manufacturing and trade.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) eunuchs
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Q2) In ancient China,aristocrats
A) often were required to work on dikes to protect the irrigation system.
B) performed physical labor for others, for two weeks at a time, two times each year.
C) often served as government officials in peace and war.
D) served only as bureaucratic advisors.
E) rarely played any political or military role.
Answer: C
Q3) Characteristic elements of daily Chinese life were
A) complex, mostly meat diets.
B) simple and sparsely furnished houses.
C) highly decorated modes of dress.
D) constant wars.
E) changing urban lifestyles.
Answer: B
Q4) Anyang
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) helots
Q2) The tragic Greek tale of the man who killed his father and married his mother was written by
A) Thespis.
B) Sophocles.
C) Aeschylus.
D) Euripides.
E) Lycurgus.
Q3) Write an assessment of Alexander the Great.How "Great" was he,actually? Why?
Q4) Are the ideas and influences of Socrates,Plato and Aristotle still the ultimate basis of Western society? Why or why not?
Q5) Serfs in Sparta were known as hoplites.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Thucydides
Q7) Delian League
Q8) Aristophanes
Q9) Socrates and his "Socratic method"
Q10) polis
Q11) Greek geography Page 6
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Q1) Which of the following is a true statement about the centuriate assembly?
A) It prevented the Roman army from functioning in a political role.
B) It had an organizational pattern that assured a majority for its poorest members.
C) It had the responsibilities of electing the chief magistrates and passing legislation.
D) It had the power of declaring war and peace.
E) It was abolished during the Punic Wars.
Q2) mystery religions
Q3) Under ____,Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire.
A) Augustus
B) Hadrian
C) Diocletian
D) Constantine
E) Theodosius
Q4) Why were efforts such as those of the Gracchus brothers,Marius,and Julius Caesar unable to save the Roman Republic?
Q5) Discuss the impact of geography upon the development of Roman civilization.
Q6) Essenes and Zealots
Q7) plebeians
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) This Aztec capital was established on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco.
A) Tikal
B) Palenque
C) Uxmal
D) Tenochtitlán
E) Chichen Itzá
Q2) Valley of Mexico
Q3) Which civilization lived in terraces cut out of a mountainside located in the central Mexican highlands?
A) Chavin
B) Olmec
C) Zapotec
D) Inca
E) Maya
Q4) The reason for the decline of Mayan civilization was
A) due to the arrival of hostile Viking adventurers in the ninth century C.E.
B) a volcanic eruption.
C) an internal revolt.
D) an external invasion.
E) probably the result of multiple causes.
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
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Q1) Seljuk Turks
Q2) Muhammad began the solitary meditations during which he received the revelations underlying Islam because of
A) a dispute with his wife.
B) his desire to expand his knowledge of the message of Allah.
C) the difficulties created in his mind by the corrupt and decadent society of his day.
D) the call of the angel Gabriel.
E) his desire to convert the people of Mecca to Islam.
Q3) The poet who wrote the Rubaiyat was
A) al-Mutanabbi.
B) Omar Khayyam.
C) Rudaki.
D) Sadi.
E) Tarafah.
Q4) Mongols
Q5) The capital city of the Abbasid caliphate was Damascus.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Arabian Nights
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) All of the following were true about the southern African state of Zimbabwe except A) it was located south of the Zambezi River.
B) it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.
C) it derived great wealth from its role in expanded trade activities between coastal Africa and regions of the continent's interior.
D) a possible explanation for its demise may have been its unsound environmental practices, such as overgrazing.
E) it had a significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states.
Q2) Madagascar
Q3) Niger River
Q4) Slavery in Africa
A) was introduced by the Muslims.
B) went back to ancient times, long before the arrival of the Europeans.
C) saved its harshest treatment for the domestic and royal servants.
D) was virtually nonexistent in North Africa.
E) never involved more than two percent of the population.
Q5) Cape Guardafui
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Islam was spread through parts of India by the military advances of A) the Rajputs.
B) Mahmud of Ghazni.
C) the Nanaks.
D) Samudragupta.
E) Asoka.
Q2) Kushan Kingdom
Q3) sati
Q4) Nanak and Sikhism
Q5) The two major geographic components of Southeast Asia are
A) the Rann of Kutch and the Irian tidal zone.
B) an extensive archipelago (today's Indonesia and the Philippines) and a mainland zone from the Malay Peninsula north to China.
C) the Mekong Delta and the Cao Highlands.
D) the Sargasso Hills and the Red River plain.
E) the Tienenman Valley and the Angkor Strait communities.
Q6) Srivijaya and Majapahit
Q7) Maori
Q8) the Sind and Punjab Page 12
Q9) Theravada
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) In medieval China,the tribute system
A) was a domestic policy used by Tang rulers to exact taxes from local villages.
B) was a method by which Mongol rulers dealt with the Han Chinese.
C) maintained a working trade relationship between the Chinese and foreign merchants and rulers.
D) was first introduced by the Manchu Dynasty.
E) was maintained in opposition to the tenets of Confucianism.
Q2) Which of the following was true about the power of the Mongols?
A) They were unable to gain control of Khanbaliq.
B) Their power was based on the strategic use of infantry armies.
C) They maintained their control in China for almost six centuries.
D) They achieved more success in China than in the rest of East Asia.
E) They imposed a new governmental system in China.
Q3) Pure Land sect
Q4) fire-lance
Q5) Song Taizu
Q6) civil service examination
Q7) Zhu Yuanzhang
Q8) the Southern Song and Hangzhou
Q9) Marco Polo Page 14
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) In Vietnam,
A) women had less authority than their counterparts in China.
B) women could never initiate divorce proceedings against their husbands.
C) women possessed more rights, in practice and in law, than in China.
D) Confucianism was never an influence.
E) Chinese rule was paramount for almost 1200 years.
Q2) Murasaki Shikibu"s The Tale of Genji
Q3) In spite of the impact of Chinese influence,
A) Vietnam developed chu nom, which was a writing system for spoken Vietnamese.
B) Japan never adopted either Chinese characters for writing or any of its governmental system.
C) Korea never accepted tributary status under Chinese overlordship.
D) Confucianism itself had little influence anywhere outside of China proper.
E) Korea never came under Chinese political control.
Q4) Ashikaga era
Q5) The Taika reforms,based upon the Chinese model,were intended to make the Japanese government operate more efficiently.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Ainu Page 16
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) Why did the revival of trade during the High Middle Ages occur as,and when,it did? Back up your ideas with supporting evidence.
Q2) Erik the Red
Q3) The interdict was the weapon used by kings and emperors against the Church.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Philip IV the fair and the Estates-General
Q5) St.Benedict and.St.Hilda of Whitby
Q6) Gregory VII and the Investiture Controversy
Q7) Magna Carta
Q8) What were the causes and what were the consequences of the emergence of universities in the High Middle Ages?
Q9) The Dominican friars
A) were established in the ninth century.
B) were first led by the highly intellectual Dominic de Guzmán.
C) lived among the people and helped the poor.
D) became key factors in combating heresy under the leadership of the Holy Roman Emperor.
E) were led by Francis of Assisi.
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in
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Q1) the Great Schism
Q2) As a result of the Fourth Crusade,the West established a permanent political presence in the Byzantine Empire.
A)True
B)False
Q3) At the beginning of the Hundred Years' War,the English had the advantage because of
A) cannon and gunpowder.
B) the crossbow.
C) the longbow.
D) heavily armored cavalry.
E) German mercenaries.
Q4) Nika Revolt
Q5) Henry VII/Tudors
Q6) Because of the lack of sanitation,the mortality rate of the Black Death was considerably higher in rural areas than in urban areas.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Michelangelo
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Life in Southeast Asia was
A) centered around large cities for most of the population.
B) lived by most people in houses made of stone.
C) more male-controlled than in China.
D) more favorable for women than elsewhere in Asia.
E) based upon hunter-gatherer societies.
Q2) Pedro Cabral
Q3) "God,glory,and gold"
Q4) Vasco da Gama
Q5) Which of the following was the most important reason for the massive growth of the African slave trade in the sixteenth century?
A) the need to supply the mines of Peru with an abundant labor force
B) the desire to develop the tobacco plantations of the New World
C) intense labor needs created by the development of sugar growing in the New World
D) the enormous growth in the African birth rate
E) the European ability to obtain slaves in many West African areas
Q6) There had been no slavery in Africa before the arrival of the Europeans.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) Dutch realism and Judith Leyster
Q2) As a result of the Glorious Revolution in England,
A) the Irish gained a number of rights (petition, jury trial, etc.).
B) William and Mary were deposed, and James II became the English ruler.
C) Parliament enshrined divine-right absolutism in England.
D) Parliament became a major participant in the running of the English government.
E) Oliver Cromwell was driven into exile.
Q3) James I,Charles I,and divine right
Q4) "predestination"
Q5) the Catholic Reformation
Q6) Baroque
Q7) The artistic movement that dominated the Western artistic world during the seventeenth century was known as Neo-classical,inspired by the legacy of Greece and Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Christian/northern Renaissance humanism
Q9) Henry IV,Huguenots,and the Edict of Nantes
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Q10) Henry VIII and the Act of Supremacy
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) Sinan
Q2) devshirme
Q3) Shah Abbas I the Great
Q4) Which of the following statements is<u> not</u> an accurate characterization of the nature of Ottoman governmental processes?
A) Originally, Ottoman rule was dominated by tribal law and augmented by Muslim law.
B) The Ottoman Empire was influenced by Byzantine and Persian rule.
C) The sultan ruled from the Topkapi with the assistance of the Grand Vezirs, who were primarily the products of the devshirme process.
D) The government was located in Istanbul, the former Constantinople.
E) The government refused to allow any religion to be practiced in the empire except for Islam.
Q5) Royal Academy of Isfahan
Q6) The position of the Ottoman sultan was hereditary,with a son,although not necessarily the eldest,which led to many sibling executions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) Ming dynasty
Q2) How,and why,was the Ming dynasty followed by another non-Chinese dynasty so soon after the Yuan? Was it again a situation in which Chinese disunity proved fatal? Why? Why were the Manchus so successful at establishing a foreign dynasty in China,and what were the main characteristics of Manchu rule? How did economy and society change during the Ming and Qing eras,and to what degree did these changes seem to lead toward an industrial revolution on the European model?
Q3) Gia Long and the Nguyen dynasty
Q4) Discuss the three unifiers of Japan in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries,and the possible reasons for their success.
Q5) Yi dynasty
Q6) Which of the following is accurate regarding of the effects of Qianlong's trade policy with England?
A) It showed Lord Macartney that he could not continue to attack the Emperor.
B) It set the stage for a future of harmonious trade relations between the two powers.
C) It showed the compromising nature of the Chinese attitude.
D) It set the stage for a future of Chinese degradation and decline.
E) The emperor encouraged the British to import opium from India to China.
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Declaration of Independence
Q2) Why were the ideas of Copernicus and Galileo so controversial in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
Q3) John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Q4) The French Revolution
A) was precipitated by a noble-bourgeois dispute over the best way to deal with the large budgetary surpluses of 1788 and 1789.
B) actually had no real impact on either the economic or political status of peasants.
C) created no major gains, even temporarily, for women in such areas as divorce and inheritance.
D) created a "nation in arms" and an army of 650,000.
E) failed in its attempt to restore divine right monarchy to France.
Q5) Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract
Q6) partitions of Poland
Q7) What do historians mean by the term "enlightened absolutism," and to what degree did eighteenth-century Prussia,Austria,and Russia exhibit its characteristics? How "enlightened" was enlightened absolutism as it was manifested in eighteenth-century Europe? Give examples to support your viewpoint.
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