World History Practice Exam
Course Introduction
World History offers a comprehensive survey of the major civilizations, events, and cultural developments that have shaped human society from ancient times to the present. This course examines key social, political, economic, and technological changes across regions such as Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Students will explore themes including migration, trade, empire, revolution, and globalization, seeking to understand connections and comparisons across different eras and societies. Through primary sources, scholarly analyses, and interactive discussions, learners will gain a deeper appreciation for the forces that have influenced the worlds diversity and shared heritage.
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The Worlds History Combined Volume 5th Edition by Howard Spodek
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Chapter 1: The Dry Bones Speak
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Q1) Which of these is a clearly proven fact?
A) Homo sapiens out-competed other species for food.
B) Different species of hominids sometimes mated.
C) Homo sapiens killed off hominid competitors.
D) Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens just once, in Africa.
Answer: B
Q2) The figure "Alternate reconstructions from Neanderthal skull" illustrates ________.
A) the variety of Neanderthal skulls discovered
B) hostility to different notions of human evolution
C) the challenge of interpreting skeletal evidence
D) proof of Darwin's theory of evolution
Answer: C
Q3) Charles Darwin is best known for his work on ________.
A) paleoanthropology
B) history
C) botany
D) evolution
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: From Village Community to City-State
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Q1) Which of these is created by combining tin and copper?
A) silver
B) steel
C) bronze
D) brass
Answer: C
Q2) The Ubaidian culture of Mesopotamia illustrates the ________ of farming culture.
A) persistence
B) emergence
C) flexibility
D) vulnerability
Answer: D
Q3) At its farthest,the Sumerian trading network stretched from ________ to
A) Greece; India
B) Italy; Arabia
C) Anatolia; Mesopotamia
D) Egypt; the Iranian plateau
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: River Valley Civilizations
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Q1) It is probable that city-states did not develop in ancient Egypt because ________.
A) urbanization was limited there
B) villages developed into towns earlier than in Mesopotamia
C) grain production was limited
D) the central state developed early
Answer: D
Q2) The fact that knowledge of the Indus valley civilization was entirely lost for millennia indicates that this culture ________.
A) had not reached the level of civilization
B) did not give rise to later cultures
C) was confined to a small area
D) had no writing system
Answer: B
Q3) Towns first appeared in Egypt in what period?
A) Old Kingdom
B) First Intermediate
C) Nagada II
D) New Kingdom
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: A Polycentric World
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Q1) The last Shang capital was at ________.
A) Luoyang
B) Anyang
C) Huanbei
D) Zhengzhou
Q2) Erlitou is important because it ________.
A) was China's first urban center
B) provided evidence that the Xia dynasty was historical
C) was the largest of the Shang capitals
D) saw the first emergence of farming in China
Q3) Looking at the map "Classic cultures of the Americas," which of these cultures were dominant at the same time?
A) Inca and Huari
B) Zapotec and Olmec
C) Aztec and Toltec
D) Teotihuanaco and Zapotec
Q4) Did the development of Neolithic culture follow the same steps in all world regions?
Support your answer with specific examples.
Q5) How did the dynasties of China differ from the dynasties of China?
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Chapter 5: Dawn of the Empires
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Q1) Which of these best explains why Alexander's empire did not last long?
A) The Macedonians had no experience with ruling an empire.
B) Alexander's rule was too oppressive.
C) There was no time to establish an administration.
D) It was too vast.
Q2) The most famous philosopher of fifth-century Athens was ________.
A) Socrates
B) Aristotle
C) Euripides
D) Plato
Q3) Which of these peoples conquered a vast Middle Eastern empire from around 900 B.C.E.?
A) Egyptians
B) Akkadians
C) Assyrians
D) Hittites
Q4) How do empires differ from kingdoms or city-states? Why are historians concerned about this difference?
Q5) How can you explain the fame of Alexander's conquests? Is this fame deserved?
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Q6) Compare and contrast Persian and Greek political traditions.
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Chapter 6: Rome and the Barbarians
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Q1) Consider the principal institutions of the Roman Empire.How did they reflect Roman history and the values of the Roman people?
Q2) The mosaics "Justinian and Theodora" show that Byzantine emperors ruled based on both ________ support.
A) military and religious
B) commercial and spiritual
C) cultural and military
D) patrician and plebeian
Q3) The Meditations were written by ________.
A) Marcus Aurelius
B) Pliny the Elder
C) Cybele
D) Constantine
Q4) The iconoclastic controversy reflects the influence of ________ in the Byzantine world.
A) Christianity
B) Judaism
C) Islam
D) Mithraism
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Chapter 7: China
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Q1) Sima Qian was a Chinese ________.
A) historian
B) philosopher
C) religious leader
D) emperor
Q2) The Great Wall and the Gansu corridor represent ________ in Chinese relations with other peoples.
A) two different trends
B) the same attitude
C) assimilation
D) aggressive expansion
Q3) Mencius represents a(n)________ Confucianism.
A) alternative to
B) reaction to
C) continuation of
D) development of
Q4) What were the attractions and applications of Confucianism,Daoism,and Legalism?
How did these interact in the lives of the Chinese in the Qin,Han,and Tang periods?
Q5) How was Confucianism utilized by Han and later rulers?
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Chapter 8: Indian Empires
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Q1) A jati is an Indian ________.
A) tribal people
B) guild
C) subcaste
D) mystic
Q2) One of the largest of the early Aryan states was ________.
A) Deccan
B) Pataliputra
C) Magadha
D) Chola
Q3) Sangam poetry illustrates which of these themes in Indian history?
A) the clash between Buddhism and Hinduism
B) regional cultural traditions
C) the cultural dominance of northern India
D) the legacy of the Aryan migrations
Q4) Kanishka was a ________ ruler of India.
A) Aryan
B) Mongol
C) Huna
D) Kushana
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Chapter 9: Hinduism and Buddhism
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Q1) The map "Hindu south Asia" indicates that Hinduism ________ India.
A) has roots all over
B) is associated primarily with northern C) is based in the Indus valley
D) is strongest where Jainism is weakest
Q2) Which of these was the earliest form of Buddhism?
A) Theravada
B) Mahayana
C) Pure Land
D) Chan
Q3) In Hinduism,which of these is personal devotion to god?
A) Brahman
B) bhakti
C) mudra
D) Sangha
Q4) The four ________ groups are the foundation of the Vedic caste system.
A) varna
B) adivasi
C) jati
D) maya
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Chapter 10: Judaism and Christianity
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Q1) Compare Judaism to one of the other religions studied so far.Especially consider the role of each outside of the strictly religious sphere.
Q2) The Ten Tribes of Israel were "lost" in the sense that ________.
A) their location was unknown
B) their homeland was lost
C) the Jewish kingdom split into Israel and Judah
D) they abandoned their faith
Q3) On the map "The spread of Christianity," which of these countries was responsible for the conversion of much of Britain and Germany?
A) Ireland
B) Spain
C) France
D) Poland
Q4) Looking at the map "The spread of Christianity," which of these formed the early core of the Catholic Church?
A) Spain and Italy
B) Germany and Poland
C) Bulgaria and Hungary
D) France and Italy
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Chapter 11: Islam
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Q1) What were the most important features of interactions between Muslims and Christians between the time of Muhammad and 1300?
Q2) How did expansion into the Middle East reshape Islam and Muslim culture?
Q3) Comparison of mosque architecture indicates that mosques in different regions
A) were nearly identical
B) had no features in common
C) all followed Arab decorative styles
D) retained the same components, but varied in construction and decoration
Q4) Looking at the map "Islam in Africa," which of these explains the rise of states such as Ghana and Darfur?
A) Indian Ocean trade
B) the spread of Islam
C) trans-Saharan trade
D) routes of communication along rivers
Q5) The hadith serve to ________ the Quran's teachings.
A) correct
B) expand upon
C) replace
D) translate
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Chapter 12: Establishing World Trade Routes
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Q1) Compared to the conquests of Chinggis Khan,his successors' conquests were
A) massive
B) roughly the same
C) small
D) nonexistent
Q2) Aztec pochtecas were ________.
A) traders
B) kings
C) farmers
D) bankers
Q3) Why did China ultimately decide not to pursue overseas trade? What was the impact of this decision?
Q4) The importance of internal trade to China can be explained primarily by China's ________,relative to other countries.
A) large rivers
B) more fertile lands
C) large size
D) commercial innovation
Q5) Compare the roles of China and Arab merchants in the Asian trading network.
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Chapter 13: The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific
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Q1) In The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait,which of these is a focus in this double portrait?
A) piety
B) affluence
C) love
D) domestic happiness
Q2) Thomas Aquinas worked to ________.
A) reconcile classical and Christian intellectual traditions
B) foster the use of reason as the best way to discovering truth
C) subordinate reason to Christian theology
D) fit Christian theology into the structure of Greek reason
Q3) The Black Death has traditionally been identified as ________.
A) bubonic plague
B) chicken pox
C) typhoid
D) anthrax
Q4) What were the long-term consequences of the Mongol Empire and its fall in European affairs of the Renaissance and after?
Q5) Use The Triumph of Death to consider the different impacts of the Black Death on Europe.
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Chapter 14: The Unification of World Trade
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Q1) Which of these came to power in Japan after the Battle of Sekigahara?
A) the Meiji emperor
B) the Tokugawa Shogunate
C) the Ming dynasty
D) Oda Nobunaga
Q2) Which of these conflicts ended in 1763?
A) Seven Years War
B) War of the Austrian Succession
C) French Wars of Religion
D) War of the League of Augsburg
Q3) Russian expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was accomplished largely at the expense of ________.
A) its serfs
B) the Orthodox Church
C) the landed gentry
D) imperial power
Q4) How did the emergence of the nation-state change the nature of imperialism?
Q5) What were the most important short-term and long-term impacts of the Protestant Reformation?
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Chapter 15: Migration
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Q1) The Maori were the indigenous inhabitants of ________.
A) Australia
B) New Zealand
C) Borneo
D) Sri Lanka
Q2) The mortality rate among Amerindians from European diseases was as high as ________ percent.
A) 30
B) 50
C) 70
D) 90
Q3) Russia's New World colony was based primarily on ________.
A) the fur trade
B) farming
C) missionary activity
D) trade with Amerindians
Q4) What were the common elements in the formation and nature of the "New Europes"?
Q5) Compare the practice of enslavement in Africa before and after the development of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Q6) Did urbanization in the period 1300 to 1750 follow earlier patterns?
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Chapter 16: Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas
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Q1) Which of these took place in 1789?
A) the American Revolution
B) ratification of the American Constitution
C) the Declaration of Independence
D) ratification of the Bill of Rights
Q2) Empiricism is based on ________.
A) observation
B) tradition
C) faith
D) theories
Q3) Which of these were American-born colonists,particularly in Spanish America?
A) mazombos
B) caudillos
C) conquistadores
D) Creoles
Q4) Adam Smith wrote ________.
A) The Wealth of Nations
B) Leviathan
C) What is the Third Estate?
D) "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen"
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) In the nineteenth century,about ________ percent of women worked as their families' main breadwinners.
A) 15 to 20
B) 60 to 65
C) 3 to 4
D) 30 to 35
Q2) In general ________ found their economic opportunities expanding during the 1800s.
A) farmers
B) married women
C) married men
D) young women
Q3) Chose two elements of European or American society and compare how these two were impacted by the Industrial Revolution.
Q4) Hiram Maxim developed a ________ in 1883.
A) dynamo
B) machine gun
C) reaping machine
D) camera
Q5) What were the most important impacts of the Industrial Revolution on politics?
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Chapter 18: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Resistance
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Q1) In China,Hong Xiuquan led the ________.
A) Boxer Rebellion
B) Nationalists
C) Ming Dynasty
D) Taiping Rebellion
Q2) The British victory in the Opium War meant that ________.
A) China was forced to accept opium imports
B) the opium trade ended throughout China
C) the opium trade was ended in areas under British rule
D) Britain gained control of the opium trade
Q3) Which of these claimed to be the Mahdi in Egypt in the 1880s?
A) Abdul Mecid I
B) Muhammad Ahmed
C) Sayyid Said
D) Shaka
Q4) The mfecane emerged near ________.
A) the Cape Colony
B) Morocco
C) Kongo kingdom
D) Ethiopia
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Chapter 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction
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Q1) The "Red Scare" was sparked by the ________.
A) Great Depression
B) outbreak of World War I
C) Russian Revolution
D) publication of The Communist Manifesto
Q2) The British imperial policy in India was ________ by Indian regional divisions.
A) hampered
B) facilitated
C) ended
D) reversed
Q3) Which of these was a trigger for the American entry into World War I?
A) the German declaration of war
B) the Zimmerman telegram
C) the formation of the Allied Powers
D) the Russian revolution
Q4) The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand launched World War I because ________.
A) decolonization was weakening European nations
B) of preexisting defensive alliances
C) of the forces of nationalism
D) the European world order was falling apart
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Chapter 20: World War II
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Q1) Japan's dual economy brought together ________.
A) foreign and domestic manufacturing
B) exports and imports
C) the old and the new
D) information technology and zaibatsus
Q2) At the height of its power in the 1940s,Japan ________.
A) ruled all of Asia
B) controlled most of east Asia
C) ruled all of east Asia
D) expanded mainly to the north
Q3) The author of "The Waste Land" was ________.
A) Albert Camus
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Sigmund Freud
Q4) The D-Day landing occurred in ________.
A) Italy
B) Spain
C) France
D) Greece
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Chapter 21: Cold War, New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority
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Q1) Since its inception,the scope of the World Bank has ________.
A) remained the same
B) diminished
C) shifted towards Asia
D) greatly increased
Q2) Which of these conflicts ran from 1950 to 1953?
A) the Korean War
B) the Cuban Missile Crisis
C) the Vietnam War
D) World War II
Q3) The end of the Soviet Union can be characterized as ________.
A) painfully slow
B) marked by bloody conflicts
C) swift and peaceful
D) incomplete
Q4) Nongovernmental organizations can be characterized as ________.
A) diverse
B) acting under UN authority
C) unregulated
D) commercial
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Chapter 22: China and India
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Q1) In 1947,India was partitioned into India and ________.
A) Bangladesh
B) Pakistan
C) Sri Lanka
D) Kashmir
Q2) India's "white revolution" concerned what industry?
A) steel
B) salt
C) textiles
D) dairy
Q3) The American desire to keep China out of the UN is best seen as part of ________.
A) anti-Asian sentiment in the US
B) the Korean War
C) American trade policies
D) the Cold War
Q4) What were the most important factors leading to the communist victory in China?
Q5) Was partition inevitable?
Q6) In the context of millennia of Indian history,why was India unified in the twentieth century?
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Chapter 23: Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, Politics, and Religion
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Q1) The Russian president from 2000 to 2008 was ________.
A) Vladimir Putin
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Dmitry Medvedev
Q2) Compare religious developments in different world religions.What are their commonalities/differences?
Q3) How has our understanding of evolution changed in the last 100 years?
Q4) Which of these is designated by Saskia Sassen as a "Global City"?
A) Beijing
B) Tokyo
C) Paris
D) Cairo
Q5) Which of these led to a spike in European Union membership in recent decades?
A) the end of the Soviet Union
B) creation of the United Nations
C) the end of NATO
D) the creation of the eurozone
Q6) How has the end of the Cold War changed international politics?
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Chapter 24: Trade,Revolution,Technology,Identity
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Q1) Is decolonization still taking place in Asia and Africa?
Q2) Outsourcing is attractive because it ________.
A) increases the speed of transactions
B) provides a tax haven
C) increases customer satisfaction
D) lowers labor costs
Q3) What are the key issues in attempts to address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions?
Q4) The African National Congress represented black Africans in ________.
A) the Congo
B) South Africa
C) Nigeria
D) Ethiopia
Q5) The motto of the ________ is "Another World is Possible."
A) World Social Forum
B) Conference on Human Settlements
C) United Nations
D) Kyoto Protocol
Q6) How does globalization differ from earlier global trade networks?
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