Deck 53: World History

Question 1

Who was responsible for spreading Hellenistic culture in the ancient world?

A)Philip II of Macedon
B)Julius Caesar
C)Alexander the Great
D)Menelaus

Answer 1

Alexander the Great

Question 2

Which statement accurately compares the ancient Greek city-states Athens and Sparta?

A)Athens was the "birthplace of democracy" and all adult Athenians were allowed to vote, except for slaves; Sparta had a mixed government that was primarily oligarchical.
B)Slaves could legally be killed at their owners' discretion in Athens and Sparta.
C)Athens was part of the Peloponnesian League and taxed their ally city-states; Sparta was part of the Delian League and renowned for their navy.
D)Athenian women rarely left the home and received no formal education; Spartan women were formally educated, could be citizens and could own property.

Answer 2

Athenian women rarely left the home and received no formal education; Spartan women were formally educated, could be citizens and could own property.

Question 3

Which empire was the first to unite the Middle East, Asia Minor, and Persia?

A)Achaemenid Empire
B)Byzantine Empire
C)Mongol Empire
D)Ottoman Empire

Answer 3

Achaemenid Empire

Question 4

The Muslim Arab Invasion of Persia in 651 C.E. resulted in the radical decline of what religion that was native to Persia?

A)Buddhism
B)Zoroastrianism
C)Hinduism
D)Judaism

Question 5

Which of the following empires operated with a formalized caste system?

A)Holy Roman Empire
B)Roman Empire
C)Gupta Empire
D)Byzantine Empire

Question 6

Which dynasty united China, built a national system of roads, standardized writing, coinage, weights, and measures, and created the Terracotta Army?

A)Zhou Dynasty
B)Han Dynasty
C)Tang Dynasty
D)Qin Dynasty

Question 7

Which of the following was NOT the consequence of an invasion?

A)The fall of the Mayan civilization.
B)The fall of the Han Dynasty.
C)The fall of Ancient Rome.
D)The fall of the Gupta Empire.

Question 8

The concept of Yin and Yang originated with what Eastern religion?

A)Hinduism
B)Daoism
C)Confucianism
D)Buddhism

Question 9

"Therefore, your Worship should know that it has pleased us to remove all conditions whatsoever, which were in the rescripts formerly given to you officially, concerning the Christians and now any one of these who wishes to observe Christian religion may do so freely and openly, without molestation." Who among the following leaders was a signatory to the document quoted above?

A)Pope Leo I
B)Charlemagne
C)Constantine
D)Justinian

Question 10

The Crusades were a series of religious wars primarily waged between Christians and:

A)Secular governments.
B)People who did not adhere to a religion.
C)Jews.
D)Muslims.

Question 11

How did the Muslims acquire the scientific knowledge that they passed on to the Europeans during the Crusades?

A)They acquired the knowledge from the Greek Macedonians, who conquered them centuries earlier.
B)Their knowledge originated in the Middle East during the Abassid Caliphate.
C)After the Muslims invaded northern Africa, they gained the knowledge from the ancient Egyptians.
D)They discovered long-lost Christian church texts that contained the information, which they integrated into Muslin culture.

Question 12

Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan were leaders of what civilization?

A)Han Dynasty, China
B)Mongol Empire
C)Mughal Empire
D)Ottoman Empire

Question 13

Shogun was to samurai as European lord was to:

A)Baron
B)Peasant
C)Vassal
D)Serf

Question 14

In which European country did Islam gain the most influence between 300 and 1400 C.E.?

A)Greece
B)Italy
C)France
D)Spain

Question 15

Confucianism is characterized by its emphases on:

A)Order, obedience, and relationships.
B)Salvation, prayer, and good works.
C)Charity, equality, and self-perfection.
D)Personal freedom, nature, and forsaking worldly goods.

Question 16

Which of the following statements about the Silk Road is NOT true?

A)The mutation of bubonic plague that turned into the Black Death originally entered Europe via the rats that infested Silk Road merchant vessels.
B)Trade along the Silk Road eventually ended due to two factors: increasing political barriers that interfered with free passage and opportunistic mercenary soldiers who enforced ever-increasing tolls, making the route's use too expensive.
C)The revenue that Italian merchants derived from selling Eastern goods ultimately funded the art, science, and academic projects that collectively became the Renaissance.
D)Marco Polo's Silk Road adventures were one of the primary inspirations for later generations of European explorers, making the Silk Road integral in launching the Age of Exploration.

Question 17

The most significant developments in Renaissance Portugal were in what field?

A)Literature
B)Art
C)Navigation
D)Architecture

Question 18

Which empire is not correctly matched with the opponent that caused its downfall?

A)Umayyad Caliphate: Abassid Caliphate
B)Mongol Empire: Ming Dynasty
C)Byzantine Empire: Ottoman Turks
D)Ottoman Empire: Holy Roman Empire

Question 19

Which of the following exchanges did NOT occur via the Columbian Exchange?

A)Smallpox from Africa was introduced to Europe.
B)Sugar cane from Asia was introduced to the Americas.
C)Maize from the Americas was introduced to Europe.
D)The domesticated horse from Europe was introduced to the Americas.

Question 20

What ultimately happened to Spain as a result of their vast silver acquisitions in the New World?

A)They became the wealthiest economy in Western Europe.
B)Spain experienced such severe inflation that it wounded their economy.
C)They leveraged the newfound wealth to build the most fearsome naval fleet the world has ever known.
D)They became the leading financial center of Europe, where the majority of major financial and commodity exchanges took place until the mid-19th century.

Question 21

Which of the following was part of the Triangular Trade? I. Slaves transported from Africa directly to Central and South America.
II) Slaves transported from Africa directly to the British colonies in North America.
III) Raw materials from the Americas shipped to Europe.
IV) Manufactured goods from Europe shipped to Africa and the Americas.

A)I and III only
B)I and II only
C)I, III, and IV
D)I, II, III, and IV

Question 22

The first multinational corporation began in what country?

A)Spain
B)China
C)England
D)The Netherlands

Question 23

Which disease did explorers contract in the New World and transmit to Europe?

A)Syphilis
B)Smallpox
C)Tuberculosis
D)Scarlet fever

Question 24

What was the New World encomienda?

A)A fleet of Spanish vessels that could sail into the interior of a Latin America landmass via rivers, enabling it to collect mined commodities for transport to Spain.
B)A system in which Spanish explorers were granted control over groups of New World natives, which quickly descended into a system of forced labor.
C)A military tribunal intended for the trials of disobedient sailors; the encomienda were ultimately used to punish uncooperative natives.
D)A Spanish weapon used to catapult flaming oil into forested areas (to clear a path for transit) or into populated areas as an act of warfare.

Question 25

Which of the following men wrote the statement above?

A)Thomas Paine
B)Jean-Jacques Rousseau
C)John Locke
D)Thomas Hobbes

Question 26

In what treatise did Jean-Jacques Rousseau write, "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains"?

A)On Reason
B)Treatise on Human Nature
C)An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
D)The Social Contract

Question 27

Of what was a monarch trying to convince his subjects when he claimed that his right to rule was "divine?"

A)That he was "chosen" by God to rule and should therefore be invested with the same absolute authority.
B)That he was a god.
C)That he knew God's plan and should therefore be trusted to lead.
D)That attempts to remove him from power would fail because God invested an authority in him that was absolute and could not be taken away by anyone on Earth.

Question 28

During which decade did the first successful slave rebellion begin?

A)1770s
B)1790s
C)1810s
D)1850s

Question 29

On which continent did imperial European states begin widespread colonization in the 19th century?

A)East Asia
B)South America
C)Africa
D)Australia and the Pacific islands

Question 30

What was the purpose of the Boxer Rebellion?

A)Russia wanted to expel foreign colonizers from the country.
B)The Russian people wanted to overthrow the monarchy and institute a communist government.
C)China wanted to expel foreign colonizers from the country.
D)China wanted to expel foreign diplomats and missionaries from the country.

Question 31

What aspect of the Berlin Conference of 1884 ultimately had the greatest long-term impact on the people of Africa?

A)The colonial boundaries indiscriminately grouped Africans from different tribes.
B)The imperial powers established free trade in the Congo Basin.
C)The imperial powers opened the Congo and Niger Rivers for free trade.
D)The numerous European influences on the continent generated distinct and diverse cultures among the African tribes, which lasted long African territories. after the Europeans lost control of their

Question 32

Which of the following statements about The Communist Manifesto is correct?

A)The Communist Manifesto was published in 1888 in Russia by Russians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who stated that all of human history was a history of "capitalist warfare."
B)The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848 in the United Kingdom by Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who stated that all of human history was a history of "class struggles."
C)The Communist Manifesto was published in 1868 in Germany by Russians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who stated that all of human history was a history of "workers' struggles."
D)The Communist Manifesto was published in 1898 in Russia by Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who stated that all of human history was a history of "wage warfare."

Question 33

Which of the following empires did NOT fall in the aftermath of World War I?

A)Germany's Second Reich
B)Austro-Hungarian Empire
C)Italian Empire
D)Russian Empire

Question 34

The close quarters of World War I facilitated the rapid spread of what illness, which became a pandemic?

A)Tuberculosis
B)Yellow fever
C)Measles
D)Influenza

Question 35

Who among the following people is most closely associated with the Black Hand?

A)Franz Ferdinand
B)Yasser Arafat
C)Ayatollah Khomeini
D)Vladimir Lenin

Question 36

Which of the following did the Treaty of Versailles NOT demand of Germany?

A)Reparations totaling 132 billion Marks (1921 value).
B)The elimination of the German military for a period of 20 years.
C)An admission of guilt for all actions committed by the Entente during World War I.
D)A significant loss of territory that eliminated all German colonial claims.

Question 37

In 1948 the newly formed United Nations adopted a convention on the prevention and punishment of what crime?

A)Mass murder
B)Harboring former Nazi officers
C)Genocide
D)Development of nuclear weapons

Question 38

The European Recovery Plan, authorized by the U.S. Senate in 1947 to help rebuild Western Europe, was nicknamed for what man?

A)Prime Minister Winston Churchill
B)President Harry S. Truman
C)President Franklin D. Roosevelt
D)Secretary of State George C. Marshall

Question 39

"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." When President Harry S. Truman made the statement above, what policy was he describing and to what "free peoples" was he referring?

A)A containment policy; Greece and Turkey.
B)An intervention policy; Korea and Vietnam.
C)A containment policy; Soviet Union and Korea.
D)An intervention policy; Soviet Union and Turkey.

Question 40

What was the name of the disastrous economic policy that Mao Zedong adopted in China in a bid to turn his country into an industrialized communist society?

A)The Special Period
B)The Great Leap Forward
C)The Grand Industrialization
D)The Sufan Movement

Question 41

In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi instigated the Civil Disobedience Movement when he led what march?

A)The Peace March
B)The Water March
C)The Salt March
D)The People's March

Question 42

Which of the following statements about Adolf Hitler is NOT true?

A)After a failed coup in Bavaria nearly a decade before his rise to power, Hitler was imprisoned for over a year, during which time he wrote Mein Kampf.
B)Within 18 months of becoming Führer, Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty by expanding the German military, occupying the demilitarized Rhineland and sending troops to Spain to help eventual-dictator Francisco Franco wrest control of the Spanish government during the Spanish Civil War
C)After his appointment as chancellor, Hitler quickly consolidated his political power by eliminating rival political parties and unions, and creating new laws that ultimately enabled him to become a head of state for life.
D)Hitler ascended to power as a member of the Social Democratic Party (the Nazi Party), which fostered a radical anti-Semitic, socialist agenda.

Question 43

Which group of countries have been member states of the Non-Aligned Movement?

A)India, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Chil
B)Libya, China, and Iran
C)Afghanistan, Sudan, and Switzerland
D)Finland, Vietnam, and South Africa

Question 44

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the end of the Cold War in 1989?

A)Fall of the Berlin Wall
B)United States-Soviet alliance during the Gulf War
C)Soviet declaration of perestroika
D)The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Question 45

Which of the following did NOT occur during the co-reign of Ferdinand II and Isabella I?

A)The commission of Christopher Columbus which resulted in his voyage to the New World.
B)The expulsion of the Jews from Spain under the Alhambra Decree.
C)The unification of Aragon and Seville-the two largest kingdoms in Spain.
D)Their establishment as the Catholic Monarchs and a fortuitous alliance with the Holy Roman Empire.

Question 46

What event immediately followed the release of the Potsdam Declaration?

A)Operation Overlord
B)V-E Day
C)The Yalta Conference
D)The bombing of Hiroshima

Question 47

Which country was the first to grant universal suffrage to all adult women?

A)New Zealand
B)United Kingdom
C)Finland
D)France

Question 48

In what order did the following events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict occur? I. Creation of the State of Israel
II) Balfour Declaration
III) Oslo Accord
IV) Yom Kippur War (October War)

A)I, II, III, and IV.
B)II, I, IV, and III.
C)I, IV, II, and III.
D)IV, I, III, and II.

Question 49

The most important consequence of the Meiji Restoration was that it:

A)Re-established feudal society and made Japan a formidable military power again.
B)De-militarized Japan so that it would not be a threat after World War II.
C)Transformed Japan into a modern, industrialized society.
D)Forced Western colonizers out of Japan and made it self-governing again.

Question 50

What event or process eventually realized the goals of the Prague Spring?

A)Westernization
B)The Fall of the Soviet Union
C)Normalization
D)Velvet Revolution

Question 51

Which conflict forced China to engage in unrestricted trade with Western countries for the first time in the country's history?

A)First Opium War
B)Boxer Rebellion
C)World War I
D)Sino-Russian War

Question 52

The 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent yielded two countries, which were divided between people of which two religions?

A)Muslim and Christian
B)Hindu and Muslim
C)Buddhist and Hindu
D)Christian and Buddhist

Question 53

The conflict in Vietnam began during World War II when the country was still this colony:

A)Cambodia.
B)Siam.
C)French Indochina.
D)Burma.

Question 54

The darkened regions of the map below represent:

A)All of the territory that has ever been part of the French Empire, excluding France itself.
B)The French Empire during Napoleon's reign, excluding France itself.
C)The British Empire during the 1920s, excluding territory in Antarctica.
D)All of the territory that has ever been part of the British Empire, excluding territory in Antarctica.

Question 55

Where in Spain is the cathedral above located?

A)On the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean.
B)In the northwest, above Portugal.
C)In the mountainous northeast, near the Spanish-French border.
D)In the south, easily accessible from the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 56

What is a caliphate?

A)The plot of land granted to a lord or nobleman in feudal society.
B)Someone who engaged in the triangular slave trade or a ship used in the slave trade.
C)The Arab Muslim state that existed primarily during the Middle Ages.
D)The leader in the Berber (or North African) culture from the end of the Middle Ages to the end of European colonialism in Africa.

Question 57

Which of the following statements about Russia are true? I. Russia had close ties with the Byzantine Empire, from which it adopted Greek Orthodox Christianity.
II) Vlad the Impaler was the first Russian tsar.
III) The region that became Russia was settled by Vikings.
IV) Russia became a communist state following the October Revolution in 1917.

A)III and IV.
B)IV only.
C)I and III.
D)I, II, III, and IV.

Question 58

Most cultural diffusion results from what type of interaction?

A)Trade
B)War
C)Education
D)Marriage

Question 59

During the Age of Discovery, the most important cash crop in the West Indies was:

A)Tobacco.
B)Sugar cane.
C)Cotton.
D)Rice.

Question 60

Which people dominated Mediterranean trade before and during the Renaissance? I. Spain
II) Italian city-states
III) Portugal
IV) Muslim Turks

A)II and III.
B)III.
C)II and IV.
D)I and III.

Question 61

When the Protestant Reformation ended and the Age of Enlightenment began, which European country was still a Catholic state?

A)Switzerland
B)Germany
C)England
D)France

Question 62

Which religion is NOT correctly paired with one of its sacred texts?

A)Buddhism: Theravada
B)Islam: Qur'an
C)Judaism: Tanakh
D)Hinduism: Upanishads

Question 63

The development of which technology was seminal in the First Industrial Revolution?

A)Electricity
B)Steam engines
C)Coal mining
D)Windmills

Question 64

Where is the oldest university in Europe located?

A)Cologne, Germany
B)Paris, France
C)Bologna, Italy
D)Oxford, England

Question 65

Which right that is protected by the U.S. Constitution can be directly traced back to the Magna Carta?

A)The right to refuse testifying against one's spouse.
B)Protection against the forced quartering of soldiers.
C)The freedom to worship freely.
D)The right to due process of law.

Question 66

Which of the following is NOT a prime factor of 204?

A)5
B)3
C)17
D)2

Question 67

55 + 6 + 19.8 + 23.53
What is the sum of the numbers rounded to the nearest tenths place?

A)83
B)83.88
C)83.9
D)83.8

Question 68

55 + 6 + 19.8 + 23.53
What is the difference between the exact sum and the sum rounded to the nearest tenths place?

A)2
B).2
C).02
D).002

Question 69

Sam is packingthedrinking glasses from his restaurant into boxes becausethe restaurant is moving. He packs his glasses into boxes until each box is completely full and has an equal number of glasses in each. If after 10 minutes, one box contains 22 glasses, and it takes 2 hours to fill up a box, how many glasses must each box hold?

A)164
B)264
C)462
D)162

Question 70

Which property is the following equation an example of?
2(3+4) = 2(3) + 2(4)

A)The distributive property
B)The multiplicative inverse property
C)Associative property
D)Additive inverse property

Question 71

Solve for y in the following equation:
2(y + 4) - 4y = 12

A)y = 10
B)y = ?10
C)y = 2
D)y = ?2

Question 72

For the following inequality, solve for x:
10 > ?6x - 2

A)?2 < x
B)2 < x
C)x < ?3
D)x < 3

Question 73

Nora is mailing a package that weighs 5.3 kg. How many grams does the package weigh?

A)53 g
B)530 g
C)5,300 g
D)53,000 g

Question 74

What is the median in the following set of numbers?
13, 9, 24, 3, 13, 8, 32, 13, 3

A)9
B)118
C)13
D)12

Question 75

What is the range for the following set of numbers?
13, 9, 24, 3, 13, 8, 32, 13, 3, 2

A)30
B)13
C)118
D)8

Question 76

Kim is on her way to Melissa's house, traveling 59 miles per hour. Kim lives 29 miles from Melissa's house. Estimate the amount of time it will take Kim to arrive at Melissa's house.

A)60 minutes
B)1 hour
C)A half hour
D)20 minutes

Question 77

X + 3 > 0 is an example of a(n) __________________________.

A)Equality
B)Inequality
C)Number line
D)None of the above

Question 78

What is 13% expressed as a decimal?

A)13.0
B)1.3
C).13
D).013

Question 79

Which of the following is the term for the distance around a two-dimensional shape?

A)Area
B)Root
C)Perimeter
D)Radius

Question 80

The diameter of a circle is 5 cm. What is its circumference?

A)3)14
B)15.7 cm
C)157 cm
D)Not enough information to solve