7th World Studies Mid-Term

Which of the following was not a cause of the spread of Islam?

How long did God withhold His judgment on the world while Noah was building the ark?

An important Byzantine weapon used against Islamic armies was

Which of the following was not a condition of the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad?

Which of the following elements of African society was not affected by Arabic and Islamicinfluence?

Gothic architecture can be characterized by all of the following except

Which of the following was not true of religion in North America?

Which of the following reformers wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion?

Large country estates owned by the wealthy

Which promise of God said that a line of rulers from one family would last forever?

African towns traded with merchants from all of the following locations except

Empiricism taught that people can find knowledge only through

The Taj Mahal is located in what country?

Which of the following was not true of education in the colonies?

Eastern African cities prospered in the trade of all of the following commodities except

This explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name

Which prominent Italian city was located on the Adriatic Sea and had a large navy?

What temple, located in modern-day Cambodia, was built during the Khmer empire?

Sailed west in 1492 and discovered a new continent

The Iroquois Confederacy was located in this modern state

What is the name of China’s first foreign dynasty, founded by Kublai Khan?

1. Which one of the following men made significant contributions in the areas of physics,geography, and optics?

The word vernacular describes a

What was the European name for the Mongol forces?

What is the imperial title of the Ethiopian ruler?

Which one of the following reformers was burned at the stake?

Who wrote the Ninety-five Theses?

This ruler made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire

This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River

The human race is divided into two groups, which are called

Which of the following was not an effect of Mongol rule in China?

All of the following were results of the development of trade in Africa except

Which of the following tribes was not a member of the alliance known as the Five CivilizedTribes?

Which of the following religions was not practiced in Africa during this time period?

Who trusted only human reason as the path to truth?

Which of the following men introduced Muslim documents to medieval universities?

All of the following are geographical regions in Africa except

The Canterbury Tales tells the story of a group of pilgrims in

This Argentine leader from a prominent family liberated Chile and then Peru.

Who invented the movable-type printing press, making books more available to the public?

Which of the following was not a Chinese dynasty?

Martin Luther translated the Bible into

The caravel was a

What people group was blamed for the Black Death and was persecuted because of it?

Philip II was a king of

81. This French explorer discovered three large lakes and became known as the Father of New France

Which of the following is not true of Chinese agriculture and commerce during this timeperiod?

Which of the following did not involve controversy in the early church?

This Venezuelan knew many languages and liberated both Venezuela and Colombia

Conquistador who defeated the Incas

Spanish explorer whose crew traveled around the world

Publisher of a Greek New Testament

The term renaissance means

Studied calculus and the laws of gravity and motion

This empire made many discoveries in astronomy and mathematics.

Dismissal of an individual from the Roman Church is called

Which nation colonized a majority of Latin America? Pg

Which of the following navigational aids did the European explorers not use?

Which of the following was not a contribution of the Abbassid Caliphate?

Which of the following is not a part of West Africa?

Russia continued the process of developing a strong monarchy under the rule of

This great-grandson of William the Conqueror strengthened English royal authority byusing circuit courts.

Revolutionaries who overthrew weak governments

Francis Xavier was a Jesuit missionary to this country

This scholar from Rotterdam wrote In Praise of Folly

Which of the following did not result from the coming of Christ?

Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

Painted the Mona Lisa

Which country developed a large economic empire without a monarchy?

All the following were Japanese clans except

Poor neighborhoods in colonial cities

Which of the following was not a positive consequence of the Renaissance?

English explorer who traveled around the world

Followers of what religion composed the first written history of Africa?

Full-blooded Spaniards or Portuguese born in the Americas

Cowboys in Argentina

This count of Paris founded a new royal line in France

The Cape of Good Hope is at the southern tip of this continent.

Theorized that the earth revolves around the sun

Discovered Uranus and made a forty-foot-long telescope

Hippocrates was the Father of

This ruler carried out the last and most widespread persecution in Rome.

Observed the earth’s orbit around the sun with a telescope

Who became the ruler of England after Cromwell’s death?

Author of The Prince

Ethiopian legend regards Menelik as the offspring of what king?

All of the following were new elements of Renaissance art except

Cuzco was the capital of this empire

This ruler founded the Norman dynasty in England after invading the country in 1066

Father of Humanism

English astronomer for whom a comet is named

Painted the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling

Zwingli was a reformer in

Which of the following was not a reason for discontentment in the Spanish colonies?

What was not a result of divine intervention at Babel?

This Portuguese nobleman once famously said, “Independence or death!”

What people group in western Europe stopped the spread of Islam?

The people of this empire expected the return of their god Quetzalcoatl.

What term describes the Roman Church’s teaching that the bread and wine become the very body and blood of Christ?

Who is the author of the book The City of God?