7th World Studies Mid-Term

This scholar from Rotterdam wrote In Praise of Folly

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

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

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

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

Gothic architecture can be characterized by all of the following except

Painted the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling

Large country estates owned by the wealthy

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

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

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

English explorer who traveled around the world

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

This count of Paris founded a new royal line in France

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

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

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

Martin Luther translated the Bible into

An important Byzantine weapon used against Islamic armies was

This Venezuelan knew many languages and liberated both Venezuela and Colombia

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

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

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

Ethiopian legend regards Menelik as the offspring of what king?

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

Revolutionaries who overthrew weak governments

The term renaissance means

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

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

Poor neighborhoods in colonial cities

Empiricism taught that people can find knowledge only through

Who trusted only human reason as the path to truth?

What was the European name for the Mongol forces?

All the following were Japanese clans except

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

Which nation colonized a majority of Latin America? Pg

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

Which of the following was not a Chinese dynasty?

Which country developed a large economic empire without a monarchy?

Author of The Prince

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

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

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

This explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name

Cuzco was the capital of this empire

The Taj Mahal is located in what country?

English astronomer for whom a comet is named

Studied calculus and the laws of gravity and motion

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

What was not a result of divine intervention at Babel?

Sailed west in 1492 and discovered a new continent

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

Philip II was a king of

Discovered Uranus and made a forty-foot-long telescope

The Iroquois Confederacy was located in this modern state

What is the imperial title of the Ethiopian ruler?

This ruler made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire

Hippocrates was the Father of

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

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

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

Dismissal of an individual from the Roman Church is called

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

Zwingli was a reformer in

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

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

Who wrote the Ninety-five Theses?

This empire made many discoveries in astronomy and mathematics.

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

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

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

Publisher of a Greek New Testament

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

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

Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

Conquistador who defeated the Incas

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

Cowboys in Argentina

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

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

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

Theorized that the earth revolves around the sun

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

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

The word vernacular describes a

All of the following are geographical regions in Africa except

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

The caravel was a

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

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

Full-blooded Spaniards or Portuguese born in the Americas

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

All of the following were new elements of Renaissance art except

This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River

Francis Xavier was a Jesuit missionary to this country

Painted the Mona Lisa

Spanish explorer whose crew traveled around the world

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

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

Father of Humanism