What were the three points of triangular trade?

The Americas, Europe, and Africa

Why did the Vikings conduct raids?

Poor soil and food in Scandinavia

What two rivers was Mesopotamia located between?

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Crusades?

Jewish control of the Holy Land

Why was Hammurabi such a big deal?

He created the first written code of laws

Who was in the first triumvirate?

Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus

The fulfillment of moral duty in this life, so the soul can progress

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1
What type of government did Athens have?
Oligarchy
Monarchy
Democracy
Democratic Republic
2
Who was the leader of the provisional government in Russia after the fall of the royal family?
Leon Trotsky
Aleksander Kerensky
Czar Nicolaus
Vladmir Lenin
3
What was the fight between Harold and William for the English Throne?
Norman Conquest
The Battle of Hastings
The War of the Roses
The Reconquista
4
What were the three points of triangular trade?
Europe, The Americas, and Asia
The Americas, Europe, and Australia
Europe, The Americas, and Australia
The Americas, Europe, and Africa
5
During the Roman Empire, citizens were entertained and prosecuted in events held where?
Colosseum
Circus Maximus
Pantheon
Parthenon
6
Why did the Vikings conduct raids?
Poor soil and food in Scandinavia
To conquer new lands
They wanted to spread the Norse religion
They liked to get into shenanigans
7
How did Sparta beat Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
Military power
A siege
The plague
Better battle tactics
8
Hitler laid siege to what city, killing as many 1 million civilians?
Stalingrad
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Leningrad
9
What Greek column was the most elaborately decorated?
Ionic
Doric
Pentamic
Corinthian
10
What revolutionary leader strove to lead the Haitian Revolution after the death of Toussaint L'Ouveture?
Miguel Hidalgo
Jean-Jacques Dessaline
Jose de San Martin
Augustine de Iturbide
11
What was the war between France and England for the French Throne?
The Hundred Years War
The War of the Roses
The French and Indian War
The War of Hastings
12
Which leader helped end apartheid and later became president of South Africa?
Jomo Kenyatta
Kwame Nkrumah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Nelson Mandela
13
What campaign was a nonviolent protest that aimed to drive the British from India during and after WWII?
Free India
Quiet India
Leave India
Quit India
14
What group of people was targeted in the Guatemalan genocide?
Zapatistas
Mayans
Aztecs
Incas
15
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of civilization?
Formalized language
Specialization of labor
Organized government
Developed cities
16
What was the belief that a dynasty had the god's approval?
Dynastic Cycles
The Mandate of Heaven
The Rule of Heaven
Divine Right
17
What two rivers was Mesopotamia located between?
The Huang He and the Yangzi Rivers
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
The Yellow and the Nile Rivers
The Indus and the Ganges Rivers
18
Which of the following was a series of wars between Rome and Carthage?
Pumice War
Punic War
Peloponnesian War
Persian War
19
Stalin sent resisting peasants to work camps in Siberia called what?
Groot
Work Camps
Nuremberg Camps
Gulag
20
Where did the policy of apartheid occur?
Kenya
Rwanda
Ghana
South Africa
21
What was the system to the Caribbean in which a colonist was given land and a number of Native Americans to work it?
Encomienda
Economic System
Feudal System
Conquistador
22
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Crusades?
Muslim control of the Holy Land
Pope Urban II called for a Crusade at the Council of Clemont
Jewish control of the Holy Land
Byzantine emperor feared the Ottoman Turks
23
Why was Hammurabi such a big deal?
He created the first written code of laws
He created the first religion
He created the first writing system
He created the first empire
24
A junta is a dictatorial government ruled by military leaders.
False
True
25
What was the name for a multinational agency that sought to repress the growth of socialist/communist ideologies?
Operation Osprey
Operation Condor
Operation Parrot
Operation Albatross
26
What was the name for the ruling class in Rome who was able to participate in government?
Plebians
Punics
Patricians
Powerful
27
In what region of North America did people rely on hunting and fishing sea mammals for food?
Far West
Arctic and Subarctic
Eastern Woodlands
Great Plains
28
What company interfered in Guatemala leading to CIA involvement?
Chiquita
American Banana Company
The United Fruit Company
The United Banana Company
29
What country went to war with Cambodia and diposed leader Pol Pot?
Korea
Vietnam
Japan
China
30
What Enlightenment thinker believed in absolute monarchs?
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31
What was Zionism?
The belief in a separate Muslim state of Israel
A Jewish nationalist movement
The belief in a separate Christian state in Israel
A movement for Palestinian liberation
32
The Janjaweed were the ethnic Arab militia groups incited by the governement to attack ethnic African groups in Darfur.
False
True
33
What Communist leader lived through the Chinese Civil War and would lead the Long March?
Mohandas Gandhi
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Zheng He
34
Who was in the first triumvirate?
Diocletian, Constantine, Antony
Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
Octavian, Marc Antony, and Lepidus
Tiberus, Gaius, and Nero
35
What European dictator founded the National Fascist Party?
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
36
What was the first writing system in the world?
Hieroglyphics
Cuneiform
Demotic
Sanskrit
37
What colonies were founded for economic purposes?
Middle Colonies
Southern and New England Colonies
New England and Middle Colonies
Middle and Southern Colonies
38
Who were in the Axis Powers?
France, Russia, Great Britain
Italy, Germany, Japan
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Britain, U.S., France
39
What conquistador brought an end to the Aztec civilization?
Hernando Cortez
Sir Francis Drake
Vasco da Gama
Francisco Pizarro
40
Who was the first emperor of Rome, ending the Republic?
Diocletian
Octavian
Julius Caesar
Augustus
41
What did the Plebians force the Patricians to create to protect their interests and give them a greater voice in govt?
The Magna Carta
Justinians Code
Draconian Laws
The Law of the Twelve Tables
42
What Native American group did NOT play the ball game?
The Olmecs
The Aztecs
The Incas
The Mayans
43
Who was in the Second Estate of French society prior to the French Revolution?
The Nobility
The Lower Class
The Clergy
The Middle Class
44
At what event did colonists present their grievances against the British government?
The First Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress
The First Constitutional Convention
The Second Constitutional Convention
45
Which was the first civilization to settle on the mainland of Greece?
Trojans
Greeks
Mycenaeans
Minoans
46
Who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Aristotle
Diocletian
Socrates
Homer
47
What is Dharma?
The fulfillment of moral duty in this life, so the soul can progress
The belief that the condition of a person's life reflects past actions
The release from reincarnation
The belief that everything in the natural world has a soul
48
What form of the plague spread through fleas on rats?
The Bubonic Plague
The Pneumonic Plague
The Psychosomatic Plague
The Platonic Plague
49
What was the split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054?
The Great Divide
The Great Split
The Great Schism
The Great Separation
50
Bangladesh was originally West Pakistan
False
True
51
Which Roman emperor split the empire in half?
Constantine
Nero
Diocletian
Augustus
52
What was the operation designed to end the Persian Gulf War?
Operation Persian Gulf
Operation Lightning Strike
Operation Thunder Storm
Operation Desert Storm
53
Which of the following is NOT an 'M' of imperialism?
Markets
Materials
Money
Militarism
54
What is the event in which William and Mary became king and queen of England establishing a constitutional monarchy?
The Protestant Reformation
The Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolt
The Peace of Augsburg
55
What types of writing were on the Rosetta Stone?
Demotic, Greek, and Sanskrit
Greek, Sanskrit, and Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics, Cuneiform, and Demotic
Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek
56
Why, in 1494, did the Portuguese get Brazil, and Spain the rest of South America?
The Treaty of South America divided it in half
The Treaty of Tortillas drew an line through the Atlantic
The Treaty of Tordesillas drew an line through the Pacific
The Treaty of Tordesillas drew an line through the Atlantic
57
What economic system is based on the idea that a nation's strength depends on its wealth?
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Elitism
Communism
58
Hinduism believes that by following the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, one could attain Nirvana
True
False
59
What plant grew on the banks of the Nile, and what was it used for?
Pampas, mummy wraps
Papyrus, paper
Pampas, paper
Papyrus, mummy wraps
60
How are the three kingdoms of Egypt divided?
Far, middle, and near kingdoms
Ancient, early modern, and modern kingdoms
Old, middle, and new kingdoms
Upper, middle, and lower kingdoms
61
What is the land given to a knight for their services?
Fief
Feud
Vassal
Manor
62
What is heliocentric theory?
The belief that mars is at the center of the universe
The belief that the sun is at the center of the universe
The belief that the earth is at the center of the universe
The belief that the moon is at the center of the universe
63
Who was the Iraqi president/dictator that invaded Kuwait, starting the Persian Gulf War?
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Osama bin Laden
Ayatollah Khomeini
Saddam Hussein
64
Why was the Magna Carta so important?
It was the first document to provide codified laws
It was the first document to limit the power of the king
It was the first document to limit the power of the pope
It was the first document to give power to the people
65
What was the shift from hunting and gathering to farming?
The Neolithic Revolution
The Farming Revolution
The Australopithecine Revolution
The Paleolithic Revolution
66
The Rwandan genocide was between which two groups?
Kikuyu and Afrikaners
Tutsi and Kikuyu
Hutu and Tutsi
Hutu and Kikuyu
67
Which civilization wrote in Linear A?
Mycenaeans
Minoans
Trojans
Greeks
68
What is the name for two hundred years of Roman peace?
Roman peace
The Long Peace
Pox Roman
Pax Romana
69
Which of the following was the last dynasty in China?
Ming
Han
Qing
Tang
70
Who was the radical revolutionary leader of the Reign of Terror?
The Mountain
Renee Descartes
Maximilian Robespierre
Napoleon
71
What radical group tried to rid Cambodia of the influences of urban life and modernity?
Khmer Rouge
The Mau Mau
Cambodian Communists
The Asian Tigers
72
What was the Pantheon?
A temple for Athena
A senate meeting place
A home for the emperor
A temple for all the gods
73
What was the agreement in which Japan and Germany agreed to work together to oppose the spread of Communism?
Anti-Communism Alliance
Anti-Comintern Pact
Anti-Soviet Pact
Comintern Pact
74
What is the spread of Greek culture?
Greekism
Troyism
Hellinism
Spartanism
75
Prior to being called Ghana, it was called the Gold Coast
True
False
76
What group of people in the caste system were merchants and landowners?
Bhramin
Sudras
Kshatryia
Vaisyas
77
Who is credited with creating the Scientific Method?
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Andreas Vesalius
Johannes Kepler
Francis Bacon
78
What is a Ziggurat?
An Akkadian temple to worship gods/goddesses
A Mesopotamian government building
An Egyptian temple to worship gods/goddesses
A Sumerian temple to worship gods/goddesses
79
Who led to the fall of the Byzantine Empire?
The Latins
The Ottoman Turks
The Etruscans
The English
80
In what system does the government own almost all the means of production and controls economic planning?
Mercantilism
Socialism
Communism
Capitalism
81
What is the system in which religious power and political power lie in the same person?
Autocracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Theocracy
82
Who was in the Triple Alliance?
France, Russia, and Great Britain
Germany, Austria Hungary, and Italy
Britain, France, and the United States
Italy, Germany, and Japan
83
On 9/11/1973, the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army Slavador Allende, led a coup to overthrow Augusto Pinochet
False
True
84
After what war did the Tudors gain power?
The Battle of Hastings
The War of the Roses
The Hundred Years War
The Norman War
85
Who fought in the Persian War?
Greece and Persia
Athens and Sparta
Greece and Rome
Rome and Persia
86
Which leader led China in a 1911 democratic revolution that ended thousands of years of dynastic cycles?
Sun Yat Sen
Jiang Jeshi
Wu Zetian
Mao Zedong
87
What is manorialism?
A political and social system to keep medieval order
The system of exchanging money for goods and services
The system of exchanging land for services
An economic system involving serfs legally tied to the land
88
What is absolute location?
Location described using the equator as a point of reference
Location described by what is around the place
Location described using latitude and longitude
Location described using the prime meridian as a point of reference
89
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
Anti-Jewish riots across Germany and Austria
A law that said labor and concentration camps were legal
Laws that created a separate legal status for German Jews
The law that began Hitler's "final solution"
90
In which kingdom were pharaohs buried in hidden tombs?
Old
Really old
Middle
New
91
Why was the Iran-Contra Affair controversial?
They were dealing with the terrorist group, Hezbollah
They were not supposed to deal with Latin American countries
Congress had passed a bill limiting CIA interference in other countries
They were not supposed to interfere in the Middle Eastern countries
92
Who did the DRC gain independence from?
France
Belgium
Britain
Portugal
93
What was the name for the government set up by Napoleon, Pierre-Roger Ducos, and Emmanuel Sieyes?
The Directory
The Consulate
The Griondist
The Triumvirate
94
The attempt by the government to control all aspects of life is called what?
Fascism
Communism
Dictatorship
Totalitarianism
95
What was the Reconquista?
Norman Conquest
When Spain and Portugal took back the Iberian Peninsual
The inquisition in Spain
Alfred the Great's conquering of the Vikings
96
Who were the Allied Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Britain, Russia, France
Britain, France, the U.S.
Germany, Japan, Italy
97
Which of the following is not a reason for exploration?
Gold
Gratitude
Glory
God
98
What was the belief, commonly held by absolute monarchs, that the king/queen received their power to rule from God?
Pious Right
Divine Right
The Mandate of Heaven
Devout Right
99
The Indo-Pakistani war was fought over control of which territory?
Bangladesh
Kashmir
Pakistan
India
100
What was the final push for the United States entering World War I?
The sinking of the Lusitania
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
Unrestricted submarine warfare
The Zimmerman Note

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