World Studies 1st Semester Exam

Where did the first missionaries to China come from?

Who is known as the Father of Modern Chemistry?

How did Africans pass on their history and traditions?

Which crop came to the Americas through the Columbian Exchange and became a major export for South American farmers?

Who wrote the Ninety-Five Theses?

every civilization is placed in a particular geographical location

Who developed an advanced form of calculus and discovered the laws of gravity and motion?

Who was the only legitimate empress in Chinese history?

Martin Luther translated the Bible into __________.

Who developed a smallpox vaccine?

Who is the prime actor on the stage of history?

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

Africans used ______ as a means to collect people for enslavement after the transantlantic slave trade began.

Jews in Europe during the Middle Ages were forced to do all the following except ______.

What people group was accused of causing the Black Death?

Ethiopia was one of the first sub-Saharan African countries to use these.

Islam came to South Africa via ______.

What marks the most important turning point in world history?

Those who questioned some doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church were known as ______.

Who used mathematics to develop the theory that the earth revolves around the sun?

A record of accusations made by a jury was called a(n) ______.

What is the definition of history?

the human response to God and His revelation

How many people did Jesus appear to after the resurrection?

Who used a telescope to confirm the earth’s orbit around the sun?

The Mongols were expert ______.

The conquistador who conquered the Aztecs was ___.

Gothic architecture can be characterized by all the following except ______.

Who had a famous comet named for him?

Which explorer’s crew traveled around the world?

This country developed the first known paper money.

What type of lifestyle did the Mongols have?

An aboriginal Australian musical instrument made of hollowed-out eucalyptus wood

This group seized power from the Ming dynasty.

What is the name of the native peoples of New Zealand?

The accurate study of history depends on the ______.

Why can Christians study history with hope?

Which region was once called New Holland?

How did Enlightenment thinking affect the American Revolution?

Who was the first European to set foot in North America?

when people have certain rights and responsibilities in a civilization

for a civilization to grow and thrive, its leaders must have this to provide order for the people who live there

Australian hunting stick that returns to the thrower

to be treated rightly

How do we distinguish between good and bad actions in world history?

What are the five major themes of civilizations?

Prince Henry of Portugal started a training school for sailors and became known as Prince Henry the __________.

The Grand Canal was restored by this dynasty.

The Ming dynasty declined and became vulnerable to attack because of __________.

Which man was a medieval scholar who made significant contributions in physics, geography, and optics?