Modern World History Unit 1 & 2 Tests

excerpt** Which of these best describes the status of China’s economy in the 1300s?

Why were there no pastoral societies in the Americas, at least not before 1500?

How did Mongols contribute to globalization of the Eurasian world?

A characteristic feature of pastoral societies was the...

Which of the following was a characteristic of Mongol rule?

How did the Great Wall protect China?

Why did the maritime expeditions of the Indian Ocean basin sponsored by the Ming emperor suddenly stop in 1433?

The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to the

What is the primary advantage of maize?

Which of these was a significant change in long-distance trade networks in the era 1450-c. 1750?

Aztecs punished what by stoning and throwing into the river or to buzzards?

In comparison to Mongol conquests of China and Persia, Mongol rule in Russia...

All of Russia east of the Ural Mountains is in what continent?

What did the Inca Empire do that the Aztec Empire did not do?

Which of the following is a reason the Mongols backed off from conquering Western Europe?

In the fifteenth century, long-distance trade shifted to

After the 15th century, how did the Chinese state resolve the problem created by a growing population & land scarcity?

Why did pastoral societies organize themselves into so few really large empires?

Mississippian culture villages remained small/widely separated due 2 their need to partly sustain themselves by means of

The Inca&Aztec empires had similar gender-based systems, women and men operated in 2 separate/ equivalent systems called

The campus of what university is punctuated by the greatest evidence of the Mississippian culture?

What region, so backward in technology, ended up benefitting the most from the spread of new ideas enabled by Mongols?

Which of the following was a Turkish group that began dominating in the 1300s?

It seems clear that women warriors of the steppes are definitely the basis for Greek stories about

By what name is Persia known today?

The Mississippian cultures of North America were noted for what sophisticated achievement?

Mongol rule in Russia facilitated the rise to power of what city?

Population growth in the Native American southwest by the 1100s was facilitated by enhancements in

Pastoral peoples tended to make their living how?

What contributed to the decline of inter-island exchanges in Pacific Polynesia by 1500?

Which of the following enabled Temuji to rise from being local chieftain to being the Genghis Khan of Great Mongol natio

Which of these accurate describes the political status of China in Marco Polo’s time, prior to the Ming?

What could women do in both the Aztec and Inca empires?

The first man-made object in space was launched from the steppes in 1957 and called

What best explains the drop in the percentage of world population found in Eurasia by 1500?

The “conditioning” drug supposedly used to train Sevener agents was said to be

Mongol dominance over Eurasia facilitated which of the following exchanges?

What was the Sevener stronghold in the mountains?

Descended from the last Old Man of the Mountain, he is a world leader in charity today

The Great Eurasian Steppes are mostly found in what countries

read excerpt** In what larger historical process was the family’s work participating?

Which of the following is a terrorist group that has NOT targeted Americans?

Christian Charlemagne @Aachen&Muslim Harun Al Rashid @Baghdad were allies in 800 because they had what enemy btw empires

**look at excerpt - Which of the following best reflects Ming Dynasty-era Confucian values found in the document above?

Which of the following was the main reason for the Great Dying in the Americas?

Common people in Tenochtitlan were to be executed by Montezuma’s order if they wore

The Incas never had an alphabetic writing system

Why was promoting international commerce important to the Mongols?

Which of the following is an example of the Mongol rulers’ policy toward the conquered territories?

What role did Mongol women play in the administration of the Mongol empire?

 Which of the following was a Turkish group that began dominating in the 1200s?

Ismailis are aka

The pro-American, pro-Israel Persian ruler from 1953-79 was known by what title?

The ability of small European forces to conquer the Aztec&Incan empires can be attributes to all except

Climate change resulting in the Medieval Warm Period (900-1300) permitted all of the following except

What is the primary advantage of the potato?

Cousin tribe of the Mongols who ended up largely in the steppes near Russia

Which of these Khans led the Mongol invasion of Persia into the Middle East?

Many Native American societies were pastoral/herding cultures

All of Russia east of the Ural Mountains gets very cold in winter and is known as

The area that saw the greatest reduction in Muslim political control between the years 732&1492 occurred in:

  Fascist dictator of Spain from 1939-75

Which of the following was a pastoral empire that served as a model for later Turks and Mongols?

Powerful anti-American Persian religious leaders who have dominated since 1979

Earliest designation for steppe warriors mentioned in Persian, Greek, and Biblical records are the

Chinese bronze was superior to that of the west because Chinese alloyed copper with higher %

Which of the following was a Turkish group that began dominating in the 1000s?

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) did which of the following?

For two thousand years the Monsoon winds aided navigation most significantly where?

 It took almost three generations for the Mongols to finally take over all this country

Which of the following was the most important factor in enabling the Spanish to defeat the Aztec Empire?

Incan rulers avoided ever doing which of the following?

After engaging in human sacrifices, the Aztecs practiced

Later the Old Testamentdescribes what anti-Greek Persian emperor with what Jewish wife?

Like Arabs in the 600s and Persians in the 700s, different Turk invaders from the 900s to the 1300s...

Despite two massive attempted invasions, which of these was not conquered by the Mongols?

What country was the world’s policeman (and only superpower) from 1763-1939?

What happened to the Mongols in Persia before 1400?

Which of these Khans led the Mongol invasion of Russia into Europe?

Which of the following is the spoken language of the Incas still used today in Peru?

Which of the following was a motivation for European expansion but not for Chinese expansion in the fifteen century

Which of the following facilitated the Mongols’ conquest of surrounding Eurasian civilizations?

The Persians first appear in the Old Testament under this emperor who was nice to the Jews

Which of the following in the early modern era provided incentives for European fur traders?

What did the Aztec Empire require conquered people to do?

Since climate change reduced agriculture,what reason would the Middle Kingdom give for adopting a policy of isolationism

Which of the following describes pastoral societies relationship with agricultural societies?

In its effort to recover from the disruption of Mongol rule, where did the Ming dynasty look for inspiration?

A government ruled entirely by religion is known as a

Up to 1200, what was the major role pastoral societies played in the Eurasian world?

Which of the following is in reference to the Black Legend?

After 1433 the Ming refused to put any investment into treasure ship fleets

In what way were the Aztec and Inca empires similar?

The Ming refused to put any investment into the Great Wall

What part of Chinese government practice did Mongol rulers of the Yuan dynasty adopt?

Which of the following resulted from Mongol rule over Russia?

Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their initial invasion of the New World?

Which of the following was the most centralized, unified, and prosperous         of the world’s major civilizations

Which of the following famous Americans fought as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War?

The most commonly accepted reason for the disappearance of Chaco Canyon civilization is