7th World Studies Mid-Term

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

Publisher of a Greek New Testament

Which country developed a large economic empire without a monarchy?

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

Full-blooded Spaniards or Portuguese born in the Americas

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

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

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

This count of Paris founded a new royal line in France

Spanish explorer whose crew traveled around the world

Zwingli was a reformer in

Discovered Uranus and made a forty-foot-long telescope

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

Who wrote the Ninety-five Theses?

Hippocrates was the Father of

English explorer who traveled around the world

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

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

This Venezuelan knew many languages and liberated both Venezuela and Colombia

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

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

The Taj Mahal is located in what country?

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

Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

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

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

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

All of the following are geographical regions in Africa except

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

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

This ruler made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire

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

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

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

This explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name

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

Martin Luther translated the Bible into

Cowboys in Argentina

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

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

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

Large country estates owned by the wealthy

Theorized that the earth revolves around the sun

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

Which nation colonized a majority of Latin America? Pg

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

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

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

Gothic architecture can be characterized by all of the following except

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

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

Painted the Mona Lisa

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

An important Byzantine weapon used against Islamic armies was

The word vernacular describes a

Revolutionaries who overthrew weak governments

What is the imperial title of the Ethiopian ruler?

Which of the following was not a Chinese dynasty?

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

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

English astronomer for whom a comet is named

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

Author of The Prince

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

Dismissal of an individual from the Roman Church is called

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

What was the European name for the Mongol forces?

Who trusted only human reason as the path to truth?

The caravel was a

Father of Humanism

Conquistador who defeated the Incas

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

What was not a result of divine intervention at Babel?

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

The term renaissance means

Poor neighborhoods in colonial cities

All the following were Japanese clans except

Painted the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling

Ethiopian legend regards Menelik as the offspring of what king?

The Iroquois Confederacy was located in this modern state

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

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

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

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

This empire made many discoveries in astronomy and mathematics.

Studied calculus and the laws of gravity and motion

Sailed west in 1492 and discovered a new continent

Empiricism taught that people can find knowledge only through

This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River

This scholar from Rotterdam wrote In Praise of Folly

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

Philip II was a king of

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

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

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

All of the following were new elements of Renaissance art except

Francis Xavier was a Jesuit missionary to this country

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

Cuzco was the capital of this empire

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