7th World Studies Mid-Term

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

Philip II was a king of

The caravel was a

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

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

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

The term renaissance means

This count of Paris founded a new royal line in France

Which of the following was not a Chinese dynasty?

Who trusted only human reason as the path to truth?

Francis Xavier was a Jesuit missionary to this country

Publisher of a Greek New Testament

This scholar from Rotterdam wrote In Praise of Folly

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

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

What was not a result of divine intervention at Babel?

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

Conquistador who defeated the Incas

Which country developed a large economic empire without a monarchy?

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

Cuzco was the capital of this empire

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

All of the following are geographical regions in Africa except

All of the following were new elements of Renaissance art except

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

Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

Martin Luther translated the Bible into

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

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

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

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

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

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

Father of Humanism

English astronomer for whom a comet is named

Which nation colonized a majority of Latin America? Pg

The word vernacular describes a

This Venezuelan knew many languages and liberated both Venezuela and Colombia

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

Painted the Mona Lisa

Theorized that the earth revolves around the sun

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

Who wrote the Ninety-five Theses?

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

Full-blooded Spaniards or Portuguese born in the Americas

The Taj Mahal is located in what country?

English explorer who traveled around the world

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

Dismissal of an individual from the Roman Church is called

Empiricism taught that people can find knowledge only through

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

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

This ruler made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire

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

Author of The Prince

Painted the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling

Spanish explorer whose crew traveled around the world

An important Byzantine weapon used against Islamic armies was

Sailed west in 1492 and discovered a new continent

Discovered Uranus and made a forty-foot-long telescope

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

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

This empire made many discoveries in astronomy and mathematics.

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

Ethiopian legend regards Menelik as the offspring of what king?

This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River

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

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

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

What is the imperial title of the Ethiopian ruler?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All the following were Japanese clans except

The Iroquois Confederacy was located in this modern state

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

Hippocrates was the Father of

Studied calculus and the laws of gravity and motion

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

Revolutionaries who overthrew weak governments

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

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

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

This explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name

Zwingli was a reformer in

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 did not involve controversy in the early church?

Cowboys in Argentina

Gothic architecture can be characterized by all of the following except

Large country estates owned by the wealthy

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

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

What was the European name for the Mongol forces?

Poor neighborhoods in colonial cities