Connors World History Final Review

Question 1

Based on Machiavelli's The Prince, which of the following quotes best describes his recommendation for effective rulers?

Accepted Answer

"It is better to be feared than loved."

Question 2

Which of the following religions is not directly related to the other three?

Accepted Answer

Zoroastrianism

Question 3

Who would most likely have used the trade routes depicted in the map on his pilgrimage to Mecca?

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

Question 4

The spread of Buddhism and other goods throughout Southeast Asia via the Silk Roads and Indian Ocean because of what?

Accepted Answer

Expansion of trade

Question 5

Expansion of the Islamic Trans-Sahara and Swahili trade connections featured exchange of all of the trade goods except

Accepted Answer

Sugar

Question 6

"If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out."

Accepted Answer

Hammurabi's Code

Question 7

The unification and expansion of Germany and Japan are similar in that they used

Accepted Answer

militarism and industrialization

Question 8

Germanic King who developed the Holy Roman Empire, causing spread of Christianity/revival of learning in medieval Europe

Accepted Answer

Charlemagne

Question 9

How does the World Trade Organization facilitate trade among member nations?

Accepted Answer

By regulating international trade agreements between all member countries

Question 10

Each of the following influenced the fall of the Western Roman Empire except

Accepted Answer

the rise of polytheism

Question 11

Which of the following was not an effect of imperialism on African life?

Accepted Answer

Traditional cultures thrived under peaceful rule

Question 12

Whom of the following individuals best exemplifies a true "Renaissance Man"?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 13

According to the "Mandate of Heaven," where did rulers obtain their power to rule in ancient China?

Accepted Answer

Favor of the Gods

Question 14

Which of the following best describes the major theolgical disagreement between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV?

Accepted Answer

Lay Investiture

Question 15

Whome of the following was most responsible for the spread of the Mongol Empire?

Accepted Answer

Ganghis Khan

Question 16

What effectively describes the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World?

Accepted Answer

Columbian Exchange

Question 17

Which of the following people was not an absolute monarch?

Accepted Answer

Johan Gutenberg

Question 18

Which of the following is the most important Byzantine influence on the rise of the Russian Empire?

Accepted Answer

Adoption of Orthodox Christianity

Question 19

The Jewish experiences during the Holocaust and the rise of the Zionist Movement helped establish

Accepted Answer

the state of Israel

Question 20

How was the post-WWII plan for Japan different from that of Europe?

Accepted Answer

Japan's rebuilding was under control of the U.S. Army

Question 21

How did the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles promote the likelihood of the Second World War?

Accepted Answer

Reparations from "War Guilt Clause" caused economic instability in Germany.

Question 22

The Aryans were responsible for the development of what two important elements of early Indian society?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism and the Caste System

Question 23

Which of the following leaders was not a totalitarian dictator during WWII?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchhill

Question 24

Which of the following leaders was most responsible for spreading Hellenistic influences throughout the known world?

Accepted Answer

Alexander the Great

Question 25

Each of the following allows people around the world to become closer globally except

Accepted Answer

microwaves

Question 26

Which scientific thinker was responsible for proving Copernicus's heliocentric theory by observation?

Accepted Answer

Galileo

Question 27

The rise of industrialization changed the roles of women in England, Germany, and Japan by providing

Accepted Answer

greater involvement in the workplace

Question 28

Which of the following Napoleonic defeats was chiefly due to geographic influences?

Accepted Answer

Invasion of Russia

Question 29

In the Renaissance/Reformation, had big impact on spread of ideologies in 95 Theses and Defense of the Seven Sacraments

Accepted Answer

Development of the Printing Press

Question 30

How did the collapse of the Romanov (Russia) and Hapsburg (Austrian) Dynasties after World War 1 affect central Europe?

Accepted Answer

Rise of nationalism resulted in the formation of new countries

Question 31

Gandhi's Salt March, Mandella's anti-apartheid movement, and the student protests in Tiananmen Square all exemplified

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peaceful resistance movements against unjust laws and government policies

Question 32

One of the results of the Crusades on European life was that they

Accepted Answer

increased the power of European monarchs

Question 33

How were the causes of the English Reformation under Henry VIII different from the causes of the Protestant Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII was politically, rather than religiously, motivated

Question 34

Which of these is an effect of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

Accepted Answer

Dissemination of African culture to the New World

Question 35

The Bantu Migration was most responsible for the spread of agriculture and tools throughout

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 36

What was the most important issue causing the Sunni-Shi'a split in Islam?

Accepted Answer

Whether leaders should be descendants of Muhammad or any follower of Islam

Question 37

Philosophes such as John Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire would advocate all of the following ideas except

Accepted Answer

Dictatorship

Question 38

How did Nazi Ideology justify the Holocaust?

Accepted Answer

As the master race, Aryan Germans were superior

Question 39

How have terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda and Hamas tried to accomplish their goals?

Accepted Answer

Systematic use of violence against innocent civilians for political ends

Question 40

Karl Marx's communist ideas would most likely appeal to which of the following groups?

Accepted Answer

Workers

Question 41

The American, French, and Glorious Revolutions were all influenced by which of the following ideology movements?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment

Question 42

Which of the following battles best indicated the horrors of World War I?

Accepted Answer

Verdun

Question 43

THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENTEXTENSIVE ROAD NETWORKSEASONAL AGRICULTURAL CYCLESSOUTH AMERICAN LOCATIONWho had all of this?

Accepted Answer

Inca

Question 44

Which was not an influence of the Golden Age of Islam under Shah Abbas, Akbar, and Suleiman the Magnificent?

Accepted Answer

Expansion of Women's Rights

Question 45

Stalin's Five Year Plans were designed to change the Soviet Union to

Accepted Answer

make Russia like other industrialized nations

Question 46

What was the Tokugawa reaction to exposure to western European influences?

Accepted Answer

Isolationism

Question 47

OPIUM WAR,TAIPING REBELLION, BOXER REBELLIONEach anti-wesern conflicts depict which of the following imperialized areas?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 48

Which of the following is not an example of an early polytheistic religion?

Accepted Answer

Hebrews

Question 49

The process of blending old African beliefs with new ideas from Islam or Christianity lead to new religions described as

Accepted Answer

Syncretism

Question 50

Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, and Margaret Thatcher were all

Accepted Answer

women who rose to positions of political leadership

Connors World History Final Review

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Connors World History Final Review

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