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Question 1

Located between the Nile River and Red Sea, which Christian kingdom depended on gold trade?

Accepted Answer

Axum

Question 2

What was true of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa?

Accepted Answer

It spread along trade routes from the Middle East.

Question 3

What was the extent of the Mongolian Empire of the thirteenth century?

Accepted Answer

modern Russia through the Middle East into China

Question 4

Government power in wealthy Italian city-states seemed to rest in which segment of society?

Accepted Answer

merchants

Question 5

Which group of people invaded Russia, China, and Muslim states in southwest Asia?

Accepted Answer

Mongols

Question 6

What geographic features influenced the development of Mali?

Accepted Answer

Niger River and Sahara Desert

Question 7

What did the scarcity of labor created by the Black Death cause?

Accepted Answer

an increase in wages

Question 8

Where was the kingdom of Zimbabwe located?

Accepted Answer

on the east African coast

Question 9

Which of these happened during the Crusades?

Accepted Answer

Crusaders sacked Constantinople and weakened the Byzantine

Question 10

What was NOT an effect of the Crusades?

Accepted Answer

the overthrow of Mongol rule in Eastern Europe

Question 11

Which of the following countries had the greatest cultural impact on Japan?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 12

Which Japanese religion practices ancestor worship and animism?

Accepted Answer

Shinto

Question 13

What was NOT a characteristic of the northern Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Viewed as opposition to the ideas of the Italian Renaissance

Question 14

Why did England and France fight in the Hundred Years’ War?

Accepted Answer

English kings wanted to enforce their claims on French lands

Question 15

All of the following are key events of the Crusades except the -

Accepted Answer

conquest of Mecca

Question 16

Which institutions developed as a direct result of the works of church scholars?

Accepted Answer

universities

Question 17

What two trade items made Ghana, Mali, and Songhai increase in wealth and importance?

Accepted Answer

gold and salt

Question 18

What was the major cause of the Crusades?

Accepted Answer

control of Jerusalem by the Muslims

Question 19

What was NOT an achievement of civilizations in the Americas?

Accepted Answer

paper

Question 20

Japan is separated from the rest of Asia by the -

Accepted Answer

Sea of Japan

Question 21

Because of the Black Death -

Accepted Answer

people lost faith in the Church

Question 22

Many ideas of the European Renaissance were based on the cultures of ancient -

Accepted Answer

Greece and Rome

Question 23

What effect did the Mongol expansion have on the various Muslim states?

Accepted Answer

Muslim states in southwest Asia were invaded and destroyed

Question 24

What was true of religious practice in Japan?

Accepted Answer

Chinese Buddhism was welcomed alongside native religion

Question 25

What was a result of the Black Death of the fourteenth century?

Accepted Answer

shortages of laborers and people throughout Europe

Question 26

Chichén Itzá was an important city for which civilization?

Accepted Answer

Mayas

Question 27

William the Conqueror secured his rule over England after what event?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Hastings

Question 28

What did NOT result from conditions after the Black Death?

Accepted Answer

strengthening of Church authority

Question 29

Which of these was famous for their Renaissance literature?

Accepted Answer

Petrarch

Question 30

This civilization of central Mexico had a city called Tenochtitlan. Who were they?

Accepted Answer

Aztecs

Question 31

The European Renaissance resulted in a renewed interest in the -

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creation of art and literature focused more on the secular

Question 32

The religion of the early civilizations in the Americas was -

Accepted Answer

Polytheism

Question 33

All of the following were characteristics of the Maya except-

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ruled by an emperor

Question 34

Renaissance art was notable for -

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focusing on humans and their emotions

Question 35

After being conquered by the Ottoman Turks, Constantinople –

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became the capital of the Ottoman Empire

Question 36

Ancient learning was translated by medieval scholars in Europe to-

Accepted Answer

Latin

Question 37

What is the major difference between the Renaissance art of northern Europe and Italy?

Accepted Answer

Northern had more scenes of everyday than religious

Question 38

Which African kingdom is located between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers?

Accepted Answer

Zimbabwe

Question 39

What is an archipelago?

Accepted Answer

series of islands created by volcanoes

Question 40

The Aztecs were ruled by –

Accepted Answer

an all-powerful emperor.

Question 41

What was the basis of the economy of each major civilization in the Americas?

Accepted Answer

agriculture

Question 42

Which famous French hero helped instill French nationalism during the Hundred Years’ War?

Accepted Answer

Joan of Arc

Question 43

Timbuktu was known as -

Accepted Answer

center for trade and learning in west Africa.

Question 44

Who conquered Constantinople, bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire?

Accepted Answer

Ottoman Turks

Question 45

Andes Mountains, Machu Picchu, roads and terraced farming, who were they?

Accepted Answer

Incas

Question 46

Spain became a major power in Europe under Charles V as a result of its-

Accepted Answer

large empire in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 47

Which was a result of the Crusades?

Accepted Answer

increased desire for eastern goods

Question 48

The two primary religions practiced in Japan were -

Accepted Answer

Shinto and Buddhism

Question 49

Which civilization developed mathematics, calendar and was located on the Yucatan peninsula?

Accepted Answer

Mayas

Question 50

What introduced Islam into region split between Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Christianity?

Accepted Answer

Ottoman Empire

Question 51

Pope's speech>Christians captured Jerusalem>founded Crusader States> ? >sack of Constantinople.

Accepted Answer

? =Saladin led the Muslim forces and recaptured Jerusalem

Question 52

Who is known as “the fathers of Humanism?”

Accepted Answer

Petrarch and Erasmus

Question 53

Ferdinand and Isabella united Spain by -

Accepted Answer

defeating the Muslim Moors

Question 54

The Renaissance artists were supported by -

Accepted Answer

wealthy patrons

Question 55

Japan's closeness to what area led to major cultural influences?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 56

What figure of the northern Renaissance wrote Utopia?

Accepted Answer

More

Question 57

Who consolidated what became the modern Russian state?

Accepted Answer

Ivan the Great

Question 58

In which modern country was the heart of the Ottoman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Turkey

Question 59

Great Zimbabwe was –

Accepted Answer

the capital of a prosperous African empire.

Question 60

Who or what had a major influence on the unification of the Russian state and Eastern Europe?

Accepted Answer

Orthodox Church

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