7th Grade Social Studies Review

Question 1

What thinker said that England had the best government because of the separation of powers?

Accepted Answer

Montesquieu

Question 2

What type of printing allowed the Chinese to spread their culture, traditions, and ideas?

Accepted Answer

Wood Block

Question 3

Who first believed in the heliocentric version of the universe?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Question 4

Period between 1500s and 1700s where science questioned traditional beliefs.

Accepted Answer

Scientific Revolution

Question 5

What disease what spread by fleas and rats during the 1300s?

Accepted Answer

Black Death

Question 6

What two countries fought in the Hundred Year's War?

Accepted Answer

England and France

Question 7

Who was able to conquer the Aztecs and take their leader Montezuma hostage?

Accepted Answer

Cortes

Question 8

Scholasticism's greatest thinker was __________.

Accepted Answer

Thomas Aquinas

Question 9

What Japanese religion encourages striving for simplicity, cleanliness, and good manner?

Accepted Answer

Shinto

Question 10

What country was ruled by Ferdinand and Isabella an remained Catholic during the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 11

In 1233, the Pope created a court called the ________ who punished those who committed heresy.

Accepted Answer

Inquisition

Question 12

What religion was created to stop the growing influence of Buddhism in China?

Accepted Answer

Confucianism

Question 13

What young girl participated in the Hundred Year's War and was later killed for her efforts?

Accepted Answer

Joan of Arc

Question 14

Who united the Western Europeans under one government since the fall of the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Charlemagne

Question 15

Roman Emperor Justinian was known for reforming what?

Accepted Answer

The Legal System

Question 16

A ________ was a military governor who ruled Japan.

Accepted Answer

Shogun

Question 17

What is a Greek instrument that is used to find latitude and to navigate by using the stars?

Accepted Answer

Astrolabe

Question 18

What Italian city is known as the "City Of Canals"?

Accepted Answer

Venice

Question 19

Who formed the Lutherian church and the religion called Lutheranism?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

Question 20

What king is known for splitting with the Catholic Church because he wanted a divorce?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 21

What merchant did Kublai Khan send on fact finding missions all over China?

Accepted Answer

Marco Polo

Question 22

What Calvinistic belief says that God has already chosen who will go to Heaven?

Accepted Answer

Predestination

Question 23

_______ is a belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge.

Accepted Answer

Humanism

Question 24

What famous Muslim building did Shah Jahan build as a tomb for his wife?

Accepted Answer

Taj Mahal

Question 25

________ were certificates that people believed would pardon them from sin.

Accepted Answer

Indulgence

Question 26

After the black death, there was a renewed interest in learning and the arts. This was called..

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 27

From what man's teaching did the religion of Islam come from?

Accepted Answer

Muhammad

Question 28

What famous Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Super?

Accepted Answer

Da Vinci

Question 29

What does it mean when someone is forced out of religion, usually for committing heresy?

Accepted Answer

Excommunicated

Question 30

Who were the warriors who served a Japanese lord and lived by a strict code of loyalty?

Accepted Answer

Samurai

Question 31

What tests allowed government officials to be selected based on their knowledge and not family?

Accepted Answer

Civil Service Exams

Question 32

What explorer died in the Philippines when he and his crew were circumnavigating the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Magellan

Question 33

Which of these did caravans NOT carry across the Sahara desert for trade?

Accepted Answer

Coffee

Question 34

Who invented the printing press?

Accepted Answer

Gutenberg

Question 35

_______ is a system for making goods in peoples' homes.

Accepted Answer

Cottage Industry

Question 36

The Crusades were holy wars fought over the land of ________ where Jesus had lived.

Accepted Answer

Jerusalem

Question 37

Which Ottoman ruler seized Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul?

Accepted Answer

Mehmed II

Question 38

What trade routes did the Tang Dynasty take over in order to restore China's power in Asia?

Accepted Answer

The Silk Roads

Question 39

During what dynasty did the Chinese invent paper money?

Accepted Answer

Tang

Question 40

_____ and his Mongol warriors were known for being cruel and using terror to overthrow people.

Accepted Answer

Genghis Khan

Question 41

What English navigator claimed land for the Dutch along the Atlantic coast in New York?

Accepted Answer

Henry Hudson

Question 42

African people often lived in family groups called ________.

Accepted Answer

Extended Families

Question 43

What is the political order in which nobles govern and protect people in return for services?

Accepted Answer

Feudalism

Question 44

What two religious groups fought in the Crusades?

Accepted Answer

Christians and Muslims

Question 45

What is the holy book of Islam called?

Accepted Answer

The Quran

Question 46

In what battle did William the Conqueror win to gain control of the Anglo-Saxon's in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Hastings

Question 47

What Chinese invention helped to develop fireworks, the fire lance, and other weapons.

Accepted Answer

Gunpowder

Question 48

What group of Muslims believed that the descendants of Ali should rule their people?

Accepted Answer

Shia

Question 49

What religion did Constantine and the Romans help to spread?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

Question 50

What is the everyday spoken language of region called?

Accepted Answer

Vernacular

7th Grade Social Studies Review

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7th Grade Social Studies Review

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