Foundations of World History Final Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Foundations of World History offers a comprehensive overview of major civilizations, cultures, and events that have shaped the world from ancient times to the early modern era. This course examines the development of human societies through key themes such as migration, technology, governance, religion, trade, and cultural exchange. By exploring significant milestones and transformative periods including the rise and fall of empires, cultural encounters, and revolutionary ideas students gain an understanding of how the past has influenced current global dynamics and the interconnectedness of societies. The course encourages critical thinking, analysis of primary sources, and appreciation of diverse perspectives throughout world history.
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Chapter 1: The Peopling of the World, to 4000 BCE
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Q1) What were some of the defining characteristics of the cave art in Chauvet and Lascaux?
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss these important characteristics:1.The art depicted the animals they hunted.
2.Some paintings were decorated with patterns of dots and human handprints.
3.Some indicate the varying game available in different hunting seasons.
Q2) All human remains found in the Americas belong to A)Homo erectus.
B)Homo habilis.
C)Homo floresiensis.
D)Neanderthal.
E)Homo sapiens sapiens.
Answer: E
Q3) The remains of Mungo Man and Mungo Woman were found in A)Africa.
B)Spain.
C)Israel.
D)Australia.
E)China.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The First Complex Societies in the Eastern
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Q1) One of the last pharaohs of the New Kingdom,and one who saw many of the rulers of powerful neighboring kingdoms as "brothers",was
A)Ramesses II.
B)Tutankhamen.
C)Narmer.
D)Hatshepsut.
E)Akhenaten.
Answer: E
Q2) The ancient Hebrews believed that the most important event in their history was A)God's choice of Abraham to lead his people.
B)Abraham and his wife promised God that they would have no children.
C)The death of Isaac ended the practice of human sacrifice among ancient Hebrews.
D)Abraham led the ancient Hebrews to the present site of Egypt.
E)Abraham was able to speak directly with God's messenger the angel Gabriel.
Answer: A
Q3) iron
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: Ancient India and the Rise of Buddhism, 2600
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Q1) How many periods of rain did the monsoon patterns bring each year?
A)One.
B)Three.
C)Four.
D)Two.
E)Six.
Answer: D
Q2) The first urban society in India developed in
A)The Ganges River Valley.
B)Pataliputra.
C)The Indus River Valley.
D)Mohenjo-Daro.
E)Kalinga.
Answer: C
Q3) jati
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) karma
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q5) nomads
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: Blueprint for Empire: China, 1200
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Q1) Evidence and text found in the Shuihudi site pertain to
A)Procedures that must be followed by legal officials before any judgment can be made.
B)Cases that involved married women.
C)A system of appointing town officials.
D)Regulations regarding weights and measures.
E)Legal instructions describing building codes.
Q2) What development is considered to be one of the most important Chinese contributions to civilization?
A)Gunpowder.
B)Legalism.
C)Paper.
D)Universities.
E)Literature.
Q3) Korea
Q4) Yellow River
Q5) Shi Huangdi
Q6) Mandate of Heaven
Q7) How did the Chinese justify the removal or overthrow of a dynasty?
Q8) How do Confucianists and Daoists think about the Dao differently?
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Q1) How did the settlers of Easter Island and New Zealand affect the environments of these two islands?
Q2) The belief that Polynesians traveled as far as Chile has been reinforced by the discovery of
A)A Polynesian canoe in Chile.
B)Chicken bones in Chile.
C)Chocolate beans in Tahiti.
D)Lapita pottery, found in Chile.
E)A successful Atlantic expedition sailing from Chile to Tahiti.
Q3) The term moai is associated with
A)887 stone statues of tribal leaders found on Easter Island.
B)The sun pyramids of the Maya.
C)Large urban centers of the Andes.
D)The colossal heads of the Olmec people.
E)The mounds of the Hopewell and Adena tribes.
Q4) Easter Island
Q5) Caral
Q6) Hero Twins
Q7) Popul Vuh
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Chapter 6: New Empires in Iran and Greece, 2000 BCE-
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Q1) Lydian coins
Q2) polis
Q3) What is Herodotus describing when he writes: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay from the swiftest possible completion of their appointed stage?"
A)Persian cavalry.
B)Persian attack ships.
C)Phoenician ships.
D)Alexander's cavalry.
E)Persian couriers.
Q4) Persia
Q5) Which of the following was not a key aspect of the writing system of the Phoenicians?
A)Its phonetic base could be understood by most languages.
B)Vowels were not used, as readers could insert them.
C)The system was easy to learn and memorize.
D)Each of the 22 letters represented a different consonant.
E)It had no pictorial symbols.
Q6) Cyrus
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Q7) Describe how Athens came to be known as the center of the study of philosophy.
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Chapter 7: The Roman Empire and the Rise of
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Q1) paterfamilias
Q2) As the Roman Empire acquired new territories after the Punic Wars,the new areas were
A)Given all the same rights as citizens of Rome.
B)Mostly sold into slavery throughout its new empire.
C)Treated the same way as Carthage, in that they were destroyed.
D)Ruled as military districts by senate-appointed governors, but given citizenship.
E)Ruled as military districts, with no citizenship or privileges.
Q3) Tiberius Gracchus
Q4) The principate came to a formal end under the reign of A)Diocletian.
B)Augustus.
C)Constantine.
D)Ptolemy.
E)Cleopatra.
Q5) Describe the changes regarding the treatment of Christians in the Roman Empire under Constantine.
Q6) Etruscans
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Q7) How did the character of the army change during the later years of the Republic?
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Q1) Jayavarman II dedicated his Angkor dynasty to A)Shiva.
B)Buddha.
C)Vishnu.
D)himself.
E)Heaven.
Q2) Describe the influences Korea had on Japan after 300 C.E.
Q3) Some Chinese worked out a compromise between Buddhism and Confucianism by
A)allowing only females to join the ranks of Buddhist nuns.
B)making donations to a Buddhist temple, which then transferred merit to a family.
C)the use of the merit system, where a convert could transfer merit to siblings who married.
D)allowing children conceived by concubines to convert.
E)giving permission only to the youngest son to become a Buddhist.
Q4) Describe how the equal-field system of the Tang was supposed to reform the taxes of China.
Q5) Tang Dynasty
Q6) Bodhisattvas
Q7) Taizong
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Chapter 9: Islamic Empires of Western Asia and Africa, 600 - 1258
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Q1) Which of the following was true about the veil during this time in history?
A)Veils had been used in earlier societies.
B)Muhammad instructed women to wear veils in the presence of visitors.
C)Veils often signified status.
D)Veils did not begin with the Muslims.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) One does not have to be a serious student of history to have heard about the division of Islam into Sunni and Shiite.In a short essay,evaluate the many causes that led to this division.
Q3) Shiite
Q4) Quran
Q5) Like all other civilizations before and during its time,slavery was a part of the Islamic Empire.Discuss slavery in the Islamic Empire.
Q6) caliph
Q7) Five Pillars of Islam
Q8) Sunni
Q9) Baghdad
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Q1) Bubonic plague was spread to people by
A)Polluted water supplies.
B)Flea bites that have drunk the blood of infected rodents.
C)Contaminated food.
D)African slaves.
E)Lead in the pipes.
Q2) plague
Q3) The monasteries of the Merovingian era were modeled on a monastery founded in 529 near Rome by Benedict of Nursia (ca.480-545)and
A)Spread throughout Europe from the Mediterranean.
B)Were not important in spreading Christianity among the Germanic tribes.
C)Were usually destroyed by war-bands who mistrusted Christianity and the monks.
D)Were primarily interested in acquiring land.
E)Consisted of poorly trained and illiterate Merovingian monks.
Q4) Why did popes feel vulnerable after the mid-500s?
A)Persian power, which had protected most of Italy, declined.
B)Germanic-speaking Lombards controlled Rome and were Arian Christians.
C)The Byzantine Empire was growing in strength and challenged them.
D)The Franks posed a threat to the pope.
E)Popes lacked sufficient funds to pay taxes and tributes to the Lombards.
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Chapter 11: Expanding Trade Networks in Africa and India,
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Sufis broke away from Islam.
B)Sufis were believed to have baraka (divine grace).
C)Sufis did not believe that God spoke to Abraham, Christ, or Muhammad.
D)Each Sufi believed that upon death, a personal meeting with God was assured.
E)The Sufi sect remained limited to Cairo.
Q2) Lineage and clan organization,as part of Africa's diverse societies,are characterized by
A)a matrilineal lineage.
B)the evolution of the great man.
C)monogamous relationships.
D)infanticide.
E)weak and small settlements.
Q3) qadi
Q4) In describing the peoples of Zimbabwe,which of the following statements is true?
A)Located on the high plateau between Zambezi and Limpopo.
B)Used iron tools.
C)Built enclosure known as "venerated houses."
D)Did not keep written records.
E)All of these choices.
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Q1) Although much of Chinese knowledge of the non-Chinese world was limited,they had some personal contact with its products such as
A)camels from Arabia.
B)wool from Britannia.
C)coffee from Turkey.
D)African slaves in Quanzhou.
E)carpets from Persia.
Q2) Both Li Qingzhao and her husband came from what level of Song society?
A)Merchant class.
B)Free serf.
C)Top level.
D)Royal family.
E)Landlord.
Q3) shogun Japan
Q4) New Policies
Q5) Footbinding
Q6) steel-needle compass
Q7) Discuss how China developed its foreign trade during the period of the economic revolution.
Q8) Ly Dynasty
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Chapter 13: Europe's Commercial Revolution,1000 - 1400
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Q1) Which of the following isassociated with Scholasticism?
A)Questioning the uncertainty of certain phrases because of their incompatibility.
B)Encourage questioning, which creates inquiry, which leads to the truth.
C)Inexperienced students should be taught to inquire into truth.
D)Pose a question and use the power of reasoning to resolve a question through a long-term debate.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) By 1100,while Paris was the center for the study of theology,the university of Bologna specialized in A)law.
B)medicine.
C)music.
D)languages.
E)mathematics.
Q3) The Great Famine
Q4) Franciscans
Q5) Trivium
Q6) Liberal Arts
Q7) Serfs
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Chapter 14: The Mongols and their Successors, 1200 - 1500
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Q1) Yongle
Q2) Mehmet the Conqueror was able to conquer Constantinople by effectively using A)Archers.
B)Negotiation.
C)Catapults.
D)Mongol mercenaries.
E)Cannons.
Q3) Khara Khorum
Q4) What advantages did the Mongols have in conquering cities?
Q5) Il-Khanate
Q6) Koryo
Q7) Which of the following is associated with the Yuan leaders of China,after the death of Khubilai Khan?
A)Spoke and wrote Chinese.
B)Knew little of life on the steppes.
C)Reinstated civil service examinations.
D)Introduced a new Neo-Confucian examination curriculum.
E)All of these choices.
Q8) Mongke
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Chapter 15: Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic World, 14001600
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Q1) Arawak
Q2) How have archaeologists verified the arrival of the Mexica people to Tenochtitlan?
A)European descriptions.
B)Aztec historical records.
C)Comparative writings of nearby peoples.
D)Excavations.
E)Trade records.
Q3) Which of the following is associated with printing as it developed in Europe?
A)The first European book printed by moveable type was completed by Gutenberg around 1450.
B)Korea had printed the first book using moveable type in 1403.
C)The Chinese had known about moveable type as early as the eleventh century.
D)European printing was also associated with paper, another Chinese invention.
E)All of these choices.
Q4) Madeira Islands
Q5) Conquistadors
Q6) Cuzco
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Q7) Describe the key components of the Columbian Exchange
Q8) Encomienda System
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Q1) The status of Mughal India as the most powerful state in South Asia was dependent on which of the following?
A)internal trade.
B)unifying an ethnically diverse people.
C)participation in Indian Ocean commerce.
D)political skill.
E)all of the answers are correct.
Q2) What was the overall effect of the slave trade?
A)Allowed the production of sugar to increase.
B)Never altered the traditional trade in foreign goods in Southeast Asia.
C)Had a major effect on the overall population of African population.
D)Made little change between African-European interactions.
E)Stopped the usual African incidents of warfare among tribes.
Q3) Which of the following was a cause for the Dutch to become the predominant commercial power in South Asia?
A)Used force to secure profits.
B)Introduced modern business practices.
C)Developed administrative techniques.
D)Advance in ship design and construction.
E)All of the answers are correct.
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