World History to 1500 Test Bank
Course Introduction
World History to 1500 offers an exploration of global civilizations from prehistoric times through the early modern era. The course examines the development of societies across Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, focusing on cultural, political, economic, and technological changes. Students will analyze the rise and fall of empires, the spread of major world religions, trade networks such as the Silk Road, and interactions among peoples. Emphasis is placed on understanding cross-cultural connections and the foundations of the contemporary world.
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The World A History Volume 1 2nd Edition by Felipe Armesto
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Chapter 1: Out of the Ice: Peopling the Earth
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Q1) Discovery of Homo floresiensis has changed earlier understanding of human evolution because
A) they had brains the same size as ours and made tools.
B) they were taller than modern humans and made tools.
C) they had relatively small brains and still made tools.
D) they are almost indistinguishable from modern humans.
Answer: C
Q2) Neanderthals lived alongside Homo sapiens for thousands of years
A) and had larger brains than humans.
B) and evidence indicates they interbred with humans.
C) but could not communicate because Neanderthals had smaller brains than Homo sapiens.
D) and are known to have regularly fought one another.
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following was NOT used for applying pigments in cave paintings?
A) bone
B) wood
C) animal hair
D) stones
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Out of the Mud: Farming and Herding After the Ice Age
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Q1) Which of the following justifies thinking of the development of agriculture as a revolution?
A) It happened over a long period of time.
B) It occurred in many different places in different ways.
C) Many societies held onto foraging practices while also practicing agriculture for long periods.
D) The agricultural societies were more complex and profoundly different from their predecessors.
Answer: D
Q2) Archeological evidence dating from around 3000 B.C.E. from Hambledon Hill in England most likely indicates:
A) that humans of that era held enormous parties because an ice age was coming.
B) that failed attempts at herding animals and farming led people back to foraging and hunting.
C) that humans of that era combined hunting and gathering with newer practices related to farming and production.
D) that humans of that era imported most of their food because they could not find enough locally.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change and Developing States
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Q1) The most basic resource available to all the early river valley civilizations was the A) close interaction with others.
B) constant availability of fish and game animals.
C) large areas of fertile soil.
D) abundance of gold.
Answer: C
Q2) Most surviving art from the Harappan civilization is preserved on A) wall paintings.
B) seals.
C) papyrus rolls.
D) mosaics.
Answer: B
Q3) What is the connection between the development of writing in the river valley civilizations and our interest in and knowledge of them? In Perspective
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Chapter 4: A Succession of Civilizations: Ambition and Instability
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Q1) What elements do civilizations in the Andes and Mesoamerica share with early Eurasian civilizations? What differences are there?
Q2) During the final decades of the Shang dynasty, A) rulers took on more responsibility.
B) the population declined on a large scale.
C) many cities were destroyed.
D) entire regions were abandoned.
Q3) Earthquake activity played a role in the collapse of all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Mycenaean civilization.
B) Harappan civilization.
C) Minoan civilization.
D) Egyptian civilization.
Q4) A key factor in Egypt's decline around 1300 B.C.E. was
A) attacks by the Nubians in the south.
B) failure of the Nile to flood adequately in successive years.
C) invasions by the "Sea Peoples."
D) invasions by the Hyksos.
Q5) Compare the role of technology in the rise of complex states among the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Hittites.
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Chapter 5: Rebuilding the World: Recoveries, New Initiatives, and
Their Limits
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Q1) A primary trade product of the early state of Yemen was A) textiles.
B) agricultural products.
C) slaves.
D) incense.
Q2) Trade connected civilizations as disparate as the Etruscans, Thracians, Illyrians, and the tribes of Spain. What types of goods did these peoples exchange, and how were the Greeks and Phoenicians involved in these trade relationships?
Q3) How did the interplay of cultures in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean basins in the first millennium B.C.E. affect the development of civilization in those areas? How did the isolation characteristic of cultures in the Americas affect the development of civilizations there?
Q4) The decline of the Egyptian kingdom affected what sub-Saharan civilization the most?
A) Nubia
B) Niger
C) Bantu
D) Garamantes
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Chapter 6: The Great Schools
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Q1) The Greek philosopher Epicurus believed that A) one should lead a life in pursuit of pleasure.
B) there are moral absolutes.
C) the key to happiness was participation in the life of the community.
D) the gods participate in our lives.
Q2) In what key ways did scientific and medical knowledge challenge old illusions about physical reality?
Q3) Daoist philosophers believed that geometry and mathematics
A) were meaningless.
B) were important in understanding underlying realities.
C) were dangerous practices that could result in moral collapse.
D) were difficult but necessary parts of an education.
Q4) According to Plato, political power in a state should be in the hands of A) the people.
B) aristocrats.
C) kings.
D) philosophers.
Q5) What are at least two different examples of networks or schools that stimulated innovation in thought? Only one should be Western.
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Q6) How were Chinese and Greek philosophers similar in some of their concerns?
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Chapter 7: The Great Empires
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Q1) What role did the Buddhist clergy play in Asoka's empire?
Q2) The monsoonal winds that blow in the western Indian Ocean
A) blow irregularly throughout the year, making travel haphazard.
B) regularly blow from the northeast during the winter, but reverse direction during the rest of the year.
C) regularly blow toward the east, making trade with East Asia easy.
D) regularly blow from the southwest during the winter, but reverse direction during the rest of the year.
Q3) What was the nature of the overland routes across Eurasia? What types of goods were traded over these routes? What effects did these routes have on state development?
Q4) The most common language in the Eastern Mediterranean during the height of Roman rule was
A) Hebrew.
B) Latin.
C) Greek.
D) Persian.
Q5) Examine the structure of the Roman state as it developed during the last half of the first millennium B.C.E.
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Chapter 8: Postimperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in
Eurasia and Africa, Ca 200 to 700 Ce
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Q1) What was the state of the empires that dominated southwestern Asia during the seventh century C.E.? What challenges had they faced during the previous century?
Q2) The key reasons why the Roman Empire survived in the East was
A) a larger military force and fewer incursions by barbarians.
B) less division because of religion and more easily defended borders.
C) greater wealth and fewer religious divisions.
D) more easily defended frontiers and greater wealth.
Q3) During the period from the sixth to eighth centuries C.E., Tibet was
A) a state with no record of agriculture or city-building.
B) a state ruled by god-kings who were also Buddhist monks.
C) weak, with only a small and ineffective military.
D) an expansionist state.
Q4) What perennial problem did China share with Rome?
A) lack of educated people to serve in government
B) a primarily agricultural economy
C) an insecure method of succession for leaders
D) an inability to get foreigners to accept their culture
Q5) What effect did the creation of an Islamic empire have on the Arabs and on Islam itself? How did the empire contribute to divisions within the Muslim world?
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Chapter 9: The Rise of World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
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Q1) How were Nestorian Christians different from Orthodox Christians in the West?
A) They weren't different.
B) They believed that Jesus was only divine and not human at all.
C) They believed that Jesus was both divine and human at the same time.
D) They believed that Jesus was merely human and separate from the divinity.
Q2) What benefits to ruling elites did conversion to one of the world religions offer? What potential costs did conversion demand?
Q3) Which of the following is NOT common to Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam?
A) They each insist on monotheism.
B) Their founders left no writings of their own.
C) They prohibit forcible conversion.
D) They prohibit killing.
Q4) In what ways did the sponsorship of ruling elites help bring about the spread of Buddhism in South and East Asia?
Q5) As a new religion became dominant, it was common for
A) it to wipe out all traces of the previous faith.
B) it to take over places that had been sacred in earlier religious practice.
C) only new places to be considered sacred.
D) the people to reject anything that made them change their ways.
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Chapter 10: Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal
on Environmental Frontiers in the Late First Millenium
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Q1) Zones of exchange and communication in sub-Saharan Africa and in the Americas
A) helped to create lasting states and many new innovations.
B) were similar to those in Eurasia, but smaller and more fragile.
C) were nothing like those in Eurasia and created no significant civilizations. D) were unique and created states with no connections to those in Eurasia.
Q2) Which of the following techniques did NOT lead to increased food production in the Islamic world?
A) new irrigation techniques
B) lower taxes
C) use of fertilizer
D) consolidation of small holdings into larger ones
Q3) Why were Islamic rulers interested in promoting new crops and the expansion of settlements?
Q4) What role did trade and commerce play in the development of states across Eurasia compared with similar developments in the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa?
Q5) What policies were adopted by states in China and Southeast Asia that affected the productivity of their people?
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Q6) What new technologies and extensions of settlement came about with the Islamic Empire?
Chapter 11: Contending With Isolation: Ca 1000-1200
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Q1) What was the relationship between religion and trade in the Indian Ocean world in this era? Did religion reinforce trade connections, interfere with them, or have some other effect?
Q2) Ethiopian kings used an ideology of holy war to spread which religion throughout their growing kingdom?
A) Christianity
B) Islam
C) Buddhism
D) Hinduism
Q3) In eleventh century India it is particularly remarkable that
A) the Brahman caste had fallen from its place as the political elite.
B) the warrior caste was successful in expanding its power through the prosecution of a series of wars that created a large, stable empire.
C) the merchant caste presented themselves as warriors.
D) the peasant caste gained new political and social rights.
Q4) Compare the effects of isolation on Europe and Japan. What similarities did their responses show? What differences?
In Perspective
Q5) How did trade in the Indian Ocean connect peoples in Africa with Eurasia?
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Chapter 12: The Nomadic Frontiers: the Islamic World, Byzantium,
and China, Ca 1000-1200
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Q1) The role that Turkic peoples played within the Islamic Empire was that of
A) a people mostly concerned with commerce and trade.
B) a military force that fought for Sunni Islam.
C) a people completely integrated into the Arabic world.
D) a military force that fought for Shia Islam.
Q2) The famous Muslim leader Saladin was important because of his leadership in A) the reconquest of Jerusalem and the defeat of Shi'ites.
B) completely driving out the crusaders.
C) establishing the power of Shia Islam in Iran.
D) driving all Christian and Jewish communities out of the Islamic world.
Q3) What were the reasons behind the crusading movement that arose in Western Christendom?
Q4) What was the appeal of Sufism for many Muslims? Why was it rejected by much of the elite in the Islamic Empire?
Q5) During the Song dynasty, women's place in society
A) became more open because of women's shared roles in the managing of herds.
B) were improved because of favorable legislation.
C) were harder because of new religious restrictions.
D) became more restricted, as evidenced by the practice of foot-binding.
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Chapter 13: The World the Mongols Made
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Q1) What were the main characteristics of Mongol society before the rise of Temujin to power?
Q2) Mongol armies did not overrun the Delhi Sultanate during the thirteenth century largely because of
A) defeat in the battle of Herat.
B) a lack of interest in further conquest to the south.
C) respect for the birthplace of Buddhism.
D) internal politics and dissensions.
Q3) The ideology developed by the Mongols during the reign of Genghis Khan was that A) Allah gave the Mongols the job of conquering the world in his name.
B) Genghis Khan was really a bodhisattva who had come to lead others to enlightenment.
C) eternal heaven decreed that the Mongols rule the world.
D) Mongol government represented a new, more just way of ruling than any other that had come before.
Q4) What changes did Temujin bring to Mongol society? How did these changes enhance his control of the steppes and the Mongol ability to expand?
Q5) What were the methods the Mongols used in order to conquer their empire?
Q6) What were the results for the areas that remained unconquered by the Mongols?
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Chapter 14: The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the
Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century
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Q1) What were the main vectors for the spread of the plague? What do these pathways tell us about the nature of the disease(s) known as the plague?
Q2) The Hohokam civilization
A) emerged at the end of the fourteenth century.
B) disappeared by about 1400.
C) found ways to combat drought and famine and survived.
D) migrated south and supplanted the Aztec empire.
Q3) The devastation of the plague could also unleash new creative forces where it hit. Did freedom from the plague have corresponding costs? In Perspective
Q4) What was the most effective remedy against the plague?
A) Armenian clay
B) abstaining from certain foods
C) quarantine
D) snake venom
Q5) What areas were outside of the zone affected by these changes, and what benefits did their relative isolation provide them?
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Q6) How were India and Southeast Asia affected by the plague?
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Chapter 15: Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
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Q1) What was especially advantageous about the location that became Ottoman Empire?
A) It was positioned at the crossroads of important trade routes.
B) The mountainous terrain made invasion difficult.
C) Mineral resources were abundant.
D) The land was especially fertile and easily supported crops.
Q2) Which of the following was NOT an important ritual element of Aztec society?
A) horse racing by priests and nobles
B) consumption of addictive substances
C) human sacrifice
D) ballgames played by priests, nobles, and captives
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of the consequences of Portuguese contact with the Kingdom of Kongo?
A) Members of the royal family were educated in Portugal.
B) Portuguese traders married members of the royal family.
C) Many slaves were sold to the Portuguese by the Kongolese.
D) Important buildings were constructed in the Portuguese style.
Q4) Why were global maritime trade routes first established by Europeans rather than other powerful groups such as the Chinese?
Q5) What brought Zheng He's voyages to an end?
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