World History to 1800 Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
World History to 1800 offers a comprehensive overview of major events, civilizations, and cultural developments from ancient times through the end of the eighteenth century. The course examines significant societies across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, highlighting patterns of social, political, and economic organization, as well as cross-cultural exchanges through trade, migration, and conflict. Emphasizing the interconnectedness of global communities, students will analyze primary and secondary sources to understand how empires rose and fell, religions and philosophies spread, and how global transformations leading up to the modern era shaped the foundations of the contemporary world.
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World History Volume I To 1800 7th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) In contrast to the Old Kingdom,the role of the pharaoh in the Middle Kingdom was that of
A) an inaccessible god-king.
B) a shepherd, a provider of public projects and assistance.
C) a symbolic fisherman for his people.
D) a warrior-king.
E) a sacrificial scapegoat.
Answer: B
Q2) Scholars have found a larger,highly significant Neolithic urban center at A) Nairobi.
B) Mumbai.
C) Hokkaido.
D) Machu Picchu.
E) Catal Huyuk.
Answer: E
Q3) Homo sapiens
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) hominids
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) A famous grammar was written by the Indian scholar
A) Panini.
B) Ashoka.
C) Gandhi.
D) Jawaharlal.
E) Arjuna.
Answer: A
Q2) For the ordinary Indian,the sensuous paradise that adorned ancient Indian religious art represented
A) scientific curiosity.
B) salvation and fulfillment.
C) a reward for outstanding achievement.
D) an active fantasy life.
E) the final phase of decadence.
Answer: B
Q3) According to the Arthasastra,sacred law took precedence over history and evidence,but even sacred law was subject to reason.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) Confucius' interest in philosophy was essential theological and transcendent.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What types of people would have been most likely to prefer the philosophy of Daoism?
A) Those who liked a community-oriented approach to living.
B) Those who wanted to strive for an improvement in the quality of communal life.
C) Those who liked an individualized approach to life that advocated a natural way of going along with the flow of events.
D) Those who preferred a rigid dogma of rigid regulations and strict behavior patterns.
E) Those who believed in multiple reincarnations.
Answer: C
Q3) eunuchs
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) "loess"
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) The Athenian leader whose funeral oration lauded Athenian democracy was
A) Antigones.
B) Lycurgus.
C) Knosses.
D) Pericles.
E) Cleisthenes.
Q2) The Greeks decisively defeated the Persians
A) at the pass of Thermopylae.
B) near the island of Salamis.
C) at Euboa.
D) at Syracuse.
E) near Delphi.
Q3) Homer's legacy to the Greeks was
A) an accurate historical record of past Greek events.
B) important in inculcating the aristocratic values of courage and honor.
C) a foundation of egalitarianism in Greek politics.
D) actually written by a Phoenician trader.
E) the first work to use the Cyrillic alphabet.
Q4) women in Sparta
Q5) Alexander the Great
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Q1) paterfamilias
Q2) What did the tenor of popular life in Rome,including the spectacle of gladiatorial shows,reveal about living conditions and popular value systems of the early Roman Empire?
Q3) Latium
Q4) The "good news" concerning Jesus was contained in the written A) gospels.
B) Old Testament.
C) Sermon on the Mount.
D) Dead Sea scrolls.
E) Analects of John the Baptist.
Q5) Diocletian and Constantine
Q6) The Second Punic War
A) saw the eventual victory of Carthage.
B) saw Hannibal invade Italy from Greece.
C) won Spain for Rome and resulted in Roman control over the western Mediterranean.
D) produced a great victory for the Romans over Hannibal at the battle of Cannae.
E) all of the above
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) Teotihuacán
Q2) As the guiding deity of the entire population,the supreme Aztec god was
A) Huitzilopochtli.
B) Tlaloc.
C) Ometeotl.
D) Quetzalcoatl.
E) Machu Pirado.
Q3) Who was the Inka king who began the conquests that led to the creation of their empire?
A) Pizarro
B) Huayna Inca
C) Pachakuti
D) Topa Inca
E) Montezuma
Q4) Archeologists call the region in which the first New World civilizations began A) Mexico.
B) Central America.
C) Mesoamerica.
D) South America.
E) the Amazon basin.
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
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Q1) Mu'awiya and Umayyad Caliphate and Damascus
Q2) Saladin
Q3) The ruling member of a Bedouin tribe was called the A) majlis.
B) jihad.
C) sheikh.
D) Ka'aba.
E) imam.
Q4) The umma was the religious leader of Islam.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Ferdowzi's The Book of Kings
Q6) Sufism and Rumi
Q7) The capital of the Umayyad caliphate was Baghdad.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Compare and contrast Abbasid civilization under Harun al-Rashid with Frankish civilization at the time of Charlemagne.What were the differences,and what were the similarities,if any?
Q9) Seljuk Turks
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) Cape Guardafui
Q2) Describe African societies in terms of urban life,family relationships,and the parts played by women and the institution of slavery in their social fabrics.
Q3) Mansa Musa
Q4) Swahili
Q5) Ibn Battuta
Q6) What are the several possible reasons that might explain Islam's success in Africa prior to 1500 C.E.? What do the career and accomplishments of Mansa Musa reveal about African society during the fourteenth century C.E.?
Q7) Axum was
A) the capital city of Kush.
B) founded possibly by migrants from the Kingdom of Saba/Sheba in the Arabian Peninsula.
C) the home of Mansa Musa.
D) fatally defeated by the army of Zimbabwe.
E) on the Congo River.
Q8) Kilwa
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Q9) Discuss,with specific examples,the impact of climate upon the development of African societies.
Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Southeast Asia has proven to be
A) a region of linkage between disparate civilizations.
B) unable to reject inappropriate practices from other areas.
C) uninterested in outsiders' ideas.
D) a cultural backwater.
E) a region with no true civilizations.
Q2) One of the earliest freestanding structures on the Indian subcontinent is the eighth-century shore temple at A) Mamallapuram.
B) Elephanta.
C) Ellora.
D) Bhubaneswar.
E) Paliputra.
Q3) Mahayana Buddhism
A) was less religious and more "philosophical" than Theravada Buddhism.
B) attempted to maximize the number of people who could obtain release from the wheel of life.
C) revered Nanak.
D) began in Persia and spread to India during the time of the Gupta Dynasty.
E) had no impact outside of India.
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) Buddhism was brought to China by
A) gurus from Angkor.
B) barbarian invasions.
C) travelers from Indonesia.
D) Chinese fleets returning from the West.
E) merchants from India.
Q2) Liu Ling
Q3) Discuss the significance and impact of the civil service examination on Chinese society.Who benefited and who did not from the system? Was it actually based upon merit? Why or why not?
Q4) Chan
Q5) Ming Dynasty
Q6) Published in 868 C.E.,this ____ is the earliest printed work known to exist.
A) Buddhist text
B) Census analysis.
C) edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
D) copy of the travelogue of Zheng He.
E) Daoist text
Q7) the Mongols and the Yuan dynasty
Q8) landscape painting and Daoism
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) In addition to their beautiful gardens,another Japanese cultural contribution that represents a fusion of Zen and aesthetics is the
A) black ink wash.
B) architectural saturnalia.
C) Shinto observance.
D) tea ceremony.
E) tatami ritual.
Q2) Shinto
Q3) No
A) had plots that usually focused on stories from Japanese history and legend.
B) was the product of various Asian art forms.
C) employed the use of disguise, music, and dance.
D) resembled Greek drama in that the performers wore masks.
E) all of the above
Q4) "guardian kings"
Q5) Trace the development of government in Korea from the era of the three kingdoms through the establishment of the post-Yuan Yi Dynasty.How did local and Chinese ideas and institutions influence this development?
Q6) Izanagi and Izanami
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) The first Gothic church was constructed near A) London
B) Rome.
C) Paris.
D) Venice.
E) Constantinople.
Q2) The shift from a two-field to a three-field system contributed to the increase in food production in the Middle Ages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following are correct about Thomas Aquinas except he A) relied upon the philosophy of Plato.
B) wrote the Summa Theologica.
C) attempted to reconcile faith and reason.
D) used the dialectical method.
E) used Aristotle's philosophy.
Q4) What were the causes and what were the consequences of the emergence of universities in the High Middle Ages?
Q5) the First Crusade and "crusader states"
Q6) lords and vassals
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West
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Q1) What were the causes,nature,and results of the Italian Renaissance? Was it synonymous with humanism? Why or why not? How humane was the humanism of the time? Why?
Q2) The Western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century C.E.,but the Eastern Roman Empire survived for many centuries.Why?
Q3) In 1453,the Byzantine Empire fell to the A) Arabs.
B) Seljuk Turks.
C) Ottoman Turks.
D) Bulgars and Ukranians.
E) the crusaders.
Q4) Petrarch
Q5) The Photian schism
A) abolished the use of icons.
B) resulted in the excommunication of the Pope by the Patriarch.
C) led to the reunion of the Roman and Orthodox churches.
D) established the interdict in the Roman church.
E) divided Arabs from Persians, a split that continues to the present.
Q6) "little ice age"
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) mulattoes and mestizos
Q2) Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of the voyages of Zhenghe with those of Columbus.Speculate on how history might have be different had Zhenghe successfully navigated the Pacific to the coast of California.
Q3) the Gold Coast
Q4) All of the following are correct except as a result of their empires in the New World and Asia,
A) the Dutch became a major trading power, especially in Asia.
B) Spain imported riches in gold, silver, hides, and agricultural products.
C) Portugal imported Asian spices, jewels, silk, carpets, and perfumes.
D) the development of the modern world economy began.
E) England seized Greenland from Denmark.
Q5) Spanish colonial administration in the Western Hemisphere was carried out through
A) the New Spain Board of Trade.
B) a loose system of governors.
C) appointed viceroyalties.
D) third-party trade organizations.
E) the Church.
Q6) Timbuktu
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) Louis XIV
Q2) Desiderius Erasmus
Q3) Queen Elizabeth I
A) was the first female ruler of France.
B) became hated because of her attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England.
C) slapped Paul III in the face after a lengthy, and heated, theological debate.
D) successfully survived the Spanish armada.
E) engineered the brilliant English-Swedish naval success at the Battle of Lepanto.
Q4) Luther's reforms included all of the following except
A) clerical celibacy.
B) a national church in Germany.
C) new religious services, including Bible reading and preaching.
D) a married Protestant clergy.
E) salvation by faith.
Q5) "predestination"
Q6) Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits/Society of Jesus
Q7) What were the most significant aspects of the witchcraft craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why was it so widespread? Why did it decline?
Q8) Peter Paul Rubens
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) Golden Horn
Q2) The Ottoman Turks renamed Constantinople
A) Kuycik.
B) Istanbul.
C) Anatolia.
D) Adrianople.
E) Ankara.
Q3) What role did women play in the Ottoman,Safavid,and Mughal Empires? What might explain the similarities and differences? How did the treatment of women in these states compare with their treatment in other parts of the world?
Q4) What were the significant cultural contributions of Ottoman art?
Q5) Two great military victories in India,in which the winner defeated a force ten times larger than its own,were,respectively,
A) Babur's victory at Delhi and the British victory at Plassey.
B) Buxar's victory at Colombo and the French victory at Pondicherry.
C) Wilson's victory at Mumbai and Babur's victory at Kandahar.
D) Mojoks' victory at Madras and Clive's victory at Kabul.
E) Maharashtra's victory at Walando and Dupleix's victory at Kabul.
Q6) the Red Fort
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) "hostage system"
Q2) By the eighteenth century,____ had replaced ____ as the cloth of choice for most Japanese.
A) silk and leather
B) silk and wool
C) wool and cotton
D) silk and cotton
E) cotton and hemp
Q3) woodblock prints
Q4) The Ming Dynasty
A) under Yongle, had Chinese ships bring back Christian missionaries to China.
B) sent a fleet far into the Indian Ocean.
C) sent a huge army into Japan, which captured and held the city of Edo for one year until a debt owed to the Chinese government was paid.
D) saw their fleets reach the Mediterranean Sea.
E) dismantled the Great Wall as it was no longer needed for the defense of China.
Q5) Discuss the three unifiers of Japan in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries,and the possible reasons for their success.
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) high culture and popular culture and Carnival
Q2) Voltaire and "Crush the infamous thing"
Q3) Isaac Newton's Principia
Q4) Which of the following was not one of the positive buzzwords of the Enlightenment?
A) reason
B) divine revelation
C) natural law
D) hope
E) progress
Q5) In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding,the writer who said each of us is born with a tabula rasa was
A) John Locke.
B) Rene Descartes.
C) Voltaire.
D) Isaac Newton.
E) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Q6) Olympe de Gouges's "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen"
Q7) the taille
Q8) Maria Theresa and Joseph II
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