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What is the most important type of primary source?
written records
What is the name of the command for man to control the earth by exercising dominion over it?
Creation Mandate
Which of the following is not one of three steps the historian goes through to compile his record?
collection of historical resources
Who were the first people to live in cities?
Cainites
What term refers to a rule by a few?
Oligarchy
The basic political unit of Greece was the
polis
What term refers to a rule by the people?
democracy
What term refers to a rule by one?
monarchy
What term refers to a rule by force?
tyranny
Which of the following would not represent citizenship in Japan during this time period?
democracy.
What was the native religion of Japan?
Shintoism
Japanese warriors were called
samurai
What was the basic social, religious, and political unit in early Japanese society?
clan
Which of the following was not an achievement of the Tang dynasty?
conquering Korea
What became the leading class in Japanese society?
warrior
What was the official religion of the Tang dynasty?
Taoism
Which of the following was not an achievement of the Song dynasty?
political strength
The growth of towns brought about the emergence of what new social class?
middle class
Near the end of the Middle Ages, what institutions became the places of learning?
universities
What political entity involved an independent king who ruled a group of people having common interests?
nation-state
What was the name for a group of merchants who banded together to protect their interests within a town?
guild
Art and architecture of the Middle Ages were most influenced by the
church
The primary centers of education during the early Middle Ages were
cathedrals and monasteries
Which of the following was not true about the Crusades?
The early Crusades weakened the papacy
What was the period called in which the papacy did not reside in Rome?
Babylonian captivity
The War of Roses were what type of war?
civil
In which country was absolitism defeated?
England
Which document made it illegal for the government to arbitrarily hold someone in jail?
Habeas Corpus Act
The eighteenth-century intellectual movement is known as the
enlightenment
Who originally proposed the heliocentric theory?
Copernicus
Who discovered the chemical substances of ammonia, oxygen, and carbon dioxide?
Priestly
Which of the following is not true concerning the eighteenth-century philosophers?
They respected church tradition
Who devised a way to map the earth on a flat surface?
Mercator
The seventeenth and eighteenth exaltation of reason is known as the
Age of Reason
Civil authority for the Plymouth Colony was established by the
Mayflower Compact
The basic difference between the American and French Revolution is that the American movement
was conservative; the French radical
The purpose of the Reign of Terror was to get rid of
opposition to the revolution
Napoleon’s accomplishments included all the following except
the establishment of the republic
Which of the following nations was not part of the Quadruple Alliance?
Sweden
The architect of German unification was
Otto von Bismarck
What terms is defined as doing whatever is necessary to advance national goals”?
realpolitik
Who was the first emperor of unified Germany?
Wilhelm I
What cultural movement gave literary and artistic expression to the concepts,” Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”?
romanticism
The Industrial Revolution had its start in what industry?
textile
All the following contributed to the tremendous industrial growth in Europe and American between 1870 and 1914 except
custom-made parts
What brought workers, raw materials, and machinery under one roof?
factory system
The man who was responsible for an inexpensive and efficient process for making steel was
Henry Bessemer
Who founded the Salvation Army?
William Booth
Which of the following land acquisitions doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
Most of Australia’s original settlers were
convicts
What terms best describes US foreign policy form the time of Washington to World War 1
isolationism
Britain gained Canada as a result of a war with
France
The first major international conflict after the defeat of Napoleon was the
Crimean War
The most positive result of imperialism was the
missionary outreach
Which American opened Japan’s doors to trade with the United States
Matthew Perry
What was the name of President Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression?
New Deal
What occurred in October 1929?
The American stock market collapsed
Which US president received most of the blame for the Depression?
Herbert Hoover
According to Mein Kampf, what group of people was to blame for Germany’s problems?
Jews
What political party in Germany did the Nazis blame for the Reichstag fire?
Communists
The Facist Party was founded by
Benito Mussolini
During World War II, the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan was known as the
Axis
Which Jewish concentration camp was the largest?
Auschwitz
What was the turning point of the Pacific War for the Americans?
the Battle of Midway
Who was the Japanese military leader during World War II
Hideki Tojo
“A date which will live in infamy” refers to an attack on
Pearl Harbor
Where was the second atomic bomb dropped?
Nagasaki
The island hopping technique was successful because
American troops simply bypassed Japanese troops on islands that would not make good air bases
The purpose of NATO was
to unite Western defenses in Europe against Soviet expression
What began in 1949 when the Soviets developed their first atomic bomb?
arms race
The immediate cause of the Korean War was the
North Korean invasion of South Korea
After an attack on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress effectively authorized the president to fight a war in
Vietnam
Which of the following was not a result of the Korean War
Communists were humiliated and did not try to take any more land anywhere
What president brought renewed confidence and hopes to America in the 1980s by reducing government regulations and lowering taxes?
Ronald Reagan
Brexit refers to
the decision of Britain to leave the EU
What was the purpose of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq?
to remove Saddam Hussein from power
Kim Jong Un is the ruthless dictator of
North Korea
What country did Iraq invade in August 1990
Kuwait
Why have many African countries suffered civil wars?
Ethnic loyalties supersede national unity
A major reason for migration from the Middle East to Western Europe has been the
Syrian civil war
Legends, religious beliefs, and social customs are examples of
tradition
What geographic factor helped preserve the monuments, the documents, and the bodies of ancient Egyptian rulers?
the desert
Sumerian temple towers were called
ziggurats
The first people known to have a solar calendrer were the
Egyptians
Which period of Egyptian history is known as “The Age of the Pharaohs”
Old Kingdom
Which two rivers cradled the first civilizations
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What group of people was favored in Egyptian society but not in many of the other ancient civilizations?
women
The Chaldeans can also be called the
Babylonians
The sacred writings of Zoroastrianism are called the
Avesta
Purple dye and cedar trees were tow valuable natural resources of the
Phonecians
The Persians ruled the ancient world until the arrival of
Alexander the Great
The dispersion, or scattering, of the Jews is known as
Diaspora
The Law of Twelve Tables was important primarly because it
was the first Roman law that was written down
The victory of Sulla in the first civil war increased the power of the
Senate
What culture greatly influenced Roman culture?
Greek
The first official Roman persecution of Christianity began under the emperor
Nero
At what council was Christ’s deity affirmed
Nicaea
Who established the Mauryan Empire
Chandragupta
Which of the following was not a cultural accomplishment of Aksum?
moveable type
Which of the following was not a cultural achievement of China during this period?
smelted iron
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