This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > History > World > World History – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World History Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who received the majority of new world silver? A) India. B) China. C) Great Britain. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China. 2. Which one of these achievements was Shi Huangdi responsible for? A) Standardized writing, measurement and currency. B) Built the Great Pyramids. C) Founded Islam. D) Founded Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Standardized writing, measurement and currency. 3. What major battle led the Athenians to a victory over the Persian forces by thinning their strongest men out along their entire army enabling them to swarm the left and right Persian flanks and forcing them to retreat into the nearby marshland? A) Battle of Salamis. B) Battle of Thermopylae. C) Battle of Kalinga. D) Battle of Marathon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Battle of Marathon. 4. What was the significant aspect of the doctrine of John Calvin? A) Rejection of the Bible. B) Predestination. C) Divinity of the Pope. D) Requirement for Good Works to earn salvation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predestination. 5. Which of the following best describes a democracy as practiced in Ancient Greece? A) Rule by a single, powerful ruler. B) Rule by eligible citizens. C) Rule by a small group of wealthy people. D) Rule by priests and religious leaders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rule by eligible citizens. 6. How are the collapse of the Han Dynasty and Roman Empire alike? A) Strong leaders, famine and over reliance on slavery. B) Failure to stop invaders, corruption in government/ nobles, and over expansion. C) Weak ideas, over expansion, and famine. D) Failure to stop invaders, weak ideas, dissolution of government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Failure to stop invaders, corruption in government/ nobles, and over expansion. 7. Who was the chief of the tribe? A) Sabha. B) Rajan. C) Senani. D) Purohita. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rajan. 8. Blending of Greek and Asian cultures is known as ..... A) Persian. B) Alexandrian. C) Hellenism. D) Egyptian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hellenism. 9. Hinduism and Buddhism both believed in the idea of reincarnation, which means A) The process of creating social class systems. B) The process of rebirth. C) The process of creating paper. D) The process of preparing a body for the afterlife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of rebirth. 10. The Radicals eliminated anyone accused of being against the Revolution during A) The Great Fear. B) Thermidorian Reaction. C) Thermidorian Reaction. D) The Terror. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Terror. 11. What civilizations was the first to plant and harvest crops for food? A) Indus. B) Chinese. C) Egyptian. D) Mesopotamian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mesopotamian. 12. Like the Romans all of the civilizations we have studied have been founded along rivers except for A) Sumerians. B) Chinese. C) Greeks. D) Egyptian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greeks. 13. The geographic feature that isolated China from India A) Ganges. B) Indus Valley. C) Himalaya. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Himalaya. 14. Which was the kingdom located in ancient Nubia? A) Kush. B) Mesopotamia. C) Assyria. D) Ghana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kush. 15. Which group of people migrated and settled into the ruins of the Harappan villages and developed the first known Bronze Age culture of India? A) Aryans. B) Persians. C) Han Chinese. D) Buddhists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aryans. 16. What animals transported most of the goods along the Silk Road? A) Llamas in disguise. B) Camels. C) Horses. D) Elephants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Camels. 17. China's attempt at Modernization during the 19th century was called the A) Self-Strengthening Movement. B) Progressive Movement. C) Meiji Restoration. D) Tanzimat Reforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-Strengthening Movement. 18. All of the following caused the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire EXCEPT A) Worsening Internal Problems. B) Separation of the Roman Empire to East and West. C) Spread of Christianity. D) Outside Invasions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spread of Christianity. 19. Why do some people consider the Magna Carta to represent the beginning of democracy in England? A) It gave the people of England freedom to decide if they wanted to follow the law. B) It gave the people of England rights and made the king follow the same laws as the people. C) It gave the United States a democracy not England. D) It gave the United States several rights that went into our Constitution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It gave the people of England rights and made the king follow the same laws as the people. 20. Who found Lucy's remains? A) Mary Leakey. B) Donald Johanson. C) Richard Leakey. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Donald Johanson. 21. Which civilization gave us innocent until proven guilty A) Tang and Song. B) Rome. C) Greece. D) Persia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rome. 22. What was the problem with the Congress of Vienna's decision to put absolute monarchs back in power of countries that were part of Napoleon's Empire? A) People wanted a change in government because of nationalism ideas. B) The absolute monarchs were weak and extravagant leaders. C) The Congress of Vienna did not consider that many of the old monarchies had passed away. D) The absolute monarchies refused to listen to the Congress of Vienna's decisions on the land. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People wanted a change in government because of nationalism ideas. 23. What were the series of laws passed by Napoleon that stabilized and unified France? A) Declaration of Rights of men. B) Napoleonic Code. C) Bill of Rights. D) Constitution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Napoleonic Code. 24. Of the three solas of the Reformation, "sola scriptura" means A) Only faith. B) Only grace. C) Only works. D) Only the Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Only the Bible. 25. In Ancient Rome, these were the common people. A) Patricians. B) Caesars. C) Zealots. D) Plebeians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plebeians. 26. What animal was greatly valued by the Mongol culture and helped them be successful on the battlefield? A) Horse. B) Elephant. C) Pig. D) Cow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horse. 27. The Tang and Song is known as the A) End of Chinese Civilization. B) Dynastic Cycle. C) Golden Age of China. D) A and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Golden Age of China. 28. The ability to maintain fire was a great accomplishment for the hunter-gatherer. Which of the following did fire provide? A) Fresh water supply. B) Tools for hunting. C) Agriculture. D) Tools for domestication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tools for hunting. 29. The modern Indian government has made an effort to legally rid Indian society of the caste system. Why are the Indian people unwilling to give up the caste system? A) Hindu beliefs allow people to accept their place in society. B) Buddhist beliefs allow people to accept their place in society. C) Hinduism has banned the caste system in society. D) Buddhism has banned the caste system in society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hindu beliefs allow people to accept their place in society. 30. Kings sit upon God's throne and rule according to God's law." This statement would most likely have been made by a person who believed in A) Glasnost. B) Oligarchy. C) Democracy. D) Absolutism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Absolutism. 31. Birth place of, and holiest city of the Islamic faith A) Muscat. B) Yathrib. C) Mecca. D) Medina. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mecca. 32. Who led nationalist revolts in southern Italy? A) Napoleon. B) Victor Emmanuel. C) Cavour. D) Garibaldi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Garibaldi. 33. How did China's rulers and dynasties acquire their right to rule? A) Eightfold Path. B) Mandate of Heaven. C) The People. D) Edict of Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandate of Heaven. 34. A general who ruled the country in the name of the emperor was called: A) Henin. B) Samurai. C) A figure head. D) Shogun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shogun. 35. What name was given to Robespierre period of control during the Revolution? A) French Death. B) Reign of Terror. C) Reign of Death. D) French Terror. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reign of Terror. 36. Human civilizations was just beginning A) Agriculture. B) Egypt. C) 8000 BCE. D) Settlements of Mesopotamia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8000 BCE. 37. The Crusades were fought over which city? A) Mecca. B) Rome. C) Yathrib. D) Jerusalem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jerusalem. 38. Which of the following did NOT facilitate trade? A) Compass. B) Caravels. C) Diasporic communities. D) Serfdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Serfdom. 39. Why are the roots of the Neolithic Revolution traced to the development of farming? A) Have more crops. B) The farming allowed them to settle. C) Allowed more people to live there. D) Farming was mostly in the Middle East. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The farming allowed them to settle. 40. What is a highly trained mounted warrior in the service of a noble in Medieval Europe? A) Knight. B) Serf. C) Crusades. D) Clergy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knight. 41. What word means a highly developed society? A) City-States. B) Society. C) Homo Sapiens. D) Civilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Civilization. 42. What is Ms. Gonzalez's favorite dessert? A) Gummy bears. B) Chocolate. C) Cookies n cream ice cream. D) Cheesecake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chocolate. 43. Which of the following is NOT part of the Eightfold Path in Buddhism? A) Right Wealth. B) Right Views. C) Right Speech. D) Right Effort. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right Wealth. 44. Which of these was a major reason for the appeal of Christianity in its early stages? A) Christianity offered a new hope of spirit to the poor, downtrodden people. B) Christianity promised the end of other religions. C) The new teachings of Christianity promised freedom from Roman rule. D) The religion was open only to Roman citizens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christianity offered a new hope of spirit to the poor, downtrodden people. 45. What city did the Ottoman Empire conquer in 1453 putting an end to the Byzantium Empire? A) Athens. B) Vienna. C) Rome. D) Constantinople. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Constantinople. 46. Egypt is surrounded by desert, what is a benefit of this? A) The temperature is warm. B) The sand is soft. C) Protection. D) Easy to navigate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protection. 47. How did roads help create empires A) Faster transportation of armies. B) Faster trade. C) Faster communication. D) More invasions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Faster communication. 48. A form of government led by a king or queen where one leader passes down power to their offspring is called what? A) Monarchy. B) Missionary. C) Mercenary. D) Momentum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monarchy. 49. What determined a person's place in society? A) Social Structure. B) Caste System. C) Wealth. D) King. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caste System. 50. What are some reasons for exploration? A) Religion. B) Foreign goods. C) Growth of trade. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 51. Manorialism can best be described as A) The process of how a nobleman's son in the middle ages could become a knight. B) The political relationships between the king or queen, the nobility, and the peasants. C) The economic ties between the nobles and the peasants who worked on their lands. D) The land given to monasteries by different governments as a show of loyalty to the Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The economic ties between the nobles and the peasants who worked on their lands. 52. Timelines must be in ..... order A) Chronological/sequential. B) Newest to oldest. C) No. D) Guess. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chronological/sequential. 53. To tame wild animals and breed them for human use A) Domesticate. B) Surplus. C) Agricultural Revolution. D) Specialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Domesticate. 54. How did the Scientific Revolution threaten the views of the church? A) Scientists began to murder the clergy. B) Scientists sought to overthrow the Church Leaders. C) Science threatened to end religion. D) Science explained the world through facts and reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Science explained the world through facts and reasoning. 55. What is Egyptian writing called? A) Cuneiform. B) Sanskrit. C) Hieroglyphic. D) Characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hieroglyphic. 56. What is another term for farming? A) Economics. B) Commerce. C) Agriculture. D) Irrigation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agriculture. 57. What war gave the British control of more territory in North America? A) War of 1812. B) French and Indian War. C) Hundred Years War. D) American Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) French and Indian War. 58. What is the professor's opinion about the effects of the new number system on European society? A) Its most important effects were on merchants and tradespeople. B) It had little impact on daily life. C) It affected engineers more than other scientists. D) It quickly caused most people's lives to change radically. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It had little impact on daily life. 59. Hinduism believes in ..... which is the process of birth, life, death, and rebirth. A) Heaven. B) Reincarnation. C) Karma. D) The afterlife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reincarnation. 60. Who were the first to invade the Indus Valley Civilization? A) The Babylonians. B) The Egyptians. C) The Assyrians. D) The Aryans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Aryans. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesHistory QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesWorld History Quiz 1World History Quiz 2World History Quiz 3World History Quiz 4World History Quiz 5World History Quiz 6World History Quiz 7World History Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books