This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > History > World > World History – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World History Quiz 25 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How might the development of spoken language have influenced the religious beliefs of Stone Age people? A) Spoken language would have made family groups more suspicious of outsiders. B) Spoken language would have allowed religious beliefs to spread more quickly. C) Spoken language would have created a new class of religious leaders. D) Spoken language would have encouraged humans to create religious cave paintings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spoken language would have allowed religious beliefs to spread more quickly. 2. Aryans became the dominant society in India during a time known as the ..... A) Vedas period. B) Golden Age of the Vedas. C) Vedic period. D) Veridic period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vedic period. 3. Hammurabi was known for a harsh code of laws. Why was his code so important in history? A) It allowed all people to see and know the laws of his land. B) It gave women equal treatment in ancient societies. C) It allowed government officials to see the laws. D) It allowed Hammurabi to kill whoever he wanted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It allowed all people to see and know the laws of his land. 4. Define subsidies: A) Joint-stock company. B) Colonial trade. C) An economic system. D) Grants of money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grants of money. 5. How did nomadic people survive once civilizations started to emerge? A) They didn't survive and died out. B) They raised and herded animals, which provided food, transportation, and trade. C) They created small farms along trade routes. D) They eventually gave up being nomads and moved into the news towns and cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They raised and herded animals, which provided food, transportation, and trade. 6. Who received the majority of new world silver? A) India. B) China. C) Spain. D) Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China. 7. 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. 8. 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 Marathon. D) Battle of Kalinga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Battle of Marathon. 9. What was the significant aspect of the doctrine of John Calvin? A) Divinity of the Pope. B) Rejection of the Bible. C) Requirement for Good Works to earn salvation. D) Predestination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predestination. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. Who was the chief of the tribe? A) Rajan. B) Purohita. C) Senani. D) Sabha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rajan. 13. Blending of Greek and Asian cultures is known as ..... A) Persian. B) Alexandrian. C) Hellenism. D) Egyptian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hellenism. 14. Hinduism and Buddhism both believed in the idea of reincarnation, which means A) The process of preparing a body for the afterlife. B) The process of rebirth. C) The process of creating paper. D) The process of creating social class systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of rebirth. 15. The Radicals eliminated anyone accused of being against the Revolution during A) The Terror. B) The Great Fear. C) Thermidorian Reaction. D) Thermidorian Reaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Terror. 16. What civilizations was the first to plant and harvest crops for food? A) Mesopotamian. B) Chinese. C) Egyptian. D) Indus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mesopotamian. 17. Like the Romans all of the civilizations we have studied have been founded along rivers except for A) Chinese. B) Egyptian. C) Sumerians. D) Greeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greeks. 18. 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. 19. Which was the kingdom located in ancient Nubia? A) Kush. B) Mesopotamia. C) Assyria. D) Ghana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kush. 20. 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) Buddhists. B) Han Chinese. C) Persians. D) Aryans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aryans. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesHistory QuizzesWorld History Quiz 1World History Quiz 2World History Quiz 3World History Quiz 4World History Quiz 5World History Quiz 6World History Quiz 7World History Quiz 8World History Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books