World History Quiz 30 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does AD stand for?
2. "It was in Italy that ..... awakened a perception and treatment of all things of this world in general; but by its side ..... there also arose the subjective; man becomes a self-aware individual and recognizes himself as such." -John Burkhardt, The Civilization in Renaissance Italy, 1860 The passage above reflects the Renaissance ideal of-
3. The center of the Zapotec civilization
4. Once people learned how to raise plants and animals they no longer had to:
5. The term democracy means "rule by ..... "
6. Which empire used iron weapons, horses soldiers, battering rams, and movable towers?
7. The longest river in the world, the annual flooding of which left a rich deposit of mud that enriched the soil and allowed Egyptian farmers to grow a surplus of food
8. The idea that "reason" could be used to solve all human problems came to be called the time of .....
9. ..... are drawings made on a flat surface that depict the entire Earth, or some of its parts.
10. Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?
11. What instrument revolutionized sailing?
12. Event where knights would ride towards each other with blunted lances (long poles) in attempt to knock each other off of their horse
13. Between 1450 and 1750, empires such as the Ottoman and Chinese shared which of the following?
14. What is the name of the seasonal winds that cause wet and dry seasons in India?
15. The self-sufficient economic system of the Middle Ages was called
16. The race for European countries to claim land in Africa was called the .....
17. Is all of the people who inhabit (live in) a certain region.
18. Why was the Printing press so important during the Renaissance?
19. Which society was the first to practice direct democracy?
20. What does absolute monarch mean?