Practice Questions Flashcards
Which of the following was most responsible for the declining power of the catholic church in Western Europe during the late middle ages?
The growing spirit of inquiry in European urban centers
Which of the following groups comprised the majority of the slave population in ancient Greece?
Foreigners who had been captured by Greek city-states in war
Which of the following was most responsible for the unprecedented unity of China during most of the four centuries that the Han Dynasty ruled the empire? (206 BC - AD 220)
The governmental activities of the scholar-officials educated in Confucian principles.
The primary gods of ancient Maya religious cultures represented:
The natural forces that most directly influenced the material welfare of the people.
Which of the following was the most enduring effect of the conquests of Alexander the Great?
The spread of Greek Culture (Hellenistic) eastward from the Mediterranean world
Judaism differed most from other pre-Christian religions of the ancient Mediterranean world in its:
Belief that a single god created and controlled the universe (monotheistic)
As the imperial government weakened the power Roman landowners organized their own private armies to police their estates and fend off governmental agents, particularly tax collectors. The emperors also favored certain estates with grants of immunity from authority, a practice that Germanic kings often followed and that became the rule with Charlemagne’s successors in their competitive efforts to fill their armies…. And where immunity from the kings authority was not freely granted, it was often usurped.
The developments described in the passage above are most closely related to the:
Emergence of feudalism as a system of political organization.
Of representative government in the United States. Which one of the following would be an appropriate learning goal for the teacher to use in assessing student understanding of the topic?
Explain the importance of the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental orders of Connecticut, and the Virginia House of Burgesses
A teacher who is planning a unit on the civil rights movement wishes to develop a lesson that will promote students’ use of critical thinking skills. Which of the following materials would probably be most useful for this lesson?
Original documents that provide insight into the strategies adopted by movement leaders.
In response to pressure from the Christian Church, Carolingian rulers of the ninth century made monogamous marriage their official policy. An important consequence of this development was that
Wives acquired greater dignity and legal security
Read the excerpt below from a speech by the ancient Greek political leader Pericles; then answer the question that follows.
Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but the whole people…. Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well: even those who are mostly occupied with their own business are extremely well-informed on general politics—-this is a peculiarity of ours: we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
The statement above bests illustrates the ancient Athenian commitment to which of the following political principles?
Popular Sovereignty
is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
Democracy was started in Athens Greece around 5th Century BCE.
Which of the following best describes an important long-term consequence of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066?
It strengthened the English Monarchy at the expense of Feudal barons.
Read the passage below about late-nineteenth century Japan; then answer the question that follows:
Thousands of young Japanese were sent abroad to receive Western Educations, especially in the social and natural sciences. A German-style army and a British-style navy were established. The Japanese copied the industrial and financial methods of the United States and developed a modern commercial and industrial system. A highly centralized administrative system copied from the French replaced the old feudal system.
The developments described in the passage above were primarily a response to which of the following?
Western imperialist activities in East Asia
Which of the following most influenced the emergence of Renaissance culture in northern and central Italy during the fourteenth century?
The rise of the wealthy and ambitious class of merchants.
Which of the following most influenced Portuguese and Spanish plans for maritime expansion during the fifteenth century?
Muslim control of eastern land routes to Asian markets
The Aztec and Inca empires of the fifteenth century shared which of the following characteristics?
A theocratic system of government in which an absolute ruler directed the activities of a ruling class of priests and nobles.
Theocracy government is by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
The reforms enacted by leaders of the French Revolution of 1789 devoted least attention to which of the following issues?
The political status of women
The reputation of Catherine the Great of Russia (1762-1796) as an enlightened despot whose reign reflected the spirit of the Enlightenment rests mainly on her efforts to:
Improve the efficiency of government administration in Russia.
Which of the following best describes an important economic outcome of the Black Death of the 14th century?
It led to increases in both prices for agricultural goods and wages for workers
Which of the following best describes Mohandas Gandhi’s greatest contribution to the Indian independence movement?
He developed the tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience to undermine British rule in India.
Which of the following best describes a major international outcome of World War I?
The United States enhanced its position as a major economic power while Europe’s leading nations declined economically
All of the following were critical reasons for Germany’s defeat in World War II except:
The inability of Germany to control the Maginot Line.
Maginot Line was built by French to prevent a surprise attack but failed to keep Germany out
Which of the following developments in post – World War II Japan was most influenced by the United States?
The creation of a democratic form of Government
Which of the following was most responsible for the establishment of communist states during the twentieth century?
Economic dislocations caused by the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
Which of the following least influenced the development of independence movements in western Africa during the first half of the twentieth century?
The growing popularity of Islam among peoples of the region.
Roger Williams main reason for establishing the colony of Rhode Island was to create a:
Multicultural society in which Europeans and Native Americans shared power.
Read the passage below about England’s North American colonies in the seventeenth century; then answer the question that follows:
Almost without exception newcomers underwent “seasoning,” a period of illness which in its mildest form consisted of “two or three fits of fever and ague.” Once safely over this threshold, settlers ran the seasonal risk of contracting malaria, a disease spread by mosquitoes. Though seldom fatal in itself, malaria could so debilitate its victims that they often died of dysentery and other ailments.
The passage best describes which of the following parts of England’s North American colonies?
The Virginia tidewater region in the 1610’s
Use the graph below to answer the question that follows. (1500 - 25 Million, 1620 - 1 Million)
Sharp decline in the population of Central Mexico.
Which of the following was the primary cause of the demographic change indicated in the graph below?
Native American exposure to European Disease.
During the first half of the eighteenth century, the Iroquois Confederacy attempted to strengthen its negotiating position in relations with European colonial powers by:
Undertaking economic initiatives that would reduce its dependence on European trade goods.
Iroquois Confederacy was a make up of 6 indian tribes across upper New York in the 17th - 18th century that played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for Supremacy of North America.
Which of the following best describes a major political cause of the American Revolution?
Differences between colonial and British definitions of representation and consent.
Which of the following created the greatest amount of disagreement among the states at the Constitutional Convention in 1787?
Should representation in both houses of Congress be proportional to population?
Which of the following considerations most influenced Thomas Jefferson’s decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory from France?
The importance western farmers attached to preserving secure access to the mouth of the Mississippi River
Which of the following best describes how Alexander Hamilton shaped the development of U.S. society during the early years of the Republic?
His financial policies helped provide the capital needed to develop the young nation’s material and human resources.
The debate surrounding Missouri’s admission to the Union during the early 1820’s focused on which of the following issues?
The political balance of power between free states and slave states.
Which of the following best describes how the French and Indian War (1754-1763) contributed to the tensions that resulted in the American Revolution?
It created a financial crisis that prompted Great Britain to make the colonists pay a greater share of the costs of the empire.
Which of the following best characterizes Theodore Roosevelt’s concept of the U.S. role in world affairs?
He believed the United States should develop the military strength required to play an active role in international power politics.
Which of the following best describes a major economic development in the South during Reconstruction?
Sharecropping replaced the plantation system as the main form of agricultural organization.
Which of the following was true at the beginning of the Civil War?
Line A
Northern Advantage- Greater industrial resources Southern Advantage- Superior Military Leadership
In which of the following ways were the Korean war and Vietnam War most similar?
U.S. intervention in both wars was based on the doctrine of containment.
Read the following excerpt below from an 1867 speech by Sojourner Truth; then answer the question that follows.
I want women to have their rights. In the courts women have no right, no voice; nobody speaks for them. I wish woman to have her voice there among the pettifoggers. If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.
I am above 80 years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty more to have equal rights for all. I suppose I am kept here because something remains for me to do; I suppose I am yet to help to break the chain. I have done a great deal of work as much as a man; bud did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler, but men doing no more, got twice as much pay…. You men know that you has as much again as women, when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money. But help us now until we get it…. It is a good consolation to know that when we have got this battle once fought we shall not be coming back to you anymore.
Which of the following developments most likely prompted Sojourner Truth to express the sentiments contained in the excerpt above?
The lack of support for women’s suffrage after the Civil War
What was President Truman’s primary motivation for using the atomic bomb against Japan during WWII?
To avoid the heavy casualties likely to result from a land invasion of Japan
Which of the following best describes a major assumption on which the détente policy of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were based?
It is possible for ideologically antagonistic nations to work together to achieve certain shared objectives.
Which of the following was a major consequence of the Camp David Accords of 1978?
Reduction of tensions between Egypt and Israel.
