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Question 1

Where was the first major trading outpost located?

Answer 1

Kiev

Question 2

The Russian missionaries in search of the worlds true religion were mostly influenced by what?

Answer 2

The Hagia Sophia

Question 3

What group of people came to dominate Russia and insisted on a high tribute being paid?

Answer 3

Mongols

Question 4

What is Ivan III most known for?

Answer 4

Ending Mongolian rule of Russia

Question 5

Turkish slaves are referred to as what?

Answer 5

Mamelukes

Question 6

Who was the individual who united the Mongolian clans?

Answer 6

Genghis Khan

Question 7

What was the Mongolian dynasty in China called?

Answer 7

The yuan dynasty

Question 8

Who conquered China for the Mongolians?

Answer 8

Kublai Khan

Question 9

The white dude (Marco Polo) who visited the Khan in Beijing and brought back stories to Europe led to what?

Answer 9

Curiosity, exploration, and increased trade

Question 10

What didn’t Mongolian power come from?

Answer 10

Brilliant leadership

Question 11

Japan comes from a word that means what?

Answer 11

Land of the rising sun

Question 12

Who led the victorious forces at the battle of tours?

Answer 12

Charles Martel

Question 13

The king and queen that wanted to rid their country of all Muslims is known as what?

Answer 13

Reconquista

Question 14

Who brought Christianity to the franks?

Answer 14

Clovis

Question 15

What is a synonym for serf?

Answer 15

Peasant

Question 16

What did knights most commonly trade military service for?

Answer 16

Land

Question 17

During the reconquista, who was driven out of Spain?

Answer 17

Jews

Question 18

How did the bubonic plague spread across Asia?

Answer 18

Rats and Mongolians

Question 19

Western Europe was reunited for the first time after the fall of the Roman Empire under who?

Answer 19

Charlemagne

Question 20

What event marks the end of the Middle Ages?

Answer 20

The end of the Hundred Years’ War

Question 21

Who were the most effective fighters at the battles of crecy, Poitiers, and agincourt?

Answer 21

English long bow men

Question 22

About what portion of France’s population belonged to the first and second estates?

Answer 22

2%

Question 23

Who was the nationally assembly originally established by?

Answer 23

The third estate

Question 24

The “scorched earth policy” was used by who?

Answer 24

Russian troops as Napoleon invaded Russia

Question 25

The economic hardships that France faced in the late 1700s were largely due to long, costly hostilities between France and who?

Answer 25

Great Britain

Question 26

Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to the U.S. for all of the following except what?

Answer 26

To punish the sugar growers in saint domingue

Question 27

What years were the Renaissance?

Answer 27

1300s - 1600s

Question 28

The intellectual and cultural movement known as humanism arose from the study of what?

Answer 28

Classical Greek and roman culture

Question 29

What does utopia mean?

Answer 29

No place

Question 30

Who was the Byzantine emperor who expanded the Byzantine empire both politically and socially?

Answer 30

Justinian