World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
Define the following terms using as much detail as you can.
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
1. Pharaoh
2. Theocracy
3. Bureaucracy
4. Theocracy
5. Direct Democracy
11. Representative Democracy
12. Republic
13. Absolute Monarchy
14. Bureaucracy
15. Constitutional Monarchy
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
6. Leonardo da Vinci
7. Michelangelo
8. Raphael
9. Donato Bramante
10. Niccolo Machiavelli
16. Baldassare Castiglione
17. Medici Family
18. Oligarchy
19. Inflation
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
18. What prompted the development of record-keeping systems?
19. What led to the emergence of a more defined social ranking?
20. Which development marked the transition from prehistory to the historical age?
21. Persia’s Royal Road was built in order to
22. Why did pharaohs have absolute power in Egypt?
23. Mountains, hills, and deserts helped the Chinese thrive because
Hammurabi’s Code
Hammurabi’s Code listed 282 laws dealing with a variety of subjects. A few examples of these laws are listed below.
196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
197. If he breaks another man’s bone, his bone shall be broken.
198. If he puts out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one mina.
199. If he put out the eye of a man’s slave, or break the bones of a man’s slave, he shall pay one-half
of the slaves value.
200. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
201. If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a mina.
202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public
24. Based on this passage from Hammurabi’s Code, in Babylonian society
25. Which of the Ancient Civilizations is an example from history of an Oligarchy?
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
26. Having Raja in India and Satraps in Persia acting as local leaders shows a more complex government structure. What is the term for having managers and government officials help run a large government or empire?
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
27. When looking at the Indian ocean trade network, why do the ships sail so close to the coast?
28. Which of the following statements best describes the Silk Road?
Use the diagram and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question.
29.Based on the diagram, Aryans were divided into classes according to their
30.Which statement about the Hindu caste system in India is accurate?
31. What was the series of wars fought between Christians and Muslims over the Holy Land?
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
32. IF the Crusades were not truly fought over religion, what was the cause of conflict?
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
33. Which of the following was NOT and effect of the Crusades?
34. The Hundred Years War was fought between which two European Countries?
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
35. What is the instigating cause of the Hundred Years War?
World History Spring 2015 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
Ancient Civilization Test spring 2015
36. Based on the Egyptian Social Pyramid what group of people made up the third level from the top of the pyramid?
Ancient Civilization Test spring 2015
37. Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Great Schism of 1054?
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
38. What became the name of the Western Church after the Great Schism?
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
39. After the death of a Roman Emperor in 180 CE, there was no single, popular leader who took command of Rome. As a result, many different leaders fought each other for power.
The statement above best describes which of the reasons for the fall of Rome?
41. Trade routes in the Roman Empire were attacked by barbarians and pirates. As a result trade did not flow as smoothly. At the same time, inflation occurred in the Roman Empire.
The statement above best describes which of the reasons for the fall of Rome?
42. The Eastern half of the Roman Empire that benefitted the most becomes known as?
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
43. A system of mutual obligation based on military service, land ownership and personal obligation that dominated Europe in the Middle Ages was
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
44. A lord's estate was referred to as a
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
45. Feudal manors were established because people needed ____
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
46. A noble who was given a land grant by his lord is called a
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
“Hear you my Lord. . . that I. . . shall be to you both faithful and true, and shall owe my Fidelity unto you, for the Land that I hold of you, and lawfully shall do such Customs and Services, as my Duty is to you, at the times assigned. So help me God and all his Saints.”
—from The Manner of Doing Homage and Fealty
47. The above excerpt from The Manner of Doing Homage and Fealty is an example of
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
48. How did you get a job in the Middle Ages?
49. With the changes in farming occurring during the Agricultural Revolution, what is an outcome from this revolution?
50. What was the purpose of the Three-field system?
51. Based on the diagram of the Feudal System above what did Peasants and Serfs have to give back to the Knights?
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
52. Based on the diagram of the Feudal System above who were Vassals to the King?
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
53. Based on the diagram of the Feudal System above what did the King have to provide for his Lords?
Middle Ages Test Spring 2015
54. The schism of 1054
“But now that our men had possession of the walls and towers, wonderful sights were to be seen. Some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. . . Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgment of God that this place should be filled with the blood of the unbelievers, since it had suffered so long from their blasphemies.”
—Raymond d’Aguilers, quoted in The First Crusade, edited by Edward Peters
55. The primary source passage written by Raymond d’Aguilers
56. The church’s influence increased around 1000 because at that time
57. Why were Italian city-states important to the Renaissance?
58. Humanism was inspired by interest in
59. Increasing numbers of people learned to read after the mid-1400s because
60. The Ninety-five Theses were written in Latin because
61. Which of the following occurred as a result of Martin Luther’s stand against indulgences?
62. Johannes Gutenberg’s invention has been described as revolutionary because
63. The Council of Trent
64. According to the map what areas were Lutheran? What city did Lutheranism begin (look closely at the arrows)?
65. According to the map which country was Anglican? What city did Anglicanism begin (look closely at the arrows)?
66. According to the map which areas were Calvinist? What city did Calvinism begin an? What areas did Calvinism spread too?
"Therefore he who wishes to be a good pupil, besides performing his tasks well, must put forth every effort to resemble his master, and, if it were possible, to transform himself into his master. And when he feels that he has made some progress, it will be very profitable to observe different men of the same calling, and governing himself with that good judgment which must ever be his guide, to go about selecting now this thing from one and that thing from another. And as the bee in the green meadows is ever wont to rob the flowers among the grass, so our Courtier must steal this grace from all who seem to possess it, taking from each that part which shall most be worthy praise; and not act like a friend of ours whom you all know, who thought he greatly resembled King Ferdinand the Younger of Aragon, and made it his care to imitate the latter in nothing but a certain trick of continually raising the head and twisting one side of the mouth, which the king had contracted from some infirmity. And there are many such, who think they gain a point if only they be like a great man in some thing; and frequently they devote themselves to that which is his only fault.”
~The Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
67. In the passage above how does Castiglione explain how someone becomes a good pupil?
68. In the passage above how does Castiglione explain the way a man takes traits from other men and uses them in their own life?
69. If you were considered a patron of art what did you do?
70. Why was there a Renaissance in Northern Europe?
71. What was the purpose of the Hanseatic League?
72. Why would the Church not approve of Erasmus and his mixing of Christian and Humanism ideas?
I am amazed by the opinion of some men who claim that they do not want their
daughters, wives, or kinswomen to be educated because their mores [morals]
would be ruined as a result. . . . Here you can clearly see that not all opinions of
men are based on reason and that these men are wrong.
-CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, The Book of The City of Ladies
73. What is the main point of this quote?
74. What did the Edict of Worms decree about Martin Luther?
75. What gave the Medici Family their power during the Renaissance?