1. What is the city known for its House of Wisdom?
A.
Siddhartha
B. Umm
Walad
C. Cairo
D. Baghdad
E.
Constantinople
2. Chinese gunpowder consisted of all of the following
except
A. sulfur
B. nitrogen
C. saltpeter
D. charcoal
3. Otto, the Saxon King, defeated Stoinef at the Battle of
A.
Bridgewood
B.
Lechfeld.
C. Saxony
D.
Magdeberg
4. Against whom was Chinese gunpowder first employed?
A. the
mongols
B. the
French
C.
Constantinople
D. Tibet
5. Otto gained control over Germany and other realms in 962.
It was known as the
A. Holy
Roman Empire
B. New
Roman Dominion
C. Kingdom
of Rome
D. Kingdom
of Germanic Peoples
6. Who introduced Christianity into Nubia?
A. Slavs
B. Julian
Norwich
C. merchants
D. Vikings
7. Which country was known as the “Christian island” in a
Muslim world?
A. Egypt
B. Syria
C. Persia
D. Ethiopia
8. _____ was the first European to set foot in North America
A. Leif
Erikson
B. Leif
Garrett
C. Otto the
First
D. Gerberga
E.
Christopher Columbus
9. ________ were official storytellers and poets in the
Kingdom of Ghana and beyond.
A. gypsies
B. griots
C. Anansis
D. Abbasids
10. How did Olaf die in battle?
A. He was
decapitated.
B. He was
shot with an arrow.
C. He fell
into a hole.
D. He drown
himself.
11. What was used to decipher the stories of the Mixtecs?
A. codices
B. the
Rosetta Stone.
C. the
Bible.
D. Mixtec
people themselves.
12. Which of the following is NOT something that Europeans
borrowed from China?
A.
gunpowder
B. paper
C. the
wheelbarrow
D. the
spinning wheel
13. Why did Mongols tend toward Christianity over Buddhism
and Islam?
A. They
were allowed to consume wine and meat in Christianity.
B. They
were bribed into it.
C.
Geographically, they were closer to centers of Christianity.
D. They
were forced at spear point.
14. Which of the following was not an advantage of
Bantu-speaking farmers?
A. iron
B.
population size
C.
over-abundance of wild-life
D. Disease
15. Which did the Meroe culture represent?
A. the
continuation of an older African, Nubian civilization.
B. a
growing civilization that would come to dominate Africa.
C. a
Christian civilization.
16. Which of the following is not considered one of the Five
Pillars of Islam?
A. Profession
of Faith
B. zakat
C.
confession
D. Hajj
17. Which source is not one that was about the Prophet
Muhammad?
A. Hadith
B. Hijra
C. Quran
D. Sira
18. Constantine worked his way into making _______ the
official religion of Rome.
A.
Confucianism
B. Buddhism
C. Roman
ancestor worship
D.
Constantineism
E.
Christianity
19. Where was Muhammad born?
A. Mecca
B. Medina
C.
Jerusalem
D. Persia
20. In Ghana, what item was worth more than gold?
A. salt
B. corn
C. silver
D. gum
E. gold
21. What does the Japanese term bushido mean?
A. death,
plain and simple, death
B. way of
the warrior
C. a
military weapon
D.
spiritual love
