1. Which of the following did NOT occur after the fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453? (Points : 1)
      The Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque.
      Constantinople was renamed Istanbul.
      The Ottomans refused to permit anyone in the region that was not Muslim.
      Istanbul controlled the waterways that were surrounding the port city.

2. Upon being crowned the shah of the Safavid Empire, fourteen-year-old Esma'il declared Shi'ism the official religion, which was a problem because the majority of his subjects belonged to what religious sect? (Points : 1)
      Protestantism
      Catholicism
      Buddhism
      Sunni Islam

3. Which leader of the Mughal Empire was very curious, but illiterate, and displayed religious tolerance to the extent that he took one wife from every one of the four major religions? (Points : 1)
      Babur
      Esma'il
      Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent
      Akbar

4. Both the Ming and Qing rulers of China discouraged foreign trade and tried to keep contact with the outside world to a minimum. (Points : 1)
      True
      False

5. Bushido means a samurai code of ethics, or the "way of the warrior." (Points : 1)
       True
       False

6. The _________ dynasty in China followed Mongol rule in 1368. (Points : 1)
      Ching
      Ming
      Qing
      Quyang

7. During the reign of the Kamukura Shogunate, the emperor was still at the top of the hierarchal structure, but possessed little power. (Points : 1)
       True
       False

8. Spain prospered under the rule of Philip II due to the exploitation of Spanish colonies in the Americas, as shipments of gold and silver were continuously sent to the motherland. (Points : 1)
       True
       False

9. Divine right means the power to rule cannot be challenged, as it was believed to derive from God. (Points : 1)
       True
       False

10. Identify the individual who wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha, a novel about fantastical medieval adventure with sidekick Sancho Panza. (Points : 1)
      Diego Velazquez
      Galileo Galilei
      El Greco
      Cervantes

11. The Scientific Revolution took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries due to the spreading of secular beliefs in Europe which questioned everything and did not believe the Church. (Points : 1)
       True
       False

12. Identify the individual who was responsible for identifying the relationship between the temperature, pressure, and volume of gases. (Points : 1)
      Copernicus
      Robert Boyle
      Isaac Newton
      Johannes Kepler

13. Which of the following is NOT true about the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte? (Points : 1)
      He was a military dictator.
      He was successful in uniting all of Europe in his Continental System.
      Western Europe banded together to defeat Napoleon, ultimately exiling him to the island of Elba.
      His reform efforts include the Bank of France, the Napoleonic Code (a legal system), and a system of education.

14. On July 14, 1789, a mob of people stormed a prison that held political prisoners, revolting against the injustices of the governing party. In which country did this occur? (Points : 1)
      France
      England
      America
      Russia

15. All of the following individuals were responsible for the creation of an invention which allowed for more efficient production of textiles EXCEPT: (Points : 1)
      Eli Whitney
      James Hargreaves
      John Kay
      Dred Scott

16. Identify the individual who was responsible for creating better and more efficient means of long-distance communication. (Points : 1)
      Thomas Edison
      Samuel Morse
      Orville Wright
      Charles Darwin

17. Identify the individual who was responsible for the development of the Communist economic theory, which states that government should control all businesses, people should not be paid for their work, and all products should be equally distributed among society. (Points : 1)
      Adam Smith
      Karl Marx
      Andrew Carnegie
      Lewis Hine

18. Capitalism replaced mercantilism as the economic theory prescribed to freeing industry from government regulations. (Points : 1)
       True
       False

19. Identify the scientist who discovered the theory of evolution. (Points : 1)
      Crawford W. Long
      Sigmund Freud
      Charles Darwin
      Marie Curie

20. A lot of children worked as much as 10 to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in factories and did not go to school during the Industrial Revolution. (Points : 1)
      True
      False