World History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 2)

Charles lost the civil war that began in 1642. He was executed on 30 January 1649.

Henry VII seized the crown in 1485 and ended the Wars of the Roses. He was the first Tudor king.

A young person began as an apprentice, then became a journeyman, and might finally rise to master.

Domesday records 5,624 watermills in England alone. Later research suggests the true number was higher.

One field was sown in autumn, one in spring, and one rested. The crops moved round each year.

The heavy plough turned over clay soil and buried weeds. It came into wide use around the year 1000.

Cluny was founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine. It stressed a stricter following of the Benedictine Rule.

Benedict founded Monte Cassino about 529 and wrote his Rule there. The Rule has 73 chapters.

The yam was a chain of relay stations. Riders handed on messages and could cover 200 to 300 km a day.

Both were ruled by Toluid princes. The Golden Horde came from Jochi, and the Chaghatai Khanate from Chaghatai.

Tolui acted as regent after 1227. Ögedei was formally elected in 1229 and later built Karakorum as the capital.

Jamukha was first an ally of Temujin and then a rival. After Temujin defeated the Naimans and executed Jamukha, he ruled the whole steppe.

Mongol herders lived in gers. These felt tents were easy to carry as families moved with their animals.

The war on the Jin began in 1211. Zhongdu fell in 1215. The Jin were fully conquered only in 1234.

Yesugei was poisoned by Tatars when Temujin was about eight. His tribe then left the family.

The House of Wisdom in Baghdad was turned into a public academy under al-Ma’mun. It was tied to the translation movement.

Fatima al-Fihri founded Al-Qarawiyyin in 857-859. It is often called the oldest continually operating centre of higher learning.

Kalila wa Dimna came from the Indian Panchatantra through Persian. Ibn al-Muqaffa made the Arabic version.

The Canon of Medicine has five books. It gathered the medical knowledge of Ibn Sina’s age.

Urban II spoke on the last day of the council. He urged knights to march east.

Tughril entered Baghdad in 1055 at the Abbasid caliph’s request. The Seljuk sultan now held the real power.

Baghdad was founded in 762 near the old Sasanian capital Ctesiphon. It became the Abbasid capital.

Abd al-Malik replaced Greek and Persian in the bureaucracy with Arabic. He also introduced one Islamic coinage.

Abu Bakr ruled from 632 to 634. He crushed the revolts that followed Muhammad’s death.

The Hijra took place in 622 CE. It marks the start of the Islamic calendar.