World History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 3)

The Tetrarchy was a rule of four. Each tetrarch governed a quarter of the empire.

The Year of the Four Emperors was 69 CE. Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian ruled in turn.

Monte Testaccio is built from broken amphorae that once carried olive oil to Rome. It shows how large the oil trade was.

Mari fell to Babylonia in about 1761 BC. It survived afterwards only as a small settlement.

Control of Nanna’s priesthood stayed a symbol of political power in the region for centuries.

Mari lay on the Euphrates trade route between Sumer in the south and Ebla and the Levant in the west.

The mosaic decorated a hollow wooden box. It dates to about 2600-2500 BC and is now in the British Museum.

Sargon defeated Lugal-zage-si and replaced the system of independent city-states. The Akkadian period is dated to about 2334-2154 BC.

Eanna means House of Heaven. It was the residence of Inanna, goddess of war and love.

Ur-Nammu ruled during the Third Dynasty of Ur and dedicated the ziggurat to Nanna, also called Sin.

Uruk may have held up to 50,000 residents at its peak around 3100 BC. Nearby settlements were far smaller.

Gobekli Tepe dates to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. Its pillars are among the oldest known megaliths.

Emmer, einkorn and barley were the three founder cereals. Maize, potato and tobacco came from the Americas.

The Natufian culture dates to about 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. It shows that people began settling before they began farming.

The correct answer is the National Liberation Council. Police and army rebels took power on 24 February 1966. The NLC dismissed Nkrumah and dissolved the CPP and National Assembly. Lt Gen J. A. Ankrah chaired it. The CPP is wrong because it was dissolved. The OAU is wrong because it is a continental body. The UGCC is wrong because it was the older party. Memory hook: NLC replaced the CPP.

The correct answer is the Akosombo Dam. It was part of the Volta River Project. Its gates closed in 1965 and created Lake Volta. Inga, Kariba and Aswan High are wrong because they are not part of Ghana’s Volta River Project. Memory hook: Akosombo means Volta.

The correct answer is Positive Action. In early 1950 the CPP began Positive Action, a campaign of strikes and nonviolent resistance. On 8 January 1950 a general strike and boycott of British goods were called. Quit Gold Coast and Civil Obedience are wrong because they are not the CPP’s campaign names. Operation Cold Chop is wrong because it is not a campaign for self-government. Memory hook: Positive Action, then prison, then power.

India and Yugoslavia used it in 1950. They refused to take sides in the alliances that grew out of the Korean War.

Twenty-nine Asian and African countries took part, speaking for about 54 percent of the world’s people.

Sauvy’s article in L’Observateur used the phrase tiers monde, linking it to France’s Third Estate.

In 1974 China and South Vietnam fought briefly in the Paracels. China has held the whole group since then.

The Philippines brought the case under Annex VII of UNCLOS. A tribunal ruled on 12 July 2016.

Herodotus wrote the Histories, an account of the Greco-Persian Wars with much about culture and customs.

The Zollverein removed customs barriers among most German states. It was led by Prussia and did not include Austria.

The war was fought over the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Two years later Prussia fought Austria.