Lesson Y8-U06-L01

Y8-U06-L01 Meanwhile Elsewhere A Wider World Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 12

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U06-L01, Meanwhile Elsewhere A Wider World: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 12: Year 8: Meanwhile Elsewhere, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does 'Eurocentric' mean when used about history?

    • Describing European cities in detail while ignoring their rural villages
    • Telling history as if only Europe matters, and ignoring the rest of the world
    • Comparing the history of Europe with the history of the Americas in a single lesson
    • Studying the history of Europe only from the perspective of its kings and queens

  2. What is a 'civilisation' in history?

    • A large, organised society with cities, trade, writing and a shared culture
    • A religion that spreads across several continents and is followed by millions
    • A small village that grows its own food and makes its own tools and cloth
    • A ruler who controls many lands and peoples through a single government

  3. In history, what does 'meanwhile' mean when we ask what else was happening in the world?

    • Before the start of the Tudor period in the late fifteenth century
    • At the same time, which means what else was happening in the world
    • In the place where a battle or war was about to begin
    • After a long delay while the important events of the time were forgotten

  4. Which parts of the world had the largest cities, biggest empires and richest trade in 1500?

    • Scandinavia and the northern seas
    • Western Europe only, especially Britain and France
    • Africa's deserts and mountain plateaus
    • Asia and the Americas

  5. Which city was the capital of the Ottoman Empire?

    • Istanbul, once called Constantinople
    • Tenochtitlan, the Aztec city built on a lake
    • Cairo, on the banks of the River Nile
    • Beijing, the home of the Forbidden City

  6. In which year did the Ottomans capture Constantinople?

    • 1588
    • 1066
    • 1453
    • 1492

  7. Which Ottoman sultan ruled from 1520 to 1566 and made the empire rich and well governed?

    • Akbar the Great, the Mughal emperor who ruled India from 1556 to 1605
    • Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor who founded the Yuan dynasty in China
    • Henry VIII, the Tudor king who broke with the Church of Rome in England
    • Suleiman the Magnificent

  8. In which year was the Mughal Empire founded?

    • 1632
    • 1453
    • 1556
    • 1526

  9. Which Mughal emperor, who ruled from 1556 to 1605, was famous for tolerating different religions?

    • Suleiman the Magnificent
    • Akbar the Great
    • Shah Jahan
    • Babur

  10. How many people lived in Ming and Qing China, which was more than the whole of Europe?

    • About 1,000 million people
    • About 10 million people
    • Over 100 million people
    • Under one million people

  11. Which four inventions were first made in China?

    • The water wheel, the windmill, the plough and the loom
    • Gunpowder, printing, paper money and the compass
    • The cannon, the clock, the printing press and the spinning wheel
    • The steam engine, the railway, the telegraph and the telescope

  12. What was the Forbidden City in Beijing?

    • A prison in which the Ming emperors kept their enemies locked up
    • A fort on the Atlantic coast built by the Portuguese
    • A temple built by the Aztecs on the coast of Central America
    • A vast imperial palace with roughly 9,000 rooms

  13. What did the world want from China, and how did China want to be paid for it?

    • Gold, iron and coal, paid for in British cloth
    • Silk, tea and porcelain, paid for in silver
    • Pepper, ivory and copper, paid for in Portuguese gold
    • Cotton and spices, paid for in Mughal jewels

  14. What was Tenochtitlan?

    • The Ottoman capital on the banks of the Bosphorus
    • The Aztec capital, a city built on a lake with around 200,000 people
    • An Inca fortress built high in the Andes mountains of Peru
    • A Mughal palace built beside the River Yamuna in Agra

  15. Where was the Inca civilisation based?

    • The Rocky Mountains of North America
    • The Andes mountains of Peru and beyond
    • The valley of the River Nile in Egypt
    • Central Mexico, around a city on a lake

  16. Which Inca site is a famous example of their engineering?

    • The Taj Mahal
    • The Forbidden City
    • Machu Picchu
    • The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul

  17. A textbook covers only the Tudors and the Civil War, ignoring other civilisations. Which bias does this show?

    • A military bias
    • An economic bias
    • A religious bias
    • A Eurocentric bias

  18. Why was Tenochtitlan so impressive to Europeans?

    • It was a port that traded only in gold and silver coins with the merchants of Lisbon and Seville for a century
    • It was a village of farmers who had no written records and who traded only with the Inca on the coast each year
    • It was a mountain fortress that no army had ever reached
    • It was a city of around 200,000 people, larger than London or Paris in 1500

  19. Which statement best explains why history should be studied as a global story?

    • History is the study of wars alone, and empires were not important
    • History is global, and other civilisations were thriving at the same time as Europe changed
    • History only happened in Europe, and other places had no history worth studying
    • History begins in 1500 and nothing happened in the world before that date

  20. Why was Mughal India so wealthy by 1700?

    • It had discovered gold mines that were larger than all the mines in Europe
    • Its large population and its trade in cotton and silk made it a leading producer of goods
    • It had banned trade with all foreign countries to keep its riches at home
    • It had won a series of wars against every other empire in the world

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