1.
What was probably the most significant circumstance of the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648)?
A) The Ottoman Empire fell.

B) When it ended, most of Northern Europe was shaped on the map as we know it today.
C) Lutherans and Calvinists joined together against the Catholics.
D) Catholicism became the official religion in Northern Europe.
2.
Who is said to be one of the most successful rulers of the 16th century?
A) Philip II
B) Henry VIII
C) Elizabeth I
D) Charles V
3.
Swahili civilization reached its apogee
A) in the 14th and 15th centuries
B) in the 13th and 14th centuries
C) in the 15th and 16th centuries
D) before the 13th century
4.
The religious fighting in France between the Huguenots (Protestants) and the Catholics led to what event in which at least 3,000 protestants were slaughtered in 1572?
A) the Great Schism

B) St. Bartholemew s Day Massacre
C) the Edict of Nantes
D) the Protestant Reformation
5.
What event or act by Henry IV in France (1598) offered a peace settlement between the Catholics and Protestants?
A) the calling of the Council of Trent
B) the Counter Reformation
C) the Edict of Nantes
D) transubstantiation
6.
The Scientific Revolution is said to have taken place during which centuries?
A) 16th, 17th, and 18th
B) only in the 15th
C) the 15th and the 16th
D) only in the 16th
7.

Which group of people were the first of their kind to land in North America in 1619?
A) colonists
B) Spanish
C) British
D) African slaves
8.
The voyage of Columbus in the late 1400s to the Americas started three centuries of conquest, exploitation, and rule by empire from which Europeans?
A) British
B) Dutch
C) Portuguese
D) Spanish
9.
What is the Spanish and Portuguese term for Muslims?
A) Ghananians
B) Suni
C) Shi ites
D) Moors