Stratified Societies Medieval World Set 1

Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History)

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This set of Stratified Societies- Medieval World Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Stratified Societies Medieval World Set 1

Q1 | Fernand Braudel was a …………..historian.
  • french
  • chinese
  • indian
  • british
Answer: french
Q2 | Ancient history ended with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in …………… A.D.
  • 476
  • 486
  • 496
  • 498
Answer: 476
Q3 | The Roman emperor ……………..decided to tolerate Christianity (313 A.D.)
  • constantine
  • colin mcevedy
  • justinian
  • romulus augustulus
Answer: constantine
Q4 | …………founded the city of Constantinople as the empire’s second capital (330 A.D.)
  • constantine
  • theodosius i
  • romulus augustulus
  • george washington
Answer: constantine
Q5 | The last emperor of the western Roman Empire, ……………., was deposed by theHeruli king Odoacer (476 A.D.).
  • romulus augustulus
  • george washington
  • john kelleher
  • arthur schlesinger
Answer: romulus augustulus
Q6 | Ottoman Turks extinguished the Eastern Roman Empire by capturing…………………(1453 A.D.),
  • constantinople
  • babylonia
  • philadelphia
  • assyria
Answer: constantinople
Q7 | Columbus first set foot in ………………..in 1492 A.D.
  • france
  • assyria
  • america
  • netherlands
Answer: america
Q8 | ………………….caused a split in western Christianity by posting his “95 Theses” onthe door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany (1517 A.D.).
  • martin luther
  • john kelleher
  • arthur schlesinger
  • j.f. richards
Answer: martin luther
Q9 | Martin Luther caused a split in western Christianity by posting his “95 Theses” onthe door of the castle church in……………, Germany (1517 A.D.).
  • babylonia
  • wittenberg
  • philadelphia
  • assyria
Answer: wittenberg
Q10 | The Moslem calendar begins with the hegira, Mohammed’s journey from Mecca toMedina in ……………….. A.D.
  • 612
  • 615
  • 618
  • 622
Answer: 622
Q11 | The Roman calendar began with Rome’s founding in …………… B.C.
  • 740
  • 750
  • 762
  • 778
Answer: 750
Q12 | The Greek Seleucid Empire used a chronology that began with Seleucus Nicator’soccupation of ……………..in 311 B.C.
  • assyria
  • babylon
  • france
  • netherlands
Answer: babylon
Q13 | Hegel’s thoughts on world history are expressed in The Philosophy of History, basedon lectures first given in……………..
  • 1802
  • 1813
  • 1822
  • 1856
Answer: 1822
Q14 | ……………………The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which waspublished in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
  • edward gibbon’s
  • john kelleher
  • j.f. richards
  • maurice dobb
Answer: edward gibbon’s
Q15 | Who wrote the Decline of the West?
  • oswald spengler
  • john kelleher
  • arthur schlesinger
  • j.f. richards
Answer: oswald spengler
Q16 | ‘A Study of History’ is the work of ………………….
  • roger lewin
  • arnold toynbee
  • leonardo bruni
  • arthur schlesinger
Answer: arnold toynbee
Q17 | In fact, the concept of periodisation in world history had its beginnings in thewritings of the humanist writer, …………..in the 14th century.
  • petrarch
  • john kelleher
  • j.f. richards
  • dante
Answer: petrarch
Q18 | ……………..may be considered as the first writer who has made a tri-partitedivision to the world history for the first time.
  • leonardo bruni
  • john kelleher
  • arthur schlesinger
  • maurice dobb
Answer: leonardo bruni
Q19 | ………used the tri-partite periodisation in his ‘History of Florentine People’ (1442)
  • arthur schlesinger
  • leonardo bruni
  • j.f. richards
  • paul sweezy
Answer: leonardo bruni
Q20 | The tri-partite periodisation became popular after the German historian ………………..used it in his ‘Universal History Divided into Ancient, Medieval and New Period’ (1683).
  • christoph cellarius
  • john kelleher
  • justinian
  • maurice dobb
Answer: christoph cellarius
Q21 | The most commonly given start date in European history for medieval period is …………………. AD, in the year Romulus Augustus the last Roman emperor in the West abdicated.
  • 456
  • 466
  • 476
  • 499
Answer: 476
Q22 | The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in …………… AD is commonly usedas the end date of the medieval world.
  • 1433
  • 1451
  • 1453
  • 1475
Answer: 1453
Q23 | Henri Pirenne was a ……………….historian.
  • belgian
  • assyrian
  • spanish
  • babylonian
Answer: belgian
Q24 | Johan Huizinga was a …………………historian.
  • dutch
  • austrian
  • spanish
  • frankish
Answer: dutch
Q25 | It was during the Early Middle Ages that the world witnessed the rise, growth and decay of the ………………dynasty stared by Emperor Charlemagne, which could fill the power vacancy that had existed since the fall of the Roman Empire.
  • frankish
  • babylonian
  • carolingian
  • romanov
Answer: carolingian
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