Stratified Societies Medieval World Set 7
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This set of Stratified Societies- Medieval World Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Stratified Societies Medieval World Set 7
Q1 | The guilds during the …………………period (300-500) were known as the ‘Shrenia’.
- vedic
- maurya
- harappan
- gupta
Q2 | All those guilds in Japan were swept away in the Meiji restoration of………………
- 1848
- 1858
- 1868
- 1886
Q3 | The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses and supernova were made in…………….
- switzerland
- belgium
- china
- portugal
Q4 | Ceramic movable type printing was developed by Bi Sheng in the……………….century.
- 9th
- 10th
- 11th
- 12th
Q5 | One of the most important military treatises of all ……………..history was ‘HuaLong Jing’ written by Jiao Yu in the 14th century, which provides the details of gun powder use and related weapons.
- american
- japanese
- british
- chinese
Q6 | The two most important scientists of the medieval …………..were Shen Kuo and Subsistence Song; both lived in the 11th century.
- china
- syria
- baghdad
- iraq
Q7 | ……………., a Polymath scientist and statesman was the first to describe themagnetic needle compass used for navigation.
- shen kuo
- jiao yu
- bi sheng
- wang zhen
Q8 | ……………. discovered the concept of ‘true north’ and improved the design of‘armillary sphere’.
- shen kuo
- bi sheng
- jiao yu
- wang zhen
Q9 | ……………….was a polymath and astronomer, who created a celestial atlas of star maps and prepared a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy and metallurgy.
- subsistence song
- shen kuo
- jiao yu
- wang zhen
Q10 | ………..had erected a large astronomical Clock Tower in Kaifeng city in 1088 AD.
- bi sheng
- subsistence song
- jiao yu
- wang zhen
Q11 | ………………of 11th century proposed the idea that rainbows were the result of the contacts between sunlight and moisture in the air, while Shen Kuo expanded upon this with the description of atmospheric refraction.
- sun sikong
- bi sheng
- subsistence song
- jiao yu
Q12 | Arab astronomers worked in the Chinese Astronomical Bureau established by ……
- roger bacon
- al-batari
- peter abelard
- kublai khan
Q13 | The Chinese mathematician, ……………..of 13th century had criticised earlier mathematicians who were content with using methods, without working out their theoretical origins and principles.
- yang hui
- gaozong
- subsistence song
- kublai khan
Q14 | Emperor Gaozong of 7th century of ……………dynasty had commissioned a scholarly compilation of a ‘materia medica’.
- romanov
- manchu
- ming
- tang
Q15 | The scholar official ………………..of 11th century, in his ‘Bencao Tujing’ not only systematically categorized herbs and minerals according to their pharmaceuticaluses, but regions they could be found.
- grosesteste
- gaozong
- al-tusi
- subsistence song
Q16 | The growth of …………….industry during the 11th century paved way for vast deforestation due to the use of charcoal in the smelting process.
- iron
- steel
- wood
- metal
Q17 | As a part of the search for remedy of the problem of deforestation, the ……………..discovered how to produce cake from bituminous coal as a substitute for charcoal.
- chinese
- belgium
- portuguese
- spanish
Q18 | Progress in methodology with the beginning of experiments was started by…………….on optics from 1000 CE in his ‘Book of Optics”.
- pierre duhem
- al-batari
- al-razi
- al hazen
Q19 | ………………is generally regarded as the ‘father of optics’ especially for his empirical proof of the intromission theory of light.
- al hazen
- al-batari
- al-razi
- pierre duhem
Q20 | Ibn Musa of Khwarismi, the ……………..mathematician developed the concept of‘algoritham’.
- belgian
- persian
- portuguese
- spanish
Q21 | In astronomy, …………..improved the measurements of Hipparchus.
- al battari
- thomas aquinas
- robert grosseteste
- pierre duhem
Q22 | ……………translated Ptolemy’s ‘The Great Treatise’ into Arabic with the new title‘Almagest’.
- al battari
- thomas aquinas
- robert grosseteste
- peter abelard
Q23 | ………………… is considered by many to be the ‘father of chemistry’.
- jabbir ibn hayyam
- thomas aquinas
- robert grosseteste
- none of these
Q24 | …………….introduced the empirical method to Europe is said to have influencedgreatly by the Arab scientists.
- roger bacon
- omar khayyam
- thomas aquinas
- robert grosseteste
Q25 | Avicenna (Ibn Sina) is regarded as the most influential scientist and philosopher of………………..
- switzerland
- belgium
- arabia
- portugal