World History Quiz - 1

1. A disease that killed almost half the poulation of western Europe in the fourteenth century was __________.
A.  Aids
B. Cholera
C. Bubonic Plague

2. This group of people ruled Mexico and neighboring areas in the sixteenth century.
A.  Mexicans
B.  Mayas
C. Aztecs

3. He was a famous Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
A. Christopher Columbus
B. Marco Polo
C. Benito Mussolini

4. Cleopatra was the queen of __________ in the first century B.C.
A.  Egypt
B. Rome
C. Greece

5. Johann Gutenberg was famous for inventing __________.
A. the telephone
B.  the computer
C. the printing press

6. The Hundred Years' War was fought between France and __________.
A. England
B.  Norway
C. Spain

7. The pyramids in Egypt were first built around __________.
A. 1020 B.C.
B. 2700 B.C.
C. Who knows?

8. The Vikings were warriors from __________.
A. England
B. France

C. Scandinavia

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