Ch 4 Geography Review--Europe: Early History

The period of peace and prosperity initiated by Caesar Augustus was the ____.

(a)  

• Pax Romana
• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Protestant Reformation

Socrates was a great ____.

• Roman general

• Greek general

• Roman philosopher

• Greek philosopher

During the Age of Exploration, the Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India was ____.

• Vasco da Gama

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Michelangelo Buonarotti

• Leonardo da Vinci

The Middle Ages ended and the pre-modern period began with the (a)   .

• French Revolution
• Napoleonic Wars
• Renaissance
• Pax Romana

The inventor of movable type was ____.

(a)  

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Johannes Gutenberg
• John Locke

• John Calvin

A written document that granted privileges and freedoms to city residents was ____.

(a)  

• a charter
• an indulgence

• a convent

• a consul

Renaissance writers reached a wider audience by writing in ____.

• Latin

• French

• the language of the educated

• the language they spoke every day

When Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, he thought he had sailed to ____.

• the East Indies

• Africa

• France

• Portugal

Sparta defeated Athens in the ____.

(a)  

• Persian Wars

• Alexandrian War

• Peloponnesian War
• Crusades

Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under (a)   .

• Caesar Augustus
• Julius Caesar
• Constantine I
• Alexander the Great