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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History) .
| 1. |
Fernand Braudel was a …………..historian. |
| A. | french |
| B. | chinese |
| C. | indian |
| D. | british |
| Answer» A. french | |
| 2. |
Ancient history ended with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in …………… A.D. |
| A. | 476 |
| B. | 486 |
| C. | 496 |
| D. | 498 |
| Answer» A. 476 | |
| 3. |
The Roman emperor ……………..decided to tolerate Christianity (313 A.D.) |
| A. | constantine |
| B. | colin mcevedy |
| C. | justinian |
| D. | romulus augustulus |
| Answer» A. constantine | |
| 4. |
…………founded the city of Constantinople as the empire’s second capital (330 A.D.) |
| A. | constantine |
| B. | theodosius i |
| C. | romulus augustulus |
| D. | george washington |
| Answer» A. constantine | |
| 5. |
The last emperor of the western Roman Empire, ……………., was deposed by the Heruli king Odoacer (476 A.D.). |
| A. | romulus augustulus |
| B. | george washington |
| C. | john kelleher |
| D. | arthur schlesinger |
| Answer» A. romulus augustulus | |
| 6. |
Ottoman Turks extinguished the Eastern Roman Empire by capturing …………………(1453 A.D.), |
| A. | constantinople |
| B. | babylonia |
| C. | philadelphia |
| D. | assyria |
| Answer» A. constantinople | |
| 7. |
Columbus first set foot in ………………..in 1492 A.D. |
| A. | france |
| B. | assyria |
| C. | america |
| D. | netherlands |
| Answer» C. america | |
| 8. |
………………….caused a split in western Christianity by posting his “95 Theses” on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany (1517 A.D.). |
| A. | martin luther |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | arthur schlesinger |
| D. | j.f. richards |
| Answer» A. martin luther | |
| 9. |
Martin Luther caused a split in western Christianity by posting his “95 Theses” on the door of the castle church in……………, Germany (1517 A.D.). |
| A. | babylonia |
| B. | wittenberg |
| C. | philadelphia |
| D. | assyria |
| Answer» B. wittenberg | |
| 10. |
The Moslem calendar begins with the hegira, Mohammed’s journey from Mecca to Medina in ……………….. A.D. |
| A. | 612 |
| B. | 615 |
| C. | 618 |
| D. | 622 |
| Answer» D. 622 | |
| 11. |
The Roman calendar began with Rome’s founding in …………… B.C. |
| A. | 740 |
| B. | 750 |
| C. | 762 |
| D. | 778 |
| Answer» B. 750 | |
| 12. |
The Greek Seleucid Empire used a chronology that began with Seleucus Nicator’s occupation of ……………..in 311 B.C. |
| A. | assyria |
| B. | babylon |
| C. | france |
| D. | netherlands |
| Answer» B. babylon | |
| 13. |
Hegel’s thoughts on world history are expressed in The Philosophy of History, based on lectures first given in…………….. |
| A. | 1802 |
| B. | 1813 |
| C. | 1822 |
| D. | 1856 |
| Answer» C. 1822 | |
| 14. |
……………………The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. |
| A. | edward gibbon’s |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | j.f. richards |
| D. | maurice dobb |
| Answer» A. edward gibbon’s | |
| 15. |
Who wrote the Decline of the West? |
| A. | oswald spengler |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | arthur schlesinger |
| D. | j.f. richards |
| Answer» A. oswald spengler | |
| 16. |
‘A Study of History’ is the work of …………………. |
| A. | roger lewin |
| B. | arnold toynbee |
| C. | leonardo bruni |
| D. | arthur schlesinger |
| Answer» B. arnold toynbee | |
| 17. |
In fact, the concept of periodisation in world history had its beginnings in the writings of the humanist writer, …………..in the 14th century. |
| A. | petrarch |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | j.f. richards |
| D. | dante |
| Answer» A. petrarch | |
| 18. |
……………..may be considered as the first writer who has made a tri-partite division to the world history for the first time. |
| A. | leonardo bruni |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | arthur schlesinger |
| D. | maurice dobb |
| Answer» A. leonardo bruni | |
| 19. |
………used the tri-partite periodisation in his ‘History of Florentine People’ (1442) |
| A. | arthur schlesinger |
| B. | leonardo bruni |
| C. | j.f. richards |
| D. | paul sweezy |
| Answer» B. leonardo bruni | |
| 20. |
The tri-partite periodisation became popular after the German historian ………………..used it in his ‘Universal History Divided into Ancient, Medieval and New Period’ (1683). |
| A. | christoph cellarius |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | justinian |
| D. | maurice dobb |
| Answer» A. christoph cellarius | |
| 21. |
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. |
| A. | 456 |
| B. | 466 |
| C. | 476 |
| D. | 499 |
| Answer» C. 476 | |
| 22. |
The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in …………… AD is commonly used as the end date of the medieval world. |
| A. | 1433 |
| B. | 1451 |
| C. | 1453 |
| D. | 1475 |
| Answer» C. 1453 | |
| 23. |
Henri Pirenne was a ……………….historian. |
| A. | belgian |
| B. | assyrian |
| C. | spanish |
| D. | babylonian |
| Answer» A. belgian | |
| 24. |
Johan Huizinga was a …………………historian. |
| A. | dutch |
| B. | austrian |
| C. | spanish |
| D. | frankish |
| Answer» A. dutch | |
| 25. |
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. |
| A. | frankish |
| B. | babylonian |
| C. | carolingian |
| D. | romanov |
| Answer» C. carolingian | |
| 26. |
……………….. court was the centre of a cultural revival that is sometimes referred to as the ‘Carolingian Renaissance’, till its break up towards the end of the 10th century. |
| A. | charlemagne’s |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | justinian |
| D. | paul sweaty |
| Answer» A. charlemagne’s | |
| 27. |
The religious wars known as the …………….also took place during the medieval period. |
| A. | reformation |
| B. | renaissance |
| C. | crusades |
| D. | hundred year’s war |
| Answer» C. crusades | |
| 28. |
………………was probably the first to use the tripartite division to Indian history in the early 19th century. |
| A. | james mill |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | arthur schlesinger |
| D. | j.f. richards |
| Answer» A. james mill | |
| 29. |
Instead of ancient, medieval and modern categories ….deliberately used Hindu, Muslim and British periods. |
| A. | paul sweezy |
| B. | maurice dobb |
| C. | james mill |
| D. | john kelleher |
| Answer» C. james mill | |
| 30. |
Prior to Mill, the Romantic minded Orientalists like ……………..and later Maximum Muller had valorized the ‘Hindu period’ through a study of Sanskrit tests. |
| A. | sir william jones |
| B. | john kelleher |
| C. | j.f. richards |
| D. | maurice dobb |
| Answer» A. sir william jones | |
| 31. |
The Battle of Plassey in…………….., which saw the beginning of the British rule in India. |
| A. | 1557 |
| B. | 1657 |
| C. | 1748 |
| D. | 1757 |
| Answer» D. 1757 | |
| 32. |
The ambitious task, …………………had outlined – to present in ‘chronological order of successive changes in the means and relations of production’ – still remains unfinished. |
| A. | d.d. kosambi |
| B. | b.d. chattopadhyaya |
| C. | arthur schlesinger |
| D. | j.f. richards |
| Answer» A. d.d. kosambi | |
| 33. |
After the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Eastern Roman empire or the Byzantine Empire with ……………..as its capital was formed which remained for about a thousand years. |
| A. | kabul |
| B. | assyria |
| C. | harvard |
| D. | constantinople |
| Answer» D. constantinople | |
| 34. |
The Eastern Roman empire came to an end when the …………..conquered Constantinople in 1453 AD. |
| A. | turks |
| B. | austria |
| C. | spain |
| D. | arabs |
| Answer» A. turks | |
| 35. |
In the meanwhile, ……………..had founded the Carolingian dynasty in the beginning of the 9th century which ruled the parts of modern France and Germany and a part of Italy. |
| A. | charlemagne |
| B. | arthur schlesinger |
| C. | j.f. richards |
| D. | paul sweezy |
| Answer» A. charlemagne | |
| 36. |
………………..can be described as a type of government in which political power is exercised locally by private individuals rather than through the bureaucracy of a centralized state. |
| A. | capitalism |
| B. | renaissance |
| C. | reformation |
| D. | feudalism |
| Answer» D. feudalism | |
| 37. |
After the death of the prophet in……………., the Arab kingdom developed into a vast empire, comprising of Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Iran Central Asia, North Africa and Spain. |
| A. | 622 |
| B. | 632 |
| C. | 642 |
| D. | 662 |
| Answer» B. 632 | |
| 38. |
By the middle of the 7th century, centralized power was established in the Arab empire by the………………. |
| A. | umayyad |
| B. | abbasid |
| C. | sultanate |
| D. | mughal |
| Answer» A. umayyad | |
| 39. |
Umayyad was overthrown by the Abbasids in 750 AD, who made ……………….their capital. |
| A. | jerusalem |
| B. | assyria |
| C. | harvard |
| D. | baghdad |
| Answer» D. baghdad | |
| 40. |
The Abbasid rule lasted till the 11th century when they were ousted from power by the ……………... |
| A. | seljuk turks |
| B. | ottoman turks |
| C. | arabs |
| D. | guptas |
| Answer» A. seljuk turks | |
| 41. |
The Turks controlled the Arab empire thereafter till the 15th century when the ……………….became the rulers of the Arab territories. |
| A. | ottoman turks |
| B. | seljuk turks |
| C. | arabs |
| D. | palas |
| Answer» A. ottoman turks | |
| 42. |
In India, after the break-up of the ……………Empire in the 5th century, much number of regional powers came into existence. |
| A. | gupta |
| B. | muryan |
| C. | nanda |
| D. | indo-greek |
| Answer» A. gupta | |
| 43. |
The most powerful three regional kingdom of ………….India and Deccan during the period between 8th and 10th centuries were the Rashtrakutas, the Pratiharas and the Palas, who fought each other for supremacy. |
| A. | north |
| B. | south |
| C. | west |
| D. | east |
| Answer» A. north | |
| 44. |
Several Rajput States also emerged during this period in North India, especially after the decline of the……………... |
| A. | pratiharas |
| B. | rashtrakutas |
| C. | palas |
| D. | senas |
| Answer» A. pratiharas | |
| 45. |
The decline of the Chola power in the ………….. century gave way for the upcoming of several regional kingdoms. |
| A. | 11th |
| B. | 12th |
| C. | 13th |
| D. | 14th |
| Answer» C. 13th | |
| 46. |
The Delhi Sultanate was established by the Turks in the 13th century, which lasted till the …………..century. |
| A. | 14th |
| B. | 15th |
| C. | 16th |
| D. | 17th |
| Answer» C. 16th | |
| 47. |
The ……………..rulers were successful in bringing the entire north India under their control especially in the 14th century. |
| A. | sultanate |
| B. | pratihara |
| C. | mughal |
| D. | gupta |
| Answer» A. sultanate | |
| 48. |
From the middle of the 14th century to the …………century Deccan and some parts of South India was dominated by the Vijayanagara and Bahmini kingdoms. |
| A. | 16th |
| B. | 17th |
| C. | 18th |
| D. | 19th |
| Answer» A. 16th | |
| 49. |
Major part of the Indian sub-continent was brought under one ruler by the …………………in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| A. | sultanate |
| B. | mughals |
| C. | mayuryas |
| D. | nandas |
| Answer» B. mughals | |
| 50. |
The Mughal Empire reached its highest point during the reign of its last powerful ruler,…………………. |
| A. | akbar |
| B. | bahadurshah ii |
| C. | aurangzeb |
| D. | shajahan |
| Answer» C. aurangzeb | |
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