World History Milestones

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1. King John sealed Magna Carta in 1215 after pressure from which group?

   • French merchants
   • Roman senators
   • Rebel English barons
   • Viking settlers

2. The Ottoman capture of which city in 1453 ended the Byzantine Empire?

   • Constantinople
   • Rome
   • Alexandria
   • Vienna

3. Which event began in 1789 with a political and social crisis in France?

   • The Industrial Revolution
   • The Crimean War
   • The Renaissance
   • The French Revolution

4. Who completed the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air airplane in 1903?

   • Louis Blériot and Alberto Santos-Dumont
   • Wilbur and Orville Wright
   • Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart
   • Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier

5. Gutenberg’s printing system made European book production faster chiefly through what reusable technology?

   • Papyrus rolls
   • Wooden tablets
   • Movable metal type
   • Steam-powered presses

6. The 1776 Declaration of Independence announced that thirteen colonies were separating from which empire?

   • The British Empire
   • The Spanish Empire
   • The Ottoman Empire
   • The Russian Empire

7. Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses are conventionally linked to the start of which movement?

   • The Scientific Revolution
   • Italian unification
   • The Counter-Enlightenment
   • The Protestant Reformation

8. The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 principally ended slavery in most territories of which empire?

   • Portuguese Empire
   • British Empire
   • French Empire
   • Dutch Empire

9. After Magellan died in the Philippines, who commanded the Victoria on the final leg of the first completed circumnavigation?

   • Bartolomeu Dias
   • Pedro Álvares Cabral
   • Juan Sebastián Elcano
   • Amerigo Vespucci

10. The Black Death that reached Mediterranean Europe in 1347 was caused by which pathogen?

    • The bacterium Yersinia pestis
    • The variola virus
    • The influenza virus
    • The bacterium Vibrio cholerae