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History Grade 11 Unit 4: THE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY MODERN WORLD, C. 500 AD-1789

50 national exam questions have come from this unit. It runs 45 pages; one careful study pass takes about 5.2 hours, and its difficulty is moderate among History units. Each section below lists the questions set from it, with the year, and opens the page that teaches it.

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4.1 The European Middle Ages · read p. 74
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4.2 Main Features of the Middle Ages · read p. 74
  • 2018 E.C., Q12 – Which of the following major event marked the beginning of the "Dark age" in Europe?
  • 2017 E.C., Q79 – What was the basic factor for the decline of the manorial system in Western Europe?
  • 2017 E.C., Q78 – Which one of the following was the bright feature of the European Middle Ages?
  • 2016 E.C., Q59 – Which of the following characterizes feudal society in Medieval Europe?
  • 2016 E.C., Q60 – Which of the following is correct about Byzantine emperors?
  • 2016 E.C., Q93 – Which one of the following was a key feature of early capitalism in Europe?
  • 2015 E.C., Q32 – Which one of the following was a feature of European society during the 'Dark Ages'?
  • 2015 E.C., Q59 – What role did the Catholic Church play in Europe during the early Middle Ages?
  • 2014 E.C., Q65 – Which of the following characterizations is true about the Byzantine Empire?
  • 2014 E.C., Q64 – Which of the following is correct about the Romans and the Germans in the Middle Ages?
  • 2014 E.C., Q67 – Which one of the following was a feature of early capitalist economic activities in Europe?
  • 2013 E.C., Q26 – What was the distinctive feature of politics during the "Dark Ages"?
  • 2013 E.C., Q27 – What was the key feature of politics in the Byzantine Empire?
  • 2012 E.C., Q25 – Which one of the following does NOT describe the main features of the Byzantine Empire?
  • 2012 E.C., Q3 – Which of the following best describes the political, economic, and cultural Conditions in Medieval Europe?
  • 2012 E.C., Q2 – The major economic activity in the early capitalism in Europe was
  • 2012 E.C., Q1 – Which of the following was NOT the major characteristic of the "Dark Age"?
  • 2011 E.C., Q29 – What was a manor in medieval Europe?
  • 2011 E.C., Q26 – Which one of the following is correct about town administration in Medieval Europe?
4.3 The Middle Ages in Asia · read p. 87
  • 2018 E.C., Q49 – Which of the following factor helped Muslim Arabs to establish large empire?
  • 2018 E.C., Q50 – Which of the following achievement associated with the Song dynasty in China?
  • 2017 E.C., Q27 – Which practice did Islam inherit from pre-Islamic Arabs?
  • 2017 E.C., Q3 – In what ways did the Almoravid and the Almohad movements strengthen Islam in North Africa?
  • 2017 E.C., Q1 – What was the cause for the division of Islam into Sunni and Shi'a?
  • 2016 E.C., Q18 – What was the major achievement of the Muslim Arabs under the immediate successors of the Prophet Mohammed?
  • 2016 E.C., Q92 – Which one of the following was an outcome of the formation of the Ottoman Empire?
  • 2015 E.C., Q4 – What helped the Ching dynasty in China to gain the support of the indigenous Han ruling class?
  • 2014 E.C., Q27 – Which of the following properly explains the rise and early expansion of Islam?
  • 2013 E.C., Q21 – What can the tajmahal tell us about Medieval Indian civilization? That it
  • 2013 E.C., Q20 – Which of the following Medieval Islamic scholars contributed to the development of the field of medicine?
  • 2012 E.C., Q26 – Which pone of the following was the main achievement of China, India and Japan in the Medieval period, respectively?
  • 2011 E.C., Q25 – What was the origin of the divon between Sunnis and Shias in Islam?
  • 2011 E.C., Q22 – What was "the Mandate of Heaven" in Chinese political culture?
4.4 Development of Early Capitalism: 1500-1789 · read p. 100
  • 2017 E.C., Q60 – How did Ottoman Turkey diminish European dominance in the Mediterranean region in the 15th and 16th centuries?
  • 2014 E.C., Q44 – How did the European overseas explorations and 'discoveries' influence the course of events subsequently?
  • 2013 E.C., Q14 – What was the major objective of the Portuguese explorations of the 16th and 16th centuries?
4.5 The Age of Exploration and Inception of Globalization · read p. 102
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4.6 The Renaissance · read p. 106
  • 2018 E.C., Q52 – Why did the ideas of the period of the Renaissance has lasting impacts?
  • 2015 E.C., Q15 – Which of the following was characteristic of Renaissance Humanism?
  • 2014 E.C., Q82 – Which of the following pieces of art was the work of Leonardo da Vinci?
  • 2013 E.C., Q29 – What was the most important invention of the Early Modern period that was behind the global spread of knowledge?
  • 2011 E.C., Q27 – What was the distinctive feature of Renaissance literature?
4.7 The Reformation · read p. 110
  • 2018 E.C., Q13 – Why did the Reformation elites break away from the Catholic Church?
  • 2015 E.C., Q5 – What was the fundamental source of conflict between Charles I and the English Short Parliament?
  • 2011 E.C., Q15 – What was" Justification by faith according to Martin Luther (1483-1546)?
  • 2011 E.C., Q23 – What accounts for Luther's victory in his struggle with the Catholic Church?
  • 2011 E.C., Q8 – Which of the following Christian teachings was very central to Martin Luther's Ninety-Five These?
4.8 The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment · read p. 113
  • 2016 E.C., Q25 – What idea from the Renaissance period became dominant in the Modern World?
  • 2015 E.C., Q6 – Which of the following is a dominant idea among Enlightenment thinkers?
  • 2012 E.C., Q4 – Which of the following was among the major developments of the Renaissance period?