Ancient World History - MCQs with answers - Part 1
Ancient World History - MCQs with answers - Part 1
1. Whose model is based on the Mandate of Heaven?a) Ban Gu
b) Li Ling
c) Qin Shi Huang
d) Sima Qian
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Sima Qian
The Mandate of Heaven is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that Heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly.
2. Who is the founder of Greek historiography?a) Aristotle
b) Herodotus
c) Hippocrates
d) Thucydides
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) Herodotus
He lived in the fifth century BC.
3. Who is the author of "The History of the World-Conquerer"?a) Annemarie Schimmel
b) Clifford Edmund Bosworth
c) Gustaf John Ramstedt
d) John Andrew Boyle
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) John Andrew Boyle
Ata-Malek Juvayni wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarikh-i Jahan-gusha. “The History of the World-Conquerer†was the English translation republished in 1997.
4. Who discovered Troy?a) Arthur Evans
b) Frank Calvert
c) Heinrich Schliemann
d) Homer
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Heinrich Schliemann
It is best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle.
5. Who was the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event?a) Herodotus
b) Pericles
c) Plutarch
d) Thucydides
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Thucydides
His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC.
6. Who is the author of "From the Founding of the City"?a) Cicero
b) Livy
c) Polybius
d) Sallust
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) Livy
Titus Livius Patavinus was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people.
7. The Peloponnesian War was fought between which cities?a) Athens and Macedonia
b) Carthage and Athens
c) Sparta and Carthage
d) Sparta and Athens
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Sparta and Athens
The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC. Sparta defeated Athens in 404 BC.
8. When were ancient Olympic games held first?a) 776 BC
b) 780 BC
c) 790 BC
d) 800 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 776 BC
Olympic games were first held in 776 BC by the Greeks in honour of God Zeus at Mount Olympus in Greece.
9. Who is known as the father of Modern Medicine?a) Erastosthenes
b) Euclid
c) Hippocrates
d) Pythagoras
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Hippocrates
He is considered as one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
10. When was ancient Rome founded?a) 776 BC
b) 753 BC
c) 752 BC
d) 742 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 753 BC
Ancient Rome was an Italic civilization that began on the Italian Peninsula.
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