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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Sun Worshipers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?
(a) The 13th century.
(b) The 16th century.
(c) The 15th century.
(d) The 12th century.

2. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Athens.
(c) The Nile.
(d) China.

3. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Lemuria.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Indochina.
(d) Sumeria.

4. When was Galileo Galilei born?
(a) 410 A.D.
(b) 220 B.C.
(c) 1564.
(d) 1642.

5. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?
(a) Ancius Boethius.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Marco Polo.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?

2. Where was Vasco da Gama from?

3. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?

4. What word means small or tiny?

5. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?

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