Weekly Mock Test – I

This is the period for which we have written records in the form of inscriptions and other texts.

Epigraphy is

The study and analysis of coin is known as

According to the excavated evidence, the domestication of animal began in

Lothal was a dockyard during the era of the Indus Valley Civilization. It is located in

The first metal used by man was

The Soon Valley or Soon Sakesar is located in _____ district of Punjab province. This valley starts from Padhrar village and ends in Sakesar which is the highest peak of Salt Range.

Who managed to invent the world’s first earthquake detector — a seismograph?

Herodotus is considered as the ‘Father of History’, a title first conferred on him by the first-century BC Roman orator Cicero.

Who is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems of Greek literature?

Julius Caesar was an ambitious and very powerful leader of

The Italian traveller of the 13th century introduced Asia, especially China to Europe. He stayed in China for 17 years.

Unsuccessful finding funding in Portugal, Columbus moved to Spain. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabell, the joint monarchs of Spain, agreed to finance Columbus’s voyage in return for the gold, spices, and riches that he might find. 

When he has reached land, he thought he had reached India; so he called the islands the Indies; but it was America.

Columbus belonged to which country?

Whig and Tory, members of two opposing political parties or factions in 

Famous paintings- The Last Supper and Monalisa- are of 

Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John puts his royal seal on Magna Carta, or “the Great Charter,” at Runnymede, near Windsor,

When was the Declaration of Independence issued? Its author was Thomas Jefferson.

June 1789: Tennis Court Oath and July 1789: Storming the Bastille

These two events belong to?

The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was

One of the important factors that led to the Second World War was the humiliating provisions in one of the following treaties. Which is that treaty?

During the Second World War, which one of the following countries was not one of the three axis powers, which fought against the Allied powers?

Which war was formally ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth?

The Peloponnesian War was fought between which cities?

When did the hundred years war end between the kingdoms of England and France? 

Who was the President of America during American Civil War?

The Battle of Waterloo was fought between Napoleon’s French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon’s imperial power forever.

The battle was fought on?

When was the ‘Battle of Marathon’ occurred? The battle was fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica and marked the first blows of the Greco-Persian War.

The first Opium War was fought between China and Great Britain from 1839 to 1842. In the second Opium War, from 1856 to 1860, a weakened China fought both Great Britain and _____.

The Crimean War (1854-56) was fought by an alliance of Britain, France, Turkey and Sardinia against

Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church’s teachings starting in 1517. The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s. 

Martin Luther is the famous for his speech, titled 

Who was the last emperor of Rome?

‘Huang He Valley’ or ‘Yellow River Valley’ was the birthplace of which ancient Civilisation?

Glorious Revolution or Bloodless Revolution occurred in which country?

The first atom bomb was thrown over

The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President _____. 

The Russian Revolution of ______ ended the country’s autocratic system and overthrew the liberal Provisional Government (Duma). Eventually, the Soviet Union came into being until its dissolution in 1991. It was during this time that the Bolshevik party established Soviet power.