Test: World History- 2 - Class 8 MCQ

Constantinople, a Roman Emperor is the first person who brought Christianity to Western Europe and probably to the Western parts of the world.  
As soon as Constantinople became the emperor of Western Europe, he used his powers to address the greater values of Christianity.  
He offered protection to Christians and built many Christian churches across the Europe.  
He was the one who issued Edict of Milan in 313 AD that decriminalized Christian worship.

As mentioned below, undoubtedly, the three sisters Gorgons, while the most known is Medusa, she had also two other sisters - Sthenno and Euryale.

A lot of gods had the ability to turn people into stones (e.g. the myth of Lethaea, the legend of Battus).

The 'ideal' image of femininity changes over time and varies between cultures. In contemporary Western societies, the cultural ideal, fuelled by fashion and advertising, is a woman who is slim, attractive, and self-assured. Many women whose bodies do not conform this ideal seek to change them, through regimes of diet, exercise, and increasingly, cosmetic surgery. Davis suggested that women who do this are responding to the perceived stigma of a particular body part, rather than striving for absolute, perfect beauty, but that their perceptions were skewed by unrealistic images of the 'normal' female body. 306-309

Periplus

• Periplus is the Latinization of an ancient Greek word and its literal meaning is "a sailing-around." Hence the statement 1 is correct.
• Both the part peri- and -plus, were independently productive and hence the ancient Greek speaker understood the word in its literal sense.
• However, it developed a few specialized meanings, one of which became a standard term in the ancient navigation of Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans.
• A periplus was a manuscript document that listed, in order, the ports and coastal landmarks, with approximate intervening distances, that the captain of a vessel could expect to find along with a shore. In that sense, the periplus was a type of log.

Erythraean

• Erythraean is a sea that comprised of the Arabian sea, the Red sea, and the Persian Gulf. Hence the statement 2 is incorrect.

Since the asked question is was immediate cause so it must be 4th option, other options are other causes of world war I.

The Harappan script is regarded as pictographic since its signs represent birds, fish and a verity of human forms. The script was boustrophedon, written from right to left on one line and then from left to right in the next line. The number of signs of the Harappan script is known to be between 400 and 600. It is not deciphered yet.

Indus Valley Civilization is one of the three most important ancient civilizations of the world, the other two being Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. It is the most widespread out of these three, spread over an area of almost 800000 sq km.

A piece of woven cotton has been recovered from Mohenjo-Daro, gives evidence to the cotton cultivation of that time. The Indus people produced wheat, barley, ragi etc. They produced two types of wheat and barley. A good quantity of barley has been discovered at Banawali. But there was not enough evidence to show that pulses have been cultivated extensively by the Harappans. 

China's attack on Vietnam can be attributed to several factors, but the primary reason was Vietnam's involvement in Kampuchea (now known as Cambodia) during the late 1970s. Here are the key details:

• After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in Kampuchea, Vietnam intervened militarily in December 1978 to remove the brutal regime and establish a pro-Vietnamese government.


• This action was seen by China as an infringement on its sphere of influence and a threat to its regional dominance.

• China viewed Vietnam's actions as an expansion of Soviet influence in Southeast Asia.


• China was concerned about the growing Soviet presence in the region and saw Vietnam as a proxy for Soviet interests.

• China and Vietnam had a long history of rivalry and territorial disputes.


• The Paracel Islands dispute, where both countries claimed sovereignty, further strained their relations.

• Vietnam's alliance with the Soviet Union during the Cold War heightened tensions with China.


• China saw Vietnam's alignment with the USSR as a threat to its own security and regional influence.

• China launched a series of military incursions and attacks on Vietnam in February 1979.


• China aimed to punish Vietnam for its involvement in Kampuchea and to assert its dominance in the region.

Europe withdrew its financial support for the Confederate government. Europe would not recognize the Confederacy as an independent nation. The Confederacy began to believe that it might win the Civil War. The Confederacy dealt a powerful blow to the Union military.