Question 1
The Council of Nicaea in 325
A) first organized a system of bishoprics.
B) elected the first pope.
C) defined Christ as being of the same substance as God.
D) centered around the heresy of Donatism.
E) was condemned by Constantine.
Question 2
In 1753, French officials responded to escalating tensions in the region between the Ohio River and Great Lakes by
A) constructing a new line of forts between Montreal and New Orleans to secure their trading posts from British competition and American colonists in search of farmland.
B) allying with the Spanish against the British.
C) launching a military offensive against native peoples.
D) entering into a peace treaty with local native groups.
E) None of these are correct.
Question 3
The Edict of Milan
A) made Christianity the official state religion of the Empire.
B) was Constantine's document officially tolerating the existence of Christianity.
C) officially divided the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves.
D) formally deposed the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, from his throne.
E) made Milan the New Rome, equal to old Rome.
Question 4
Squatters were
A) traders who engaged in commerce with native groups without governmental permission to do so.
B) Indians who traded outside diplomatically-established trade networks.
C) merchants who concentrated their commercial efforts in the Caribbean.
D) people who lived on land without legal or customary claim to it.
E) people who charged natives unfair prices for trade goods.
Question 5
Constantine's support for Christianity supposedly began
A) before the Battle of Milvian Bridge.
B) after his defeat by his rival Maxentius.
C) after Constantine was baptized.
D) as the result of his wife's influence.
E) after he experienced a vision of the apocalypse.
Question 6
North American alliances with native peoples began to break down in the late 1740s because as
A) European wars left monarchs with less money for diplomatic gifts.
B) disease had all but wiped out the native population.
C) native peoples throughout North America waged a concerted campaign of warfare on Europeans.
D) Native Americans had decided to boycott European goods.
E) None of these are correct.