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Answer Aa City Administration Education Bureau - 240317 - 165450
Answer Aa City Administration Education Bureau - 240317 - 165450
EDUCATION
BUREAU
GRADE 12 HISTORY MODEL
EXAMINATIONS
MESEKEREM 2015/ SEPTEMBER 2022
ANSWERING FOR ALL 100 QUESTIONS
1. A. The establishment of the Institute of
Ethiopian Studies (IES) changed the way of
historical studies in Ethiopia in the 1960s.
2. D. The decline of Roman Civilization in the
5th century AD marked the beginning of the
ancient European periodization.
3. B. The Big Bang Theory explains that the
universe began as a single point and
expanded.
4. D. Gorillas and Chimpanzees are classified
as hominids, different from humans.
5. D. Australopithecus Africanus was
discovered by paleoanthropologists from South
Africa.
6. A. Zeresenay Alemseged got involved in the
discovery of Lucy.
7. C. Homo Erectus was the first human being
to master the use of fire around 1.5 million
years ago.
8. B. Zoroastrianism was the second
monotheistic religion after Judaism in ancient
times.
9. C. Thucydides is considered by most
scholars as the first scientific historian.
10. D. The war and conquest by the Romans in
146 B.C. did not contribute to the decline of
ancient Greece.
11. D. Confucius did not accept the existence
of Heaven based on human reason.
12. A. According to Hinduism, salvation is not
achieved
through attaining pleasure in the material
world.
13. B. The known or famous kings with extra
palaces did not characterize civilized states.
14. A. The earliest state in the world emerged
more than 6,000 years ago, not some 6000
years ago.
15. D. The origin of the Marathon race is
commonly traced back to the Greco-Persian
War in 490 B.C.
16. D. The comic and tragic comedies and
dramas are not achievements of the Roman
Civilization.
17. C. The Barbarians did not establish strong
trade and government in the Roman territory
during the European Middle Ages.
18. D. The Eastern Roman Empire developed
a civilization that was more Greek than Latin,
not more Latin than Greek.
19. B. The Persian elites did not make an
agreement with the Arabs to help them during
the rapid success of the Muslim Arabs.
20. D. Hanbali school was not associated with
the kingdom of South Arabia.
21. D. The bulk of the feudal army was not
comprised of powerful nobles during the
military feudalism in the Medieval period.
22. C. Divine right theory is not a theory about
the emergence of the state.
23. B. Towns and cities in the Late Medieval
period were not centers of administration for
feudal lords.
24. B. Legal inequalities with special privileges
among peoples is not a characteristic of
capitalism in its early stage.
25. C. The Crusaders did not accomplish their
main objectives of capturing the Holy Land.
26. B. Preaching Quran in the Church and
Bible in the Mosque is not a shared common
value of Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia.
27. D. Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa are not
inhabited by speakers of Afro-Asiatic
exclusively.
28. C. The rebellion of Beja pastoralist Peoples
was not a major factor for the downfall of
Axum.
29. D. His foreign policy did not lack a
foundational plan to defend the sovereignty
and solidarity of Ethiopia.
30. A. The religious transformation from idol
worship to Christianity did not characterize the
Renaissance.
31. D. The Portuguese explorer Vasco da-
Gama did not sail to the New World/America.
32. D. Church and its tax exemptions is not a
point of criticism by Protestants against
Catholics.
33. D. Establishing the Royal Navy and
encouraging shipbuilding was not an
achievement of King Henry II of England.
34. C. Instability inside her previously divided
country did not characterize the English
Golden age under Queen Elizabeth I.
35. A. Portugal was the first European nation to
establish trade relations with Asians.
36. A. The story did not justify that Queen
Sheba was the Queen of Axum/Ethiopia.
37. C. The desire to conquer the neighboring
states and peoples did not win the immediate
attention of the restored Christian kings in the
1270s.
38. C. Reduced sense of nationalism was not a
main effect of Zemene Mesafint.
39. D. Ottoman Turkey did not encroach along
the Red Sea
Coast regions after the battle of Woyna-Dega
in 1543.
40. D. Madda Walaabu in Bale was not the
ritual and political center of the Oromo.
41. A. The existence of political hierarchy
under powerful Motis or kings did not
characterize the Gada system.
42. B. Gorgora Bichen did not involve Kassa
defeating four vassals of Wube and Ali.
43. B. Segregating Muslims and Falashas from
Christians was not an achievement of King
Fasillades (1632-1667).
44. D. The Enlightenment, the Age of
Reasoning did not contribute to the growth of
capitalism and democracy in Europe and North
America.
45. A. Expansion of world trade was not a
negative effect of the Industrial Revolution.
46. C. Establishment of constitutional
monarchy is not a legacy of Napoleon
Bonaparte.
47. D. Corruption and maladministration was
not a serious conflict between the monarchy
and the parliament during King Charles I
(1625-1649).
48. A. The "Magna Carta" or the traditional law
did not contribute to the serious conflict
between the monarchy and the parliament
during King Charles I (1625-1649).
49. C. The "country of the blacks" is equivalent
to "Bila'd al-Sudan."
50. D. It decreased absolutism in pre-colonial
West Africa was not a consequence of the
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