Welcome to your History national exam 2011
choose the best answer from the given
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The messenger sent to Portugal by Atse Libine Dingil to bring help against ham Ahmed was
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Who was responsible for introducing the seclusion policy in Japan Therefore, the in the 17 th century?
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Which continents we connected to each other in the Triangular Trade?
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Which of the following combinations of an Omotic state and its ruling dynasty is correct?
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The battle that led to the completion of German unification in 1871 was
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Which of the following Christian teachings was Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses?
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Which of the following states was a serious iclich obstacle to the establishment of a viable relation between the Ethiopian Christian kingdom and Portugal during the medieval period?
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In ancient Japan of the 12 th and the 13 th centuries, real government power was in the hands of
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What was the most important achievement of the Duke of Wellington, at the Battle of Waterloo?
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Which of the following is correct about Louis Napoleon?
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During its Monopolistic phase, the business of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was dominated by
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What was the responsibility of the Tato Kisho in the kingdom of Kaffa in the 19th century?
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Napoleon's rise to power can be explained by his
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The Congress of Vienna of 1815 is usually associated with
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What was "Justification by faith" according to Martin Luther (1483- 1546)?
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Which of the following pair of European countries pioneered overseas expansion?
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What was "the Mandate of Heaven" in Chinese political culture?
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What was the most important innovation that made the Industrial revolution possible?
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Which European country was the first to start trading in African slaves?
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What were the three European states that Prussia had to fight to bring about German Unification?
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Which one of the following is a correct definition for the discipline of history?
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What is the central idea of the theory of "Oriental Despotism” regarding state formation?
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What was the origin of the division between Sunnis and Shias in Islam?
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What was a manor in medieval Europe?
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Which one of the following is correct about town administration in Medieval Europe?
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Which one of the following criteria do linguists use in classifying languages?
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What factor led the Aksumites to send expeditions to South Arabia in the 3rd century?
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What was the distinctive feature of Renaissance literature?
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What accounts for Luther's victory in his struggle with the Catholic Church?
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What was the significance of the Battle of Plessey for India?
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What was common to the Muslim Sultanates that emerged in southeast Ethiopia during the medieval period?
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Which one of the following is correct about the Kingdom of Damot?
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Which one of the following is correct about traditional Oromo religion?
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Which one of the following initiatives of Emperor Gelawdewos was successful?
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What was the role of the Solomonic monarchs during the Zemene Mesafint?
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What forced Louis XVI to call the Estates General in 1789 ?
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The industrial Revolution appeared first in Britain because
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The collapse of the kingdoms of Ghana and Songhay came about as a result of
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Who were the Rozwi 17th century Zimbabwe? They were the
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Which one of the following is true about the role Great Britain played in the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade?
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Which of the following is correct about provincial governors in the kingdom of Shewa during the 19 th century?
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What was the consequence of the British occupation of Egypt (1882) on the pace of colonization in the continent of Africa?
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The Hewet treaty of 1884 provided that Masswa shall be
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How did rulers such as Kumsa Moroda of Leqa Naqamte and Aha Jiffar II of Jimma successfully maintain their local autonomy in the aftermath of Shoan expansion to the south?
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Which of the following was among the basic causes of the first World war?
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Which of the following was NOT among the major demands of nationalist movements that had spread across the African continent the period between the two world wars?
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What did Hitler hope to get from signing the Nazi-Soviet N0 n. aggression pact of 1939 ?
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During the Battle of Britain, the major target of German military strike was
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Which of the following is the first measure supposed to be taken by the UN Security Council in the event of aggression of one country by another?
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Which of the following is NOT true about independent Indonesia under the rule of president Sokarno?
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What did the state of Israel achieve in the Camp David Agreement of September 1978?
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Which one of the following was the immediate cause of the formation of Kuomintang/KMT/ government on the Island of Formosa?
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In the November 1969 issue of the student paper ”Struggle,” the student activist Walelign Makonnen called for an end to:
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How did Haile Selassie's government react to the famine that afflicted northern Ethiopia in the 1970s?
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What was Du Bois’ vision regarding the future of black Africans living outside the continent of Africa?
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Which of the following is true about the use of currency in long distance trade in nineteenth-century Ethiopia?
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Why did Britain and France stand on the side of Turkey in the Crimean War of 1854-55
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In which of the following regions did Menelik negotiate peaceful submission successfully?
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In which of the following battle fields did Ethiopian forces achieve victory over Italian forces immediately before Adwa?
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Which of the following CANNOT be taken as a basic cause of the First World War (1914-1918)?
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What was the difference between "The First" and "The Second" Russian Revolutions?
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In what ways did African resistance to colonialism manifest itself prior of WWII?
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which of the following was characteristic of both fascism in Italy abd Nazism in Germany?
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Where and on what date was the establishment of the UNO agreed upon in principle?
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What was the US initiative to rebuild the economies of post-war Europe called?
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What was the principal strategy which Zionism used to create a Jewish state in Palestine?
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Why did the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) launch what it called "The Long March" in 1927?
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Which of the following issues did the makers of the 1960 coup attempt highlight in their criticalities
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Where did pan-Africanism originate as an idea?
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The Indus Valley Civilization collapsed because of
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Which one of the following is com
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Which of the following is correct about the Omotic languages?
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Which one of the following best explains the downfall of the Zagwe dynasty?
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What difference existed between Renaissance scholars in Italy and those in Northern Europe?
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Which one of the following is correct about the Absolutist state in Russia under peter the Great?
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What kind of conflict emerged within the ruling elite of the Muslim states following their conquest by Amde-Tsion?
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Which one of the following was common to the states of Wolayita and yem?
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Which one of the following best describes the nature and consequences of interaction between the Oromo and other Ethiopian populations during their movement?
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What is the Social contract” that john Locke wrote about in his book?
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What was the main source of threat to the political autonomy of the states of Benishangul m the 19th century?
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What was the systemic contradiction that led to the outbreak of the American Civil war (1861-1865)?
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Which of the following was an immediate outcome of the expansion of Menilik II to the south?
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Which of the following came as a setback to the divisive activities of Italian colonialists in Eritrea in the 1890s? The fact that
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An important lesson world powers had drawn from the first world war was the need for
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Which of the following is correct about the British anti-fascist force under General plat?
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The official justification of President Harry S.Truman of the United States for dropping Atomic Bombs on Japanese cities in August 1945 was that
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The American policy of “containment” in the post-WWII period was aimed at
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The argument the British used to stay in control of Ethiopia's finance, military and foreign relations in the First Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement of 1942 was.
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A major reason why donor/aid money did not bring about meaningful and sustainable development for Africa so far is that
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What is the difference between an Absolutist state and a Nation State?
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What was the role of the Papacy in Rome in the Unification of Italy?
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question war (1861-1865)?
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What was it that strengthened Selti resistance against Shoan expansion under Hassan Enjamo?
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Why is it justified to call the Victory of Adwa (1896) a victory of all black people?
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What was the major factor that made the League of Nations ineffective right from the start?
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Which of the following is true about the patriotic resistance against the fascist occupation of Ethiopia?
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What was the major outcome of WWII in terms of global distribution of power?
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Which of the following did Haile Selasse undertake on his return from exile in 1941 ?
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What was the primary cause of the Bale Peasant Rebellion in the second half of the 1960s
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What was main reason for the conflict and bloodshed during the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 -84
