Top 250+ Solved Transition to the Contemporary World MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ……….Bartholomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope at the tip ofAfrica.
a. 1468
b. 1477
c. 1488
d. 1498
Q. In 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain sponsors ……………..to find a route toIndia.
a. Bartholomeu Dias
b. John Cabot
c. Christopher Columbus
d. Vasco da Gama
Q. Vasco da Gama went around the cape and across the Indian Ocean to reach India (Calicut) in ………..
a. 1458
b. 1468
c. 1498
d. 1598
Q. In 1510 Goa became the capital of the …………..Eastern Empire.
a. British
b. French
c. Portuguese
d. Dutch
Q. From 1515 to 1547 - The French king Francis I extended his colonies to …………and the Mississipi Valley.
a. New Hampshire
b. Vermont
c. Canada
d. Maine
Q. In 1519 ………….discovered Mexico.
a. Hernando Cortez
b. Robert Fulton
c. Cabral
d. Amerigo Vespucci
Q. The fall of …………..into the hands of the Ottoman Turks was reason enough for the Europeans to seek alternative routes.
a. Delhi
b. Peking
c. Moscow
d. Constantinople
Q. The Polo brothers from Venice were the first Europeans to travel to China and visit the court of……………, about 1260.
a. Kublai Khan
b. Alfred the Great
c. Henry VIII
d. Akbar
Q. ……………the navigator encouraged navigation by establishing a schoolfor geographers.
a. George Sarton
b. Amerigo Vespucci
c. Randolph Starn
d. Henry
Q. Goa was conquered by the……………, who made it the capital of their Eastern Empire.
a. British
b. Dutch
c. French
d. Portuguese
Q. …………….patronized by Queen Isaballa of Spain set off on a voyage and reached the West Indies, thinking he had landed on India.
a. Christopher Columbus
b. b) Ferdinand Magellan
c. c) Robert Fulton
d. d) Robert S. Lopez