World History Quiz

History is the systematic study and documentation of the human past, including the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of past events.

The period of events before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory.

Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers.

<p>History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Historians debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. They also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, and its usefulness in giving.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The League of Nations was founded on 10 January 1920.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main organization ceased operations on 20 April 1946.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary goals included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament, settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration, and addressing concerns such as labour conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, the arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The League of Nations was founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The League of Nations profoundly shaped the modern world by serving as the template for modern global governance.</p> Signup and view all the answers