HST 318 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026
13 billion - Answers Age of the Universe:
4.6 billion - Answers Age of the Earth:
200 thousand - Answers Age of Homo-Sapiens:
Humans originate in Africa - Answers Out of Africa Hypothesis:
Land connecting Siberia and Alaska that was crossable during ice age - Answers Bering Land
Bridge(Beringia):
Greek, no straight lines - Answers Parthenon:
Rome, one of the worlds earliest sewage system, Tiber River - Answers Cloaca Maxima:
Network of cells and tunnels under the Roman Colosseum - Answers Hypogeum:
Natural occurring glass, not sure how it occurs, was a sign of prestige - Answers Libyan Desert
Glass:
Standardized glass making by using molds - Answers Roman Glass Blowing:
Flee from Turkey to Venice to avoid Crusades
Not allowed to leave
Used ash to create clear glass (lenses and spectacles) - Answers Murano Glassmakers:
Used microscope to publish Micrographia (Details of smaller organisms)
Coined the term cells - Answers Robert Hooke:
Discovers microscopic organisms - Answers Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek:
Invented the telescope - Answers Hans Lippershey:
First to turn telescope toward the stars
Showed things falls at the same acceleration - Answers Galileo Galilei:
Things from Europe, Asia, and Africa coming to the Americas and vice versa - Answers
Columbian Exchange:
James Hargreaves
Improved weaving production (Thread in high demand) - Answers Spinning Jenny:
, More mechanized than the Spinning Jenny and could produce more thread
Explosion in demand - Answers Water Frame:
Catherine Greene and Eli Whitney
Seperates seeds from cotton
Increased standard of living
Increased demand for slaves - Answers Cotton Gin:
James Watt
Fixed the flaw that caused other steam engines to lose energy - Answers Watt Steam Engine:
Robert Stephenson
16 mph
Brought together several innovations
Most advanced locomotive of its day
Liverpool to Manchester - Answers Rocket the locomotive:
People who believe that machines are taking their jobs
English textile workers who destroyed machines to protest - Answers Luddites:
Highly respected
Believed in formal training / education
Theoretical - Answers French Engineering Tradition:
Not prestigious (Motivated by money)
Know how not why
Practical - Answers British Engineering Tradition:
Move farm products from west to east
Trade goes to NY rather than Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc - Answers Erie Canal:
Wanted to build the Erie Canal (Clinton's Ditch)
NY Governor - Answers DeWitt Clinton:
Made Chief Engineer of the Erie Canal in 1817
13 billion - Answers Age of the Universe:
4.6 billion - Answers Age of the Earth:
200 thousand - Answers Age of Homo-Sapiens:
Humans originate in Africa - Answers Out of Africa Hypothesis:
Land connecting Siberia and Alaska that was crossable during ice age - Answers Bering Land
Bridge(Beringia):
Greek, no straight lines - Answers Parthenon:
Rome, one of the worlds earliest sewage system, Tiber River - Answers Cloaca Maxima:
Network of cells and tunnels under the Roman Colosseum - Answers Hypogeum:
Natural occurring glass, not sure how it occurs, was a sign of prestige - Answers Libyan Desert
Glass:
Standardized glass making by using molds - Answers Roman Glass Blowing:
Flee from Turkey to Venice to avoid Crusades
Not allowed to leave
Used ash to create clear glass (lenses and spectacles) - Answers Murano Glassmakers:
Used microscope to publish Micrographia (Details of smaller organisms)
Coined the term cells - Answers Robert Hooke:
Discovers microscopic organisms - Answers Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek:
Invented the telescope - Answers Hans Lippershey:
First to turn telescope toward the stars
Showed things falls at the same acceleration - Answers Galileo Galilei:
Things from Europe, Asia, and Africa coming to the Americas and vice versa - Answers
Columbian Exchange:
James Hargreaves
Improved weaving production (Thread in high demand) - Answers Spinning Jenny:
, More mechanized than the Spinning Jenny and could produce more thread
Explosion in demand - Answers Water Frame:
Catherine Greene and Eli Whitney
Seperates seeds from cotton
Increased standard of living
Increased demand for slaves - Answers Cotton Gin:
James Watt
Fixed the flaw that caused other steam engines to lose energy - Answers Watt Steam Engine:
Robert Stephenson
16 mph
Brought together several innovations
Most advanced locomotive of its day
Liverpool to Manchester - Answers Rocket the locomotive:
People who believe that machines are taking their jobs
English textile workers who destroyed machines to protest - Answers Luddites:
Highly respected
Believed in formal training / education
Theoretical - Answers French Engineering Tradition:
Not prestigious (Motivated by money)
Know how not why
Practical - Answers British Engineering Tradition:
Move farm products from west to east
Trade goes to NY rather than Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc - Answers Erie Canal:
Wanted to build the Erie Canal (Clinton's Ditch)
NY Governor - Answers DeWitt Clinton:
Made Chief Engineer of the Erie Canal in 1817
