World History Final A

Question 1

Where was the Mesopotamia Civilization located?

Accepted Answer

Tigris and Euphrates River System

Question 2

What did the river do for the Early Civilizations?

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Created a population boom, Helped create the first transportation, Was a source for food

Question 3

Facts about Rome's policies

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but they could own property, practice business, and obtain a divorce., citizenship allowed certain people legal protection, the right to vote, Rome had slaves, Women could not vote or hold public office

Question 4

Fun Facts about the Dark Ages (1150-750 BC)

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small communties had a Basileus (leader), Used the Phoenician alphabet to make a gra=eece one, led to poems., trade decilined, famine struck, 700 BC: people could write, Had political and economic disintegration

Question 5

What did the Verdic Age include?

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Ramayana (Love and Betrayal), The Caste System, Mahabharata (Fight for Ganges River)

Question 6

What did old Egypt do?

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Built the pyramids, tombs made of limestone, pharaoh's ruled, fell due to struggles for power, failing crops

Question 7

What is the perks of Mesopotamia?

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The citizen's figured out irragation, It is the "Cradle of Civilization", developed drainage ditches, emerged independetly

Question 8

What did the Phoencicans do?

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Created an alphabet with only consontants., Spread middle eastern culture, helped control cities, Invented purple dye

Question 9

What happended after middle egypt?

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Ramses ll became leader, Egypt drove out enimies, Built a large empire which reached the Euphrates River

Question 10

Fun Facts about Alexander's Legacy

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His land was split between the generals., They named 20 cities after him, All of his generals fought for the land

Question 11

Fun Facts about Mycenaean (1600-1100 BC)

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Created Linear B, but the people couldn't write, Had a palace economy, Came from mainland greece, was the most advanced and more war-like, took a lot of land and divided it into kingdoms led by a monarch

Question 12

Fun Facts about Archaic Greece (750 BC- 490 BC)

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Led to lots of conflicts., Solon created Athenian Democracy- Sparta had a oligarachic system (few lead, Had the Sparta and Athen's polis, had governments and laws, Created polis (Greek political until made of citizens)

Question 13

Fun Facts about the Zhou Dynasty (1027- 256 BC)

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Rule- the right to rule a dynasty was granted by the gods., Rule- If bad stuff happened to China, the leader was replaced., Created the Mandate of Heaven

Question 14

Fun Facts about the new leadership

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Plebeians weren't happy, Caesar became dictator and died, triumvirate formed with Marcus, Julius and Pompeius. Ended when Marcus die

Question 15

Fun Facts about Alexander the great.

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Macedonian's wanted to emulate Greek Culture, Greeks didn't like that., Created the Phalanx (Large Spears), Macedon is North of the Peloponnesian Peninsula, they copied greece., Fought the Thracians, gaining gold mines and used Cultural Diffusion

Question 16

Fun Facts about Classical Rome

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Ruled by kings, replaced by a senate made of Consuls, patricians and tribunes, They got everything from the greeks, Had a republic

Question 17

Fun Facts about Alexander's youth

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His father was assassinated, Aristotle was his mentor, He conquered Persia, Asia, India and Egypt, Used catapults

Question 18

More Facts about New Leadership

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Everything went to hell and burned down., Rome fell in 476 AD, Pax Romana, ended with cruel emporeres, Octavian became king, changed his name to Augustus

Question 19

Fun Facts about Rome (264 BC- 146 BC)

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Rome wanted the ports, Fought the Carthaginians, They gained land through the punic wars

Question 20

Fun Facts about the Athenian Classical Period

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Had the Greco-Persian Wars and Athens vs Sparta, "Peloponnesian war", Persia went to war with Athens and the lonians, Athenians won., Persia was the most powerful at the time

Question 21

What did Darius do?

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Introduced a uniform system and built roads to the territories., Divided up territories and placed a governer

Question 22

What does Babylon have?

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known for Siac, wealth and cosmopolitan nature, Power over Akkad and Ancient Sumer, first to have civil and criminal laws, along with a government., they used their wealth to build for the gods.

Question 23

Where was the Egyptian Civilization located?

Accepted Answer

The Nile River

Question 24

Fun Facts about Corinth, Greece

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Everyone fought due to food shortages, It was the first city, Athen's found Silver, built with paved stone ramps

Question 25

Background for Indus River Valley Civiliations

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Located in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, studied in 1920., Indus River flood and fertilized crops, India was called a subcontinent., Major Cities: Monenjo-Daro, and Harappa

Question 26

What did Cryus the great do?

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Persia, led by Cryus the great invaded, Released the Jewish slaves in babylon and allowed them freedom., created religious tolerance

Question 27

Where was Ancient India located

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Indus River

Question 28

Fun Facts about the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC)

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Created the great wall

Question 29

Fun Facts about Ancient China

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Boardered by the Taklama desert, developed fertile plain between the yellow and yangtze river, Isolated from Asia due to the Gobi desert and Himalayas

Question 30

What was the Vedic Age?

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Weren't written down until 500 BC, Were the most sacred texts of hinduism, revealed Aryan beliefs, Had "Books of knowledge" and religious literary works.

Question 31

Fun Facts about the Hellenistic Era (323-30 BC)

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Had a libary and research center, One main culture center was Ptolemaic Egypt in Alexandria, Affected the Mediterranean, Asiatic and Egyptian Regions, Had mixed Cultures

Question 32

Fun Facts about the Peloponnesian wars (431- 404 BC)

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They created a treaty but Athens resisted, Persia teamed up with Sparta, Ended when Lysander, a general, starved Athens, Sparta vs Athens, went for 30 years, Sparta won, Scarlet fever killed off 25% of the Athen Army

Question 33

Fun Facts about Ancient Greece!!

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Was mountainous, not good for farming, relied on maritime trade., Located on Islands in the Aegean and Mediterranean Sea., Developed into city-states, trading was focused on the Peloponnesian Isthmus

Question 34

Fun Facts about Minoan

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Developed the first english writing system, Linear A, was from 2000 to 1500 BC, Lived on the island of crete, collapsed due to natural disasters

Question 35

What was Sumer?

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Work gangs that opperated irragation, Fields that were owned by gods, rented out or rewarded., Made of temple communities, administered by priests., Houses the Ziggurat. Along with ur, uruk, larga, Eridu and kish

Question 36

What did Middle Egypt do?

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Nile became less consistent., Ended when foreign armies invaded, People led revolts

Question 37

Fun facts about Monenjo-Dara and Harappa?

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Was abandoned and disapperared., First to use indoor plumbing, first to use pottery, Had toilets, drainage systems, and granaries, but no temples or palaces.

Question 38

Where were the first River Valleys?

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Africa and Asia

Question 39

Where does Mesopotamia lie?

Accepted Answer

Fertile Crescent

Question 40

What does Egypt do?

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Nile floods once a year, Offers fertilization, Created the calender to keep track of the nile

Question 41

Facts about Roman Mythology and religion

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caused development of other religions, Zoroastrianism (1st Monotheistic religion), Gave them latin names, Polytheistis

Question 42

Fun Facts about the Chinese Dynasties

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Governed china, all belonged in one family, worked on metallurgy, and were polytheistic, priests used oracle bones., Developed and centralized government, Ruled by the Shang Dynasty (1532-1027 BC), the first dynasty.

Question 43

What was Ishtar's gate?

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117- If you can not pay debt, sell your kids., 229- If the a houseowner dies from the house falling, the builder dies to., 195- If a boys slaps his dad, he loses his hands.

Question 44

Where was Ancient China located?

Accepted Answer

Yangtze River

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