Unit 1 Test Review

What two sides fought in the Peloponnesian War?

At the time of the Crusades, the Muslim world was richer and more advanced than Europe.

Homer was the greatest ancient Greek:

What do we call a time period when a country shows increases in wealth and great advances in science and culture?

What Byzantine Emperor reconquered some of the Roman Empire's territories, and created an important code of laws?

Who could lose power and be overthrown if people believed he had lost the Mandate of Heaven?

What holy city was the birthplace of Muhammad, and is visited by millions of Muslim pilgrims each year

What Latin term refers to the peace and prosperity that many nations enjoyed in the Roman empire?

Who conquered and ruled China during the Yuan dynasty?

What do we call medieval peasants who were tied to the land and could not leave it?

Between the fall of the Roman Empire and start of the Reformation, who had the most power in Western Europe?

Whih of these Asian rulers did the most to spread Buddhism?

Roman culture, literature, religion and architecture were heavily copied from:

"The Analects" are a collection of the teachings and wise sayings of:

In Hinduism, you could work your way up from a low caste to a higher one.

Which country were the Mongols unable to conquer, because they couldn't successfully invade across the sea?

What was a Caliph?

What was the end result of the Crusades?

The period when humans gave up hunting and began large-scale farming was the ___________ Revolution.

Saladin was the greatest of the Muslim leaders during the Crusades.

Who was king of the Franks, a German tribe, and was later crowned by the Pope as Holy Roman Emperor?

Which of these was NOT a result of the Neolithic revolution?

Which of these religions is NOT related to the other three?

What conqueror spread Greek culture across Egypt and Persia, and all the way to India?

The immediate mission of the Crusaders was to protect the Byzantine Empire from the ________.

Which civilization was best known for its extensive, well maintained system of roads?

How did the Black Death spread from Asia to Europe?

What magnificent city became the new capital of the Roman empire, and later the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

What West African king became one of the world's richest people through the salt and gold trade?

The Mongols pretty much ended all trade between China and Europe.

What was one negative side to all the trade that the Mongols enabled between Europe and China?

The first emperor of a united China, for whom the first Chinese dynasty was named:

The Great Schism broke Christianity into the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Church.

In which society did people write on clay tablets, using cuneiform?

What document guaranteed that the King would respect the rights of English nobles?

The earliest civilizations were in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and ______.

What is the national religion of Japan?

The Greek peninsula is filled with mountains. What did that mean for ancient Greek society?

The ancient kings of Egypt were called:

A medieval king gave land called a fief to a ____, who promised to fight for the king in times of war.

India's Mauryan and Gupta empires were both started by different men named Chandragupta.

Paper, gunpowder and the compass were all invented by the ancient Romans