APWH Ch1-7

In the kingdoms of the Indus Valley and the Ganges plain were unified by:

Sanskrit for wisdom or knowledge, these hymns were much beloved and elaborate rituals.

What environmental factors led the Xiongnu and other central Asian nomads to spread southward into settled areas?

Religion that originated at the height of the Roman Empire and in a direct confrontation with Roman imperial authority.

Who was the founder of the Persian Empire?

How did Carthage respond to the spread of Hellenistic culture?

Who fought in the Punic Wars?

What were occupational sub-groups created by the Vedas known as?  

This helped to open up trade routes across Afro-Eurasia that had previously hindered such long-distance exchange.

What is Koine Greek?

What was the prime motivation for ambitious Roman military leaders during the first few centuries BCE?

How many distinct regional cultures unified to create Chinese culture?

What undermined Etruscan power on the Italian peninsula?

Where did the Axial Age take place?

The Peloponnesian War was fought between what two (2) Greek city-states?  

How does natural selection and adaptation play a role in evolution?  

Creation narrative all share this characteristic.  

What was one long lasting cultural impact of the Qin rule?

What were women’s role in Hellenistic kingdoms?

What was the result of Alexander the Great’s empire following his death?

What was the main reason why Jesus was killed?

The first cities developed around what year?

Which hominid group was the first to make use of fire?  

Schools which indoctrinated Confucianism were known as what?

What climatological evidence helps explain the collapse of Harappan society?

Zoroastrianism promoted belief in what god?

What were the crucial advantages that nomadic horsemen of Central Asia had when acting as trade intermediaries?

Why are scholars unable to describe Harappan society in detail?

The Hyksos spoke what language?

What evidence suggests Sub-Saharan Africa maintained trading and cultural contacts?

Indra and Brahma were often depicted as attendants to what other religious figure?

The agricultural revolution along the Yellow River allowed Eastern Zhou China’s population to grow to how many people?  

Food production first appeared in what region?  

What factors contributed to the fall of Wang Mang?

What was the main impacts of circulation of money in the Mediterranean basin and Europe in the first few centuries BCE?

Pivotal period of 1st millennium BCE when radical thinkers offered dramatically new ideas that challenged their times.

Ahmosis adopted what weapon against invading nomads?

What Israelite series of books became an exclusive contract between people and the one and only god?

What development stopped the fear of solar and lunar eclipses?

In 2000 BCE, what was combined with a two-wheeled chariot?

The first writing system was known as what?

The Egyptian cosmic order established:

Group of states brought together under a single sovereign power is what?

According to the teachings of the Buddha, which is not one of the Four Truths?  

In western Europe, large ceremonial centers shared what characteristic?

Attaining a permanent state of bliss could be accomplished through self-denial and avoidance of harming other creatures.

What is the name of the first bipedal hominid group?

How did Zheng, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, attempt to secure his throne?

Which animal was the first to be domesticated?  

Territorial-states differed from city-states in all of the following ways, except:

What was the Mahayana School of Buddhism?

The first complex society in Mesoamerican emerged in what year?  

When did Homo Sapiens first emerged in Africa?

Monumental Polynesian architecture appeared where?

What cultural characteristics were both common to the Romans and the Han?

The Persian Empire believed all people were equal and only required what of its subjects?

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher believed physical phenomena were based in what?

The flute first appeared how many years ago?  

What was the first great territorial state?

Why did the Qin Empire collapse?

Irrigation first began along what river?

At what age did Alexander die?

With new advances in metallurgy, what replaced bronze as metal of choice for tools and weapons?

Clans that had languages and rituals other than those of Vedic culture were known as:

How did Buddhism expand in the first centuries BCE.

The religious compact between the Zhou people and their “sky god” in heaven.

What do the Venus figurines suggest about the values of human communities prior to the agricultural revolution?  

Contact with northern Europeans by Mycenaeans was evidenced by:

The process of 2,000-1,200 BCE nomadic migrations is sometimes referred to as what?

Egypt used Hieroglyphs and what other form of writing?

What did Brahmans think varnas and jatis mixing does?

What was the role of caravan cities?

Egypt collapsed around the same time as what other civilization?

Lucy belonged to which group of hominids?  

Homo Habilis was the first hominid group to use what?

Believed coercive laws and punishment wouldn't be needed to maintain order in society if men following his ethics ruled.

Bringing a wild animal or plant under human control.

How did both the Roman and Han Empires incorporate conquered people into the empire?

Advantages and difficulties of expanding populations in river basin societies include all except which of the following?

Empires descended from earlier territorial states.

The Chavin people used what beast of burden for wool, dung, and transporting goods?  

Nok culture developed in what region?  

In Mahayana Buddhism, what were the enlightened demigods who helped individuals obtain Nirvana called?

The prosperity of the large-scale commercial plantations established by the Romans depended on?

What areas made agricultural surpluses possible?

In the mid second millennium BCE, what group developed the first alphabet?

Metallurgy developed in what non-river basin society?

What was the most essential activity in early Rome?

The Sea Peoples began invading south-eastern Europe, the Aegean, and the eastern Mediterranean in what year?

A person who collects as much evidence as possible, then makes deductions about general patterns, was called what?