Foundations of World History - Chapter 1

The first Christians came from what other religion?

Who is the Greek god of love?

What is a hominid?

Which of the following is a reason that civilizations arose?

What do we call a large political unit in which a number of different people or lands have a single ruler?

Who is the Greek god of blacksmiths, fire, and volcanoes?

Who is the Greek god of the sea?

What is the absence of belief in the existence of god or gods called?

Who was the Roman leader that was part of the 1st Triumverate and was stabbed to death on the floor of the Senate?

Which of the following groupings correctly identifies the 6 major religions?

What allowed people to begin specializing in labor outside of food creation?

Why do we know less about the Indus River Valley than other similar civilizations?

Who is the Greek virgin godess of reason, intelligence, and literature?

Who discovered the famous hominid "Lucy"?

What Greek city state is responsible for creating the direct democracy?

What do we call a scientist who studies the forms of life existing in former geologic periods?

Which definition properly matches the word artifact?

Where did agriculture begin first?

What is the view or belief that the existence of god is unknowable?

Which is not one of the two parts of the Stone Age?

Which is not an example of an institution?

How was Jesus killed?

Who founded Buddhism?

Which is not a belief of Hinduism?

What does it mean when we say humans have opposable thumbs?

This early version of man existed 200,000 to 30,000 B.C. and was the first to have ritual burials and religion

Who is the Greek godess of love, desire, and beauty?

What form of government did the Romans develop?

Who is the Greek god of fertility, wine, and celebration?

Which not one of the reasons to learn history that we discussed?

Who is the Greek god of music, light, and sun?

What religion has no clear starting point or founder and has its roots in the Vedas?

This early version of man existed 1.6 million to 30,000 B.C. and were the first to migrate and begining of language

Who is the founder of Judaism who made a covenant with god?

What two rivers are important to Mesopotamia?

Who is the Greek godess of grain, harvest, and agriculture?

What is the difference between a city and a village?

Which type of source is a document or record created by people who were present during the events?

This early version of man existed 2.5 million to 1.5 million years ago and made tools of lava rock

Which is a belief of Buddhism?

What is the largest religion in the world?

Where was the world's first civilization?

What major religion was formed in China and is less a religion than a philosophy and way of life?

What do we call a scientist who studies human history by digging up remains and artifacts?

What river was important to the Egyptian civilization?

What massive structure was built in China to protect them from invaders?

What are the five characterisitcs of a civilization

Who is the Greek godess of marriage, childbirth, and empires?

What do we call a scientist that deals with origins, cultural development, characteristics, social cutoms and beliefs?

What was the Egyptian form of writing that means "sacred carving"?

Islam is Arabic for what?

Who is the Greek ruler of the Olympians and God of the sky?

Which of the following is a change caused by agriculture?

Which is not a belief of Judaism?

Christianity is based on the life and teachings of who?

Who is the prophet of Islam?

Which is not a belief of Confucianism?

Which of the major religions is one of the first monotheistic religions ever?

Who is the Greek godess of chastity, hunting, and nature?

This early version of man existed 4 million to 1 million B.C. and was the first to walk upright

Which of the major religions is the only polytheistic one?

What language spread whereever Islam did because the Qur'an was only supposed to be in that language?

Who is the Greek god of war?

What do we call shared beliefs, practices, and traditions of a group of people?

In Greek mythology, who is the strongest of all the mortals who becomes a god after death?

What important thing did the pyramids demonstrate to historians?

Who is the Greek god of commerce and messenger of the gods?

Who created the world's first empire?

Who was the Macedonian king who overruns the Persian empire and captures everything from Egypt to India?

What was the name of the wars fought between Rome and Carthage?

Which is not a belief of Islam?

What is Hammurabi famous for?

Which is not a belief of Christianity?

Which type of source is a document or record created by people who were not present during the events?

What modern day country would you find Rome in?

Who is the Greek god of the underworld and dead?