Adv. World History Midterm Exam

Question 1

Descendants of Abraham who left Mesopotamia and settled in Canaan

Accepted Answer

Israelites

Question 2

First large army to use iron weapons

Accepted Answer

Assyrians

Question 3

The Gupta Empire was India's golden age of learning and culture

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Western Asian people who conquered Egypt

Accepted Answer

Hyksos

Question 5

Sophocles was a dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Brought by Aryans when they invaded India

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Iron plows

Question 7

Alexander was a commander in the army at 16 , king at 20, and dead by 33.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Grand temple with a shrine at the top, like a giant wedding cake

Accepted Answer

Ziggurat

Question 9

Capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom

Accepted Answer

Memphis

Question 10

One of the oldest known cities, in present day Turkey

Accepted Answer

Catal Huyuk

Question 11

Jews living outside Judah; Greek word meaning scattered

Accepted Answer

Diaspora

Question 12

A time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world

Accepted Answer

Hellenistic Era

Question 13

Astronomers are people who study heavenly bodies

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers

Accepted Answer

Pythagoras

Question 15

Khufu built the Great Pyramids at Giza

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Ramses II was the greatest of the New Kingdom pharaohs

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Highest mountain in Greece

Accepted Answer

Mount Olympus

Question 18

A myth is a traditional story about gods and heroes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Canaan is present-day Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Herodotus is considered the greatest historian of the ancient world

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

Palestine is the name given to Judah by Romans; refers to the Philistines

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Meaning "divine law," it directs Hindus to do the duty of their caste.

Accepted Answer

Dharma

Question 23

Greece's northern neighbor

Accepted Answer

Macedonia

Question 24

Egyptian name for Egypt, means "the Black Lands"

Accepted Answer

Kemet

Question 25

Grew from a mixture of Aryan beliefs and those of the Harrapans

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Hinduism

Question 26

Period of time when Jews were sent to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar

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Babylonian Captivity

Question 27

Taught that happiness came from reason and doing one's duty

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Stoics

Question 28

New Stone Age

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Neolithic

Question 29

Sophists taught that there was no absolute right and wrong

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

First great Buddhist king

Accepted Answer

Asoka

Adv. World History Midterm Exam

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Adv. World History Midterm Exam

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