World History - 1st Semester Review- Other Questions

Archaeologists believe that the ancient Indian culture was what type of government?

During the Peloponnesian War, a plague killed what fraction of the Athenian people?

Spartan boys stayed in army like barracks until they were at the age of what?

What % of the people were engaged in farming in Ancient Rome?

At the Battle of Salamis, Xerxes watched in horror as more than what fraction of his fleet sank

The Divine Comedy was written by

By A.D. 250, there were how many Roman holidays a year?

Which Athenian leader outlawed debt slavery?

Peasants paid a tax on what?

Houses of the Harappan civilization may have been up to how many stories high?

As Vikings gradually accepted what religion, they stopped raiding monasteries?

The archaeologist Donald Johanson named the hominid he found what ?

What is the type of farming where a patch of the forest is cut down and burned?

At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who became King of Macedonia?

Who swept across the plains of the Danube River and invaded Western Europe in the late 800s?

Which group ruled much of Egypt from 1630 to 1523 B.C.?

What was the first Chinese Dynasty?

Schooling in Athens began around what age?

Who led a scientific expedition into East Africa?

Which Egyptian God was the ideal mother and wife?

At its height, Djenne-Djeno had how many thousand residents?

Who invented Algebra?

A knight's training began at the age of 7 when he was referred to as being a what?

Who was the Goddess of Wisdom and of the arts and crafts?

What poem praises a band of French soldiers who perished in battle during Charlemagne's reign?

Which nation welcomed Alexander as a liberator/

Who won at the Battle of Thermopylae?

What ruler converted the Aksum Kingdom to Christianity?

Which of Philip II's heirs was late made a saint by the Catholic Church?

Archaeologists have found representations of what Hindu God?

Which Greek historian believed that certain types of events and political situations recur?

Which Egyptian God was the Sun God

Which Greek Author wrote Oresteia, which examines the idea of justice?

The Book of the City of Ladies was written by

What % of China's land is suitable for farming?

What is the second largest continent in the world?

At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who seized Egypt?

Who brought Christianity to the Franks?

Who met Queen Cleopatra and fell in love with her?

The streets in the Harappan Civilization were as wide as how many feet?

Which Greek historian pioneered the accurate reporting of events?

One of the Children's Crusades led by Stephen had an estimated how many children?

Who defeated Muslim raiders from Spain at the Battle of Tours in 732?

In 50 B.C., the Senate at Pompey's urgings, ordered who to disband his legions and return home?

Peasants warmed their dirt floors by bringing what animals inside at night?

The Egyptian Civilization was a gift of what river?

To be a true scholar of the Chinese language, a person needed to know how many characters

Who moved the capital from Rome to the Greek city of Byzantium in what is now Turkey?

Who suggested stories of the Trojan War might have been based on real cities and people?

At this daughter's wedding in 336 B.C. who was stabbed to death by a former guardsman?

The Savannas cover over what % of the continent?

Who proposed that Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun?

Which Greek Author often featured strong women in his work?

What Viking explorer reached North America around 1000, almost 500 years before Columbus?

By 100 B.C., enslaved persons formed perhaps what fraction of Rome's population?

The Germanic invaders who stormed what city could not read or write?

The Indus River flows southwest from what mountain range to the Arabian Sea?

What famous Greek monument contained examples of Greek art that set standards for the future?

By 511, who had united the Franks into one kingdom?

Who wrote the The Treatise of Smallpox and Measles

Charlemagne spread what religion?

A knight's training continued at the age of 14 when he was referred to as being a what?

A divorce became final in how many months?

Until the construction of _______, Damascus was the leading city of the Muslim world

At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who took control of most of the old Persian Empire?

When a husband wanted to divorce his wife, he had to repeat "I divorce thee" how many times?

In Paris, the vaulted ceiling of the Cathedral of Notre Dame eventually rose to _____ feet

Who arrested Jesus and sentenced him to be crucified or nailed to a wooden cross to die?

The Italian foot soldiers used crossbows to defeat feudal knights at what battle?

What was the most common traded item in Medieval Europe?

A person needed to know over how many characters to be barely literate in China?

In Sparta, boys left home at what age and moved into army like barracks?

By what year, French, Spanish, and other Roman languages evolved from Latin

Who was the father of the Roman Gods?

Peasants paid a tax on what?

Aksum seized areas along what sea?

A General named___________ devised a plan to attack Carthage in the 3rd Punic War?

The center of the Indian Peninsula is a high plateau cut by twisting rivers.  This is called..

Whose presence prevented Africans from using cattle, donkeys, and horses to farm?

Which Greek Author wrote Oedipus the King and Antigone?

The Indus Valley Civilization was believed to have ended after what river flooded?

Which Egyptian God was the God of the Dead?

Who was the ruler of the Greek Gods?

Who was thought to be the first King of Axsum?

Who computed Earth's circumference at between 28,000 and 29,000 feet?

A tithe represented what fraction of their income?

The squire at age 21 became a what?

What geographical landform is between the rivers of the Huang He and the Chang Jiang?

Which Athenian leader increased the power of the assembly?

The last Roman emperor, a 14 year old boy named_________, was ousted by German forces in 476

Alexander the Great died at what age?

Which leader became seriously ill with a fever and died a few days later?

A Greek philosopher named_____ founded the school of Stoicism?

Which Athenian leader's code dealt with criminals, making death the punishment usually?

What is the art of bringing together unknowns to match a known quantity

Rome was built on seven rolling hills at a curve on what river?

In 399 B.C., what philosopher was brought to trial for corrupting the youth?

Which Greek Goddess was the Goddess of Wisdom?

Rugged mountains covered about what fraction of ancient Greece?

Who found the oldest living hominid in 1974 in Ethiopia?

What Pope crowned Charlemagne emperor?

Muslim armies conquered Syria and lower Egypt which were part of what empire?

What God watched over women?

Egyptians worshipped more than how many gods?

Who moved the Muslim capital to Damascus?

The Canterbury Tales were written by

Who divided the empire into the Greek speaking East and the Latin speaking West?

The leader of the first Chinese dynasty was a man by the name of ________

During what stone age, prehistoric religious beliefs centered around nature

What city was one of the capitals of the Shang Dynasty?

Most of the Crusaders were from what country?

What early human was the first to use fire?

During the what stone age, farming peoples worshipped the many gods and goddesses of nature?

About 6000 B.C., the what began to dry up again?

Who won at the Battle of Marathon?