Political Systems and Rulers Quiz

Question 1

What is the marketplace in ancient Greece called?

Accepted Answer

Agora

Question 2

What is the period of time before written records known as?

Accepted Answer

Prehistory

Question 3

Who is the Roman athlete forced to fight for public entertainment?

Accepted Answer

Gladiator

Question 4

What body of water separates Europe and Africa?

Accepted Answer

Mediterranean Sea

Question 5

What type of government is a monarchy?

Accepted Answer

Rule by one

Question 6

Who is the Egyptian god of the sun?

Accepted Answer

Re

Question 7

Who is a person who moves from place to place?

Accepted Answer

Nomads

Question 8

Is an artifact typically an item of cultural or historical interest?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

What is democracy?

Accepted Answer

Government by the people

Question 10

What is a piece of land almost surrounded by water called?

Accepted Answer

Peninsula

Question 11

What is a change in wind direction that happens seasonally called?

Accepted Answer

Monsoon

Question 12

What is a dynasty?

Accepted Answer

A family of rulers

Question 13

What does tolerance mean?

Accepted Answer

Acceptance of differences

Question 14

Is the caste system determined by personal achievements?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Who united upper and lower Egypt?

Accepted Answer

King Menes

Question 16

Who was the first emperor of China?

Accepted Answer

Qin Shi Huangdi

Question 17

What is the study of the past based on what people left behind?

Accepted Answer

Archaeology

Question 18

What is the belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods called?

Accepted Answer

Mandate of Heaven

Question 19

What is a city that, with its surrounding territory, forms an independent state called?

Accepted Answer

City-state

Question 20

What does it mean to convert?

Accepted Answer

To change beliefs

Question 21

True or false: A democracy is ruled by one person.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

What does a dictator have?

Accepted Answer

Absolute power

Question 23

What is a complex society with language, government, economy, and culture called?

Accepted Answer

Civilization

Question 24

Who is the god of the sea, horses, and earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

Poseidon

Question 25

What is a blockade?

Accepted Answer

Sealing off a place

Question 26

Archaeology is the study of future predictions.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

What is the taming of animals and plants for human use known as?

Accepted Answer

Domestication

Question 28

What did Nebuchadnezzar II build?

Accepted Answer

Hanging Gardens

Question 29

What is censorship?

Accepted Answer

Restricting information

Question 30

The Nile River is the shortest river in the world.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

What is a tiered temple for worship called?

Accepted Answer

Ziggurat

Question 32

What is the belief in many gods called?

Accepted Answer

Polytheism

Question 33

What is a low plain where a river flows into a larger body of water called?

Accepted Answer

Delta

Question 34

What is the belief that life is suffering and to ease suffering one must give up desires called?

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 35

What is a long period without rain known as?

Accepted Answer

Drought

Question 36

What is the Hebrew bible called?

Accepted Answer

Torah

Question 37

Which mountain range extends west of the Himalayas?

Accepted Answer

Hindu Kush Mountains

Question 38

What is the sudden realization called?

Accepted Answer

Epiphany

Question 39

Who is the Greek god of the sky, thunder, and lightning?

Accepted Answer

Zeus

Question 40

What is supplying land with water through a network of canals known as?

Accepted Answer

Irrigation

Question 41

True or false: Dictatorship means shared power.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

What is the first written code of laws?

Accepted Answer

Hammurabi's Code

Question 43

What is the government run by religious leaders called?

Accepted Answer

Theocracy

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