World History 2016 Fall Semester Exam

Who was Siddhārtha Gautama?

Why did Medieval Europe have a major drop in population (late-13th & early-14th centuries)?

Which of these led to a money-based economy and the rise of cities?

The hereditary nature of the position of sultan ________.

Which of the following happened as a result of the collapse of the Carolingian empire?

Marius changed Rome’s military recruitment system by __________.

Which of the following statements about Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism is true?

Which Roman official ordered the execution of Jesus?

Aztec art & architecturewere influenced by their religious belief-between good and evil forces.

Public wells for city residents, an advanced drainage system in Indus Valley cities indicate?

Although the city of Rome was magnificent and wealthy __________.

Why did the Legalists advocate harsh laws and stiff punishments for keeping public order?

What the Inca Empire planted, from its height up to 1911, in Machu Picchu had little change!

Why did so many different communities with independent ways of life develop in ancient Greece?

In Athens, during the Age of Pericles, every male citizen ________.

Which of the following may have contributed to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire ____.

What were the basic political units of Sumerian civilization?

The Inca had a written language.

Early urban civilizations all developed religions primarily _______.

Reincarnation is the Hindu __________.

The conquests of Alexander the Great gave rise to the _________.

Greek history was influenced by Greece’s ________.

Which region from the different North American cultures, is the smallest?

The Ottoman Empire required all its citizens to convert to Islam.

Which of the following is the most complete definition of a civilization?

"If a man put out the eye...., his eye shall be put out." Code of Hammurabi was based on ____.

The Islamic equivalent of the Christian Holy Bible is the ____________.

The Maya city-states were ________.

The change that led to all other changes in the Neolithic Revolution was the _________.

Which region from the different North American cultures, is the largest?

Herodotus wrote what is considered to be the first _______________.

A person’s caste was difficult to escape because it was based on _______.

What allowed Romans to construct massive, though stable, buildings?

The system of walls linked by Qin Shihuangdi became _______.

Because trade brought new civilizations into contact with one another,

According to Islamic belief, Muhammad is _____________.

The Pax Romana was _____________.

Which statement reflects the situation in the western half of the Roman Empire mid-5th c.?

After Muhammad’s death, Muslim scholars drew up the shari’ah, which is ___.

What was the name of Rome’s first code of laws?

Muhammad was both a religious and a political leader-did not see a difference between the two.

Rich soil to grow wheat, parley, and peas in the Indus Valley resulted from _______.

Lowest level of Ancient Indian society who were given tasks seen as menial & degrading ____.

In China, the belief in the Mandate of Heaven included the idea that _____.

Which statement best describes how Clovis laid the groundwork for the Carolingian Empire?

What was the result of Alexander the Great’s conquests?

Which architectural style has long, round-arched stone roofs supported w/massive pillars&walls?

Which of the following helped revolutionize farming practices in medieval Europe?

Where do scientists believe that Homo sapiens sapiens first appeared, 150,000-200,000 yrs. ago?

The Bubonic plague was spread by ____.