World History Semester 1 Vocab Review

Question 1

These people created a large empire and tried to invade Greece twice! But failed both times.

Accepted Answer

Persians

Question 2

What was a member of the privileged upper class in ancient Rome?

Accepted Answer

Patrician

Question 3

A common farmer/person in ancient Rome who couldn't trace their heritage to Rome's founding.

Accepted Answer

Plebeian

Question 4

What advantage did the Phoenician alphabet have over cuneiform?

Accepted Answer

It was shorter

Question 5

How many sisters does Sunderman have?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 6

What is Sunderman's favorite color?

Accepted Answer

It depends...

Question 7

Hieroglyphics was the form of writing of which ancient people?

Accepted Answer

Egyptians

Question 8

Which of the following was NOT a cultural oddity in China?

Accepted Answer

Growing out long hair

Question 9

What is Sunderman's favorite fiction book?

Accepted Answer

1984

Question 10

The law of cause and effect that said what you do in this life determines your fate in the next

Accepted Answer

Karma

Question 11

What is the ability to read and write called?

Accepted Answer

Literacy

Question 12

Code of conduct that knights were supposed to follow.

Accepted Answer

Chivalry

Question 13

What was the Greek idea of striving for excellence, courage, and winning fame and honor?

Accepted Answer

Arete

Question 14

Cruelest and most feared army in ancient world. Used fishhooks through people's noses.

Accepted Answer

Assyrians

Question 15

What is NOT a way that Augustus contributed to Rome's success as the center of a great empire?

Accepted Answer

He abolished old values

Question 16

Who was the first civilization?

Accepted Answer

Sumer

Question 17

Cuneiform was the ancient writing of what civilization?

Accepted Answer

Sumer

Question 18

What was a "polis?"

Accepted Answer

A Greek city-state

Question 19

Which two city-states/nations fought in the Peloponnesian War?

Accepted Answer

Athens vs. Sparta

Question 20

What's division in the church or a religious group called?

Accepted Answer

Schism

Question 21

Greek philosopher who was killed for "corrupting the youth of Athens"

Accepted Answer

Socrates

Question 22

This guy was king of Babylon and developed one of the first written legal codes in history.

Accepted Answer

Hammurabi

Question 23

Which of the following is NOT one of the five key traits of a civilization?

Accepted Answer

Simple institutions

Question 24

Carlson taught Sunderman.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Which Article in the Constitution explains the President's power?

Accepted Answer

Article II

Question 26

What is a long heroic poem that tells a story of a historical or legendary hero?

Accepted Answer

Epic

Question 27

The Phoenicians developed an alphabet with how many symbols in it?

Accepted Answer

22

Question 28

What is "maat?"

Accepted Answer

Egyptian idea of goodness, justice, truth, and order

Question 29

This is the ceremony where a vassal receives land or a bishop takes office

Accepted Answer

Investiture

Question 30

This is the official law of the Roman Catholic Church.

Accepted Answer

Canon law

Question 31

What was a peasant forced to work the land in ancient Sparta?

Accepted Answer

Helot

Question 32

What word describes people who believe in only one god?

Accepted Answer

Monotheists

Question 33

What were the Mongols known for?

Accepted Answer

Being the worst barbarians

Question 34

Who became the sole ruler of Rome after Julius Caesar died?

Accepted Answer

Octavian

Question 35

Who is someone who chooses to die rather than give up a principle or cause?

Accepted Answer

Martyr

Question 36

Siddhartha Gautama started which religion?

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 37

Which of the following is NOT an example of trial by ordeal?

Accepted Answer

Drinking poison

Question 38

What was the Black Death?

Accepted Answer

A horrible plague that wrecked Europe's population

Question 39

How did the plebeians gain political power in the early Roman Republic?

Accepted Answer

Refusing to serve in the army

Question 40

Who was the last powerful ruler of the Assyrian empire?

Accepted Answer

Assurbanipal

Question 41

What is Sunderman's favorite foreign city to visit?

Accepted Answer

London

Question 42

Who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad?

Accepted Answer

Homer

Question 43

Why did Japan decide to become isolationist by 1614?

Accepted Answer

Didn't want to be taken over by the Spanish

Question 44

This guy was the first historian; wrote about the Persian Wars

Accepted Answer

Herodotus

Question 45

What did guilds do?

Accepted Answer

Controlled prices and quality of goods

Question 46

What is the greatest sitcom ever?

Accepted Answer

Seinfeld

Question 47

Confucius was an ancient philosopher in which ancient empire?

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Question 48

What color is Sunderman's truck?

Accepted Answer

Navy

Question 49

This guy founded the Persian empire and ruled with kindness and tolerance.

Accepted Answer

Cyrus

Question 50

What was the Inquisition?

Accepted Answer

The seeking and punishing of heretics

Question 51

Which of the following is NOT one of the five pillars of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Fighting

Question 52

What do you call someone who believes in more than one god?

Accepted Answer

Polytheist

Question 53

What was the Roman virtue of weightiness - meaning discipline, strength, and loyalty.

Accepted Answer

Gravitas

Question 54

Which term is respect shown by children for their parents and elders?

Accepted Answer

Filial piety

Question 55

What is extreme loyalty to one's own land and people called?

Accepted Answer

Nationalism

Question 56

Which people raided ancient Egypt and left vast devastation?

Accepted Answer

People of the Sea

World History Semester 1 Vocab Review

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World History Semester 1 Vocab Review

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