Foundations of World History - Chapter 1

What allowed people to begin specializing in labor outside of food creation?

What religion has no clear starting point or founder and has its roots in the Vedas?

Which is not one of the two parts of the Stone Age?

Who is the Greek god of blacksmiths, fire, and volcanoes?

Which type of source is a document or record created by people who were present during the events?

What do we call shared beliefs, practices, and traditions of a group of people?

What do we call a large political unit in which a number of different people or lands have a single ruler?

Where did agriculture begin first?

What is the difference between a city and a village?

Which is a belief of Buddhism?

What do we call a scientist who studies the forms of life existing in former geologic periods?

What was the Egyptian form of writing that means "sacred carving"?

This early version of man existed 4 million to 1 million B.C. and was the first to walk upright

What does it mean when we say humans have opposable thumbs?

What Greek city state is responsible for creating the direct democracy?

Who is the Greek god of war?

What are the five characterisitcs of a civilization

What do we call a scientist that deals with origins, cultural development, characteristics, social cutoms and beliefs?

Which definition properly matches the word artifact?

Who was the Roman leader that was part of the 1st Triumverate and was stabbed to death on the floor of the Senate?

What massive structure was built in China to protect them from invaders?

Which of the major religions is the only polytheistic one?

What two rivers are important to Mesopotamia?

Who created the world's first empire?

Who is the Greek god of commerce and messenger of the gods?

What major religion was formed in China and is less a religion than a philosophy and way of life?

Who is the Greek virgin godess of reason, intelligence, and literature?

Who is the Greek godess of marriage, childbirth, and empires?

Who is the Greek god of fertility, wine, and celebration?

Which of the following is a reason that civilizations arose?

Which type of source is a document or record created by people who were not present during the events?

What is a hominid?

Which is not an example of an institution?

Christianity is based on the life and teachings of who?

This early version of man existed 1.6 million to 30,000 B.C. and were the first to migrate and begining of language

Which of the following is a change caused by agriculture?

Which is not a belief of Judaism?

Who is the Greek god of music, light, and sun?

This early version of man existed 200,000 to 30,000 B.C. and was the first to have ritual burials and religion

What language spread whereever Islam did because the Qur'an was only supposed to be in that language?

Who discovered the famous hominid "Lucy"?

Who is the Greek godess of chastity, hunting, and nature?

Where was the world's first civilization?

Who was the Macedonian king who overruns the Persian empire and captures everything from Egypt to India?

The first Christians came from what other religion?

What do we call a scientist who studies human history by digging up remains and artifacts?

Which is not a belief of Hinduism?

Who is the Greek god of the sea?

What is the absence of belief in the existence of god or gods called?

Who is the Greek godess of love, desire, and beauty?

Which of the following groupings correctly identifies the 6 major religions?

What was the name of the wars fought between Rome and Carthage?

In Greek mythology, who is the strongest of all the mortals who becomes a god after death?

Who is the founder of Judaism who made a covenant with god?

Who is the Greek ruler of the Olympians and God of the sky?

Islam is Arabic for what?

What modern day country would you find Rome in?

Which is not a belief of Islam?

Who is the Greek god of love?

Who is the Greek godess of grain, harvest, and agriculture?

Which is not a belief of Confucianism?

What is the view or belief that the existence of god is unknowable?

What is the largest religion in the world?

What is Hammurabi famous for?

What river was important to the Egyptian civilization?

Which of the major religions is one of the first monotheistic religions ever?

What important thing did the pyramids demonstrate to historians?

How was Jesus killed?

This early version of man existed 2.5 million to 1.5 million years ago and made tools of lava rock

Who is the prophet of Islam?

Why do we know less about the Indus River Valley than other similar civilizations?

Which not one of the reasons to learn history that we discussed?

Who is the Greek god of the underworld and dead?

What form of government did the Romans develop?

Which is not a belief of Christianity?

Who founded Buddhism?