World History Semester 1 Final Review

People sent out to carry a religious message in hopes of converting them are called_________.

Why did the Romans persecute Christians during the reign of Nero?

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

the split between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of the Byzantine Empire is ___

The ancient Greeks considered religion

How was the central bureaucracy of the Qin dynasty organized?

Since most Indians could not relate to the ideal of achieving oneness with the Brahman, they

principle of Chinese government which allows a revolution to overthrow a corrupt ruler is

The Legalists believed that a strong ruler was needed to

What advantage did Rome’s location on the Tiber River provide?

Julius Caesar sparked a civil war that led to his dictatorship by crossing the

Siddhārtha Gautama accepted the idea of reincarnation, but he rejected

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

What led directly to Arabs populating more of the desert in the first millennium B.C.?

Religion provided the Egyptians with a sense of security, and Egyptian rulers were viewed as

According to one story, a young Spartan warrior was told by his mother to return from the war

Which of the following was a factor in peasant uprisings in the late Han dynasty?

Which of the following is another title for the pope?

The founder of the Han dynasty was

Local Christian communities led by a priest were called _________.

The first Han emperor discarded

The conflict between the plebeians and the patricians was known as the

Although the city of Rome was magnificent and wealthy,

The basic economic and social unit in ancient China was the

Who were the Xiongnu?

One of Five Pillars of Islam, the hajj, is

Herodotus wrote what is considered to be the first

people who were not Muslims or did not convert to Islam in the conquered territories

The Eightfold Path includes the idea that we must

How did monks and nuns help to spread Christianity throughout Europe?

Significant nomadic peoples who spoke a language derived from a single parent tongue were the

Which were factors that helped Qin Shihuangdi unify China economically and geographically?

Where do scientists believe that Homo sapiens 1st appeared between 150,000 & 200,000 years ago?

According to Confucius, what is the “foundation, whence all other virtues spring”?

At the end of the Han dynasty in A.D. 221, the population of China had

Rome defeated and then destroyed Carthage in the

The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant that humans

How were government officials chosen in the Han dynasty?

The _____ were a group of Jews who called for the violent overthrow of Roman rule.

What caused Clovis to convert to Christianity?

A crucial part of every Muslim city or town was the ____________, which was a covered market.

According to Plato, a good life can only be achieved if a person

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

Which of the following territories were added to the empire during the Han dynasty?

What did the Edict of Milan proclaim?

By 750 B.C., the ____, or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life.

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

On their frontiers, the Chinese people were isolated from people in other parts of Asia by

A main characteristic of civilizations is

An important concept that became a crucial part of Chinese history was

Which Roman official ordered the execution of Jesus?

Confucius believed that people should be governed by

Who said that “the unexamined life is not worth living”?

Siddhārtha Gautama was the founder of

Which of the following was an impact of geography on Mesopotamian culture?

The teachings of Homer promoted

In 31 B.C., Octavian defeated the army and navy of

Which emperor converted the Roman Empire to Christianity?

What was the most important social institution in Germanic custom?

During his reign, Aśoka,

Greek history was influenced by Greece’s

A common belief shared by Hindus and Buddhists is that

Harmony with nature and the universal order are beliefs of

The invention that led to major expansion of trade in the Han period was

How did the people in Athens find out what had happened at the battle of Marathon?

What was the basis for imperial law in the Eastern Roman Empire?

When Abū Bakr died,

The Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, & Sudras were 4 divisions of ancient Indian society known as

While the emperors created a sense of unity throughout the empire, they also

The development of Egyptian civilization was influenced most powerfully by

The Peloponnesian War, which began in 431 B.C., was a result of

Anthropology is the study of

What was the effect of the technical advancements in the Han dynasty?

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

Which of the following did the Sumerians invent

The custom of requiring women to cover virtually all parts of their bodies in public

What change did Diocletian make to the governmental structure of the Roman Empire?

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

The Qin and Han dynasties both

The Jews believed that God had made a contract with them, called a

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

Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander the Great’s death?

The system of walls linked by Qin Shihuangdi became

Before the trade routes were established, Arabs were primarily

Who was appointed dictator after defeating Pompey?

The official language of the Eastern Roman Empire was ___ and the official religion was _____.

In 1974 farmers digging a well about 35 miles east of Xian discovered

The tyrants of ancient Greece were

Who was Paul?

writings that reveal India was a world of many small kingdoms between 1500 B.C. & 400 B.C. are

In 53 B.C., the First Triumvirate ended with the death of

The word spartan has come to mean

Which best describes a key feature of Rome’s official state religion?

According to Islamic teaching, Muhammad received messages from

What did Charlemagne do that merged Roman, Christian, and German elements in his kingdom?

After the Second Triumvirate, with whom did Antony war for control of Rome?

The Kushans adapted

The Pax Romana was a

Scholars continue to debate whether Homer’s account of ____ is based on historical fact.

Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer are the three chief

The Minoans established

The Phoenicians produced a number of goods for foreign markets, including purple dye, glass, &

Devout Muslims are prohibited from

What was a product of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus’s attempted reforms?

During the Shang dynasty, the class of people that owned the land and waged war were the

Caesar Augustus changed the way the provinces were ruled by

Who attempted to redistribute land to the poor with disastrous results?

One of the technological advances of the Han dynasty was

Buddhists believe that it is possible to reach enlightenment by

Who believed that the physical surroundings of humans—the material world—were simply illusions?

Another way that Buddhism differed from Hinduism was that Buddhists rejected

Because trade brought new civilizations into contact with one another,

The Roman Senate was a select group of

How did people in the Fertile Crescent adapt to their environment?

In 479 B.C., a large and unified Greek army

By the fifth century, the western part of the Roman Empire was controlled mainly by __________.

Egyptian history is divided into three major periods, known as the

After losing the battle of Thermopylae to the Persians, the Athenians

Pax Romana, a long period of peace, ushered in

The priestly class of Ancient Indian society were

At its height, Alexander’s empire extended as far east as

The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that it was

Reincarnation is the Hindu