Foundations of World History - Chapter 1

Which definition properly matches the word artifact?

Who is the prophet of Islam?

Who discovered the famous hominid "Lucy"?

Which is not a belief of Islam?

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

What form of government did the Romans develop?

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is a reason that civilizations arose?

What important thing did the pyramids demonstrate to historians?

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

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

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

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

Which is not a belief of Hinduism?

How was Jesus killed?

Islam is Arabic for what?

Who founded Buddhism?

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

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

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

What river was important to the Egyptian civilization?

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

Which is not a belief of Confucianism?

What is Hammurabi famous for?

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

What is a hominid?

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

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

Where did agriculture begin first?

Which is not an example of an institution?

Christianity is based on the life and teachings of who?

Who is the Greek god of love?

What is the difference between a city and a village?

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

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

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

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

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

What two rivers are important to Mesopotamia?

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

Who is the Greek god of the underworld and dead?

Which of the following is a change caused by agriculture?

Which is a belief of Buddhism?

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

Which of the major religions is the only polytheistic one?

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

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

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

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

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

Which is not a belief of Christianity?

What is the largest religion in the world?

Where was the world's first civilization?

Who is the Greek god of war?

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

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

The first Christians came from what other religion?

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

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

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

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

Who created the world's first empire?

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

What modern day country would you find Rome in?

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

Who is the Greek god of the sea?

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

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

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

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

Which is not a belief of Judaism?

What are the five characterisitcs of a civilization

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