World History - 1st Semester Review- Other Questions

What was the most common traded item in Medieval Europe?

The Book of the City of Ladies was written by

A tithe represented what fraction of their income?

Who swept across the plains of the Danube River and invaded Western Europe in the late 800s?

A person needed to know over how many characters to be barely literate in China?

Which Greek historian pioneered the accurate reporting of events?

Who moved the Muslim capital to Damascus?

In Sparta, boys left home at what age and moved into army like barracks?

The Savannas cover over what % of the continent?

What city was one of the capitals of the Shang Dynasty?

Spartan boys stayed in army like barracks until they were at the age of what?

At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who became King of Macedonia?

In 50 B.C., the Senate at Pompey's urgings, ordered who to disband his legions and return home?

The squire at age 21 became a what?

Who led a scientific expedition into East Africa?

Archaeologists believe that the ancient Indian culture was what type of government?

As Vikings gradually accepted what religion, they stopped raiding monasteries?

The Egyptian Civilization was a gift of what river?

At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who seized Egypt?

Which Athenian leader increased the power of the assembly?

About 6000 B.C., the what began to dry up again?

The Canterbury Tales were written by

By 100 B.C., enslaved persons formed perhaps what fraction of Rome's population?

Which Egyptian God was the Sun God

What is the art of bringing together unknowns to match a known quantity

Who wrote the The Treatise of Smallpox and Measles

By what year, French, Spanish, and other Roman languages evolved from Latin

In 399 B.C., what philosopher was brought to trial for corrupting the youth?

A knight's training began at the age of 7 when he was referred to as being a what?

Who moved the capital from Rome to the Greek city of Byzantium in what is now Turkey?

During what stone age, prehistoric religious beliefs centered around nature

The Germanic invaders who stormed what city could not read or write?

At this daughter's wedding in 336 B.C. who was stabbed to death by a former guardsman?

Peasants paid a tax on what?

A knight's training continued at the age of 14 when he was referred to as being a what?

Schooling in Athens began around what age?

What is the second largest continent in the world?

The Divine Comedy was written by

The Italian foot soldiers used crossbows to defeat feudal knights at what battle?

By 511, who had united the Franks into one kingdom?

Which Athenian leader outlawed debt slavery?

Who won at the Battle of Marathon?

Who proposed that Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun?

In Paris, the vaulted ceiling of the Cathedral of Notre Dame eventually rose to _____ feet

Peasants warmed their dirt floors by bringing what animals inside at night?

Who suggested stories of the Trojan War might have been based on real cities and people?

Egyptians worshipped more than how many gods?

What % of China's land is suitable for farming?

The last Roman emperor, a 14 year old boy named_________, was ousted by German forces in 476

The Indus Valley Civilization was believed to have ended after what river flooded?

Which nation welcomed Alexander as a liberator/

Who arrested Jesus and sentenced him to be crucified or nailed to a wooden cross to die?

Who defeated Muslim raiders from Spain at the Battle of Tours in 732?

Muslim armies conquered Syria and lower Egypt which were part of what empire?

Houses of the Harappan civilization may have been up to how many stories high?

Most of the Crusaders were from what country?

Aksum seized areas along what sea?

Archaeologists have found representations of what Hindu God?

Charlemagne spread what religion?

The archaeologist Donald Johanson named the hominid he found what ?

To be a true scholar of the Chinese language, a person needed to know how many characters

Who was thought to be the first King of Axsum?

Who was the ruler of the Greek Gods?

What God watched over women?

Which Egyptian God was the God of the Dead?

The Indus River flows southwest from what mountain range to the Arabian Sea?

Who divided the empire into the Greek speaking East and the Latin speaking West?

What early human was the first to use fire?

Who computed Earth's circumference at between 28,000 and 29,000 feet?

During the what stone age, farming peoples worshipped the many gods and goddesses of nature?

Which Greek Author wrote Oedipus the King and Antigone?

What Pope crowned Charlemagne emperor?

Which Greek Goddess was the Goddess of Wisdom?

Who invented Algebra?

Which Greek Author wrote Oresteia, which examines the idea of justice?

What Viking explorer reached North America around 1000, almost 500 years before Columbus?

A Greek philosopher named_____ founded the school of Stoicism?

Who won at the Battle of Thermopylae?

What was the first Chinese Dynasty?

Rome was built on seven rolling hills at a curve on what river?

Until the construction of _______, Damascus was the leading city of the Muslim world

What % of the people were engaged in farming in Ancient Rome?

What famous Greek monument contained examples of Greek art that set standards for the future?

The streets in the Harappan Civilization were as wide as how many feet?

Alexander the Great died at what age?

What geographical landform is between the rivers of the Huang He and the Chang Jiang?

The center of the Indian Peninsula is a high plateau cut by twisting rivers.  This is called..

Who found the oldest living hominid in 1974 in Ethiopia?

Who brought Christianity to the Franks?

Who was the Goddess of Wisdom and of the arts and crafts?

One of the Children's Crusades led by Stephen had an estimated how many children?

Whose presence prevented Africans from using cattle, donkeys, and horses to farm?

A General named___________ devised a plan to attack Carthage in the 3rd Punic War?

Peasants paid a tax on what?

At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who took control of most of the old Persian Empire?

Which group ruled much of Egypt from 1630 to 1523 B.C.?

The leader of the first Chinese dynasty was a man by the name of ________

What poem praises a band of French soldiers who perished in battle during Charlemagne's reign?

At its height, Djenne-Djeno had how many thousand residents?

Which Athenian leader's code dealt with criminals, making death the punishment usually?

A divorce became final in how many months?

Which Greek Author often featured strong women in his work?

Who was the father of the Roman Gods?

What ruler converted the Aksum Kingdom to Christianity?

Rugged mountains covered about what fraction of ancient Greece?

Which Egyptian God was the ideal mother and wife?

Who met Queen Cleopatra and fell in love with her?

Which of Philip II's heirs was late made a saint by the Catholic Church?

By A.D. 250, there were how many Roman holidays a year?

At the Battle of Salamis, Xerxes watched in horror as more than what fraction of his fleet sank

What is the type of farming where a patch of the forest is cut down and burned?

Which leader became seriously ill with a fever and died a few days later?

Which Greek historian believed that certain types of events and political situations recur?

When a husband wanted to divorce his wife, he had to repeat "I divorce thee" how many times?

During the Peloponnesian War, a plague killed what fraction of the Athenian people?