World History End of year exam

Question 1

What concepts influence the Egyptians when they built their pyramids?

Accepted Answer

geometry

Question 2

Nike is Greek for.....

Accepted Answer

Victory

Question 3

Who spread Christianity and created the basic beliefs of Christianity?

Accepted Answer

Paul and his writings are in the New Testament

Question 4

Which Indian period had unification of India and revival of Hinduism?

Accepted Answer

Gupta Empire

Question 5

What Ancient China farming technique help them.

Accepted Answer

terrace farming

Question 6

What did the Mediterranean Sea provide?

Accepted Answer

trade

Question 7

What is cultural diffusion?

Accepted Answer

Both A and B

Question 8

The American government is a....

Accepted Answer

Representative Democracy

Question 9

What led people to specialize in a craft?

Accepted Answer

creation of food surpluses

Question 10

What led to the decline of the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Bad rulers placed huge tax burdens (taxes on small farmers)

Question 11

What is the Judicial Branch?

Accepted Answer

branch that includes the court system

Question 12

What part of the Roman government controlled the money?

Accepted Answer

Senate

Question 13

What main achievement did the Mesopotamian s give us?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 14

What is a Caste?

Accepted Answer

Social Order of India

Question 15

What was the Neolithic Revolution?

Accepted Answer

People learned to farm

Question 16

Define: Checks and Balances

Accepted Answer

Limits the actions of the other branches

Question 17

The Silk Road was important because....

Accepted Answer

Exchanged of scientific and cultural materials

Question 18

What does similar mean?

Accepted Answer

something that is a like

Question 19

What is scarcity?

Accepted Answer

not enough of something

Question 20

What does economic mean?

Accepted Answer

money/finances

Question 21

What did the Nile river provide?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 22

Athens and Sparta were similar how?

Accepted Answer

Men had more rights than women

Question 23

What is the Rule of Law?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 24

What is an oligarchy?

Accepted Answer

Rule by many

Question 25

Which Roman branch of government has the least authority on military decisions?

Accepted Answer

Senate

Question 26

What is a surplus?

Accepted Answer

So much that there is an extra amount.

Question 27

Ancient Greece gave us

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 28

What achievements did the Egyptians give us?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 29

How did the Himalayan and Hindu Kush mountains effect the development of India?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 30

What is climate?

Accepted Answer

weather

Question 31

What is Prehistory?

Accepted Answer

A time before writing was invented.

Question 32

The Caste includes:

Accepted Answer

Brahmins, Kshatriya, Visayans, Sudras

Question 33

Why did the Egyptians settle around the river valley civilization?

Accepted Answer

The Nile gave them water while the rest was a desert.

Question 34

Which part of the U.S. government resembles a Roman government ?

Accepted Answer

Legislative Branch

Question 35

Why was the China&#x27;s Great Wall built?

Accepted Answer

discourage attacks by nomadic Mongols

Question 36

What was the Holocaust during WW ll?

Accepted Answer

The murder of six million Jews

Question 37

Why were the Israelite's different from the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans?

Accepted Answer

they practiced monotheism

Question 38

Mandate of Heaven is....

Accepted Answer

Gods chose rulers good moral character or they will lose their power.

Question 39

Which group gave us the first writing abilities?

Accepted Answer

Phoenicians

Question 40

How is Athenian and U.S. democracy similar?

Accepted Answer

Political power held by citizens

Question 41

What is polytheism?

Accepted Answer

Belief in many gods.

Question 42

The order of the Roman government....

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Monarchy, Republic, Empire

Question 43

Who was Hammurabi?

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia King who created laws.

Question 44

Phoenicians helped spread.....

Accepted Answer

their written language (alphabet)

Question 45

Indus Valley in northwestern India built buildings, roadside drainage systems and homes. This is an example of?

Accepted Answer

the development of urbanization

Question 46

What is a drought?

Accepted Answer

No rain

Question 47

The Legislative Branch

Accepted Answer

Branch that makes the laws

Question 48

What development enabled early people to develop civilizations?

Accepted Answer

advances in agricultural production

Question 49

What is a monarchy?

Accepted Answer

Rule by a king or queen

Question 50

When you see Hammurabi, you think of?

Accepted Answer

Government

Question 51

Who were Nomads?

Accepted Answer

People who moved around a lot.

Question 52

Which U.S. Branch is the largest ?

Accepted Answer

Executive Branch

Question 53

Greeks believed in many gods...they practiced....

Accepted Answer

Polytheism

Question 54

Who was Asoka?

Accepted Answer

He spread Buddhism

Question 55

What was special about Amenhotep IV in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Changed his name and believed in ONE GOD

World History End of year exam

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World History End of year exam

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