SLO 2020 Review

Question 1

Although two main religions started in India, which one became their primary religion and was based on the Caste System?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 2

What is domestication?

Accepted Answer

controlling plants and animals to benefit humans

Question 3

How did the "Fertile Crescent" get its name?

Accepted Answer

It was crescent shaped and had good soil.

Question 4

Why was the Agricultural Revolution important for society to advance?

Accepted Answer

It led to permanent settlements and domestication.

Question 5

What is Hellenization?

Accepted Answer

the spread and export of Greek culture

Question 6

What was the purpose of the Great Wall of China?

Accepted Answer

to prevent foreign invasion

Question 7

Which society is most closely associated with the Caste System?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 8

Which monotheistic religion, founded by Abraham, has a holy book called the Torah?

Accepted Answer

Judaism

Question 9

Which Greek city was seen as the birthplace of democracy, known for the arts, and named after the Goddess of Wisdom?

Accepted Answer

Athens

Question 10

Which Frankish leader built a large empire and was known as "the light of the dark ages"?

Accepted Answer

Alexander the Great

Question 11

Which of the following is a belief of Christianity?

Accepted Answer

loving one God and treating others as children of God

Question 12

The area known as Mesopotamia was between which two rivers?

Accepted Answer

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 13

What was the MAIN reason the pyramids in Egypt were constructed?

Accepted Answer

to serve as burial tombs for Egyptian pharaohs

Question 14

Early nomadic cultures that depended on wild plants and animals for food were called...

Accepted Answer

hunter gatherers

Question 15

Which choice is the best description of people who were citizens and could vote in Rome?

Accepted Answer

free men

Question 16

Which body of water does the Nile River flow into?

Accepted Answer

Mediterranean Sea

Question 17

What was the Silk Road?

Accepted Answer

It was a trade route in Asia that spread goods, ideas, and religions.

Question 18

What does it mean to by polytheistic?

Accepted Answer

You believe in many Gods.

Question 19

Which one of these is a COMMON belief of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

Accepted Answer

They are all monotheistic.

Question 20

Which one of these religions originated in Japan?

Accepted Answer

Shinto

Question 21

Why was the Magna Carta was important in European history?

Accepted Answer

It limited the king's power.

Question 22

How was silk created by the Chinese?

Accepted Answer

Silk worms produced it. (Bombyx mori)

Question 23

What event was the result of religious leaders trying to reclaim the Holy Land?

Accepted Answer

the Crusades

Question 24

Give charity to the needy, make a pilgrimage, fast, pray 5 times a day. Which religion?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 25

In the Middle Ages, which member of the feudal system was MOST tied to the land?

Accepted Answer

serf

Question 26

The "Black Death" in Europe was the name of a ______________.

Accepted Answer

disease

Question 27

Why were Roman aqueducts built and what did they accomplish?

Accepted Answer

They broght water to cities so cities became larger.

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