World History (S.S.)Finals Study Guide

Question 1

What is Buddhism?

Accepted Answer

Answers 1 and 2

Question 2

What in the world is Legalism?

Accepted Answer

belief that humans are evil

Question 3

Why did ancient Egyptians build Pyramids?

Accepted Answer

Did it for the pharaohs protection

Question 4

What are some geographical features of India and China?

Accepted Answer

Indus River, Himalayan Mountains and Great Wall of China

Question 5

Who is King Darius?

Accepted Answer

A character from Ultra Street Fighter 4, The king of Persia in 500 BC

Question 6

Who is Paul of Tarsus? Who is Constantine?

Accepted Answer

Answers 1 and 3

Question 7

What on gods earth is reincarnation?

Accepted Answer

the belief that ones souls reincarnated

Question 8

What is a polis?

Accepted Answer

A city-state that became the central focus of Greek life

Question 9

Who is Octavian/Augustus?

Accepted Answer

He was part of the 2nd triumvirate he won changed his name

Question 10

Who is Muhammad?

Accepted Answer

Answer 1 and 2

Question 11

What was Persian War?

Accepted Answer

A war between Persia and both Athens and Sparta

Question 12

What was India's 1st civilization?

Accepted Answer

Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa

Question 13

Who is Alexander the Great? What was his legacy,advances,his death and life?

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 14

What on Earth is Daoism?

Accepted Answer

says go with the flow, a philosophy based on the teachings of Laozi

Question 15

Who are Gladiators?

Accepted Answer

fight to entertain people or be famous mostly slaves

Question 16

When did the age of Pericles start and end? How did he die?

Accepted Answer

Answers 1 and 2

Question 17

What are the 5 pillars of Islam

Accepted Answer

Answers 1 and 3

Question 18

Qin dynasty (3 divsions,Great Wall,Culture)

Accepted Answer

Answers 1 and 2

Question 19

What is the battle of Marathon and who won?

Accepted Answer

Athens won by surprise, A battle that Sparta was called to help Athens fight Persia

Question 20

What is karma?

Accepted Answer

Answer 1 and 2

Question 21

What caused the fall of Rome?

Accepted Answer

all the above

Question 22

What is dharma?

Accepted Answer

divine law

Question 23

Who is King Xerxes?

Accepted Answer

Was the heir to the throne and King of Persia after Darius

Question 24

Why was the flooding cycle important?

Accepted Answer

It determined when the crops could be harvested

Question 25

How many people are in the Roman senate?

Accepted Answer

300

Question 26

What is Hinduism?

Accepted Answer

believe in the existence of a single force in the universe

Question 27

Who were Pompey and Julius Caesar

Accepted Answer

Both (sorta)

Question 28

What are Plebians? What are Patricians?

Accepted Answer

Answer 1 and 2

Question 29

What were the causes, war tactics and results of the Peloponnesian War?

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 30

What are the Dark Ages?

Accepted Answer

A time when food production and population declined

Question 31

What are the Shittes and Sunnis?

Accepted Answer

Muslims that argue if only descendants of should be caliph

Question 32

Name four important River civilizations.

Accepted Answer

Egypt,Mesopotamia,China and India

Question 33

Who is Diocletian and what did he do?

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 34

What is a Mosque?

Accepted Answer

a place where Muslims go to worship

Question 35

Who were Aristotle, Plato and Socrates?

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The philosophers of Greece

Question 36

Geography of Rome

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built by a river,built on seven hills and 18 miles inland

Question 37

How did the Nile shape Egypt?

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 38

What is the Coliseum ?

Accepted Answer

the arena that Gladiators fight in

Question 39

What is a triumvirate?

Accepted Answer

3 leaders in charge

Question 40

Who is Jesus? What did he do ?

Accepted Answer

Answers 1 and 2 sorta

Question 41

What was the highest you could in the Caste System?

Accepted Answer

Brahmans

Question 42

What is a republic?

Accepted Answer

a type of government which the power was in the people

Question 43

What determined what a persons occupation is in India and what class was below it?

Accepted Answer

Caste System and untouchables

Question 44

What is the Pax Romana?

Accepted Answer

A time of peace in Rome

Question 45

What is the Minoan civilization?

Accepted Answer

A civilization in Crete that nobody knows the end to

Question 46

What was the Economy of India like?

Accepted Answer

Primarily based on farming

Question 47

What the heck is Confucianism?

Accepted Answer

A philosophy in which everyone has a duty

Question 48

What is the Hajj?

Accepted Answer

pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 49

What were the advancements in warfare?

Accepted Answer

The Phalanx

Question 50

What are the differences between Athens and Sparta

Accepted Answer

Sparta valued lying and cheating but Athens was richer

Question 51

What is the Hijrah?

Accepted Answer

Muhammad's trip to Medina that gained him many followers

Question 52

What is the Silk Road?

Accepted Answer

A trading network that the Han dynasty used for trading

Question 53

What are the Punic Wars,who won and who is the commander of Carthage?

Accepted Answer

Answers 1+2

Question 54

Han dynasty (Dehann dynasty) Political structure,technology and fall

Accepted Answer

all the above

Question 55

Who was Homer?

Accepted Answer

A famous poet in Greece who wrote Odyssey and Iliad

Question 56

What was the Roman Law?

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12 tables then it got outdated and with Law of Nations

Question 57

What is the minaret?

Accepted Answer

Spiral staircase in the Great Mosque Samarra

Question 58

What is the Mycenaean civilization?

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 59

Who is Caligula and Nero?

Accepted Answer

Caligula claiming himself to be a GOD, bad emperors from Rome with Nero setting Christians on fire

Question 60

What was the Battle of Thermopylae and Who won?

Accepted Answer

A battle which Athens had 7300 vs Persia's 150000 Persia won, Athens teamed with Sparta (sorta) but Persia Won, Answers 1 and 3

Question 61

What is the Quran?

Accepted Answer

Answers 1 and 2

Question 62

What is the Edict of Milan ?

Accepted Answer

freedom of worship

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