World History - 1st Semester Review- Other Questions

During what stone age, prehistoric religious beliefs centered around nature

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

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

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

What Pope crowned Charlemagne emperor?

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

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

What was the first Chinese Dynasty?

A divorce became final in how many months?

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

The Canterbury Tales were written by

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

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

Who found the oldest living hominid in 1974 in Ethiopia?

Egyptians worshipped more than how many gods?

Who brought Christianity to the Franks?

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

Who met Queen Cleopatra and fell in love with her?

Who invented Algebra?

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

What was the most common traded item in Medieval Europe?

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

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

Which Egyptian God was the Sun God

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

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

Who won at the Battle of Thermopylae?

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

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

A tithe represented what fraction of their income?

A Greek philosopher named_____ founded the school of Stoicism?

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

The Divine Comedy was written by

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

Schooling in Athens began around what age?

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

Who moved the Muslim capital to Damascus?

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

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

Which Greek Author often featured strong women in his work?

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

Which Greek Author wrote Oedipus the King and Antigone?

Which Greek historian pioneered the accurate reporting of events?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which Greek Goddess was the Goddess of Wisdom?

Alexander the Great died at what age?

Rugged mountains covered about what fraction of ancient Greece?

Who wrote the The Treatise of Smallpox and Measles

The squire at age 21 became a what?

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

Peasants paid a tax on what?

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

What God watched over women?

The Egyptian Civilization was a gift of what river?

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

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

Most of the Crusaders were from what country?

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

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

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

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

Aksum seized areas along what sea?

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

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

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

What is the second largest continent in the world?

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

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

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

Who was the ruler of the Greek Gods?

Which Athenian leader increased the power of the assembly?

Peasants paid a tax on what?

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

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

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

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

Which nation welcomed Alexander as a liberator/

The archaeologist Donald Johanson named the hominid he found what ?

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

Archaeologists have found representations of what Hindu God?

What early human was the first to use fire?

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

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

Who won at the Battle of Marathon?

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

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

The Book of the City of Ladies was written by

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

Who was the father of the Roman Gods?

Which Athenian leader outlawed debt slavery?

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

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

Charlemagne spread what religion?

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

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

Who was thought to be the first King of Axsum?

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

What ruler converted the Aksum Kingdom to Christianity?

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

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

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

Which Egyptian God was the ideal mother and wife?

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

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

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

Who led a scientific expedition into East Africa?

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

The Savannas cover over what % of the continent?

Which Egyptian God was the God of the Dead?

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