World History MC Questions Semester Exam

At the age of _____, young men began a two year program of military training.

18

Sparta was ruled by ____ kings who served as military leaders.

2

The Phoenicians developed an alphabet, which had ____________ symbols

22

The kings headed Sparta's governing body, the council of elders which included ______ men over the age of 60.

28

Hammurabi's law code included nearly ____________ laws

300

Shi Huangdi introduced the concept of centralization, or a central governing system and organized China into _________ provinces

36

The ancient Egyptians developed a solar calendar with exactly _________ days

365

During the past two million years the Earth has experienced ______________ long ice ages

4

Meetings took place ____ times a year.

40

The Spartan assembly did have one important role, it elected ____ ephors

5

A _______ person council, known as the boule, was the second key component of the Athenian government.

500

Asoka was one of Bindusara's _____________ sons

7

At ____ years old, spartan males were taken away from their homes to live together in barracks, or military housing.

7

Sparta did have a democratic assembly made up of some free adult males, but it had only about __________ citizens, compared to about ______________ in Athens.

9,000 and 45,000

The Torah tells about a man named ___________, who may have lived about 1700 BCE and herded animals near Ur in Mesopotamia

Abraham

Public buildings and marble temples were located in the _________________________

Acropolis (High City)

Greek speakers settled on the islands of the _______________

Aegean Sea

During these centuries, mainland Greeks migrated across the Aegean, settling the islands and the west coast of _________________, an area that became known as Ionia

Anatolia

One exceptional woman was ______________, who unlike most women received a good education

Ban Zhao

In southwest Asia farming began when people started to plant wheat and ________________________

Barley

After Chandragupta forced the Greeks out of northwestern India , his Maurya empire stretched from the ____________________ to present day Afghanistan

Bay Of Bengal

In the year 461 BCE Athens created _________________________

Citizen Juries

One factor that encouraged democracy in Athens was the idea of _________________

Citizenship

The strength of the Han government lay in its _________

Civil Service

In 508 BCE, a leader named ____________________ made several reforms that reduced the power of the rich.

Cliesthenes

Han emperors continued many of the Qin policies that standardized life in China, such as using a _______________.

Common Currency

____________, the teachings of the thinker Confucius, is one of the most important philosophies that developed in China

Confusanism

Without the resources and trading opportunities Sparta turned to ______________ to meet its growing needs.

Conquest

Widespread ______________________ marked the birth of farming

Domestication

On November 30, 1974 American archeologist ___________________________ discovered evidence of human ancestors in Ethiopia, a country in East Africa

Donald Johnasan

Around 1100 BCE, this civilization was destroyed by newcomers from the north known as ___________________

Dorians

One of these autocratic leaders was a law giver named ______________

Draco

Today, people use the term ____________________ to describe laws that seem unnecessarily harsh or severe.

Draconian

A _______________ is a ruling family that holds power for many years

Dynasty

____________________ helped promote the growth of democracy in Athens.

Education

Phoenician society began to emerge after _____________ rule ended

Egyptian

Men who won election to a men's club became known as "_______________"

Equals

The early Greek world lay on the fringe of two continents __________ and ___________

Europe and Asia

Emperor Wudi created ______________ to find talented people for civil service

Exams

Spartan boys spent most of their time ________________,____________________,___________________

Exercising, Hunting, and Training.

The ____________________ is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large crescent-shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

Fertile Crescent

In 1940, four French teenagers and their dog were exploring a cave near Lascaux in Southern __________________

France

Over many hundreds of years, Vedic civilization slowly spread eastward across the humid and fertile __________________

Ganges Plain

To the east, the ___________________ flows more than 1,500 miles across the northern part of the subcontinent

Ganges River

__________________ played an important role in the emergence of the city state.

Geography

During the last Ice Age thick sheets of ice, called ____________________, spread across large regions of the Earth

Glaciers

Through trade, the Egyptians discovered that Kush was rich in resources, including _____________

Gold

Each city state had a different kind of ________________

Government

During the Gupta period, trade and invasion brought the learnings of ______________ and Persia to India

Greece

In ancient times, there was no country called ______________

Greece

Legends say that Kautilya searched for a leader to drive ____________ invaders out of northwestern India

Greek

Under a King named ________ Babylon became the center of a new Mesopotamian empire

Hammurabia

Shi Huangdi was especially interested in the teachings of the Legalist ______________, who did not agree with Confucianism

Han Feizi

______________________ was one of the few women to rule Egypt, she was the daughter of one pharaoh and wife of another

Hatsheput

____________________, unlike his mother, used war to strengthen and increase the size of the Egyptian empire

Thutmose III

In 1992 American American anthropologist ___________________ found remains of Hominins who lived in Ethiopia at least 4.4 million years ago

Tim White

Most of what Jews believe about the origins of their religion comes from the _______________________

Torah

Each of Jacob's sons became the ancestor of at least one large group of related families called a __________

Tribe

Although the Spartans put down the Helot revolt in the early 400s BCE they lived in fear of further unrest because of the helots _______________________

Troop Numbers

Some ancient Chinese viewed China as a flat square, with ___________ stretched above.

Heaven

The scientific name for the last new group of humans that appeared about 200,000 years ago is Homo Sapiens, which means "____________________"

Wise People

In most Greek homes, _________________ supervised the household, raised the children, kept track of money and spending, and managed the slaves.

Women

Poorer _______________ worked outdoors on farms or sold goods in markets.

Women

________________,__________________,__________________ were all excluded from the process.

Women, Slaves, and Foreigners

Most of what is known about the fall of the Shang comes from the sources written during the _________________

Zhou

The ______________ belonged not to individual Spartans but to the polis as a whole, and they were forced to farm the land and turn over half the food they raised to Sparta.

Helots

The towering _____________________ form a wall between China and India

Himalayas

Some Indus valley statues and small carvings have features that seem to show practices of what we know as __________________________

Hinduism

As foot soldiers, fighters in a phalanx did not need to be rich enough to buy and maintain a _________________

Horse

The Spartans conquered the neighboring city-state of ________________

Messinia

French scientist ________________________ is one of a group of scientists that believe that human life started elsewhere in Africa

Michel Brunet

Sparta chose to create a _____________________ and also tried to control the helots through terror.

Military Society

The early Greeks were influenced by an early civilization - The ___________________

Minoans

In the 1920s, archeologists discovered the ruins of two great cities: Harappa and ____________________

Mohenjo-Daro

Each Mycenaean town was governed by a _________________, a government headed by a king.

Monarchy

Its government was a mixture of _________________,____________________,______________________

Monarchy, Oligarchy, and Democracy.

Mainland Greece is divided by ________________

Mountain Ranges

From Ancient Egyptians work with ______________ they learned much about human anatomy

Mummies

During the 3000s BCE, two kingdoms developed in Egypt. Legends say that __________________ brought the two kingdoms of Egypt together in about 3000 BCE

Narmer

A group known as _____________________ appeared in Europe and parts of Asia about 230,000 years ago

Neanderthals

The shift from hunting to farming was so important that historians call it the _________________________________

Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

The ancient Egyptians treasured the _____________ River

Nile

An Assyrian ruler named Ashurbanipal made the city of ____________________________ his capital, and built a library

Nineveh

The Vedas called upon people to make ______________________

Offerings To Their Gods

__________________ were usually headed by a council of leaders who belonged to the aristocracy.

Oligarchies

_________________ first major change was to pay citizens for participating in jury service and in other civic duties.

Pericles

In time, the Assyrian Empire gave way to the powerful _____________________ Empire

Persian

Around 700 BCE, a new military formation called the _________________________ was introduced that was a formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit

Phalanx

The __________________ civilization began here, on a thin strip of land along the Mediterranean coast, in what is now Lebanon

Phonecian

By the time Homer's epics were composed, each Greek community had begun to organize itself into a ____________, or city state.

Polis

Citizens felt strong pride and loyalty toward their _________________

Polis

Throughout the history of ancient Greece, the ________________ played a key role in Greek life.

Polis

The Han government was organized like a ___________________

Pryamid

__________ was a mountainous kingdom located in northwestern China

Qin

________________________ is another method for determining the age of objects up to about 50,000 years old

Radioactive Dating

The lack of ______________ made it difficult to grow shallow rooted crops such as grains, which needed frequent watering

Rain

The government's third key component was the _____________________________

Court System

Minoan culture developed on _____________, an island south of mainland Greece.

Crete

By 3100 BCE, Sumerian priests had created a new writing system called ________________

Cuneiform

Combining a decimal system with a numeral for _____________ transformed mathematics.

0

In Athens, the lower city included the ______________, or marketplace.

Agroa

The __________________ people lived in the northwest of Sumer, but they were not related to Sumerians and spoke a different language and had different customs

Akadian

Toward the end of the second century BCE, the Han dynasty began to exchange ____________ with other Asian and African states

Ambassadors

After the destruction of Ur, one of the many groups that invaded Sumer was the __________________ who captured several Sumerian cities including one located on the Euphrates River, Babylon

Amorites

Evidence suggests that early people believed that the natural world was filled with spirits , a belief known as __________________________

Animism

_________________ meant "rule by the best people."

Aristocracy

____________________________ risked losing the support of their army if they did not consider the interests of these foot men/foot soldiers.

Aristocratic Leaders

In earlier times, the outcomes of battles depended on fights between individual ________________________

Aristocratic Warriors

__________________ was an important Indian astronomer and mathematician, who in 499 BCE wrote a mathematics book on arithmetic, algebra, and geometry

Aryabhata

The main political body of Athens was the _________________, which all free male citizens had the right to attend.

Assembly

Indian doctors made progress in medical science and developed it known as __________________

Ayurveda

The Sumerians were one of the first cultures to make ___________, which is made by mixing copper and tin

Bronze

Phoenician society developed from the earlier _____________________

Canaanites

The queen mothers of Kush are also known by their Roman names- ___________________

Candaces

One of the oldest known farming settlements in the world is a village called ________________________

Catalhoyuk

_________________ held special importance for them since the herds provided both food and clothing

Cattle

The following period, which lasted roughly from 1100 to 750, has been called a ______________

Dark Age

The Mediterranean climate was ideal for growing ______________________ such as olive trees and grape vines.

Deep-Rooted Plants

The Greeks called a government that was ruled by many a ________________, which means "rule by the people."

Democracy

These reforms created the world's first ___________________

Democracy

Fossils of a close relative of the Neanderthals, called the ____________________ have been found in Asia

Denisovans

Asoka replaced rule by force with rule based on ____________ or moral code

Dharma

________________________________ worked in Athens because the population of the city state was small and because of the commitment and hard work of its citizens.

Direct Democracy

An architect named ___________________ designed a new kind of tomb for his pharaoh, with six stone mounds, one on top of the other

Imhotep

Chandragupta armed his men with powerful weapons, including the ________________________

Indian Bow

If they failed, they became "_____________" who would never gain citizenship and would live as outcasts.

Inferiors

The Persian Empire formed to the east of Mesopotamia in what is now _________________

Iran

The _______________________ is a famous example of Gupta artisans skill in producing metal compounds of great quality

Iron Pillar of Delhi

________________ and the Spartans were trying to keep government in the hands of the aristocrats, a type of government of the Greeks called an ___________________

Isagoras , Oligarchy

_____________ represented love, caring, and protection

Isis

_________________ first developed as a religion more than 3,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent

Judaism

__________________ made up of citizens served in the courts, deciding cases by majority vote.

Juries

The war between Maurya and _______________ was long and terrible

Kalinga

The temple complex at _____________ contains the ruins of the world's largest temples, built with massive blocks of stone

Karnak

As a young man Chandragupta depended on the advice of an older, educated Brahmin named _______________

Kautilya

This rich dark soil that lined both banks along the river was so important to the Egyptians they called their country _________________ , which means "the Black Land"

Kemet

The Minoans had a writing system and built huge stone palaces with running water, like the one at ______________________

Knossos

As head of the house, the ________ had control over his family.

Man

After taking power, the Zhou leaders declared that their success proved that they had heaven's support. They called their right to rule the _______________

Mandate Of Heaven

In the west, the Persian army defeated Thrace, which was the first Persian victory in Europe, but later campaigns against Greece ended in Persia's defeat at the battle of __________

Marathon

In 1960, British archeologist _______________________________ discovered a piece of a human-like skull at Olduvai Gorge in East Africa

Mary Louis Leaky

After the collapse of the ____________ empire, India broke into many small kingdoms

Maurya

Modern Greece occupies a large peninsula that juts into the _____________________

Mediterranean Sea

In order to become full citizens, Spartan men had to gain entry to a _______________________

Men's Club of Soldiers

The Kusites moved their capital south to the city of ______________________, which was easier to defend. The Kushite turned their new capital into Africa's first ironworking center

Meroe

_______________________ is a wide flat plain in present-day Iraq that lies between two great rivers

Mesopotamia

______________________ was the god of the underworld, or the world of the dead

Osiris

Sparta was a city state on the __________________________ Peninsula.

Peloponesian

The largest peninsula, in southern Greece, is called the ______________________________

Peloponnesian Peninsula

A ___________________ is a land area surrounded by water on three sides.

Peninsula

Most democracies today are ____________________________________

Representative Democracies

In the southern part of present day China, farming began with the domestication of ______________

Rice

The oldest of the Vedas is the____________________ which includes about 10,000 hymns

Rig-Veda

___________________ helped China's development, just as they aided the development of civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India

Rivers

The Greeks became skillful _______________and _________________

Sailors and Merchants

___________________ is the language in which the ancient Indo-Assyrians composed religious hymns and poetry

Sanskrit

During the 2300s BCE, an Akkadian man named ____________ became king of Kish and united much of Mesopotamia under his rule, and created the first empire known as the Akkadian empire

Sargon

The _______________ allowed city states to trade their unique products with one another and the outside world.

Seas

________________ was one important advisor that belonged to the school of thought called Legalism

Shang Yang

One of the most lasting contributions of the Han dynasty was the establishment of the __________

Silk Road

Egyptians watched the bright star called ______________ which would appear above the horizon before sunrise about the same time of year as the Nile floods

Sirius

Archeologists have uncovered the remains of several Neolithic villages, such as ____________________ in Scotland

Skara Brae

Early farming communities remained _______________

Small

The area and population of a polis were generally ______________

Small

In the year 594 BCE, the aristocrats of Athens chose ____________ to lead the polis.

Solon

In _______________, women enjoyed more rights and freedoms than did women in other city states.

Sparta

In contrast to democratic Athens, _______________ felt like an army camp, its male citizens obligated to full-time military training.

Sparta

The adjective _________________ means "highly disciplined or lacking in comfort."

Spartan

Buddhists also sent missionaries to neighboring countries, such as ________________

Sri Lanka

Persia's rapid growth was partly due to its large and highly skilled _________

Standing Army

In this land between two rivers the worlds first civilization named ____________ began to farm

Sumer

The earliest civilization appeared in southwest Asia, in the city state of ______________________

Sumer

At first ___________________, or strong leaders, emerged to champion the interests of ordinary citizens.

Tyrants

The first city of Mesopotamia was ____________

Uruk

Greek cities were often at __________ with one another

War

The Mycenaean's made fine bronze ______________ and ________________

Weapons and Pottery