World History Worksheets Chapter 1-10
Which of the following was a factor in peasant uprisings in the late Han dynasty?
concentration of land in the hands of the wealthy
What allowed Romans to construct massive, though stale buildings?
concrete
Although the city of Rome was magnificent and wealthy,...
conditions for the poor were terrible
System of ideas based on the teachings of "Master Kung"
confucianism
The words "The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it." reflect the beliefs of which philosophy?
confucianism
Chief executive of the Roman Republic
consul
Second part of the Christian Bible
New Testament
The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant that humans...
could give up nomadic ways of life and begin to live in settled communities
Unlike other religions of the time, political leaders in Israel...
could not claim they alone knew the will of God, because the Jewish teachings were written down for anyone to read
Before the trade routes were established, Arabs were primarily
Nomads
French territories, including _____ and Maine, were reclaimed from the English by _____.
Normandy; Philip II Augustus
In 53 B.C., the First Triumvirate ended with the death of...
crassus
Settled in Kiev and began trade with Byzatines
Oleg
When humans first settled in farming villages, their _____ became more complex.
cultures
A Sumerian innovation used for recordkeeping
cuneiform
Sumerian writing system
cuneiform
The greatest development made by Sumerians was...
cuneiform
A type of trial
Ordeal
The _____ was a means of determining guilt in Germanic law.
Ordeal
Eastern Slavs converted to _____, and _____ helped them become literate.
Orthodox Christianity; Cyril
Protected the Pope and assumed the title that had belonged to Charlemagne
Otto I
Local Christian communities led by a priest were called...
Parishes
The representative government that emerged in thirteenth-century England was called _____.
Parliament
Head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Patriarch
Wealthy, powerful landowner
Patrician
Which of these was a result of the growth of trade and cities in the Middle Ages?
People acquiring rights and freedoms form local lords
Harassing to cause suffering
Persecution
Apostle who is considered to be the first pope
Peter
Created the first French parliament
Philip IV
Infectious disease
Plague
The Code of Hammurabi paints a portrait of society in which...
almost anything that can go wrong is addressed by one law or another
The pharaoh who later changed his name to Akhenaten
amenhotep IV
_____ tried to force the Egyptians to worship a single god, Aten.
amenhotep IV
In 1974 farmers digging a well about 35 miles east of Xian discovered...
an army of terra-cotta warriors
The term for a large political unit or state, usually under a single leader, controlling many peoples or territories is...
an empire
Public wells for supplying water to city residents, an advanced drainage system, and a system of garbage disposal in Indus Valley cities are indications of...
an organized government
The followers of Confucius recorded his sayings in the _____.
analects
Pre-Islamic belief in multiple gods
Polytheism
Which Roman official ordered the execution of Jesus?
Pontius Pilate
Successor to Peter
Pope
Which of the following may have contributed to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?
Population decline due to plague and lack of a workable political system
A Roman official in charge of a province
Procurator
The Hanseatic League was instrumental in...
Protecting trade and promoting the economy in Northern Europe
Holy scriptures of Islam
Quran
The lord-vassal relationship...
Required military service
A divine truth revealed to Muhammad
Revelation
Which of the following is a study of past societies through an analysis of what people have left behind...
archaeology
The upper class in Shang society whose wealth was land-based and who passed power from one generation to the next
aristocracy
During the Shang dynasty, the class of people that owned the land and waged war were the...
aristocrats
A main characteristic of civilizations is...
art
What was the basis for imperial law in the Eastern Roman Empire?
Roman law, as codified by Justinian
An object made by humans that sheds light on the past
artifact
A skilled worker
artisan
Deposed emperor of the Western Roman Empire
Romulus Augustulus
Famous Indian mathematician and one of the first scientists known to have used algebra
aryabhata
Indo-speaking nomadic peoples with a strong warrior tradition who at first settled in northern India but later controlled all of India
aryans
The group that gave up their nomadic lifestyle for farming in the process of settling in India
aryans
Self-denial as a method to achieve an understanding of ultimate reality
asceticism
The greatest ruler in Indian history
asoka
A person known for using terror as an instrument of warfare
assyrians
Ancient Indians excelled in the science of...
astronomy
What issues did the Byzantine Empire face in the eleventh century?
Schism with Islam and a declining silk industry
Writing room
Scriptorium
Rome's first emperor
augustus
Orthodox Christianity became the chief religion for the...
Serbs
Peasant legally bound to the land who had to provide labor services, pay rents, and be subject to the lord's control
Serfs
The code of law that regulated all aspects of Muslim life
Shari'ah
One of the three chief human-like gods in the Hindu religion
Shiva the Destroyer
Group that accepts only Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam
Sunni
The term _____ means "rule by four"`
Tetrarchy
During the Dark Ages, some Greeks settled...
in ionia, part of asia minor
Significant nomadic peoples who spoke a language derived from a single parent tongue were the...
indo-europeans
The cradle of Indian civilization, which enjoyed a moderate climate in ancient times
indus calley
What was a product of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus's attempted reforms?
instability and the assassination of Tiberius and Gaius
Often dangerous apartments for the poor
insulae
"Way"
dao
Harmony with nature and the universal order are beliefs of...
daoism
System of ideas based on Laozi's teachings
daoism
King who extended the Persian Empire to India
darius
Which leader of the Persian empire expanded it into the largest empire the world had yet seen?
darius
At the end of the Han dynasty in A.D. 221, the population of China had...
decreased by 40 million since A.D. 2
The Assyrians had the first large armies who carried weapons made of...
iron
Led to the invention of steel
iron casting
In Hinduism, the divine law that requires karma and requires all people to do their duty based on their status in society
dharma
The Appenine Mountains
did not prevent expansion of the city
The Eightfold Path includes the idea that we must...
do work that uplifts our being
A reliable source of meat, milk, and wool resulted from the _____ of animals.
domestication
While the Hyksos attacked the Egyptians from horse-drawn chariots, the Egyptian soldiers were limited to...
donkey carts
Religion provided the Egyptians with a sense of security, and Egyptian rulers were viewed as...
earthly forms of the sun god Re
A distinct group organized in tribes that established the religion of Judaism, which later influenced both Christianity and Islam
israelites
According to one story, a young Spartan warrior was told by his mother to return from the war...
either carrying his shield or being carried on it
A large political unit, usually with a single leader, that controls many territories
empire
Elected members of Spartan's oligarchy
ephors
The 'Odyssey', as a type of literature
epic poem
The Iliad and the Odyssey are examples of _____.
epic poems
Hammurabi is remembered for...
establishing a collection of laws for mesopotamian society
One of the subjects that Aristotle wrote about was _____, or the study of moral principles.
ethics
From which group did the Romans borrow their style of dress?
etruscans
Cyrus the Great showed such wisdom and compassion when he conquered Babylon that...
everyone excepted him as ruler
The ancient Greeks strove for a kind of _____ that they called arete.
excellence
The basic economic and social unit in ancient China was the...
family
Most of the people in the Mesoamerican city of Teotihacuacan were...
farmers
The force generated by a person's actions that determines how the person will be reborn is the next life
karma
The Legalists believed that a strong ruler was needed to...
keep order
The warrior class in Indian society
kshatriyas
Different cultures shaped this empire because a section of the Silk Road passed through it
kushan
After the collapse of the Mauryan Empire, the people who spread over northern India as far as the central Ganges Valley into modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia were the...
kushans
When the _____ were driven out of Egypt, they returned to their original lands to the south and built a successful trading empire.
kushites
The Vikings were made part of European civilization by...
The Frankish policy of settling them and converting them to Christianity
By the time the Umayyad dynasty was established, the Arab Empire had...
The Persian Empire
The arc of rich soil between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
fertile crescent
The duty of members of a family to subordinate their needs and desires to those of the male head of the family
filial piety
Group composed of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey
first triumvirate
They shared rule of Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey
first triumvirate
What led directly to Arabs populating more of the desert in the first millennium B.C.?
The domestication of the camel
Buddhists believe that it is possible to reach enlightenment by...
following the middle path, known as the eightfold path
What was the most important social institution in Germanic custom?
The family
Hieratic script, a simplified version of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, was used...
for business transactions, record keeping, and the general needs of daily life
Who was Belisarius?
The general who led Justinian's army and defeated the Ostrogoths in Italy.
Who was Siddhartha Guatama?
founder of buddhism
The Islamic religion was created as a direct result of...
The revelations received by Muhammad.
The revolt led by Hussein during the early Umayyad period led to...
The split of Islam into two separate groups
An important river in India, with a valley that was cultivated for rich farmland after the invention of the iron plow made it possible to clear the dense growth along its banks
ganges
Which emperor made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire?
Theodosius the Great
What happened to the Roman structure of government when the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths took over Roman territories in Italy and Spain?
They kept the Roman structure of government but excluded Romans from holding power.
In Hammurabi's code, punishments generally followed the principle of retaliation, or the idea that one must...
give an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Which describes one of Augustus's reforms?
governors were to be chosen by emperors
Men who tried to return land to small farmers
gracchus brothers
Which of the following was an action taken by Emperor Caracalla?
granting citizenship to all free people
What was the result of Alexander the Great's conquests?
greek language, art, architecture, and literature spread throughout southeast asia
Romans adopted many aspects of the _____ style of art.
greeks
Prosperous cities rose along the main trade routes throughout India during this empire
gupta
The golden age of Indian culture occurred under the...
gupta empire
The Qin and Han dynasties both...
had strong central governments
How did monks and nuns help to spread Christianity throughout Europe?
Through missionary activities
Papermaking was invented during this dynasty
han
Added the territory south of the Chang Jiang to the empire
han wudi
Which of following was an expectation of knights under the chivalric code?
To treat prisoners with respect and dignity
Contest where knights could show their fighting skills
Tournaments
Arab expansion in Western Europe was halted when Arab armies were defeated at the Battle of _____.
Tours.
Expanded the Chinese Empire into what is now Vietnam
han wudi
Carthaginian general
hannibal
When General Mu'awiyah made the position of caliph hereditary, he established the _____.
Umayyad
At the heart of feudalism was...
Vassalage, which meant warriors swore loyalty to a lord, who in turn took care of their needs.
Which of these would directly serve both lords and kings?
Vassals
According to the philosophy of Epicurus,...
happiness is the goal of life and can be achieved through the pursuit of pleasure
Religion and political power were closely linked in early Indian civilization, as is indicated by the combination of the royal palace and the holy temple in the citadel, or fortress, at...
harappa
Carefully planned ancient cities of the Indus River valley that flourished for hundreds of years
harrapa and mohenjo-daro
Why, according to legend, did Archimedes run through town shouting "Eureka!"
he had experienced a breakthrough in his studies of specific gravity while he was taking a bath
How did Qin Shihuangdi eliminate rivals and gain an important tax base?
he seized the estates of wealthy landowners and gave the lands to the peasants; he then taxed the peasants
Germanic warriors from Scandinavia
Vikings
Native peoples in Russia and Ukraine were conquered by...
Vikings, then Mongols
Rome was invaded by the _____ in 410 and by the _____ in 455.
Visigoths, Vandals
Imitating the Greeks
hellenistic
The custom of requiring women to cover virtually all parts of their bodies in public...
Was an Arab practice.
Through the achievements of Muslim scholars, Europeans...
Were able to obtain products from Spain
In Germanic law, the fine paid by a wrongdoer to his or her victim's family was called _____.
Wergild
The conquests of Alexander the Great gave rise to the...
hellenistic era, during which the greek ideas spread to the non-greek world
Site of the Hanging Gardens
babylon
Wrote biographies that combined political and social history
ban gu
People captured by the Spartans and forced to work as serfs
helots
Reincarnation is the Hindu...
belief that the individual soul is reborn in a different form
Longest poem in any written language
'mahabharata'
A person's caste was difficult to escape because it was based on...
beliefs about religious purity
A Sumerian innovation used to create finely crafted metalwork
bronze
The Neolithic Revolution was followed by the...
bronze age
The "Enlightened One"
buddha
Religion that claims all people can achieve nirvana
buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of...
buddhism
Which of the following was an impact of geography on Mesopotamian culture?
buildings made of mud bricks
Won the Battle of Hastings
William of Normandy
The relationships between parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings, friends, and rulers and their subjects are the _____ Relationships.
5 constant
Administrative organization with officials and regular procedures that helped run the government
bureaucracy
After Muhammad's death, Muslim scholars drew up the shari'ah, which is...
A code that provides believers with practical laws to regulate their daily lives
How were government officials chosen in the Han dynasty?
by a competitive examination
Important Greek colony city on the Bosporus strait
byzantium
In the third century, plague outbreaks led to...
A labor shortage
The most important gift a lord could give to a vassal was...
A piece of land
One of Five Pillars of Islam, the hajj, is...
A pilgrimage to Makkah
In 680, what event led Islam to split into two conflicting groups?
A revolt in Iraq led by the son of Muhammad's son-in-law
For early Arabs, Allah was symbolized by...
A sacred stone
Complex system of writing, meaning "sacred writings," that is made up of pictures and more abstract forms
hieroglyphics
The word 'spartan' has come to mean...
highly self-disciplined
The geographic feature that isolated China from India
himalaya
During the Abbasid dynasty, the council that advised the caliph was led by a prime minister known as...
A vizier
The Umayyad dynasty was replaced by...
Abbasid rulers
The highest mountains in the world, found in the far north of India
himalaya
Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the situation in the western half of the Roman Empire in the mid-fifth century?
After a series of invasions by Visigoths and Vandals, it was becoming a collection of smaller Germanic kingdoms
Followers of this religion believe in a single, universal force called Brahman
hinduism
One of four great cities with powerful bishops
Alexandria
The god of Islam
Allah
Religion that reverers the cow as sacred and whose goal is to achieve ultimate reality with a single universe force
hinduism
In 31 B.C., Octavian defeated the army and navy of...
Antony and Cleopatra
The god associated with the most famous oracle in ancient Greece was _____.
Apollo
A crucial part of every Muslim city or town was the _____, which was a covered market.
Bazzaar
Early converts to Islam who lived in the desert
Bedouins
The _____ were a group of Jews who called for the violent overthrow of Roman rule.
Zealots
Monk who established the basic form of monastic life in the west
Benedict
The _____ were a pastoral people in North Africa who were conquered and converted to Islam by the Arabs.
Berbers
Which of the following is another title for the pope?
Bishop of Rome
The middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people
Bourgeoisie
Eastern Slavic people were converted to Christianity by...
Byzatine missionaries
Secular and spiritual leader of an Islamic community
Caliph
Charlemagne created the _____ Empire.
Carolingian
A heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare
Carruca
Why was feudalism developed?
Centralized power was lost in the face of invasion
Code of ethics guiding nobility
Chivalry
Which of the following was a code of ethics knights were to uphold?
Chivalry
How far had Christianity spread one hundred years after the death of Jesus?
Christian churches had been established in most of the major cities of the eastern part of the Roman Empire, mainly attracting members from the Jewish and Greek-speaking populations.
What did the Edict of Milan proclaim?
Christianity would be officially tolerated
Why did the Romans persecute Christians during the reign of Nero?
Christians refused to worship the state gods and emperors
"Anointed One"
Christos
Church leaders
Clergy
A uniform system of law that developed in England
Common law
First Christian emperor
Constantine
Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire
Constantinople
The city of _____ was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and a "New Rome."
Constantinople
In return for protecting the pope, Otto I was...
Crowned Roman Emperor
Converted the Eastern Slavs to Orthodox Christianity
Cyril
First census in Europe since Roman times
Domesday Book
Descendants of the Indus Valley people
Dravidians
Devout Muslims are prohibited from...
Drinking wine
What caused Clovis to convert to Christianity?
During battle, he made a promise that if he won the battle, he would convert.
The Battle of Hastings determined the language and ruling class of _____ in the High Middle Ages.
Engalnd
A social or political class
Estate
In the kingdoms of the Ostrogoths and Visigoths, Romans were _____ power.
Excluded from
Since Muhammad had named no successor before he died, his followers chose Abu Bakr, Muhammed's adviser and _____, to be their religious and political leader.
Father-in-law
Relationship between lords and vassals
Feudalism
Grant of land to a vassal
Fief
The grant of land made to a vassal
Fief
The acts of worship practiced by Muslims
Five Pillars of Islam
Clovis established the kingdom of the _____.
Franks
Arab trade routes extended...
From Morocco to beyond the Caspian Sea
According to Islamic teaching, Muhammad received massages from...
Gabriel
By the fifth century, the western part of the Roman Empire was controlled mainly by...
Germans
The official language of the Eastern Roman Empire was _____ and the official religion was _____.
Greek/Christianity
Pope who extended papal power over the Christian church in the west
Gregory I
As the Arab Empire grew, people who were not Muslim or did not convert to Islam in the conquered territories...
Had to pay special taxes
What is most unusual about the pharaoh Hatsheput?
Hatsheput was a women
What change did Diocletian make to the governmental structure of the Roman Empire?
He divided the empire into four units, called prefectures
Which of the following statements best describes how Clovis laid the groundwork for the Carolingian Empire?
He established the Frankish kingdom and converted to Christianity
How did Gregory the Great strengthen the papacy?
He took control of Rome and surrounding territories, which gave the papacy a source of political power
Muhammad began to meditate in the hills because...
He was troubled by the gap between the generosity of most people and the greed of the wealthy elite
What did Charlemagne do that merged Roman, Christian, and German elements in his kingdom?
He, a German king, was crowned emperor of the Romans by the pope.
The journey of Muhammad and his followers to Medina
Hihrah
Journey of Muhammad and his followers to Madinah
Hijrah
Who were the first hominids to learn to make fires deliberately?
homo sapiens
Heavily armed foot soldiers
hoplites
The poet who wrote the Iliad was named _____.
Homer
Having been conquered by the Hyksos was not all bad for the Egyptians because the Hyksos taught the Egyptians...
how to make bronze weapons and showed them the advantages of horse-drawn was chariots
Daoism sets forth proper forms of _____.
human behavior
Anthropology is the study of...
human life and culture
Duty and _____ are two elements of the Confucian view of the Dao.
humanity
Scientist who wrote a medical encyclopedia stressing the contagious nature of disease
Ibn Sina
Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer are the three chief...
humanlike gods in hinduism
A common belief shared by Hindus and Buddhists is that...
humans can merge with a single universal force
The prophet Zoroaster taught that...
humans had free choice
The pharaoh Ahmose I was able to drive the _____ out of Egypt around 1550 B.C. and establish the New Kingdom.
hyksos
Characters in Chinese in which picture or character symbols are combined to represent ideas--for example, showing the sun rising behind the trees to represent "east"
ideographs
Commander in chief
imperator
Diocletian tried to set wage and price controls for the empire in order to fight _____.
Inflation
In order to encourage trade between Flanders and Italy, the counts of Champagne...
Initiated a series of trade fairs in the chief towns of the territory
Which of the following names two problems facing western Europe after the death of Charlemagne?
Invasions from northern peoples and internal division
Which of the following statements about 'The Body of Civil Law' is true?
It was a codification of Roman law, written in Latin
Constantine established a "New Rome" at the site of the Greek city of Byzantium because...
It was a strategic location for protecting the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire
"Struggle in the way of god"
Jihad
Dictator who rose to power in 47 B.C.
Julius Caesar
Who was appointed dictator after defeating Pompey?
Julius Caesar
Settled by Oleg the Viking in the tenth century
Kievan Rus
India's golden age of culture flourished under this monarch
candra gupta II
A city that appeared around 2500 B.C. in the Supe River valley of Peru, in which stone buildings were used for official business, as apartment buildings, and as grand residences, was...
caral
The oldest major city in the Americas which appeared around 2500 B.C.
caral
Armed cavalry
Knights
Determined the type of job people could have, whom they could marry, and what groups they could socialize with
caste system
Portuguese name was given to a rigid social structure in Indian society that said every individual is born into a social group defined by occupation and family lineage
caste system
Regular church members
Laity
A Neolithic farming village
catalhuyuk
Checked on government officials to make sure they were doing their jobs
censorate
Site of an early battle between the Greeks and the Macedonians
chaeronea
The change that led to all other changes in the Neolithic Revolution was the...
change in the method of obtaining food
Nun who founded the first convent in Germany
Leoba
Which of these may have enabled people to move back into cities?
Less dependence on agriculture for survival
Harrappan rulers based their power on...
a belief in divine assistance
A distinct feature of the Kushan Empire was the development of...
a calendar
Which of the following is the most complete definition of a civilization?
a complex culture in which a large number of humans share elements in common
The Minoans established...
a far-ranging sea-empire based on trade
What was the effect of the technical advancements in the Han dynasty?
a general increase in economic prosperity
According to legend, how did the people in Athens find out what had happened at the battle of Marathon?
a man named Pheidipiddes ran all the way from the battlefield to Athens
A South American civilization that built an impressive solar observatory made up of thirteen stone towers on a hillside north of Lima, Peru
chavin
Sulla's seizure of Rome in 82 B.C. was partly the legacy of...
a new military recruitment system
Egyptian society, with the god-king at the top, was organized like...
a pyramid
Prosperity in the Early Empire led to much trade, including trade with _____, which provided the empire with silk goods.
china
Caesar Augustus changed the way the provinces were ruled by...
choosing the leaders of those provinces
Administrative offices of a government which are awarded based on a competitive exam
civil service
After losing the battle of Thermopylae to the Persians, the Athenians...
abandoned their city
What advantage did Rome's location on the Tiber River provide?
access to the sea
Fortified are on a hilltop
acropolis
The _____ dynasty ruled the Byzantine Empire in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Macedonian
Early caliphs ruled their empire from the city of _____.
Madinah
Gave written recognition to the mutual rights and obligations between kings and vassals
Magna Carta
Great Charter that codified rights of kings and vassals
Magna Carta
Hungarians
Magyars
Agricultural estate that a lord ran and peasants worked
Manor
A period of civil war followed the death of _____, the last of the five good emperors, in A.D. 180.
Marcus Aurelius
Two major groups that settled within Greece itself were the...
aeolians and dorians
Where do scientists believe that Homo Sapiens Sapiens first appeared between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago?
africa
Height of Athenian power and brilliance
age of pericles
The distinctive tower of a mosque
Minaret
Messengers of the lord king
Missi dominici
People sent out to carry a religious message in hopes of converting them are called...
Missionaries
Conquered Russia in the thirteenth century
Mongols
Which of the following statements about monasticism is true?
Monks provided schools for the young and hospitals for the sick
The reforms of Cleisthenes...
laid the foundations of democracy
'Pax Romana', a long period of peace, ushered in...
large-scale building programs
Proposed that human beings were evil by nature
legalism
The first Han emperor discarded...
legalism and adopted confucianism
The founder of the Han dynasty was...
liu pang, a man of peasant origin
According to Plato, a good life can only be achieved if a person...
lives in a just and rational state
The Phoenicians produced a number of goods for foreign markets, including purple dye, glass, and...
lumber
Home of Alexander the Great
macedonia
Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander the Great's death?
macedonia, syria, pergamum, and egypt
The key to China's social system
male supremacy
Roman general who created a new recruitment system
marius
A writer of comedies during the Hellenistic era
menander
A city in Kush
meroe
The inhabitants of what are now Mexico and Central America were...
mesoamericans
Eight steps that Buddhists follow on the path to enlightment
middle path
A civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean that built structures similar to the labyrinth of King Minos was the...
minoan civilization
A rich civilization that built an enormous palace at Knossos on the island of...
minoans
A king or queen
monarch
The center of the Zapotec civilization
mone alban
In the northern frontier regions of ancient China, conflicts arose between the Chinese and the...
mongolians
About 80 percent of the geography of Greece is _____.
mountains
On their northern and western frontiers, the Chinese people were isolated from people in other parts of Asia by...
mountains and deserts
Greek history was influenced by Greece's...
mountains and seacoast
Way is which dead bodies of wealthy Egyptians were preserved from the time of the Old Kingdom
mummification
The first Greek civilization
mycenae
The empire that Sargon established was continued by his grandson _____ but fell less that 100 years after his grandson's death.
naram-sin
The Chaldean king who restored Babylon to glory
nebuchadnezzar II
The king of the Chaldeans who rebuilt Babylon was...
nebuchadnezzar II
The ancient Greeks considered religion...
necessary to the well-being of the state
The use of metal tools marked the end of the Neolithic Age and a...
new level of human control over the environment and its recources
The longest river in the world, the annual flooding of which left a rich deposit of mud that enriched the soil and allowed Egyptian farmers to grow a surplus of food
nile
Site of one of the world's first libraries
nineveh
Ultimate reality, or the end of the self and a reunion with the Great World Soul
nirvana
The best way to describe Paleolithic peoples and their way of life is by calling them...
nomads
The name of Kush while it was still a part of the Egyptian Empire
nubia
Teotihuacan was a busy trade center known for objects made of...
obsidian
After the Second Triumvirate, with whom did Antony war for control of Rome?
octavian
The period during which the Great Pyramid of King Khufu at Giza was constructed, showing the power of the Egyptian pharaohs
old kingdom
Egyptian history is divided into 3 major periods, known as the...
old, middle, and new kingdoms
Site of the discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old hominid
olduvai gorge
A Mesoamerican civilization that pre-dated the Maya
olmec
Another name for the "rubber people" who grew rubber trees along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico south of Veracruz was the...
olmec
The Maya adapted a ceremonial ball game played on a stone court, worship of a jaguar-like god, a calendar, and a numeric system from the...
olmec
The oldest known Mesoamerican civilization, which appeared around 1200 B.C.
olmec
The major gods and goddesses of the Greeks were believed to live on _____.
olympus
Sacred shrine where priests reveled the future
oracle
Athenian vote of banishment
ostracism
At its height, Alexander's empire extended as far east as...
pakistan
Was not made in Europe until the twelfth century
paper
Famous temple of Athena
parthenon
The most famous building on the Acropolis in Athens is the _____.
parthenon
Which of the following territories were added to the empire during the Han dynasty?
parts of central asia
Migration groups who domesticated animals for food, shelter, and clothing and who also helped spread language, goods, and technology
pastoral nomads
Dominant male head of family
paterfamilias
The heart of Roman society was the family, which was headed by the _____.
paterfamilias
Great landowners, ruling class
patrician
The Roman Senate was a select group of...
patricians
Beginning in the second century and lasting for nearly 200 years, the _____ represented a period of stability and many public works projects.
pax romana
One way that Buddhism differed from Hinduism was Buddhists believed that...
people should be responsible for their own lives
Why did the Athenians stay within their walled city during the Peloponnesian Wars?
pericles know they were not strong enough to defeat the spartan army, but he thought the walls could keep them out
The 'Pax Romana' was a...
period of peace and prosperity
The empire ruled by Cyrus the Great
persia
Around 900 B.C., the Chavin people built a temple surrounded by two pyramids and stone figures depicting different gods in the coastal regions of what is now...
peru and ecuador
Title of Egyptian monarch who possessed absolute power
pharaoh
King who conquered the Greeks
philip II
During the eighth century B.C., the Greeks adopted a new system of writing based on the _____.
phoenician
Traders who lived in a narrow strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean coast and devised an alphabet with 22 different characters representing sounds
phoenicians
Characters or picture symbols in the Chinese language that represent an object, like a mountain of the Sun
pictographs
Socrates' most famous student was named _____.
plato
Group of craftsman, merchants, and small farmers
plebian
Greek city, town, or village and surroundings
polis
Official in charge of enforcing civil law
praetor
Period before writing was developed
prehistory
Religious teachers whose words became a source of ideals for social justice as they condemned the rich for causing the poor to suffer
prophets
Part of a large complex of buildings dedicated to the dead
pyramids
Used the principles of Legalism to govern
qin
Built "The Wall of Ten Thousand Li"
qin shihuangdi
Herodotus wrote what is considered to be the first...
real history in western civilization
The Athenian dramatist Euripides wrote...
realistic tragedies that portrayed was as barbaric
Marius changed Rome's military recruitment system by...
recruiting the landless poor
Belief that the soul is reborn after death
reincarnation
Gupta rulers earned large profits from...
religious trade
While the emperors created a sense of unity throughout the empire, they also...
respected many local customs
The first civilizations developed in _____.
river valleys
Which best describes a key feature of Rome's official state religion?
romans worshipped gods and goddesses
After the Egyptian Empire fell, it became a part of the empire of _____.
rome
Persian route from Lydia to Susa
royal road
Julius Caesar sparked a civil war that led to his dictatorship by crossing the...
rubicon
Helped enable Chinese trade in Southeast Asia and India
rudder
The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that it was...
ruled by a small number of people
The tyrants of ancient Greece were...
rulers who seized power by force
Indo-European written language that developed in the Indus Valley around 1000 B.C.
sanskirt
Around 2340 B.C., the Sumerian city-states were conquered by the Akkadians under their leader...
sargon
The leader who established the world's first empire
sargon
The ruler of a province in the Persian empire
satrap
The "ten lost tribes" were
scattered israelite tribes
Invaders who attacked the Egyptian Empire during its final days of power
sea peoples
During his reign, Asoka...
set up hospitals for people and animals
The second Chinese dynasty, which was mostly a farming society but was also concerned with warfare
shang
The Chinese had developed a simple script with a form that was mainly pictographic and ideographic by the time of the...
shang dynasty
Cyrus was called "the Great" because he...
showed wisdom and compassion
Who believed that the physical surroundings of humans--the material world--were simply illusions?
siddhartha guatama
Rich soil deposited by rivers during a flood
silt
Who said that "the unexamined life is not worth living"?
socrates
Athenian reformer who came to power in 594 B.C.
solon
Which Greek playwright wrote 'Oedipus Rex'?
sophocles
The conflict between the plebeians and the patricians was known as the...
struggle of the orders
Type of religious structure originally meant to house relics of the Buddha
stupa
Abu Bakr unified the Muslim world by...
suppressing political and religious uprisings.
The Neolithic Revolution was the shift from hunting and gathering to _____ in various parts of the world.
systematic agriculture
The most important physical structure in a Sumerian city-state was the...
temple
First major city in Mesoamerica, located about 30 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City
teotihuacan
In 636, the Arab army took advantage of a dust storm army ot defeat...
the Byzatine army
The first empire in world history was...
the akkadian empire
Rich soil to grow wheat, parley, and peas in the Indus Valley resulted from...
the annual flooding of the Indus River
The priestly class of Ancient Indian society were...
the brahmins
An important concept that became a crucial part of Chinese history was...
the confucian belief that the government should be open to all men of superior talent
The invention that led to major expansion of trade in the Han period was...
the development of fore-and-aft rigging and rudders on ships
According to Confucius, what was the "foundation, whence all other virtues spring"?
the duty of children to revere their parents
The astronomer Eratosthenes determined that...
the earth was round, and calculated its circumference, coming within 185 miles (298 kilometers) of the actual figure
Confucius believed that people should be governed by...
the five constant relationships
Siddhartha Gautama's message about suffering and desire
the four noble truths
The system of walls linked by Qin Shihuangdi became...
the great wall of china
The Kushans adapted...
the greek alphabet
Which empire traded with China, Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean?
the gupta empire
Age that began with Alexander the Great's conquest
the hellenistic era
One of the technological advances of the Han dynasty was...
the invention of water mills for grinding grain
A basic principle of Chinese government, which allows a revolution to overthrow and replace a corrupt ruler, is called...
the mandate of heaven
Another way that Buddhism differed from Hinduism was that Buddhists rejected...
the many hindu gods
Which statement is most accurate?
the melting of snows in the upland mountains was the main factors that led to civilization in Mesopotamia
Why did so many different communities with independent ways of life develop in ancient Greece?
the mountains in the territory isolated people from one another and prevented different communities from coming together
The Egyptians developed an accurate 365-day calendar by basing their year on...
the movements of the moon and the star Sirius
The development of Egyptian civilization was influenced most powerfully by...
the nile river
During the New Kingdom, the Egyptian Empire reached its peak. What was one way it showed its power?
the pharaohs constructed huge, magnificent temples and statues in their own honor
A literary work about the fictional ruler Rama
the ramayana
Scholars continue to debate whether Homer's account of _____ is based on historical fact.
the sacking of troy by mycenaeans under the leadership of king agamemnon
Although the pharaoh Ramses II tried to maintain the Egyptian Empire's strength, he failed because he was unable to hold out against...
the sea peoples
Which of the following did the Sumerians invent?
the sundial
One example of the Assyrians' efficiency and effectiveness as administrators was...
the system of carrying messages quickly, which involved a network of staging posts and relays of horses
Because trade brought new civilizations into contact with one another...
the transfer of new technology often occurred
The lowest level of Ancient Indian society who were given tasks seen as menial and degrading, such as such as collecting trash and handling dead bodies, were the...
the untouchables
The teachings of Homer promoted...
the values of courage, honor, and excellence
A government by divine authority
theocracy
How was the central bureaucracy of the Qin dynasty organized?
there were 3 divisions: civil, military, and censorate
Why did the Egyptians resist Akhenaten's religious reforms?
they accepted many gods, and did not like the idea of rejecting or destroying them to worship only one god
Which of the following statements about Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism is true?
they are primarily concerned with the material world and social stability
Why did the Legalists advocate harsh laws and stiff punishments for keeping public order?
they believed people we not capable of being good
Why did the Legalists advocate harsh laws and stiff punishments?
they believed people we not capable of being good.
Why did large numbers of Greeks establish colonies in distant lands between 750 B.C. and 550 B.C.?
they were seeking a home that was less overpopulated and where they would find fertile farmland
Who attempted to redistribute land to the poor with disastrous results?
tiberius and gaius gracchus
_____ brought new civilizations in contact with one another.
trade
The boy pharaoh who restored worship of the old gods in the New Kingdom was named_____.
tutankhamea/king tut
Large city-state in Mesopotamia
uruk
The Hitties were the first Indo-Europeans to...
use iron weapons
The Greek sculptor Polyclitus believed that...
using proportions and mathematical ratios, the idea human form could be produced
The Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras were four divisions of ancient Indian society know as...
varnas
The name given by Aryans in ancient India to a social structure that divided Indian society into four groups
varnas
Early Indian writings that reveal that India was a world of many small kingdoms between 1500 B.C. and 400 B.C. are called the...
vedas
Author of the Aeneid
virgil
The greatest poet of the Augustus age was _____, author of the Aeneid.
virgil
In Athens, during the Age of Pericles, every male citizen...
was eligible to vote on major issues
Which of the following contributed to the efficient system of communication that was crucial to sustaining the Persian Empire?
well-maintained roads and way stations to provide food, shelter, and fresh horses for traveling officials
Darius's elite cavalry and infantry forces were known as the Immortals because...
whenever a soldier was killed, he was immediately replaced
A method of training developed by the Hindus that is supproted to lead to oneness with Brahman
yoga
A Mesoamerican civilization whose center at Monte Alban contained temples and pyramids atop a 1,200-foot-high mountain
zapotec
In which ancient Mesoamerican civilization did about 20,000 people live in terraces cut into the sides of a mountain?
zapotec
Founder of Stoicism
zeno
The longest--lasting Chinese dynasty, which ruled for almost 800 years and claimed it possessed the Mandate of Heaven to rule
zhou
Confucius believed that the early _____ was a golden age, when "the world was shared by all alike."
zhou dynasty
It was believed that the king was the link between Heaven and Earth during the...
zhou dynasty
A massive stepped tower
ziggurat
A religious and political power center of the city-state
ziggurat
Persian religion
zoroastrianism
