Exam

Question 1

When was Rome created?

Answer 1

753 BCE

Question 2

Egypt geography

Answer 2

Nike river
Med sea
Desert
Cataracts
Good soil

Question 3

Greece geography

Answer 3

Aegean Sea
Islands
Hills, cliffs
Few connective rivers
Poor soil

Question 4

Rome geography

Answer 4

Good soil
Abundant in supplies
Alps
7 hills
Tiber river
Middle of the med sea
Lots of coastline

Question 5

What were the three reasons the Roman Republic came to and end

Answer 5

1. Gap between rich and poor
2. 3.

Question 6

Constantine

Answer 6

Edict of Milan - first legal code to allow free religion

First Roman emperor to allow Christianity

Question 7

Persian Wars

Answer 7

Greek were settling in Asia Minor
Darius conquers
Ionians Appel to Athenians and revolt
Darius crushes and remembers

Question 8

Marathon

Answer 8

1st battle of the Persian Wars

Athenians win with less members

Question 9

Hammurabi

Answer 9

The Hammurabi code
Babylon
First written legal code

Question 10

Clovis I

Answer 10

Middle Ages
United Frankish tribes and expanded
Wrote Salic Law

Question 11

Djosser

Answer 11

Egyptian pharaoh

Commissioned the first pyramid

Question 12

Amenhatep (Akhenaten)

Answer 12

Egyptian Pharaoh
Crazy, son of Tut
Moved Capital, changed religion

Question 13

Ramses II

Answer 13

Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He often is regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire.
Built a lot and fought

Question 14

Imhotep

Answer 14

Imhotep was an Egyptian polymath who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis.
He was one of only a few commoners ever to be accorded divine status after death.

Question 15

Hadrian

Answer 15

Roman Emperor

built a wall to stop Rome from expanding

Question 16

Caesar

Answer 16

Part of the first turmuvriate

Became Romes first dictator (emperor)

Question 17

Augustus

Answer 17

Augustus was the founder of the Roman Principate and considered the first Roman emperor, controlling the Roman Empire

Question 18

Trajan

Answer 18

Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest military expansion in Roman history, leading the empire to attain its maximum territorial extent by the time of his death. He is also known for his philanthropic rule, overseeing extensive public building programs and implementing social welfare policies, which earned him his enduring reputation as the second of the Five Good Emperors who presided over an era of peace and prosperity in the Mediterranean world.
First non-Italian emperor

Question 19

Vespasian

Answer 19

First non-julio-claudio Emperor
After Nero
Built the Colosseum

Question 20

Solon

Answer 20

First of Greek reforms

closer to democracy

Question 21

Alexander the Great

Answer 21

Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon
He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the age of thirty, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history’s most successful military commanders.

Question 22

Pericles

Answer 22

The reason why culture exists in Greece
General of Athens during Golden Age
Peloponesian war- built the long wall

Question 23

Cleisthenes

Answer 23

He is credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.For these accomplishments, historians refer to him as “the father of Athenian democracy.”

Question 24

Joan of Arc

Answer 24

Religious saints instructed her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years’ War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent Joan to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted only nine days later. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII’s coronation at Reims. This long-awaited event boosted French morale and paved the way for the final French victory.

Question 25

William the Conquer

Answer 25

Duke of Normandy

Took British throne

Question 26

Charles the Hammer Martel

Answer 26

was a Frankish statesman and military leader who as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was de facto ruler of Francia
Charles successfully asserted his claims to power as successor to his father as the power behind the throne in Frankish politics. Continuing and building on his father’s work, he restored centralized government in Francia and began the series of military campaigns that re-established the Franks as the undisputed masters of all Gaul.

Question 27

Johannes Guttenberg

Answer 27

Inventor of the paper publisher

Question 28

Charlemagne

Answer 28

was the King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774 and Emperor of the Romans from 800.
He united much of Europe during the early Middle Ages. He was the first recognised emperor in western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded was called the Carolingian Empire.

Question 29

Egypt river

Answer 29

Nile

Question 30

Mesopotamia river

Answer 30

Tigris & Euphrates

Question 31

Rome river

Answer 31

Tiber