Final

Question 1

What philosopher taught about the 5 Constant Relationships

Answer 1

Confucious

Question 2

Who one the Battle of Actium and was the first emperor of Rome

Answer 2

Octavian

Question 3

What African king may have been the richest man in history

Answer 3

Mansa Musa

Question 4

What gladiator led a famous slave revolt in 73 BC

Answer 4

Spartacus

Question 5

Who was the main character in the oldest story ever writen

Answer 5

Gilgamesh

Question 6

Who defeted the famos General Hannibal

Answer 6

Skippo

Question 7

What emperor divided Rome into two parts to make it easier to rule

Answer 7

Constentine

Question 8

What are three reasons Rome was an ideal location for a city

Answer 8

7 Hills it was located on, it was inland, and it was next to a river

Question 9

What two rivers ran through Mesopotamia

Answer 9

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 10

The houes of Wisdom is in the City of Peace, what city is it refering to

Answer 10

Bagdad

Question 11

What Roman city was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

Answer 11

Pompeii

Question 12

What nation did Chandragupta Maurya help unite

Answer 12

India

Question 13

What city did muhammad flee from during his hijrah

Answer 13

Mecca

Question 14

What Hellenistic city had a famous lighthouse and a library and was the center of learning a culture during the Hellenistic Age

Answer 14

Alexandria

Question 15

In the lliad what two famous people faced off outside of troy

Answer 15

Archles and Hector

Question 16

What group invaded Egypt at the end of the middle kingdom

Answer 16

Hyksos

Question 17

What was the name of the series of the wars fought between Carthage and Rome

Answer 17

Punic Wars

Question 18

What battle did 300 Spartans held a Persian invasion for 3 days and inispered all of Greece to unite

Answer 18

Thermoplyae

Question 19

What was the name of the Naval battle where the Greeks destroyed a third of the Persian fleet

Answer 19

Salamis

Question 20

Who defeated the Persians at the Battle of Gaugamela despite being outnumbered 5 to 1

Answer 20

Alexander the Great 

Question 21

Describe the difference between high and low jihad

Answer 21

low jihad - Physical Violence
High jihad - Struggle within

Question 22

What did the Edict of Milan do

Answer 22

Made being Christian acceptalble

Question 23

Explain the difference between a democracy and an oligarchy

Answer 23

Democracy - ruled by the people
Oligarchy - ruled by the few

Question 24

What Roman emperor started the persecution of Christians, killed his own mother, and is known as the worst emperor in Rome

Answer 24

Nero

Question 25

How were kings in Africa different from kings in other regions of the world

Answer 25

They were closer to the people

Question 26

Who formed the first Triumvirate

Answer 26

Julius Ceaser, Pompey, and Crassus

Question 27

Why was the Dlian league formed

Answer 27

In case of another Persin attact

Question 28

What was the title for the successor of Muhammad as political and religious leader of the Muslim world

Answer 28

Caliph

Question 29

What does Hellenistic mean

Answer 29

To copy the greeks

Question 30

Who developed the value of pi

Answer 30

Archimedes

Question 31

The Five Pillars of Islam

Answer 31

1. God 2. Prayer 3. Charity 4. Fasting 5. Pilgramage

Question 32

What is Arete

Answer 32

To honnor one through a struggle

Question 33

7 Wonders of the ancient world

Answer 33

1. Pyrmids 2. Henging Gardens 3. Statue of Zeus 4. Light House of Alexandria 5. Collosus of Rhodes 6. Temple of Artemis 7. Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

Question 34

Difference between karma and dharma

Answer 34

- Karma, energy made by your actions - Dharma, divine law of the universe

Question 35

What were griots

Answer 35

African story tellers

Question 36

What does Suttee mean

Answer 36

wife jumps in husbands burrial fire

Question 37

What is a Ziggurat

Answer 37

Sumerian Temple

Question 38

What is a Raja

Answer 38

Princes of small kingdoms (India)

Question 39

What is a Patrician

Answer 39

Rich person in Rome

Question 40

What is a Phalanx

Answer 40

a fighting formation created by the Greeks

Question 41

What does Legalism mean

Answer 41

people are bad, harsh laws are created

Question 42

What is a Peterfamilias

Answer 42

The domimate male in a family

Question 43

What does AD stand for

Answer 43

Ano Domini

Question 44

What pharaoh tried to make Egypt monotheistic

Answer 44

Akenaton

Question 45

What calender system do we use

Answer 45

Gregorian Calender

Question 46

What Greek philosopher was forced to drink poison by the Athenian Government

Answer 46

Socrades

Question 47

Siddharha Gautama started what religion

Answer 47

Buddism

Question 48

What civilization developed a 22-letter alaphabet and built a trade empire in the Mediterranean

Answer 48

The Phoenicians

Question 49

Difference between primary and secondary source

Answer 49

-Primary; from the person -Secondary passed along

Question 50

Three reasons Rome fell

Answer 50

Political Instability, Revolts, Plagues/ sickness

Question 51

Who created the Persian Empire

Answer 51

Cryus the Great

Question 52

What was Pax Romana

Answer 52

The time/ era of Roman Peace