Jackson - 7th World Studies Test 1

Question 1

What is the inquiry into what happened in the past and why it happened?

Answer 1

History

Question 2

What is the study of the record of the past acts of God and man on earth from Creation to the present based on the best surviving evidence?

Answer 2

History

Question 3

What is all about trying to understand what happened in the past through the study of writings, artifacts, and other records?

Answer 3

History

Question 4

Discovering the good and bad of past civilizations and the way we understand it through God is called what?

Answer 4

Biblical worldview - people are created in God’s image so therefore they produce some good things but sin has damaged the image of God in human beings so there is also bad things in every culture.

Question 5

God wants us to remember the past why?

Answer 5

When we forget what God has done we forget who we are and lose our way by following new trends that do not fit with their values.

Question 6

What is the biblical view of history?

Answer 6

History unfolds according to God’s plan and has a beginning and an end

Question 7

The Sahara is the most important geographic feature in?

Answer 7

Africa

Question 8

What is the belt called between the two regions of Africa, North Africa and sub-saharan Africa called?

Answer 8

Sahel (200 miles wide and crosses the entire continent)

Question 9

A history textbook is a what type of source?

Answer 9

secondary

Question 10

Who was famous for his immense wealth and devotion to Islam?

Answer 10

Mansa Musa - King of Mali

Question 11

God revealed to Daniel the meaning of who’s dream?

Answer 11

Nebuchadnezzar’s

Question 12

What are objects made by people that may be small relics of towering monuments?

Answer 12

Artifacts
(pottery, tools, weapons, furniture, jewely, etc)

Question 13

What was considered a period of peace and prosperity in Rome with the reign of Augustus ?

Answer 13

Pax Romana

Question 14

In 334 BC who invaded and defeated the Persian Empire?

Answer 14

Alexandar the Great

Question 15

The Olmecs and Mayas were civilizations in?

Answer 15

Mesoamerica

Question 16

What was founded by twin brothers Romulus and Remus in 753 BC?

Answer 16

Rome

Question 17

Shintoism is a religion in?

Answer 17

Japan

Question 18

The Hyksos ruled during what kingdom in Egypt?

Answer 18

New Kingdom

Question 19

God used which Persian emperor to free the Israelites so they could rebuild the temple?

Answer 19

Cyrus

Question 20

Roman religion Followers of what lived for pleasure alone

Answer 20

Epicureanism

Question 21

Chinese call themselves “sons of…..”?

Answer 21

Han

Question 22

What was the predominate religion in ancient Africa?

Answer 22

Animism

Question 23

To be treated rightly?

Answer 23

Justice

Question 24

When people have certain rights and responsibilities in a civilization?

Answer 24

citizenship

Question 25

What enables leaders to provide order for the people of a civilization to grow and thrive?

Answer 25

Power

Question 26

The human response to God and His revelation

Answer 26

religion

Question 27

Placement of every civilization in a particular geographical location

Answer 27

environment

Question 28

What is a form of nature worship that teaches every object or creature in nature has a spirit that should be worshipped as a god?

Answer 28

Shintosim

Question 29

Japan

Answer 29

An archipelago, a group of islands Four main islands Islands are mountainous It was isolated from the rest of the world by the Sea of Japan and North Pacific Ocean

Question 30

What are the eras of Japan?

Answer 30

Heian Yamato Fedual

Question 31

What are the 5 key themes of history?

Answer 31

Justice Power Citizenship Environment Religion

Question 32

What are the first hand written accounts of the people involved and the eyewitnesses in relation to history?

Answer 32

Primary Sources (diaries, journals, letters, books, artifacts, etc)

Question 33

What are records that explain or interpret primary sources?

Answer 33

Secondary sources (wikipedia article, biography, history book, etc)

Question 34

What is called relating to the world, not specifically religious?

Answer 34

Secular

Question 35

A thing assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action?

Answer 35

presupposition

Question 36

What religion was used by Egyptians?

Answer 36

polytheistic

Question 37

Egypts class structure was in the shape of a what?

Answer 37

pyramid Top - pharaoh 2nd - highest ranking officials 3rd - priests, soldiers, scribes bottom - farmers, merchants, slaves, servants

Question 38

Which kingdom of Egypt did the pharaohs have great power?

Answer 38

Old Kingdom

Question 39

Which kingdom of Egypt was there peace and stability?

Answer 39

Middle kingdom

Question 40

Who reigned and was known for building up Babylon but then God's judgement fell on him and he lost his throne and became like a best of the field?

Answer 40

Nebuchadnezzar

Question 41

What country includes thousands of tiny islands and is a mountainous peninsula with valleys and natural harbors?

Answer 41

Greece

Question 42

Who started the trojan wars in Greece?

Answer 42

Mycenaeans

Question 43

What was the religion in Greece?

Answer 43

They believed in many gods; they made fanciful stories about the gods called myths

Question 44

What were the two classes of people in Rome?

Answer 44

Patricians and plebeians

Question 45

Who were the working class of Rome?

Answer 45

Patricians

Question 46

Who were the ruling class of Rome?

Answer 46

Plebeians

Question 47

Roman religion followers of what believed that doing one's duty led to happiness?

Answer 47

Stoicism

Question 48

Who was the dictator of Rome?

Answer 48

Julius Caesar

Question 49

Who were involved in the Roman Punic Wars (first, second and third)?

Answer 49

Rome vs. Carthage fought for control of the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 50

The religion of Mesoamerica believed in sacrificing what?

Answer 50

Blood sacrifice - sacrificed humans

Question 51

The civilizations of Aryans and Harappans is from what country?

Answer 51

India

Question 52

What are the two types of religion in India?

Answer 52

Buddhism Hindusim

Question 53

What religion believes in many gods, believes in reincarnation, and higher in cast system the closer to god?

Answer 53

Hinduism

Question 54

The belief that heaven, the supreme force of nature, gave the king his right to rule?

Answer 54

Mandate of Heaven (China - Zhou dynasty)

Question 55

Who was the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty?

Answer 55

Qin Shi Huang Ti

Question 56

What did Qin Shi Huang Ti do to help China?

Answer 56

china become more unified, set up a bureaucracy, demanded one writing system and building roads and canals, great wall of china, the name china comes from the name Qin

Question 57

What was the main trade route called for the Han dynasty?

Answer 57

Silk Road - since silk was the most famous trade

Question 58

What China teaching was the belief that through proper behavior man could solve society's problems?

Answer 58

Confucianism

Question 59

What China teaching was the belief to find peace and happiness by living in harmony with nature?

Answer 59

Taoism - "tao" meant the way

Question 60

Who was the mythical ancestor of Japanese emperors?

Answer 60

Jimmu Tenno

Question 61

What was the African religion that worshipped spirits that they believed in animals or things like trees and rivers and tried to make the spirits happy?

Answer 61

Animism

Question 62

The Egyptian civilization was developed along which river?

Answer 62

Nile

Question 63

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the original what?

Answer 63

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Question 64

What type of government did the Romans follow?

Answer 64

Republic - a government ruled by laws and representatives chosen by the people.

Question 65

What were the 3 branches of the Roman government?

Answer 65

1. Consuls 2. Senate 3. Assemblies