midterm

Question 1

What is the shift from hunting and gathering to farming called?

Answer 1

Neolithic Revolution

Question 2

Domestication allowed for humans to do what?

Answer 2

produce their own food

Question 3

What allowed for social classes to be created

Answer 3

specialization of labor

Question 4

In which area were the first civilizations created?

Answer 4

Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent

Question 5

What was the first civilization?

Answer 5

Sumerians

Question 6

What was Sumerian writing called?

Answer 6

cuneiform

Question 7

What age followed the New Stone Age?

Answer 7

Bronze Age

Question 8

Name the accomplishments of the Babylonian Empire..

Answer 8

Hammurabi’s code

Question 9

Which weapon did the Hittites improve which changed the way war was waged?

Answer 9

three person chariot

Question 10

What metal did the Hittites use before most other civilizations?

Answer 10

iron

Question 11

How did the Assyrian kings keep the peace in their vast kingdom?

Answer 11

instilled fear, strong military

Question 12

What civilization created the first alphabet?

Answer 12

Phoenician’s

Question 13

What made Judaism different from all other religions in the world at the time of its emergence?

Answer 13

monotheistic

Question 14

Name three patriarchs of Judaism

Answer 14

Jacob, Abraham, and Isaac

Question 15

Who led the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery?

Answer 15

Moses

Question 16

What religion came out of the Persian Empire?

Answer 16

Zoroastrianism

Question 17

Egypt became monotheistic during the reign of who?

Answer 17

Akhenaten

Question 18

Which Egyptian pharaoh restored the worship of the traditional gods?

Answer 18

King Tut

Question 19

Why did the Egyptians bury possessions with their dead?

Answer 19

Ka for the afterlife

Question 20

What was the writing system of the Egyptians?

Answer 20

Hieroglyphics

Question 21

Why did the people of India depend on the monsoons?

Answer 21

for fertile land

Question 22

Name two most well planned Indus Valley cities that archaeologists discovered.

Answer 22

Harappa and Mohenjo Daro

Question 23

Why do scholars believe that the Indus civilization was a single society rather than a collection of independent city-states?

Answer 23

common designs in tools, weights and measures, and city structure

Question 24

What is reincarnation?

Answer 24

Atman will be released from the body and later born into another

Question 25

What did the Buddha teach?

Answer 25

The Middle Way and the Eightfold Path

Question 26

What do the Four Noble Truths teach?

Answer 26

the truths of life

Question 27

How did mountains, deserts and hills help the Chinese thrive?

Answer 27

isolation

Question 28

Some of the oldest exampled of Chinese writing were left by Shang priests on what?

Answer 28

oracle bones

Question 29

What does the presence of valuable items and sacrificed prisioners of war in Shang royal tombs indicates what?

Answer 29

belief in afterlife

Question 30

What did Confucius believe?

Answer 30

love, respect to elders

Question 31

When did Muhammad become a prophet?

Answer 31

when spoken to by Gabriel

Question 32

Name the Four Noble Truths

Answer 32

suffering is a part of life, suffering comes from desires, overcome desires is overcoming suffering, follow the Eightfold Path

Question 33

What is Ramadan?

Answer 33

fasting

Question 34

The Muslim place of worship is called what?

Answer 34

mosque

Question 35

Why did Muslim society remain intact after the major dynasties/caliphates declined?

Answer 35

Islam is a part of everyday life

Question 36

Muslim paintings often include?

Answer 36

geometric patterns and floral designs

Question 37

Who were the Sunni and the Shia?

Answer 37

Sunni- followers of others Shia- followers of Muhammad

Question 38

What is calligraphy?

Answer 38

beautifully styles writing

Question 39

What is one of the most famous Arab pieces of writing called?

Answer 39

Arabian Nights

Question 40

What did Homer write?

Answer 40

The Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 41

Where did Alexander the Great’s empire cover?

Answer 41

Greece to the Indus River

Question 42

Which person moved Rome to a republic to empire?

Answer 42

Julius Caesar

Question 43

Which emperor helped the spread of Christianity?

Answer 43

Constantine

Question 44

Why do historians know little of the Minoan society?

Answer 44

cant read their writing

Question 45

Who were the first Greeks according to historians?

Answer 45

Mycenaeans

Question 46

What was the basic political unit of Ancient Greece

Answer 46

polis

Question 47

Why did Sparta have such an important emphasis on war?

Answer 47

to keep order of society

Question 48

Who developed the world’s first democracy?

Answer 48

Athens

Question 49

What was the result of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 49

Sparta won; Athens was close to destruction

Question 50

Name the 3 big philosophers of Ancient Greece?

Answer 50

Socrates, Plato, Aristotlw

Question 51

Why was the Law of Twelve Tables important?

Answer 51

written down in public

Question 52

What did the Romans require of their conquered lands/

Answer 52

troops and taxes

Question 53

What are characteristics of the Pax Romana

Answer 53

stable government, strong legal system, widespread peace

Question 54

Who was the First Triumvirate?

Answer 54

Crassus, Caesar, Pompey

Question 55

Paul of Tarsus transformed Christianity into a universal religion by attractin who?

Answer 55

non jews