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man-made items used as sources to study history

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artifacts

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What are three primary sources?

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artifacts
written records
tradition

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What is the most important and reliable type of primary source?

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written records

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What is the name of the command for man to control the earth by exercising dominion over it?

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Creation Mandate

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What is the division of labor that is part of every city?

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specialization

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Whose efforts did God use to save the human race from the Flood?

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Noah’s

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Who committed the first murder?

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Cain

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Which two rivers cradled the first civilizations?

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Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

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What biblical event does the Epic of Gilgamesh give an account of?

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the flood

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What geographic factor helped preserve the monuments, the documents, and the bodies of ancient Egyptian rulers?

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the desert

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What ancient civilization was responsible for the invention of the wheel?

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Sumerians

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What society were hieroglyphics and papyrus invented by?

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Egyptians

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What is the term for the worship of many gods?

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polytheistic

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What is the practice of interpreting human events and destiny by the position of the planets and stars?

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astrology

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The flooding of the Nile gave the banks rich soil called ___.

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silt

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The greatest contribution of the Egyptian culture was their ___ methods. Perfecting this was necessary due to their beliefs in the afterlife.

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embalming

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The ___ may have been used by God to remove the Israelites from a position of favor which would eventually lead them to depart Egypt.

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Hyksos

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18
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What were the laws of Hammurabi based on?

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social class

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19
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The language spoken by Jesus and his disciples was probably ___.

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Aramaic

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20
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What issue did the twelve tribes of Israel divide over?

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tax increase

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21
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The Chaldeans were also known as ___.

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Babylonians

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22
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the king at the height of the Chaldean Empire

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Nebuchadnezzar

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23
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The Bible refers to Cyrus as ___.

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“The Lord’s Anointed”

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What civilization was the Royal Road a part of?

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Persian

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the seventy years of exile suffered by the Jews in Babylon
Babylonian Captivity
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Which Chaldean King saw a finger writing judgment on his palace wall?
Belshazzar
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List three things that the Persians borrowed from another culture.
coinage calendar alphabet
28
Who were believed to be the originators of the alphabet?
Phoenicians
29
the scattering of the Jewish people by Nebuchadnezzar
Diaspora
30
The messianic line is through ___.
David
31
Jerusalem was destroyed and the Jews were taken captive to Babylon in ___.
586 BC
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The leading commercial center of the early mainland Aegean civilization was ___.
Mycenae
33
The Olympic Games were originally held in honor of ___.
Zeus
34
What was the basic political unit of Greece?
polis
35
What was the Spartan way of life centered on?
military training
36
Which league did Sparta form to thwart the advance of Athenian democracy?
Peloponnesian League
37
the alliance formed by Athens to protect Greece from further Persian attack
Delian League
38
The government of Athens under Pericles was a ___.
democracy
39
The Peloponnesian War developed over ___.
a rivalry between Persia and Greece.
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What was the most important result of the Peloponnesian War?
political disunity in Greece
41
What is the name of the period in which Greek culture was spread throughout the ancient world?
Hellenistic Age
42
The apostle Paul's visit to Athens brought him into conflict with ___.
Epicureans and Stoics
43
Herodotus and Thucydides were ___.
historians
44
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian refer to Greek ___.
architecture
45
Who was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
46
type of government that is the "rule by one"
monarchy
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type of government that is the "rule by a few"
oligarchy
48
type of government that is the "rule by the people"
democracy
49
type of government that is the "rule by force"
tyranny
50
the breakdown of government and order
anarchy
51
Who was Homer?
a poet
52
Who said "Know thyself."
Socrates
53
Who was the Father of Medicine?
Hippocrates
54
Who was the Father of History?
Herodotus
55
Who was the Father of Geometry?
Euclid
56
What river was Rome established on?
Tiber
57
The Law of Twelve Tables was important primarily because it ___.
was the first Roman law that was written down
58
Much of the First Punic War was fought over control of the island of ___.
Sicily
59
At the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal defeated the Romans by ___.
surrounding them on all sides
60
The victory of Sulla in the first civil war increased the power of the ___.
Senate
61
"crossing the Rubicon" means
making a fateful decision from which there is no turning back
62
Julius Caesar was assassinated in the ___.
first century BC
63
After the death of Julius Caesar, Rome was ruled by ___.
Antony and Octavian
64
What is the most famous of the Roman roads?
Appian Way
65
first Roman to organize a professional army that served for financial gain rather than for patriotism
Marius
66
established a calendar that is the basis of our own
Julius Caesar
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What was Cleopatra?
a ruler of Egypt
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How did Rome win the loyalty of its captives?
it generally treated them with mercy & fairness
69
What city was destroyed, yet preserved, by a volcanic eruption?
Pompeii
70
The Septuagint is the translation of the Old Testament into ___.
Hebrew
71
Which Roman province was Jesus born in?
Judea
72
Why did persecution of the Christians begin?
Because Christians refused to worship the emperor.
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What was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?
Constantinople
74
What Roman engineering accomplishment supplied water to the cities?
aqueducts
75
Christ was brought before which Roman governor?
Pontius Pilot
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What is the practice of withdrawing from all worldly cares and possessions and practicing strict discipline and religious exercises?
monasticism
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Which ancient eastern city became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?
Byzantine
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Which city was the meeting place of East and West and the vital link in both land and sea trade routes?
Constantinople
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What was Justinian's goal during his reign?
to restore the greatness of the Roman Empire
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"Hagia Sophia" means
"holy wisdom"
81
The Byzantine secret weapon that would burn on water was called ___.
Greek fire
82
The Swedish Norsemen who plundered Slavic villages in Russia were ___.
Varangians
83
In early Russia what important river was used as a major trade route with the Byzantine Empire?
Dnieper
84
The Slavic alphabet was adapted from the ___ alphabet.
Greek
85
Who do the Arabs trace their beginnings to?
Ishmael
86
What aspect of the Judeo-Christian belief impressed and influenced Muhammad?
the belief in one god
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Initially, Muhammad was persecuted in Mecca because of fear that he would ___.
interfere with the profitable business of the Black Stone
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What was the major problem after Muhammad's death?
he did not appoint a successor
89
What stopped the Muslim advance in Europe?
the Battle of Tours
90
Al-Rāzi and Ibn Sina are best known for their knowledge in the field of ___.
medicine
91
Which religion threatened the Byzantine Empire through the invasion of the Turkish peoples?
Islam
92
What was the largest ethnic group living in early Russia?
Slavs
93
What is the name of the sacred shrine in Mecca that once housed hundreds of pagan idols?
Kaaba
94
In which city did Muhammad become a spiritual, political, and military leader?
Medina
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Muslims pray toward and take pilgrimages to what city?
Mecca
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desert herdsmen
Bedouins
97
the Muslim god
Allah
98
"submission" to Allah
Islam
99
"submitter" to Allah
Muslim
100
birthplace of Muhammad
Mecca
101
Muhammad's flight to Medina
Hegira
102
Muslim holy book
Qur'an
103
"holy war"
jihad
104
first caliph
Abu Bakr
105
wife of Justinian
Theodora
106
"Bulgar Slayer"
Basil II (2nd)
107
missionary to the Slavic peoples
Methodius
108
Muslim poet
Omar Khayyam
109
Although Justinian is credited with taking the Byzantine Empire to its height, he also gets the blame for ___.
bringing it to financial ruin
110
Russia likely derived its name from the Slavic "Rus" meaning ___.
"rowers" or "seafarers"
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Muslims claim the Qur'an is the record of Muhammad's visions from ___.
Gabriel

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