Semester History Exam

Question 1

civil service

Answer 1

Administrative service of the government. Han Wudi favored the rich.

Question 2

Zhou

Answer 2

Rule China longer than any other dynasty

Question 3

Wu Wang

Answer 3

led a rebellion against Shang

Question 4

Period of Warring States

Answer 4

Period where everyone tried to restore order in China

Question 5

Huang He (yellow river)

Answer 5

river where china first developed.

Question 6

Chang Jiang

Answer 6

Longest River in China

Question 7

Himalayas

Answer 7

mountain range that separated china from india

Question 8

Gobi Desert

Answer 8

makes the yellow river yellow because of its yellow dust.

Question 9

Loess

Answer 9

Yellow dust- like fertile soil, blown into the yellow river

Question 10

China’s geographic barriers

Answer 10

Deserts, mountains, + bodies of water isolated China from the world

Question 11

3 major advances in the Paleolithic Age

Answer 11

Tools, Fire, Language

Question 12

Brahman

Answer 12

Universal spirit worshipped by Hindus

Question 13

Karma

Answer 13

force that decides the form of people in their next lives

Question 14

Dharma

Answer 14

A person’s personal duty, based on their society

Question 15

Nirvana

Answer 15

A state of perfect happiness and peace

Question 16

Guru

Answer 16

a teacher

Question 17

Vedas

Answer 17

ancient sacred writings of India

Question 18

Subcontinent

Answer 18

a large landmass that is smaller than a continent

Question 19

Ashoka Maurya

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Grandson of Chandragupta, took Mauryan empire to it’s height, converted to Buddhism.

Question 20

Gupta Empire

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Golden Age of India, restored Hinduism

Question 21

Mauryan Empire

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1st centralized empire of India, founded by Chandragupta Maurya

Question 22

Samudra Gupta

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Expanded the empire with 40 years of conquest + war

Question 23

Siddhartha Gupta

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Founder of Buddhism (the Buddha)

Question 24

Xia Dynasty

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Earliest dynasty, there is no known evidence that it existed, but artifacts have been found.

Question 25

Qin Shihuangdi

Answer 25

United China for the 1st time. - great wall - laws - money - weights - writing - buried with Terracotta Warriors

Question 26

Han Wudi

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most important emperor - expanded the empire - built schools - created civil service system

Question 27

envoy

Answer 27

a government representative to a another country

Question 28

Narmer

Answer 28

Old Kingdom; united Egypt

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Khufu

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Old Kingdom; Great Pyramid

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Khafre

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Son of Khufu; old kingdom; great Sphinx

Question 31

Thutmose III

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New Kingdom; Conquest all the way to Meso

Question 32

Akhenaton

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Father of King Tut; Converted to monotheism; New Kingdom

Question 33

Ramses II

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New Kingdom; Architexture

Question 34

Ramses III

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New Kingdom; conquest + architecture

Question 35

Sumerians

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People living in Sumer, first developed along the Tigris and Euphrates

Question 36

Sumerian Calendars were based on...

Answer 36

the cycles of the moon

Question 37

4 Sumerian inventions

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wheel, sailboat, wooden plow, geometry

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Sumerian middle class

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artisans, fisherman, farmers, and artisans

Question 39

Gilgamesh

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hero who traveled the world doing great deeds

Question 40

Assyrians

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1st army to use iron weapons

Question 41

1st Sumerian kings were probably

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war heroes

Question 42

materials used to build much of Sumer

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mud bricks

Question 43

trade route that made babylon rich

Answer 43

mediterranean sea 2 persian gulf

Question 44

Sargon

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developed the 1st empire in Meso

Question 45

Nebuchandnezzar

Answer 45

Chaldean King who rebuilt Babylon

Question 46

5 Themes of Geography

Answer 46

Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region

Question 47

Movement

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how borders are decided, how people get from one place to another

Question 48

Regions

Answer 48

A geographic area that has one feature that sets it apart from other geographic area

Question 49

opportunity cost

Answer 49

whatever must be given up to get some item

Question 50

Economic System

Answer 50

how a society organizes their economy

Question 51

REseccion

Answer 51

slowdown in the nation's economy

Question 52

Citizenship

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informed active member of a community

Question 53

duties of citizenship

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- voting - obeying law - jury duty - joining armed forces (if drafted)

Question 54

anarchy

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lack of government or law, individual has complete freedom

Question 55

feudalism

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king and queen have power but give some to the nobles

Question 56

examples of monarchy

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england, vatican city

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examples of constitutional monarchy

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UK and Morocco

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examples of oligarchy

Answer 58

russia, china, iran

Question 59

Systematic Agriculture

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organized farming on a schedule