Social Studies Finals

Question 0

What were the different modes of travel?

Answer 0

Boats
Horseback
Feet

Question 1

Why did the Roman Empire have little view of the world?

Answer 1

Bad Communication, Unsafe Travel

Question 2

Janissaries was a soldier in what empire?

Answer 2

The Ottoman Empire

Question 3

In AD 150 the sailors success dependent on what?

Answer 3

The weather

Question 4

What do archeologists use to reconstruct the past?

Answer 4

Artifacts & fossils

Question 5

What are 3 inventions that helped horseback riding and who invented it?

Answer 5

1- Stirrups (Chinese)
2- The Bit (Middle East)
3- Horseshoes (Romans)

Question 6

Who advised the Ottoman Empire?

Answer 6

The Grand Vizer

Question 7

Why did people travel in Roman Empire?

Answer 7

1. Religion
2. Trade
3. Military Conquest

Question 8

Who was Ptolemy?

Answer 8

A Roman Mapmaker

Question 9

How did Diocltian help the Roman Empire?

Answer 9

He divided the empire into 4

Question 10

What brought down the Roman Empire?

Answer 10

Barbarians

Question 11

How did Buddhism spread to China?

Answer 11

Trading with India

Question 12

What was the purpose of the Justanian Code?

Answer 12

Made a legal system

Question 13

Where was the Hagia Sophie from?

Answer 13

Byzantine Empire

Question 14

What did Romans call dramatic people who we’re living on their borders?

Answer 14

Barbarians

Question 15

What did Prophet Muhammed do to his enemies?

Answer 15

Forgave them

Question 16

What is the sacred book of the Muslims?

Answer 16

The Quran.

Question 17

What do Sheas believe?

Answer 17

They did not accept the first 4 Caliphs.

Question 18

Who accepted the first 4 Caliphs?

Answer 18

Sunnis did

Question 19

What is Monothesim?

Answer 19

Belief in One God

Question 20

Muawiya moved the capital from where to where?

Answer 20

Medina to Damascus.

Question 21

The Abbasids moved the capital from Damascus to where?

Answer 21

Damascus to Baghdad.

Question 22

What protected China?

Answer 22

Geography did.

Question 23

What is Meritocracy?

Answer 23

A system that favors efficiency

Question 24

What religion is the Enlightment Religion?

Answer 24

Buddhism

Question 25

Who conquered Cordoba?

Answer 25

The Christians did

Question 26

What caused sleeping sickness?

Answer 26

Tsetse flies

Question 27

What is a savanna?

Answer 27

A strip of Grassland

Question 28

Who mined gold in Zimbabwe?

Answer 28

Woman and Children

Question 29

What does Ethnolinguistics mean?

Answer 29

The study of various people through their languages

Question 30

What served the basis of life in Africa?

Answer 30

Family did

Question 31

What is a missionary?

Answer 31

A person who goes to another country for religious work.

Question 32

What is a griot?

Answer 32

A storyteller

Question 33

Malaria is a sickness caused by what?

Answer 33

Mosquitos

Question 34

What important factors lead to the Mongol Empire?

Answer 34

Outstanding leadership

Military skills

Question 35

Which empire made an efficient postal system?

Answer 35

The Mongols did

Question 36

Which leader was called “The Magnificent” or “The Lawgiver”?

Answer 36

Suleiman

Question 37

Which empire built the Taj Mahal?

Answer 37

The Mughals did

Question 38

Which empire captured Constaninople?

Answer 38

The Ottomans