Test 1

Question 0

Chinese salt begins with the mythical Huangdi, who invented ______, ______, and ______.

Answer 0

Writing, weaponry, transportation

Question 1

______, the yellow emperor, invented writing, the bow and arrow, the cart, and ceramics.

Answer 1

Huangdi

Question 2

______ simplified the Chinese language to 40,000 characters.

Answer 2

Mao

Question 3

The governor of Shu (modern day Sichuan) was ______.

Answer 3

Li Bing

Question 4

The ______ River provides a fertile green passage only a few miles wide down both banks.

Answer 4

Nile

Question 5

The Egyptians mixed brine with vinegar and used it as a sauce known as ______.

Answer 5

Oxalme

Question 6

The Egyptians believed that the goddess ______ taught them how to grow olives.

Answer 6

Isis

Question 7

The Egyptians made salt by evaporating seawater in the ______ ______.

Answer 7

Nile Delta

Question 8

The Egyptians were leading exporters of raw foods such as ______ and ______.

Answer 8

Wheat, Lentils

Question 9

The Egyptians did not export great quantities of salt, but exported considerable amounts of ______ ______ to the Middle East.

Answer 9

Salted foods

Question 10

Salzburg means ______ ______.

Answer 10

Salt town

Question 11

Celt, is not from their own Indo-European language, but from ______.

Answer 11

Greek

Question 12

The Celts used ______ for trade and conquest.

Answer 12

Rivers

Question 13

I’m 390 BCE, the Celts sacked ______.

Answer 13

Rome

Question 14

The Celts ruled Rome for ______ years.

Answer 14

40

Question 15

Celts introduced ______ to northern Spain.

Answer 15

Wheat

Question 16

The Romans paid homage to ______.

Answer 16

Democracy

Question 17

The best pike had to be caught in the _____.

Answer 17

Tiber

Question 18

Most Italian cities were found proximate to _____.

Answer 18

Saltworks

Question 19

The Romans salted their ______, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word ______, salted.

Answer 19

Greens, salad

Question 20

______ was the centerpiece of Roman cuisine.

Answer 20

Fish

Question 21

______ came under the control of the Romans at the end of the Punic Wars.

Answer 21

Sicily

Question 22

Garum is ___________.

Answer 22

Fermented fish sauce

Question 23

When the Romans took over the Phoenician salt fish trade, they discovered how to make their ______ ______.

Answer 23

Purple dye

Question 24

After the fall of Rome in the fifth century, ______ was often though of as just one of the unpleasant hedonistic excess for which Rome was remembered.

Answer 24

Garum

Question 25

After the fall of Rome, ______ vanished from the Mediterranean, the region lost its importance as a salt fish producer, and the purple dye industry faded.

Answer 25

Garum

Question 26

When Genoa made the island of ______ the largest salt producer in the Mediterranean, the Venetians made ______ into the second largest producer.

Answer 26

Ibiza, Cyprus

Question 27

The ______ starts in the Italian Alps and flows straight across the peninsula, spreading into a marshy estuary from Ravenna to Venice.

Answer 27

Po

Question 28

The ______ ______ is Italy’s only important dairy region.

Answer 28

Po Valley

Question 29

______ in the twelfth century became an independent city-state dedicated to commerce.

Answer 29

Genoa