Test 2 Flashcards
Three major river valleys in Asia are the Tigris-Euphrates, Huang He and _______.
Indus
What is the strict social structure of India called?
caste system
What was China’s longest ruling dynasty?
Chou
Who built the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior?
Cush
Who built the Maurya Empire?
Asoka
What important African trading center became a famous center for learning and culture?
Timbuktu
What important African city became and Egyptian center of life and one of the great cities of the Arab world?
Cairo
Who united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation?
Menes
Ancient India made its greatest contributions to civilization in the realm of _______.
mathematics
Who started the largest continental empire in history?
Genghis Khan
The Book of the Dead is important in the history of _______.
Egypt
Who were Edesius and Frumentius?
missionaries
Shinto is the oldest surviving religion in ______.
Japan
Which country is known to have first made paper?
China
What dynasty inaugurated India’s “golden age”?
Guptas
What is the longest river in the world?
Nile River
What is Africa’s largest lake?
Lake Victoria
What is Africa’s highest mountain?
Mount Kilimanjaro
What is Japan’s most famous mountain?
Mount Fuji
What is Africa’s longest lake?
Lake Tanganyika
What is Africa’s largest desert?
Sahara Desert
What false religion, founded by Siddhartha Gautama, tries to reach a state of “nirvana”?
Buddhism
What ruler is considered the founder of Japanese civilization?
Prince Shotoku
Who was the Frenchman who was able to decipher the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone?
Champollion
What best symbolizes the Egyptian conception of state and society?
pyramid
Who was the Egyptian female pharaoh that ruled jointly with her nephew?
Hatshepsut
What highway linked China to the Roman world?
Great Silk Road
What is the largest rift in the earth’s surface?
Great Rift Valley
What beautiful building was built as a tomb for a Mogul ruler’s wife?
Taj Mahal
What two territories seceded from India to become independent states?
Pakistan and Bangladesh
What term was given to the warriors, or knights, of feudal Japan?
samurai
Who wrote the oldest surviving hymn?
Clement
The great pharaoh whose pyramid is the largest.
Cheops
The emperor of Japan.
Mikado
Who was the first emperor of a united China?
Shih Huang Ti
The Egyptian teenage pharaoh.
Tutankhamen
Who was the great ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa?
Mansa Musa
Who established the Mogul Empire in India?
Babar
Who is the Greek “Father of History”?
Herodotus
Who is remembered for carrying Jesus’ cross?
Simon of Cyrene
The Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of _______ writing.
Egyptian
Alexander’s general Ptolemy was given _______ to rule.
Egypt
Malaysia, Singapore, and the ________ are Southeast Asian countries that give some measure of freedom to their people.
Philippines
Taoism was the pagan religion of the Chinese philosopher _______.
Lao-tse
Marco Polo spent 20 years in the service of the _________.
Kublai Khan
________ is an Indian religion of reincarnation.
Hinduism
Chung-kuo is an ancient name of ______.
China
The Hyksos ended the _______Kingdom of Egypt.
Middle
______ is the world’s oldest living civilization.
China
Mizraim is an ancient name of _______.
Egypt
