Test 2

Question 1

aristocracy

Answer 1

government - power in hands of ruling family

Question 2

autocracy

Answer 2

government - ruler has all power

Question 3

Bronze Age

Answer 3

period where people used bronze to make tools and weapons

Question 4

bureaucracy

Answer 4

system of departments and agencies formed to carry out work of government

Question 5

Chaldeans

Answer 5

a Southwest Asian people who helped destroy the Assyrian Empire

Question 6

Daoism

Answer 6

a philosophy - Chinese thinker Laozi - people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao Way

Question 7

democracy

Answer 7

government - people have power

Question 8

empire

Answer 8

a political unit in which peoples or countries are ruled by one ruler

Question 9

Hittites

Answer 9

an Indo-European group who settled in Anatolia

Question 10

Hyskos

Answer 10

a group of nomadic invaders from Southwest Asia who ruled Egypt

Question 11

I Ching

Answer 11

a religious image used by Eastern Christians

Question 12

legalism

Answer 12

an efficient and powerful government = the key to social order

Question 13

Medes

Answer 13

a Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire

Question 14

Minoans

Answer 14

a seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete

Question 15

Mycenaean

Answer 15

an Indo-European person who settled on the Greek mainland

Question 16

myth

Answer 16

a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes

Question 17

New Kingdom

Answer 17

the period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers

Question 18

oligarchy

Answer 18

government - power in hands of few people

Question 19

Phoenicians

Answer 19

seafaring people that lived in Southwest Asia traded with colonies in Mediterranean region

Question 20

Qin Dynasty

Answer 20

a short-lived Chinese dynasty that replaced the Zhou Dynasty

Question 21

Royal Road

Answer 21

a road in the Persian Empire

Question 22

satrap

Answer 22

a governor of a province in the Persain Empire

Question 23

tribute

Answer 23

a payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power

Question 24

tyrant

Answer 24

powerful individual who gained control of a city-state’s government by appealing to the poor for support

Question 25

yin and yang

Answer 25

in Chinese thought, the two powers that govern the natural rhythms of life

Question 26

Knossos

Answer 26

Minoan city capital

Question 27

King Minos

Answer 27

Minoan king; owned the Minotaur

Question 28

Hatshepsut

Answer 28

female ruler of the New Kingdom in Egypt

Question 29

Thutmose III

Answer 29

Hatshepsut’s son; warlike ruler

Question 30

Nubia

Answer 30

a region in Africa near Upper Egypt

Question 31

Piankhi

Answer 31

a Kushite king who overthrew the Libyan dynasty

Question 32

Sennacherib

Answer 32

Assyrian king; said he destroyed 89 cities and 820 cites on his own

Question 33

Darius

Answer 33

Cambyses’s successor; seized throne wih help of elite soldier group (Ten Thousand Immortals)

Question 34

Cambyses

Answer 34

Cyrus’s son; expanded Persain Empire by conquering Egypt

Question 35

Confucius

Answer 35

China’s most influential scholar; Confucianism

Question 36

Homer

Answer 36

storyteller who composed epics (The Illiad and The Odessey)

Question 37

Trojan War

Answer 37

ten year war between Greeks and Trojans

Question 38

Theocracy

Answer 38

government = power in hands of the gods