Unit 1

Question 1

Beginnings of agriculture

Answer 1

8000 BCE

Question 2

Invention of the wheel, plough, and sail

Answer 2

3500 BCE

Question 3

Invention of writing in Mesopotamia

Answer 3

3200 BCE

Question 4

Founding of first cities in Sumeria
Code of Hammurabi
Sanskrit Scriptures
Zoroastrianism

Answer 4

3000 BCE

Question 5

Invention of ironworking

Answer 5

7th Century BCE

Question 6

Beginnings of Confucianism, buddhism, Daoism, and greek golden age

Answer 6

5th Century BCE

Question 7

Alexander the Great

Answer 7

323 BCE

Question 8

Qin unified China

Answer 8

221 BCE

Question 9

Fall of Mauryan Dynasty

Answer 9

184 BCE

Question 10

Beginnings of Christianity

Answer 10

32 CE

Question 11

End of Pax Romana

Answer 11

180 CE

Question 12

End of Han Dynasty

Answer 12

220 CW

Question 13

Roman Emperor Constantine comverts to Christianity

Answer 13

312 CE

Question 14

Rise of Gupta in India

Answer 14

320 CW

Question 15

Roman capital moved to Constantinople

Answer 15

333 CE

Question 16

Fall of Rome in the west ends 800 years of Roman hegemony

Answer 16

476 CE

Question 17

Justinian rules Byzantine Emperor

Answer 17

527 CE

Question 18

Fall of the Gupta in India

Answer 18

550 CE

Question 19

Mohenjo-Daro

Answer 19

One of the great civilizations of India

Question 20

Aristotle

Answer 20

Rediscovery of his ideas and introduction and translation of his works into Latin and Arabian texts (Islamic Caliphates/ Byzantine)

Question 21

Ashoka

Answer 21

Last great ruler of Mauryan Dynasty; converted to Buddhism after bloody conquest and helped its transmission throughout India and Asia

Question 22

Siddhartha Gautama

Answer 22

Indian prince; left rich life for one of spiritualism; founder of Buddhism

Question 23

Akhenaton

Answer 23

Egyptian pharaoh who championed Aton as the one and only god, leading to one of the first cases of monotheism in world history.

Question 24

Justinian

Answer 24

One of the first rulers of the Byzantine empire; teied to reconquer the land of the western Roman empire; codified Roman law and influenced world law as a whole.

Question 25

Zarathustra

Answer 25

Credited with founding Zoroastrianism; religion based on the great battle between good and evil; embraced in Persian Empire

Question 26

Changdragupta Maurya

Answer 26

Established the first centralized empire in India which brought about an era of economic prosperity and long-distance trade that helped contribute to the development of Hinduism.

Question 27

Confucious

Answer 27

Chinese philosopher that developed principles to address the political and social disorder of the late Zhou dynasty and believed that individuals that were well educated and moral should fill governmental positions.

Question 28

Constantine

Answer 28

Emperor of the late Roman Empire that issued the edict of Milan allowing for religious freedom, most notably for Christians, and he moved the capital from Rome to the east after reunifying a divided empire.

Question 29

Cyrus

Answer 29

King of Persian tribes before liberating Persia and building the Achaemenid Empire which would stretch from the Nile in Egypt to the Indus River in northwestern India to become the largest empire the world had seen thus far.

Question 30

Octavian

Answer 30

The Roman senate gave him the name “Augustus” marking the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire as well as the Pax Romana, an era of peace and prosperity resulting from reforms.

Question 31

Mani

Answer 31

Man from Mesopotamia who saw a need to be a prophet for all of humanity, creating a religion to connect all peoples, drawing from Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.

Question 32

Foundations

Answer 32

8000BCE-600CE