World History: 1st Nine Weeks

Question 1

What are 7 things that civilizations have in common?

Answer 1

1. Mastery over food supply
2. Specialized division of labor
3. Written language
4. Written law code
5. Civil government
6. Arts and sciences
7. Formal education

Question 2

What are the 4 earliest civilizations and what rivers are they on?

Answer 2

1. Indus River valley- Indus River
2. China- Hwang ho and Yangtze
3. Egypt-Nile
4. Mesopotamia-Tigris and Euphrates

Question 3

What does Mesopotamia mean?

Answer 3

“Land between rivers”

Question 4

What’s Sumerians writing

Answer 4

Cuneiform

Question 5

Definition of ziggurats

Answer 5

Sumerian temples

Question 6

Is one of our oldest literatures

Answer 6

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 7

Believes in many gods

Answer 7

Polytheism

Question 8

1st Great Mesopotamian empire and leader

Answer 8

Akkadian

Sargon

Question 9

2nd great Mesopotamian empire and leader

Answer 9

3rd dynasty of Ur

Ur-Nammu

Question 10

Finds the 1st law code

Answer 10

Ur-Nammu

Question 11

3rd great Mesopotamian empire and leader

Answer 11

Old Babylonian empire

Hammurabi

Question 12

Finds the 1st comprehensive law code

Answer 12

Hammurabi

Question 13

4th great Mesopotamian empire and founder

Answer 13

Hittite

Labarna I

Question 14

Put an end to the Egyptian empire and the Hittite empire

Answer 14

Sea people’s

Question 15

The 5th Great Mesopotamian empire and founder

Answer 15

Assyrian

Tiglath-pileser

Question 16

Last king of Assyria and built the library at Nineveh

Answer 16

Ashurbanipal

Question 17

Was responsible for the Babylonian captivity

Answer 17

Nebuchadnezzar

Question 18

6th Great Mesopotamian empire and founder

Answer 18

New Babylonian empire

Naboplaser

Question 19

Another name for new Babylonian empire

Answer 19

Chaldean

Question 20

Built a great temple for his wife

Answer 20

Nebuchadnezzar

Question 21

7th Great Mesopotamian empire and founder

Answer 21

Persian

Cyrus the Great

Question 22

Another name for Persia

Answer 22

Iran

Question 23

Next Persian king who builds the royal road

Answer 23

Darius

Question 24

States

Answer 24

Saptraps

Question 25

Used as a trading post

Answer 25

Royal road

Question 26

Persian’s religion

Answer 26

Zoroastrianism

Question 27

Added Persia to his empire in 330 B.C

Answer 27

Alexander the Great

Question 28

Longest river in the world

Answer 28

Nile

Question 29

1st person to unite Egypt

Answer 29

Menes

Question 30

Capital in the old kingdom

Answer 30

Memphis

Question 31

The god in the old kingdom

Answer 31

Ra

Question 32

What are pharaohs?

Answer 32

Kings or gods

Question 33

Where were the Great pyramid

Answer 33

Giza

Question 34

Largest tomb

Answer 34

Khufu, Cheops

Question 35

Body of a lion, head of a human

Answer 35

The Great Sphinx

Question 36

How they preserved the dead

Answer 36

Mummification

Question 37

Book of prayers and enchantments

Answer 37

Book of the dead

Question 38

Egyptian writing

Answer 38

Hieroglyphics

Question 39

Translated the Rosetta Stone

Answer 39

Champollion

Question 40

The capital in the Middle Kingdom

Answer 40

Thebes

Question 41

False god in the Middle Kingdom

Answer 41

Amon-ra

Question 42

Took over Egypt

Answer 42

Hyksos

Question 43

Who drove out Hyksos

Answer 43

Ahmose I

Question 44

Only female pharaoh

Answer 44

Hatshepsut

Question 45

Ruled during fight with Hittites

Answer 45

Ramses II

Question 46

Makes new god

Answer 46

Amenhotep IV

Question 47

What’s the false god that amenhotep makes

Answer 47

Aton

Question 48

Amenhotep’s wife

Answer 48

Nefertiti

Question 49

Where they buried the tombs

Answer 49

Valley of the kings

Question 50

Only complete tomb we have

Answer 50

Tutankhamon

Question 51

Ended the Egyptian empire

Answer 51

Sea people’s

Question 52

Seized Egypt and took the title of pharaoh

Answer 52

Ptolemy

Question 53

Last ruler, queen of Egypt, ancestor of Ptolemy

Answer 53

Cleopatra

Question 54

A major religious and cultural tradition

Answer 54

Hinduism

Question 55

Division of social classes in India

Answer 55

Caste system

Question 56

First Buddha “Middle way”

Answer 56

Siddhartha Gautama

Question 57

Gained India’s independence

Answer 57

Gandhi

Question 58

Taught to respect religion

Answer 58

Confucius

Question 59

1st to unite China; Great Wall of China

Answer 59

Shih Huang (emperor chin)

Question 60

Largest empire in China

Answer 60

Genghis khan

Question 61

Led revolt; last emperor

Answer 61

Sun Yat-sen

Question 62

Shek v. Mao

Answer 62

Chiang Kai shek

Question 63

Made China communist

Answer 63

Mao Tse-Tung