World History Reiveiw 1

Question 1

What are the earliest river valley civilizations?

Answer 1

Mesopotamia
Nile Valley
Indus River
Huang He/ Shang

Question 2

Ancient Religion and government are linked to what?

Answer 2

Pharaoh both a king and a god

Question 3

What is the Oldest written law code?

Answer 3

Hammurabi

Question 4

What was the first true monotheistic religion?

Answer 4

Hebrew

Question 5

Linked to their role as great sea traders, and founded the alphabet

Answer 5

Phoenicians

Question 6

What was the greatest trade route of the ancient world?

Answer 6

Silk route

Question 7

Greek philosophers?

Answer 7

Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato

Question 8

What were the Greeks contributions to culture?

Answer 8

Poetry, history, architecture, science, and math

Question 9

Great Macidonian king and general, most lasting contribution was the diffusion of Greek culture

Answer 9

Alexander the Great

Question 10

Roman General and leader who added territory to the empire and established autocratic rule

Answer 10

Julius Caesar

Question 11

Ended the long civil wars, and established the Pax Romana

Answer 11

Augustus Caesar

Question 12

Greatest engineers of the ancient world

Answer 12

Romans

Question 13

End of the Roman Empire were because of ?

Answer 13

Economic, social decay

And attacks by the barbarians

Question 14

Preserves the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome greatest impact on early Russia

Answer 14

Byzantine Empire

Question 15

Led to long rule in Russia, sacked the medieval Arab empire, created a mogul dynasty in china

Answer 15

Mogul conquest

Question 16

Founder of Islam

Answer 16

Muhammad

Question 17

Holy text of Islam

Answer 17

Quran

Question 18

Split in Islam?

Answer 18

Sunni and Shia

Question 19

Common ideas between Judaism, Christianity, nd Islam

Answer 19

Acceptance of the Old Testament prophets, belief in one god, Jerusalem is the sacred city

Question 20

What was the impact of the crusades?

Answer 20

Opened Europe to a wider world view, opened trade between Europe kings power grew at the expense of feudal nobles

Question 21

Greatest center of learning in the miss ages “house of wisdom” is in

Answer 21

Baghdad

Question 22

What is the basis of all ancient economies

Answer 22

Agriculture

Question 23

Greatest early Medieval king

Answer 23

Charlemagne