10 Week Test

Question 1

New Stone Age

Answer 1

Neolithic

Question 2

Old Stone Age

Answer 2

Paleolithic

Question 3

Belief in many Gods

Answer 3

Polytheistic

Question 4

Belief in one God

Answer 4

Monotheistic

Question 5

Dedicated to religious purposes, in some way holy

Answer 5

Sacred

Question 6

Group/family that maintains control over generations

Answer 6

Dynasty

Question 7

Someone who wanders from place to place, no permanent home

Answer 7

Nomad

Question 8

Large Mesopotamia Temple

Answer 8

Ziggurat

Question 9

Belief that Heaven gives a mandate for someone to rule

Answer 9

Mandate of Heaven

Question 10

Bone used to see what an ancestor wanted

Answer 10

Oracle Bone

Question 11

Means to get food by hunting and gathering

Answer 11

Hunter-gatherer

Question 12

First set of written laws

Answer 12

Hammurabi’s Code

Question 13

Farming

Answer 13

Agriculture

Question 14

Division of society into classes

Answer 14

Social hierarchy

Question 15

When did farming start as a means to get food?

Answer 15

Beginning of the Neolithic era

Question 16

What 2 rivers are Mesopotamia located by?

Answer 16

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 17

What river is located near China?

Answer 17

Yellow River

Question 18

Why did early civilizations settle by rivers?

Answer 18

They were good for farming.

Question 19

What are 2 technologies developed by early civilizations to help with daily life?

Answer 19

Writing
Weighing things

Question 20

Where did Buddhism begin?

Answer 20

India

Question 21

Moving water to farms usually through trenches

Answer 21

Irrigation

Question 22

Organization of people who exert control or power over the people within their civilization to maintain power

Answer 22

Government

Question 23

What is located near the Indus River?

Answer 23

Indus

Question 24

Where did Hinduism begin?

Answer 24

India

Question 25

Where did Islam begin?

Answer 25

Middle East

Question 26

Where did Judaism begin?

Answer 26

Canaan, Palestine, Israel

Question 27

Where did Christianity begin?

Answer 27

Canaan, Palestine, Israel

Question 28

Where did Confucianism begin?

Answer 28

China

Question 29

Is Hinduism Polytheistic or monotheistic?

Answer 29

Polytheistic

Question 30

What are 3 Hindu beliefs?

Answer 30

Caste system (like social hierarchy) Reincarnation Can leave cycle of reincarnation by reaching Moksha

Question 31

Hindu belief that you are reborn after you die in a new form

Answer 31

Reincarnation

Question 32

What are 5 Buddhism beliefs?

Answer 32

Following the right path leads to enlightenment. Reincarnation Can leave cycle of reincarnation by reaching enlightenment Does not believe in any God There is a way to free self from suffering.

Question 33

What are 2 facts about Confucianism?

Answer 33

Does not involve any Gods Is a system for how to live your life correctly based on Chinese traditional values

Question 34

What are 3 facts about Islam?

Answer 34

Abrahamic faith Monotheistic Believes Muhammad is the last prophet

Question 35

What are 3 facts about Christianity?

Answer 35

Abrahamic Monotheistic Believe Jesus is the messiah and savior

Question 36

What are 3 facts about Judaism?

Answer 36

Abrahamic Monotheistic Introduced the 10 Commandments as a guide to living, received by Moses

Question 37

Study of physical features of earth and human activity on them

Answer 37

Geography

Question 38

Chain of Islands

Answer 38

Archipelago

Question 39

Body of land surrounded by water on all sides

Answer 39

Island

Question 40

Body of land surrounded by water on three sides

Answer 40

Peninsula

Question 41

City-state in Greece

Answer 41

Polis

Question 42

2 powerful Greek city-state’s

Answer 42

Sparta Athens

Question 43

Government ruled by one or a king

Answer 43

Monarchy

Question 44

Government ruled by a small group of people

Answer 44

Oligarchy

Question 45

Government ruled by the masses or large group of people

Answer 45

Democracy

Question 46

Government ruled and influenced by nobles or elite class

Answer 46

Oligarchy

Question 47

Semi circle buildings for plays or performances invented in Greece

Answer 47

Amphitheaters

Question 48

Temple in Athens built in the Golden Age

Answer 48

Parthenon

Question 49

Prolonged period of prosperity and peace

Answer 49

Golden age

Question 50

Leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War

Answer 50

Percalies

Question 51

What terrain is Greece made up of, which makes it difficult to travel by land?

Answer 51

Mountains

Question 52

Why did fishing and trade become important to the Greek Civilization?

Answer 52

Greece is a peninsula