World History Midterm CP Part 1

Archeology is:

• The study of human life and culture

• A complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structure, religion, and art

• The way of life a people follows

• The study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind

The term polytheistic means:

• Believing in many gods

• A government established by divine authority

• The keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis

• The study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind

An expedition is:

• an organized system of thought, from the Greek word for “love of wisdom”

• A government by a sovereign ruler such as a king or queen

• A journey taken for a specific purpose

• a system of government in which people participate directly in government decision making through mass meetings

Philosophy is:

• an organized system of thought, from the Greek word for “love of wisdom”

• A government by a sovereign ruler such as a king or queen

• A journey taken for a specific purpose

• a system of government in which people participate directly in government decision making through mass meetings

A legacy is:

• A chain of islands

• An area of land that is nearly entirely surrounded by a body of water

• something that comes from someone in the past or that happened in the past

A peninsula is:

• A chain of islands

• An area of land that is nearly entirely surrounded by a body of water

• A narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses and that has a body of water on each side.

• the process for temporarily banning ambitious politicians from the city by popular vote

A praetor is:

• A social class made up of minor landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers

• An official of the Roman Republic in charge of enforcing the law

• A social class of wealthy, powerful landowners, they formed the ruling class in the Roman Republic

• A chief executive officer of the Roman Republic; two were elected each year to run the government and to lead the army into battle

A patrician is:

• A social class made up of minor landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers

• An official of the Roman Republic in charge of enforcing the law

• A social class of wealthy, powerful landowners, they formed the ruling class in the Roman Republic

• A chief executive officer of the Roman Republic; two were elected each year to run the government and to lead the army into battle

The Punic Wars are:

• A series of three wars between Athens and Sparta

• A series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian empire

• A series of three wars between the Greeks and the Persians

• A series of three wars between Carthage and Egypt

The three kingdoms in Egypt are the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom.

• True

• False