WorksheetsWorld History Semester Exam Review
Total questions: 74
Worksheet time: 37mins
What's the back half of your binder for?
Interactive Notebooking
Cornell Notes
Doodling
Writing letters
What is anthropology?
the study of the human body
the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains
I don't know
the study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture
What do we call the time period before the invention of writing?
prehistory
paleolithic
neolithic
early modern
What does a historian do?
historians study plants
they study written evidence
they study rocks
they study bones
Secondary source...
a personal journal
interview of an eye witness
memoir
textbook
What does paleo mean?
old
new
groovy
who knows?
Which one is new?
Paleo
Neo
If you believe in more than one god, you are...
polytheistic
monotheistic
animism
agnostic
How do we know early man may have believed in the afterlife?
they drew pictures
because of the way they buried the dead
written evidence
we don't really know
Humans farmed, domesticated animals, and stayed in one place...
paleolithic
neolithic
middle ages
early modern period
Area where oldest skeletal remains of early humans have been discovered...
China
Indus Valley
Greece
Olduvai Gorge
What do the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers border?
Africa
Mesopotamia
Greece
Egypt
Area of the world located in the middle east...known for its fertile soil...home of world's first civilizations.
sumer
egypt
fertile crescent
africa
Greeks gave the area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers the nickname, "Mesopotamia", which means...
between two rivers
land of fertile soil
easy to grow
easy to farm
First to be considered a civilization...first place to exhibit the characteristics of a civilization (organized gov't, complex religion...etc.).
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Egypt
Olduvai
As the population grew in areas like Mesopotamia people became more competitive over natural resources (land, water, food). This made one particular role in society more important...which of the following became increasingly important?
priests
kings
potters
warriors
Leading armies, leading irrigation projects, hiring scribes...these are all things that were the responsibility of Mesopotamian...
warriors
farmers
rulers
priests
Were Sumerian's religious?
yes
no
maybe
IDK
A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple
pyramid
ziggurat
aqueduct
skyscraper
World's first "Empire".
Akkadia
Sumer
Persia
Egypt
Created criminal and civil law...
Akkadia
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Sumer
They used chariots and were expert Iron-Smiths.
Hittites
Assyrians
Akkadians
Sumerians
Invented writing...
Akkadian
Egyptian
Babylonians
Sumerians
Warfare was very important to them...they were brutal/fearsome warriors...
Akkadians
Sumerians
Assyrians
Egyptians
Led by Cyrus the great...would become the largest of the Mesopotamian empires...
Egyptians
Akkadians
Persians
Assyrians
Expert sailors..became very skilled sea traders establishing trading outposts all across the Mediterranean...
Phoenicians
Carthaginians
Greeks
Sumerians
Invented by Sumerians...uses triangular-shaped symbols to represent ideas or things...world's first system of writing...
heiroglyphics
cuneiform
latin
greek
Without the _____ River Egypt doesn't exist.
Tigris
Tiber
Indus
Nile
Old, Middle, and New is describing...
Three Time Periods of Ancient Egypt
IDK
The rise and fall of Rome
The rise of the Indus
What is this green triangular area?
Mesopotamia
the Nile Delta
the Nile
Egypt
What is this?
Pyramid
Temple
Parthenon
Ziggurat
Egyptians and Mesopotamians had very similar perceptions of the afterlife...
True
False
During which time period of Ancient Egyptian history did Upper and Lower Egypt become united?
Middle
Old
New
Neolithic
Location of Upper Egypt...
in the north
in the south
in the east
in the west
Location of Lower Egypt...
in the north
in the south
in the east
in the west
What does this thing do?
chills
looks cool
stands watch over the Pyramids of Giza
it's a fort
What is a dynasty?
Crimson Tide Football
Golden State Warriors
the Yankees
a line of rulers from the same family
Egyptians believe that a human's heart was weighed against this to see if the soul was pure and deserving of a happy afterlife...
the Feather of Life
the Golden Mean
the Feather of Justice
the Feather of Truth
Judged the dead in Ancient Egypt...
Anubis
Osiris
Isis
Sut
Papyrus
A special form of brick that Egyptians used to build pyramids with.
A type of bronze that Egyptians developed for making weapons.
A type of paper that Egyptians wrote on mostly for record keeping.
A special garment that Egyptian embalmers wore during the embalming ceremony.
Rock formations that make a river impassable...
boulder
satraps
rapids
cataracts
Ancient civilization that played a ballgame...
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Mesoamerica
Greece
What happened to the losers of the ballgame?
They were enslaved.
They were killed as a sacrifice to the gods.
They were buried alive.
They were celebrated.
There's so much about the Indus that we don't know because...
we can't decode their writing system
we don't know where it their civilization was located
we can't find any artifacts
there's a global shortage of archaeologists
The layout of Ancient Indus cities suggest...
that they were very religious.
that they had a great economy.
they had some form of organized gov't.
they worshiped multiple gods.
The largest public building is a __________.
Temple
Fort
Palace
Bath
These seals were used mark label a merchant's goods. This suggests that they __________.
worshiped multiple gods
traded & bartered goods and services
had a religious system
didn't like animals
No artifacts have been found that suggest that the Indus had...
a military
a religion
an economic system
a system of weight and measurements
In Ancient China they believed the dynasty that was in power had the ___________, and if it was lost that dynasty could be overthrown.
Divine Right
Mandate of Heaven
Dynastic Cycle
Ordained Approval
This is an oracle bone. What did the Shang rulers use these for?
as weapons
for trade
to keep military records
to predict the future
The highlighted geographical feature separates India and China. What is it?
the Nepal Mountain Range
the Yang River
the Himalayas
the Alps
Who built it?
Shang Dynasty
Qin Dynasty
Han Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Who was the legendary King of Crete according to Greek Mythology?
Zeus
Romulus
Minotaur
Minos
Where did the Minoans live?
Crete
Peloponnese
Troy
Mainland Greece
The Geography of Greece made it very easy to for Sparta to unify the varying city-states of Greece
True
False
Writer of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Herodotus
Homer
Achilles
Agamemnon
A sovereign state consisting of a city and its dependent territories...
monarchy
Polis
Oligarchy
Phaistos
What created philosophy?
limited interests in things pertaining to academia
boredome
intense curiosity
the universe
A Greek warrior...
hoplite
phalanx
legionaire
phaistos
Tactical formation perfected by the Greeks...
maniple
legion
phalanx
hoplite
When did Spartans start preparing to be a part of the military?
at 18
when they married
at 12
from childhood
How old were Spartan boys and girls when they left home for the agoge to train for combat?
5
6
7
8
War fought between Athens and Sparta that historians say ended the Greek "Golden Age".
Persian Wars
Peloponnesian War
World War I
Vietnam
Homeland of Alexander the Great
Greece
Macedonia
Thebes
Asia Minor
Father of Alexander the Great...Conquers Greece.
Darius III
Archimedes
Philip II
Alexander I
Battle that Philip II won consequently subjugating all of Greece...Alexander participated as a general.
Battle of Guagamela
Battle of Thebes
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Chaeronea
Why did Alexander lead the army against Persia instead of Philip II?
Philip died of a fever
Philip was assassinated
Philip died at the Battle of Chaeronea
Alexander killed Philip so he could take command
This narrow body of water separates Europe and Asia Minor...what's it called?
the Dardanelles
the Strait of Gibraltar
the Hot Gates
the Bering Strait
At this battle Alexander defeated the Persian army and it led to the collapse of the Persian Empire...
Guacamole
Thermoplyae
Chaeronea
Guagamela
What did Alexander's army encounter in India that many of them had never seen before?
Bows
War Panthers
War Eagles
War Elephants
Upon Alexander's death his empire was divided up into three parts. They became know as the ________ Kingdoms or "Greek-Like".
Greek
Ptolemaic
Macedonian
Hellenistic
How did Alexander die?
from a fever
he was stomped on by a war elephant
from dehydration returning from India
he fell out of his hang-glider
Rome is located somewhere along this geographical feature...what's it called?
the Island of Crete
the Island of Sicily
the Peloponnese
the Italian Peninsula
Rome is located along which of the following?
the Tigris
the Euphrates
the Nile
the Tiber
