WorksheetsSemester 1 Review (Mesopotamia - Rome)
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Throughout history, these people followed (and still follow) herds and growing seasons
Nomads
Voyageurs
Artisans
Immigrants
During the early stone ages, people ______________ food.
hunted and gathered
farmed
used science
used technology to find
During the late stone ages, people began to _____________ for their food
settle down and farm
hunt and gather
beg and grovel
combine other foods
This was the first known system of writing developed in the Sumerian Civilization:
Sanskrit
Cuneiform
Ziggurats
Hieroglyphics
The belief in many gods;
Pantheon
Monotheism
Theology
Polytheism
Abraham is the father or patriarch of what three modern world religions?
Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism
Judaism, Christianity, and Sikhism
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Christianity, Catholicism, and Animism
This book comprises the first 5 books of our Old Testament and serves as Jewish Holy Scripture and the basis for Jewish traditions?
Torah
Quran
Vedas
Bible
Indians rely on these seasonal winds and rains for subsistence; and, Indian Ocean traders used these to transport goods to and from India?
Monsoons
Typhoons
Vedas
Cyclones
First Indian civilizations sprang up where?
Indus River
Nile River
Yellow River
Mediterranean Sea
Indian society defined itself when these fighting peoples moved into the Ganges River plain?
Aryans
Indus
Hindus
Buddhists
Hindu society in India was divided into rigid classes called
The Caste System
The Civil Service System
The Inquisitorial Squad
The Three-field System
Early Chinese beliefs centered around?
Raising horses and herding cattle in vast grasslands
Worshipping a single god from a central temple
Honoring family relationships and clan ancestry
Working hard to achieve enlightenment
Government where a few land owning nobles have all the power?
Bureaucracy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Tyranny
Hindus and Buddhists both believe in rebirth after death, or…
Reinvigoration
Consumption
Assumption
Reincarnation
These people were early pioneers in sea trading creating many of the first colonies across the Mediterranean?
Phoenicians
Romans
Greeks
Babylonians
Greek city-state known for its philosophers and thinkers?
Athens
Sparta
Babylon
Baghdad
The tiny outmanned Greeks defeated this large empire, thus ushering in its golden age?
Persia
Byzantium
Rome
Mycenaeans
Period following Alexander the Great's conquests which connected western and eastern cultures and ideas?
Vedic Age
Hellenistic Age
Paleolithic Age
The Renaissance
Roman citizens who held the most political power in the early days of the Republic?
Patricians
Plebeians
Latifundias
Barons
Rome's rival empire who they fought for control of the Mediterranean in the Punic Wars?
Carthaginians
Greeks
Persians
Byzantines
First Roman Emperor of the Pax Romana
Julius Caesar
Caesar Augustus
Justinian
Constantine
Herod's accomplishments in Jerusalem?
Re-established the old order of Jewish high priests
Promoted a new understanding of Jewish law
Worked with the Romans to persecute Christians
Built up Jerusalem and also rebuilt the Jewish temple
Spread Jesus's gospel message far and wide across the Mediterranean in his many journeys.
St. Paul
St. Peter
St. Patrick
St. Cyril and Methodius
This Roman Emperor converted to Christianity and made it legal to practice in the Empire.
Constantine
Nero
Hadrian
Diocletian
Eastern Roman Empire was centered in what city?
Rome
Venice
Ravenna
Constantinople
The only remaining Roman institution following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Senate
Roman Roads
Roman Military
The markets of China were connected to Europe and the Middle East by a series of trade routes known as the:
Silk Road
Monsoon Marketplace
Royal Road
Toad's Turnpike
Starting with the Greeks, what became the most important symbol of status in Western society?
Owning land
Having opportunity
Inheriting wealth
Belonging to a particular religion
Romans modelled many of their ideas, institutions, and infrastructure after the ____________?
Greeks
Persians
Babylonians
Hebrews
What two empires largely tolerated local beliefs and kept local rulers in charge?
Persia and Rome
Greece and Rome
Babylon and Assyria
Egypt and Mesopotamia
St. Paul is an example of a ____________ or one who spreads a faith to faraway lands
Missionary
Priest
Friar
Monk
