WorksheetsNMMS World Hx Final Exam Review & Study
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 21mins
What is geography?
The study of cultures
The study of map-making
The study of the earth and its people.
What are the five themes of geography?
Location; place; human-environment interaction; movement; regions
Supply; demand; liquid assets; collective economy; regions
Location; place; scarcity; Earth; cooperative commerce
What is scarcity?
The fear of small things
The fear of large things
Lack of a resource
What is opportunity cost?
The price of memory
What is given up to buy or make something
The price assigned at the time of purchase
Paleolithic people first used tools made of
Bronze
Sticks, stones, tree branches
Flint
Which of the following developed after the Paleolithic Age?
Language
Farming
Tools
What major changes took place during the Neolithic Age?
People built sturdier shelters
People began farming in a systematic way
People learned to use fire to survive in cold environments
In Mesopotamia, floods deposited silt, which made the soil
Fertile
Dry
Barren
Sumerians developed a 12-month calendar by recording the
Position of planets and stars
Length of the seasons
Amount of flooding
Which of the following groups belonged to the Sumerian middle class?
Government officials
Merchants
Enslaved people
Who developed the first empire in Mesopotamia?
Hammurabi
Sargon
Ashurbanipal
What did the Assyrians often demand from the people they conquered?
Leaving their homes
Participation in elections
The worship of their gods
The astronomers of Babylon mapped
The irrigation canals
The nearby mountains
The stars and the planets
Why did the leaders of Kush move their capital to the city of Meroë?
The location was safer from Assyrian attacks because it was situated on the banks of the Nile River
There were large deposits of iron ore nearby
All of the above
How was Meroë different from typical Egyptian cities?
Meroë contained printing presses
Meroë was in the middle of the desert
Meroë contained iron furnaces
Which areas did not trade with Kush?
Arabia, China, India
Tropical Africa, Rome and China
Argentina, Opa-locka, and Canada
The ancient kingdom of Axum was located in which present-day county?
Italy
Ethiopia
Indonesia
What did the delta of the Nile River provide Egyptians?
Trade route to the Mediterranean Sea
Protection from invaders
Fertile soil for growing crops
Who was responsible for uniting and governing Egypt?
Bureaucrats
Workers
Pharaohs
Egyptians built pyramids because they
Wished to honor the achievements of their leaders
Hoped to impress later civilizations with their buildings
Wanted to protect the dead pharaohs’ bodies
The largest group in Egyptian society was made up of
Farmers and workers
Scribes and traders
Artisans and merchants
What was the main focus of Queen Hatshepsut’s reign?
Building pyramids
Developing trade
Preparing for the afterlife
How were the Kushites different from the Egyptians?
They produced large amounts of iron
They built temples and tombs for their kings
They used a system of writing with hieroglyphics
Who was not a king or leader of Mali?
Sundiata
Sonni Ali
Mansa Musa
Who was not a king or leader of Songhay?
Sundiata
Sonni Ali
Askia Muhammad
Why did Greek colonies spread throughout the Mediterranean region?
Population pressures caused them to develop
Persia attacked mainland Greece
Pérez founded those colonies
What is the rule of a very small number of wealthy, or rich, people called?
Tyranny
Oligarchy
Representative democracy
The officials who enforced the laws and collected taxes in ancient Sparta were called
Generals
Ephors
Helots
Which of the following was a Persian king?
Xerxes
Alexander the Great
Pericles
Approximately how long did the Peloponnesian War last?
17 years
27 years
50 years
Socrates was sentenced to death because
Some people thought that his teaching was dangerous
He did not believe in absolute right and wrong
Some people did not like his ideas about philosopher kings
Who taught the idea of the “Golden Mean”?
Socrates
Queen Saintjean
Plato
Alexander the Great’s plan to unite a great empire failed because
The Persians reconquered their land
His generals divided the kingdom after his death
His armies grew frustrated and wished to return home
Farming, transportation, and trade in the Indus Valley were all dependent on
Mountains
Rivers
Monsoons
In the Indian caste system, your karma was largely decided by
Whether one was reincarnated
Whether one followed your dharma, or duty
Whether one learned the Four Noble Truths
Buddhism appealed to a wider range of people than Hinduism because
Buddhists believed in the power of vegan pizza
The Buddha traveled to many places
Buddhism treated all people equally
If a mosquito lands on my hand and I refuse to kill it, I am practicing
Ahimsa
Theravada
Dharma
The Ramayana is
A beautiful temple
An epic poem
A sacred city
How did mountains and deserts help Chinese civilization develop?
They made transportation easier
They gave China safe borders
They made it difficult for the Chinese to grow crops
Shang rulers expanded their kingdom by
Military conquest
Marriage with neighboring rulers
Land purchases
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The rule of China by a wicked tyrant
The belief that a son had the right to inherit his father’s land
The belief that the Chinese king’s right to rule came from the gods
The belief of Kung-Fu Tzu (Confucius) that government service should be open to all able men led to
The rule of China by Ms. T. Collins
Wars by rival kings
The creation of a system of civil service tests
Most people in ancient China were
Aristocrats
Farmers
Merchants
Trade increased during the Han dynasty because of
The expansion of the Roman Empire into China
Food surpluses in China
Chinese exploration and improved technology
The first Miamians were
The Seminole
The Miccosukee
The Tequesta (Tekesta)
Which of the following represents an achievement of the Maya?
Calendar systems
Seal-skin kayaks
Animal-shaped mounds
Which is a true statement about the lives of Roman women?
Roman women had the same rights as Roman men
Roman women did not participate in Roman society
Roman women had more freedom if their husbands were wealthy
Which event marked the end of the Western Roman Empire?
The Greek city of Byzantium was renamed Constantinople
The Visigoths defeated the Romans at Adrianople
The Germanic leader Odoacer seized control of Rome
The Chinese rulers preferred Confucianism over Buddhism because it taught
People to escape suffering
The importance of being active in society
The use of terror in conquering enemies
What is Ahimsa?
The Jain principle of nonviolence towards all living things
Aisha and Amina’s sister
A confederation of trade unionists on the island of Tobago
