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WorksheetsWorld History Study Guide
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The writings of Paul and other early Christians are collected in
The Talmud
The New Testament
The Torah
The Old Testament
The first Emporer of Rome took the title
Julius Caesar
Proconsul
Claudius
Augustus
All of the following can be said about Jesus EXCEPT that he
Used parables and symbolic stories
Was arrested as a political rebel
Excited controversy among Jews
Was singled out for an unusual form of execution
Roman culture and religion were greatly influenced by the
Spanish and Turks
Egyptians and Turks
Greeks and Etruscans
Sicilians and Etruscans
The legendary twins who founded Rome, Romulus and Remus, were nurtured by a
She-wolf
She-male
She-pig
Sheeba, Queen of the Jungle
Who was Caesar's adopted son and successor?
Constantine
Augustus
Mark Antony
Dylan Meyer
The Peace of Augustus - Pax Romana lasted for
6 years
A hot minute
200 years
2,000 years
After Julius Caesar captured Italy, he became
First Emporer
Dictator for life
First Consul
God
All of the following are considered "Good" Emporers EXCEPT
Trajan
Hadrian
Marcus Aurelius
Nero
In the early Roman republic, members of the land-holding upper class were called
Pogchamps
Plebians
Consuls
Paticians
Roman words, laws, and __________ still shape the world today
Architecture
Foods
Clothing styles
Egypt
In the Punic Wars, Rome gained control of lands around the Mediterranean Sea by defeating
The Sicilians
The Carthaginians
The Persians
The Greeks
To try and restore order to the empire, Roman Emporer Diocletian
Divided the empire into two parts
overhauled the Roman legal system
Granted tolerance to Christians
Encouraged the revival of the Republic
The ancient Romans developed their religious beliefs from
Norse mythology
Greek mythology
Asian beliefs
Egyptian culture
Julius Caesar's enemies assassinated him because
They were angry with him for his military failures in Gaul
They feared he planned to make himself king of Rome
They were opposed to his expansion into other lands
They were fearful when he refused to disband his army
Who made the greatest contribution toward setting Christianity on the road to becoming a world religion
Augustine
Peter
Your mother
Paul
The highest-ranking official in the early Christian church was the
Deacon
Patriarch
Elder
Bishop
The main issue that separated the churches of the East and West was
The authority of the pope
gay
the belief that Jesus is the messiah
The role of priests in conducting worship services
Christianity is rooted in what religion?
Greek mythology
Roman Polytheism
Judaism
Milfs
The greatest military barrier of the Western world is
The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Wall of China
Hadrians Wall
Hoover Dam
Christians divided themselves into two groups, The Roman Catholic Church in the West, and in the East, they were called the
Eastern Lutheran
Church of Bingus-Christ
Eastern Orthodox
Greek Mythological
The Emporer who divided Rome into two - East and West, believing it would be easier to run was
Constantine
Kuzco
Hadrian
Diocletian
After various invasions from different Germanic tribes, what tribe finally took Rome?
Saxons
Visigoths
Huns
Vandals
The bishop of Rome claimed authority over the other patriarchs and was known as the
Pope
Bishop
Daddy
Emporer
On August 24, 79 A.D., the volcano Vesuvius erupted and covered
Rome
Crete
Pompeii
Carthage
What important change did the Roman Emporer Constantine make in A.D. 313
He divided the empire into two parts, Eastern and Western
He brought back the republic to help end political violence
He granted religious toleration to Christians
He moved the capital of the empire to Vienna
From childhood, Spartan boys were trained to be
Hot
Politicians
Soldiers
Artists
The celebration of drama and theater twice year was to honor the god or godess
Zeus
Bingus
Dionysus
Venus
Schools in Greece used the Iliad and Odyssey to teach
History
Values
English
Literature
Greek sculpting, like Greek architecture, reached its "Golden" height in Athens during the time of
Byron
Zeus
The Trojan War
Pericles
Why did Persia go to war with Athens in 490 B.C.?
Persia didn't like Athens
Athens interfered with Persian affairs
Persia wanted to expand its empire
Persia tried to regain stolen land
Which cultures contributed to the new Hellenistic civilization
Greek and Indian
Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian
Greek, African, and Italian
Greek, Atlantian, Asgardian, and Martian
Athens was defeated during the Peloponnesian War by an alliance led by the
Macedonians
Persians
Spartans
Arcturians
Located on the peninsula of Attica, what Greek city-state or polis established democracy and opened its arms to new ideas and education
Sparta
Delia
Athens
Ionia
Located on Peloponnesus, what Greek city-state or polis evolved into a purely military society?
Sparta
Delia
Athens
Ionia
Spartan men were allowed to retire from the army at age
20
30
40
60
A Greek play that mocked people or social customs is called a
Comedy
Mystery
Tragedy
Love Story
A major factor in Greece's victories during the Persian Wars was
The cooperation of the independent city-states
The relationship between Ionia and Sparta
The poor relationship between Athens and Sparta
Its vastly greater number of warships
Who established an empire that extended from Greece to Egypt and India
Alexander
Pericles
Joseph Joestar
Herodotus
The mixture of Greek and Middle Eastern culture that formed during and after Alexander is called
Bibenic
Ptolemaic
Hellenistic
Stoic
All of the following were true about the Olympics EXCEPT
Women were not permitted to watch
Non-Athenians were not allowed to compete
They were held in honor of Zeus
They did not include team events
During the Peloponnesian War, Sparta and its allies were called the
Delian League
Allies
Peloponnesian League
Crewmates
All of the following affected Athens after the Peloponnesian War, EXCEPT
Population declined
Land was destroyed
Greeks lost faith in democracy
Unemployment decreased
Who founded Geometry during the Hellenistic Age?
Euclid
Archimedes
Pythagoras
Hippocrates
The Spartans were able to defeat the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War with the aid of the
Ionians
Persians
Delian League
lesbians
Under which leader did democracy in Athens work best
Peisistratus
Draco
Pericles
Solonivilizations
Why was the Delian league formed?
To guard against future attacks from Persia
To create a trading alliance
To give all the city-states equal power in Greece
To unite the city-states under one empire
A Greek play that told a story of human suffering was called a
Comedy
Satire
Tragedy
Love story
All of the following were Greek philosophers EXCEPT
Pericles
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
Who created the oath that set ethical standards for doctors during the Hellenistic Age?
Euclid
Bophadese
Pythagoras
Hippocrates
Archaeologists refer to the period of time before people invented writing systems as
Geography
Prehistory
Technology
Archaeology
Historians are like Archaeologists in that they both study how people lived by examining
Longitude and Latitude
Plants and Animals
Artifacts
Regions
Which of the following statements does NOT describe life in the Old Stone Age
Paleolithic people moved from place to place following game animals
Paleolithic people lived in small hunting and food-gathering groups
Paleolithic people produced their own crops and stayed in one place
Paleolithic people were completely dependent on their environment for survival
Which of the following is a Neolithic advancement?
First use of fire
Use of stone tools
Creation of calendars
Ritual burials
Which of the following was a characteristic of the Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Period?
Farming
Written language
Toolmaking
Organized government
Where did the first cities emerge?
Along trade routes
In river valleys
Along the Mediterranean coast
In the Americas
Which of the following was another characteristic of the Paleolithic Age
Farming villages
Organized government
Hunting and gathering
Domestication of animals
Which of the following caused ancient civilizations to change?
Lack of traditions
Contact with other people through trade, warfare, and migration
Poor leaders
Nomadic herders
What part of the world did the first Cro-Magnons come from?
Europe
North and South America
Asia and Australia
Africa
Why was the Neolithic Revolution important to history?
It contributed to the establishment of civilization
It brought about the outbreak of many wars
It helped establish nomadic tribes across the world
It made America free from Britain
The agricultural lifestyle that led to the development of all of the following EXCEPT
The calendar
Rules of inheritance
Land boundaries
Cooperative hunting groups
Which was a key feature of early civilizations?
Cities
Social equality
Steelmaking
A system of exchanging goods for money
The process by which people become more proficient at earning a living by performing a single task is referred to as
Popping-off
Surplus agricultural production
The specialization of labor
Domestication
Complex societies with advanced knowledge of farming, trade, government, and art are
Cultures
Cooperatives
Civilizations
Agricultural villages
Bronze became a favored material for tools and weapons because
It could be given a tough sharp cutting edge and was easy to mold
It was much less expensive than copper or tin
Flint supplies diminished during the Bronze Age
Artisans found it difficult to shape liquid metals
People who specialized in jobs and became skilled craftworkers were known as
Artisans
Imposters
Nobles
Peasant farmers
First human-like creatures, walked upright, traced back to 4.4 million years ago
Cro-Magnon
Nyanderthals ~ ~
OwO
Hominids
Which of the following aided cultural diffusion AMONG ancient people
Trade
New technology
IMPONSTER
Farming
What was found in 1801 that allow us to decipher hieroglyphics?
Papyrus
Rosetta Stone
Egyptian pyramid at Giza
Great Egyptian Wall
What evidence suggests that the Indus Valley cities had a well-organized government
Well planned cities
Records left by kings
Statues of goddesses
Writing on stone seals
Which of the following is a true statement about the Indus Valley civilization?
It lasted for thousands and thousands of years
It thrived until modern times
It spread to other parts of Asia
It disappeared with a trace and was only rediscovered in 1922
The Chinese system of writing was difficult to learn because it used...
A complex alphabet
Thousands of characters
Hundreds of letters
A gun
The Mandate of Heaven is the idea behind which of the following?
The feudal system
Ancestor worship
The dynastic cycle
Obama-Care
Most Egyptians were members of which of the following groups?
Farmers
Nobles
Imposters
Crewmates
A system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed militia service and other kinds of support to the ruler is called
Dynasty
Feudalism
Bureaucracy
Theocracy
Which dynasty developed the feudal system in China?
Xia
Shang
Zhou
Taiga
Which of the following was first achieved by the Chinese?
Ironworking
Silk making
The horse-drawn chariot
Godhood
The Egyptians believed in which of the following?
Life after death
One god
Jesus
Milfs
How did ancient Egyptians view their pharaohs?
As gods
As hot
As cruel leaders
As equals
Ancient people are called ____ because they believed in many gods
Atheists
Milfs
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
China was more isolated from the rest of the world than other early civilizations because
It is an island
Chinese rulers forbade travel
It was surrounded by mountains, jungles, deserts, and an ocean
No one wanted China
Which of the following geography features had the greatest influence on ancient Egypt?
Nile River
Red Sea
Deserts
Mediterranean Sea
During what kingdom were the ancient pyramids of Giza built?
Medium Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Old Kingdom
The need to keep records led to the development of which of the following in Egypt?
Cuneiform
Pharaohs
Pyramids
Hieroglyphs
The Code of Hammurabi was a major achievement for which of the following reasons?
It was the first major collection of laws
It treated men and women as equals
It ended capital punishment
It rejected the principle of an "eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth."
How did the Sumerians differ from the Egyptians in the way they viewed an afterlife?
They saw life after death to be pleasant
They believed they themselves would be gods
They saw life after death as horrible
They believed they would be with their gods
