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WHI Study Guide for exam

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which civilizations created a 22 character alphabet to help them trade along the Mediterranean coast? 

a)

Phoenicians

b)

Hebrew

2.

Which empire was renowned for Imperial Bureaucracy, developing roads, Zoroastrianism and its policy of tolerance towards the people it conquered?

a)

Persian Empire

b)

Maurya Empire

3.

Which Hindu belief means that all thoughts and actions result in future consequences?

a)

Reincarnation

b)

  Karma

4.

  Rebirth based on karma is associated with which Hindu belief

a)

reincarnation

b)

Enlightenment

5.

Between 100,000 to 400,000 years ago, what took place?

a)

 The silk routes opened for trade

b)

Homo sapiens emerged

6.

What did early hunter-gatherers rely on to survive?

a)

 Many wild plants and animals

b)

Commercial agriculture

7.

-Nomadic

-Fire

-Simple tools

-Cave Art

  • -Oral language

  • are all associated with?

a)

Settled Communities

b)

Hunter-gatherer Societies

8.

Which scenario shows evidence of the development of permanent  communities during the Neolithic Age?

a)

communities coming together to farm growing wheat, wheat and barley, and raising goats

b)

A man starting a fire to help cook the gain he retrieved from hunting

9.

What is the main objective of an archaeologist's research?

a)

   Study past societies through the examination of past cultures and material remains

b)

Study of human behavior and psychology

10.

why did early civilizations develop near river valleys become a good location for settlement?

a)

Rich soil for farming and easy to defend

b)

Commercial trading opportunities existed

11.

Look at the map and then identify the river located as number 3

a)

Mesopotamia

b)

Nile River Valley

12.

Look at the map and then identify the river located as number 2

a)

Jordan

b)

Nile

13.

Which civilizations developed on the Huang He River?

a)

Chinese

b)

Indian

14.

Which civilizations developed on the Nile River?

a)

Egyptian

b)

Hebrew

15.

Which civilizations developed on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

a)

Mesopotamian

b)

Hebrew

16.

Which civilizations developed on the Indus River?

a)

Chinese

b)

Indian

17.

Which civilizations developed on the Jordan River?

a)

Mesopotamian

b)

Hebrew

18.

Which civilizations developed on the Mediterranean Sea and were known for trading?

a)

Phoenicians

b)

Chinese

19.

The Phoenicians developed the alphabet, what did the people of Sumerians develop?

a)

Hieroglyphics

b)

cuneiform

20.
  1. Which two rivers were the most important to the early Indian subcontinent?

a)

Indus & Ganges

b)

Indus & Euphrates

21.
  1. Early humans made sense of the world around them by creating stories that developed into practicing _________________________ (many gods and goddesses)


a)

monotheism

b)

Polytheism

22.
  1. As permanent settlements developed, leaders developed based on religion, and they often were _______________________ (passed to the next generation of the same family).

a)

Hereditary

b)

Democracy

23.

What type of writing did the Egyptians develop?

a)

hieroglyphics

b)

Alphabet

24.
  1. Jews were displaced or spread to other parts of the world.  What term is used to describe this spread of people? _______________________-

a)
Diaspora
b)
Exodus
25.
  1. Which belief from Hinduism means all thoughts and actions result in future consequences?  ________________________

a)
Dharma
b)
karma
26.
  1. Define reincarnation- _______________________________________

a)

The Hindu belief that a person's soul stays in the same body after death.

b)

The Hindu belief that a person's soul is reborn into a new body after death.

27.
  1. Which religion is associated with the following?  ________________


  • Four Noble Truths

  • Eightfold Path to Enlightenment

a)
Hinduism
b)
Buddhism
28.
  1. Who was responsible for sending Buddhist missionaries to China and other parts of the world?  ______________________.

a)
Julius Caesar
b)

Asoka

29.
  1. Which Indian empire was described as the Golden Age for achievements in medicine, astronomy, and math? ____________________________

a)
Gupta Empire
b)
Maurya Empire
30.
  1. Which empire had the following?  ____________________


  • Roads

  • Imperial bureaucracy

  • Tolerant of conquered people

  • Zoroastrianism

a)
Roman Empire
b)
Persian Empire
31.
  1. Harmony with nature, humility, living a simple life with inner peace is associated with which religion?  ________________

a)
Hinduism
b)

Taoism

32.
  1. A ruler in China could stay a leader as long as his rule was just (fair).  This is called the ________________________.

a)

Mandate of Heaven

b)

Mandate of Hell

33.

Trade routes that connected China to places as far away as Rome (Italy) is called the _____________________Routes.

a)
Silk Routes
b)

Black Sea Routes

34.
  1. Why did they build the Great Wall of China?  _______________________

a)
To create a barrier against wild animals
b)
Defense and protection against invasions
35.
  1. The Greeks (and later the Romans) created ____________________ that explained natural events, human qualities, and natural phenomena.

a)

monotheism

b)

Polytheism

36.

Which number represents Athens?

a)
1
b)

2

37.

Which number represents Sparta?

a)
2
b)
1
38.

Which number represents Troy

a)

3

b)

4

39.

Which number represents Macedonia?

a)

3

b)

4

40.
  1. __________________ and ___________________ were two tyrants that tried to reform Greece.

a)
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar
b)

Draco and Solon

41.
  1. What is the legacy of the Greek leader Pericles?  _____________________________

a)

Expansion of democracy, construction of the Parthenon, and promotion of arts and culture

b)
Oppression of the lower classes
42.
  1. Which city-state was militaristic, aggressive, and was ruled by an oligarchy?  ___________________________

a)
Sparta
b)
Athens
43.

Define oligarchy- _________________________________

a)
A form of government in which a single ruler has absolute power
b)
A form of government in which a small group of people have control
44.

  1. What was the main consequence of the Peloponnesian War for Athens and Sparta? ___________________________________________________

a)

Sparta became the most powerful city-state

b)

Both Athens and Sparta became weak, paving the way for Macedonian conquest

45.
  1. _________________________ had conquests that stretched to western India, and spread Hellenistic culture into Egypt and other parts of the world.

a)
Alexander the Great
b)
Julius Caesar
46.
  1. _____________________ was best known for writing The Odyssey.  It is an epic ______.

a)

Shakespeare: Play

b)

Homer: Poem

47.
  1. Socates, Plato and Aristotle are a List the 3 famous Greek ________________________________________________________________.

a)
philosophers
b)
architects
48.

What style of Greek Column is being displayed?

a)
Corinthian
b)
Ionic
49.

What style of Greek column is being displayed?

a)
Ionic
b)
Doric
50.

What style of Greek column is being displayed?

a)
Corinthian
b)
Ionic
51.

The Romans were influenced by other cultures in their mythology. Who were these influences primarily from?

a)

Persians

b)

Greeks

52.

The Punic Wars were between Rome and _________________. 

a)
Carthage
b)
Greece
53.

The image presented is of Justinian. This was a style of art in the Byzantine Empire that utilized glass tiles to create artwork -

a)

Icon

b)

mosaic

54.

Constantinople was a strategic location because

a)

its strategic position. It was a crossroads of trade between Europe and Asia

b)
it was an isolated location with no access to trade routes
55.

Germanic invasions, geographic size, cost of defense, devaluation of Roman currency was the cause of which of the following

a)

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

b)
Expansion of the Roman Empire
56.

Pope accepted in the west, Patriarch accepted in the East this lead to

a)
The Renaissance
b)

The Great Schism. Division between the churches took place

57.

Which is true of the role of Constantinople?

a)

Was a link to the past preserving classical Greco-Roman culture

b)

Was considered the capital of theWestern Roman Empire

58.

The Western Church became centered in which city?

a)

Constantinople

b)

Rome

59.

What ways did the Byzantine culture influenced Eastern Europe and Russia –

a)
Adoption of Greek and Roman mythology
b)

Ideas spread through trade routes of the Black and Baltic Seas, adoption of Greek Alphabet and Christianity, transmission of religious art, architecture, and literature

60.

Emperor Constantine chose the location for a new capital partly for its distance from

a)

Germanic invaders.

b)

trade routes

61.

Plays and Fables Round Earth, concept of zero, concept of round earth, are associated with which empire?

a)
Roman Empire
b)
Gupta Empire
62.

What is an example of a democratic characteristic exhibited by the Roman Republic?

a)

Recommendations were passed by a Senate

b)

Rule was dominated by a powerful king

63.

All are ways the Byzantine culture influenced Eastern Europe and Russia EXCEPT –

a)

Adoption of the RomanCatholic Church

b)

ideas spread through trade routes of the Black and Baltic Seas

c)

adoption of the Greek alphabet for the Slavic languages

d)

aspects such as religious art and architecture were adopted

64.

Innocent until proven guilty is associated with which set of Roman legal codes?

a)

Ten Commandments

b)

12 tables

65.

Ancestry worship, code of politeness, respect for elders, education are associated with which religion?

a)
Hinduism
b)
Confucianism
66.

Who founded taoism?

a)
Confucius
b)

Lao Tzu

67.

Which mountain range as displayed provided migration routes for Aryans into the Indian subcontinent?

a)

Himmalayas

b)

Hindu Kush

68.

Which river system is labeled B on the Map

a)

Indus

b)

Ganges

69.

Which river system is labeled B on the Map?

a)

Indus

b)

Ganges

70.

Which mountain range is labeled c on the map

a)

Hindu Kush

b)

Himmalayas