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World History 1
In the beginning... Chapter 1 Senior WH
Question | Answer |
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How did God create Adam? | He took the dust of the Earth and breathed life into him. |
How did God create Eve? | Took Adam's rib and created her. |
Where did Adam and Eve live after being created? | Garden of Eden |
What is the name of the tree in the Garden of Eden? | The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. |
Who convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit? | The serpent(Satan) |
What was Adam and Eve's punishment for eating the forbidden fruit? | Eve was to bear children, and Adam was to work. |
Cain, Abel, Methusela, Enock, and Noah are children of who? | Adam and Eve |
Who committed the first ever murder in history? | Cain killed his brother, Abel, out of jealousy. |
Who was the oldest man to live, though he died before his father? | Methusela (969 years-old) |
How long was the great flood? | 40 days and nights |
Built an ark and collected two of every animal? | Noah |
Where did the ark land after the flood? | Mt. Ararat (Turkey) |
Shem, Ham, and Japeth are sons of who? | Noah |
In the Plain of Shinar where Noah's family resided? | the Fertile Crescent |
This city lies between two rivers on the Fertile Crescent? | Mesopotamia |
Name of two rivers that bordered Mesopotamia? | Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
The cradle of civilization is in..? | Modern day Iraq |
Name of tower that people built to climb to the heavens? | Tower of Babel |
Name seven, modern day countries in the Plain of Shinar? | Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Turkey, Palestine, Iraq, and Jordan |
What is the name of the first civilization? | Sumer or the Sumerians |
The name of a huge temple with a statue on top for local God? | Ziggurat |
Term for when a religious leader is also the governmental leader? | Theocracy |
When one believes in many Gods? | Polytheism |
Scribes of the Sumerians invented this type of wedged writing? | Cuneiform |
Who were the first to use wheeled vehicles? | Sumerians |
Who deciphered cuneiform in 1847? | Henry Rowlenson |
One of the oldest works in history. Tells of a man's adventures. | Epic of Gilgamesh |
Name of Goddess of fertility in the Epic of Gilgamesh? | Inanna |
Number system's basic sets for numbers, time, and degrees? | 10, 60 minutes, and 360 degrees |
Leader of Akkadians? | Sargon I (2300 BC) |
Created a code of laws for his people? | Hammurabi (Code of Hammurabi 1760 BC) |
Name of Hammurabi's capital? | Babylon |
Who was the Hamite King of Shinar? | Amraphel |
Elevated chief god for the Babylonians? | Marduk |
Conquered Babylonia in 1600 BC | Hittites |
First civilization to smelt iron? | Hittites |
Who were the Egyptians main enemy? | Hittites |
Tyre in Phoenicia was known for this..? | Purple dyes |
Sidon in Phoenicia was known for this..? | Ship building |
Byblos in Phoenicia was known for this..? | Book binding |
What type of tree was prominent in Phoenicia? | Cedar trees |
Trading city that outlasted its own empire? | Carthage (Tunis in modern day) |
Alphabet where letters represented sounds? | Phonics |
Name of Abraham's wife? | Sara |
God asked this man to move to Canaan? | Abraham |
Name of Abraham's nephew who shared land with Abraham? | Lot |
When Abraham and his nephew divided land, which side did they both receive? | Lot took Sodom while Abraham took Gomorrah |
Name of Sara's maid who bore Abraham a child? | Hagar |
Name of Abraham and Hagar's child? | Ishmael |
Who started circumcision with males? | Abraham |
What did Lot's children do to him? | Lot's two daughters raped their father... Had two sons: Moab and Ammonites. |
At what age did Sara have her first child, and what was his name? | 90 Isaac |
God told Abraham to sacrifice his son on what mountain? | Mt. Mariah |
Name of Isaac's wife? | Rebekah |
Name of Rebekah's sons with Isaac? | Jacob (mom) and Esau (dad) |
Name of father who was tricked into giving his youngest son birth right of the first born? | Isaac, and Jacob tricked him |
Jacob ran off to this man after brother tries to kill him? | Labon |
Labon's daughters? | Leah (eldest and ugly) Rachel (youngest and pretty) |
Who was Jacob married to? | Leah and Rachel |
How many children did Jacob have? | 12 boys and 1 girl (Dinah) |
Rachel's two sons? | Benjamin and Joseph |
What did Joseph's 10 older brothers want to do, and which brother didn't like the idea? | They wanted to and did throw him into a pit before leaving him to die. Reuben didn't want to. |
Joseph goes to Egypt and works for this man... His wife tries to seduce Joseph but he refused..? | Potiphar |
How does Joseph get out of prison? | He interprets the pharaoh's dream and becomes his right-hand man. |
How does Egypt become wealthy? | By storing food in preparation for a seven year famine |
Where does Joseph let his family live during the famine? | The land of Goshen |
Was raised as an Egyptian thought he was a Hebrew? | Moses |
After fleeing from Egypt because he killed a man, Moses spends 40 years in the desert... What is the name of the father of the desert girls Moses protects? | Jethro |
Name of Moses' wife? | Zipporah |
Name of mountain Moses climbed to collect the Ten Commandments from God and where he viewed the Promised Land before dying? | Mt. Sinai |
The name of the tenth and final plague of Egypt? | Death of the first born |
Bread from heaven that tastes bad? | Manna |
The priest tribe out of all 12 tribes? | Levites |
Name of Moses' brother who took charge after he left? | Aaron |
Aaron convinced the Hebrews to worship this animal? | The golden calf |
The two men from the adult generation that went to the Promise Land? | Caleb and Joshua |
God told Joshua how to take over this town in the Promise Land? | Jericho |
Name of woman who hid Hebrew spies in Jericho? | Rahab |
Lead the Hebrews into the Promise Land (Canaan)? | Joshua |
Name of book that held many important historical happenings. | Book of Judges |
Tent used by Israelites that held the Arc of the Covenant? | Tabernacle |
Chest or box used to carry two stone tablets of Ten Commandments. Could not be touched or you would die. | Ark of the Covenant |
Samuel anointed this man as King of Israel? | Saul |
Who did David battle from the Philistine army? | Goliath |
Who becomes King of Israel after Saul? | David |
Name of Saul's son and David's BF? | Johnathan |
Name of woman who David impregnated although she wasn't his wife? | Bathsheba, she was Uriah's wife |
The name of the angel who was sent by God to tell David of his wrongs? | Nathan |
Bathsheba's second child and the next king of Israel? | Solomon |
What did Solomon write? | Most proverbs and the book of Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon |
Famous quote from wisest man, Solomon? | "Fear God and remember 10 Commandments" |
How many wives and concubines did Solomon have? | 700 wives and 300 mistresses |
Name of Solomon's two sons? | Rehoboam and Jeroboam |
What did Rehoboam rule? | South or Kingdom of Judah (Judah and Benjamin tribes) |
What did Jeroboam rule? | North or Kingdom of Israel. 10 other tribes |
What country took the Kingdom of Israel captive? | Assyria in 8th century BC |
The capital of Assyria? | Nineveh |
Chaldeans defeated Assyrians at this battle? | Carchemish |
Got things started at Babylon for Nebuchadnezzar? | Nobopolassar |
Who sieged Jerusalem ? He was one of the great rulers of Babylon? | Nebuchadnezzar (605-562 BC) |
Chaldeans would train Hebrews in work after taking over Israel... Who would interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream for him? | Daniel |
Three friends of Daniel who were sent to the fiery furnace, but survived? | Shadrach, Meshac, and Abednego |
One of seven ancient wonders that was made to appease Amytis (Persian wife) | Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
Famous temple in Babylon? | Temple of Marduk |
After Nebuchadnezzar didn't listen to Daniel's warning, what happens? | He was turned into a beast |
Nebuchadnezzar's son and grandson? | Nabanitis and Belshazzar |
Words written in blood after Belshazzar drank from sacred cups after his father left for war? | "Mene mene tekel upharsin" |
Name of the Mede who took over Babylon? | Darius the Mede, or Gubaru (539 BC) |
Name of empire Cyrus the Great ruled | Medo-Persian empire |
Ruler who was very tolerant with people he conquered. Gubaru worked under this man? | Cyrus the Great (559-530 BC) |
First to coin money? | Lydians |
Divided empire into 4 regions led by governors? | Darius I |
Governors who ruled over regions of Persian empire? | Satraps |
Horsemen who traveled across empire for king of Persia? | "Eyes and Ears of King" |
Darius I established this for his empire? | Standard weights and measure |
Son of Darius (Gubaru) | Xerxes I ( Persian leader during Persians vs Spartans in 300) |
Once a law, you can't alter it or change it? | Law of the Medes and Persians (Book of Esther) |
Persian thinker who created the monotheistic idea that there was one God? | Zoroaster |
Zoroaster's new religion consisted of this God and Devil? | Ahura Mazda vs. Ahiram (Zend-Avesta was the sacred book) |
The "Dog Star" that would appear before the yearly annual flood? | Sirius |
When was the Old Kingdom in Egypt? | 3100-2270 BC |
Where was Upper Egypt? | South, Memphis to Aswan |
Where was Lower Egypt? | North, Memphis-Delta Nile |
What was Menes' capital? | Memphis |
Who was the ruler of the first Egyptian Dynasty? | Menes |
Meaning of pharaoh? | Great House |
Social classes of Egypt? | Priests and Nobility, merchants and traders and craftsmen, slaves and free laborers |
When was the Middle Kingdom? | 2270-1550 BC |
Civil war between these group of people and the rest of Egypt? | Hyksos (good chariot warfare) |
When was the New Kingdom? | 1580-1085BC |
Who took Egypt back from the Hyksos? | Thutmose III (1501-1447 BC) |
Nickname for Thutmose III? | The Napoleon of Egypt |
Thutmose III's capital? | Thebes |
Pharaoh queen unwilling to give her throne to her son? | Hatshepsut (1503-1482 BC) |
Ruler of Egypt who claimed that he had many military victories and battled the Hittites and had many monuments? | Ramses II (1279-1213 BC) |
When was the Period of Decadence? | (1085-332 BC) |
God of the Underworld? | Osiris |
Chief-Goddess, taught women duties, Goddess of fertility? | Isis |
God of the Dead, Jackel like image? | Anubis |
Part man and part falcon God of Egypt | Horus |
Symbol of Life? | Ankh |
Symbolized eternity and protection? | Shen ring |