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Mid-term Review
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Question | Answer |
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What was the earliest system of laws ever recorded? | Hammurabi’s Code |
What type of government in which rule is based on religious authority? | Theocracy |
What were the beliefs of the prophet Zoroaster that was similar to later concepts of Christianity and Islam? | Belief in Angels and a “Satan-like” figure |
What was the main reason that the Phoenicians needed a phonetic alphabet? | Their merchants needed a way to keep track of their sales clearly and quickly |
What was the Egyptian system of writing? | Hieroglyphics |
What was true about literature and the performing arts in India during the reign of Chandra Gupta II? | it flourished and thrived as it was one of India’s best traits,until around A.D. 500 |
What do Hinduism and Buddhism have a common belief in? | Reincarnation |
What is the name for the kind of government that Shi Huangdi formed? | Autocracy |
What was the underlying objective that gave rise to the Chinese philosophies of Confucius, Laozi, and the Legalists? | They all wanted to bring back order,harmony,and respect for authority in China |
What is the name given to the seasonal winds in India? | Monsoon Winds |
What is a republic? | the form of government in which the citizens select their leaders |
What achievements are the Romans most known for? | engineering,law,Latin language,architecture |
What made Christianity such a popular religion during Roman times? | embraced all people,promised eternal life,extensive extensive roads helped it spread,and it offered personal relationship with God |
What factors caused the Roman empire to fall apart? | growing gap between rich and poor,lack of public interest in the government,now more wealth coming in from new conquests,high taxes,high inflation,military lacked discipline and training |
How did the Byzantine Empire influence Russia? | similar law code,art,and architecture,written language using Cyrillic alphabet,introduced Orthodox Christianity,led to close relationships between the church and government |
What was the importance of Justinian’s law code? | it brought order to the Byzantine Empire and later influence laws in both Eastern and Western Europe |
What traits made Genghis Khan such a successful ruler of the Mongols? | |
According to Muslims, who is Mohammad? | |
What factors made it possible for Muslims to create an international trade network? | |
What do Sunni and Shi'a Muslims disagree about? | |
At what events does cultural blending most likely take place at? | |
What was one negative effect of the Crusades that has continued to the present? | |
How were feudalism and the manor system related? | |
What issue did popes and kings fight over? | |
What role did the church play in the middle ages? | |
What were the results of the Commercial Revolution? | |
What is Ibn Sina known for developing? | |
What was the most likely cause for the Bantu migrations? | |
What two products dominated trade throughout Western Africa? | |
What does religions syncretism involve? | |
What helped aid trade between Africa and India? | |
What contributed most to the decline of Native American civilizations in Latin America after the arrival of European explorers? | |
What is one way in which the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas were similar? | |
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy? | |
Why was Leonardo da Vinci considered the ultimate Renaissance man? | |
What two ancient cultures did Humanists focus their work on? | |
What was an immediate result of the Protestant Reformation? | |
How did the Catholic Church respond to the Reformation? | |
What was the purpose of the Act of Supremacy? | |
What were the effects of the invention of the printing press? | |
Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world? | |
What was the astrolabe? | |
What was one similarity between the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan and the system of feudalism in medieval Europe? | |
What was the cause of the population boom in China during the 1600s and 1700s? |