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History Midterm
Question | Answer |
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What does the word Neolithic mean? | New stone |
Where did the first cities form? | River Valleys |
Asians mixed what two metals to make bronze? | Copper and Tin |
What empire unified the northern and southern regions of Mesopotamia? | Babylonia |
How many laws did Hammurabi have in his law code? | 282 |
What did Sumerians write on? | Wet Clay |
What does the word "Pharaoh" mean? | Great House |
What region of the world are the Hyksos from? | Western Asia |
Who came to power after Hatsheput died? | Thutmose 3 |
What does the word Hebrew mean? | From across |
How many sons did Jacob have? | 12 |
Ancient Israel is the birthplace of how many monotheistic religions? | 3 |
What were the main crops in Greece? | Grapes, Barley, and Olives |
Philosophy is translated to mean what? | Love and Wisdom |
King Leonidas met the Persian army with his 300 men at what battle? | Thermopylae |
What general started a conquest of Greece that would eventually be the Macedonian Empire? | Phillip 2 |
What religion did the Aryans and the Indus Valley culture produce? | Hinduism |
In 1500 BC, what group of people invaded the Indus Valley? | Aryans |
What were the major schools of thought that emerged in Chine between 500 and 200 BC? | Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism |
What is the common name for the Chang Jiang river? | Yangtze River |
What is the common name for the Huang He River? | Yellow River |
Rome began as a group of villages along what river? | Tiber River |
Who fought in the Punic Wars? | Rome and Carthage |
What was Augustus Caesar's real name? | Octavian |