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W.H. Midterm Exam
World History Ist Semester Midterm Exam Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mandate of Heaven | In China, the belief in the divine approval of the ruler |
| Judah | What the southern kingdom was known as when Israel split into two kingdoms |
| The one and only prophet of Allah | What the Muslims believe that Muhammad was |
| City-State | a Mesopotamian political unit much like an independent country |
| Justinian | a Byzantine emperor famous for his law code that continued to be used 900 years later |
| Monarchy | A government ruled by a king or queen |
| Qin Dynasty | Legalist ideas in China were used to subdue warring states with the development of this dynasty |
| Democracy | A government ruled by the people |
| Nirvana | The intended end goal if one followed the eightfold path |
| Moses | The Hebrew who received the Ten Commandments from Yahweh |
| Theocracy | A type of government in which rule is based on religious authority |
| Technology | Ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet needs |
| Jesus | The individual whom was Jewish by birth that began a ministry that latter became known as Christianity |
| Shi’a Muslim | Muslim group that believes that only a relative of Muhammed is qualified to lead the religion |
| Macedonia | The home of Alexander the Great |
| Ali | The last of the “rightly guided” caliphs in Islam |
| Abraham | The founder of Judaism whom believed in only Yahweh as the true god |
| Schism | In 1054, the solution found in the conflicts between the Roman Catholic Church in the West and the Orthodox Church in the East |
| Theodora | The wife of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, was significant to his reign because she encouraged him to rebuild the city following the riots |
| Pax Romana | A term referring to the 200 years of Roman peace because of the efficiency in the empire that Augustus placed into effect |
| Enlightenment | A point of obtaining wisdom reached by Siddhartha Gautama |
| Socrates | The Greek philosopher who created the development of thinking logically that led to the Scientific method |
| Al-Andalus | The Muslim ruled area in what is known today as Spain |
| Czar | The name for the Russian emperor |
| Sacred Carving | Hieroglyphics can be translated into this |
| Urban II | The pope who issued the call for the first crusade |
| Augustus | The first emperor of Rome |
| Mosque | The place of Muslims worship |
| Muslim | The individual who surrenders to God |
| Reincarnation | The belief of re-birth |
| Umayyads | The dynasty that ruled the Muslim Empire from 661 to 750 AD |
| Inquisition | The church court used in Spain to persecute Jews and Muslims |
| Polytheism | The organized system of beliefs, practices and worship that centers on multiple gods |
| Constantine | A significant Roman emperor because he moved the capital to Byzantium and connected the eastern and western halves after taking the throne in AD 324. |
| Aristocracy | A form of government that was ruled by a small group of the land owning nobles |
| Socrates | The Greek philosopher that encouraged his thinkers to examine their beliefs and develop a method of questioning and answering |
| The Seljuks | The Turkish group that migrated into the Abbasid Empire in the 10th century and later established their empire |
| Monotheism | The belief in only one god |
| Pictograph | The writing style that Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics would be considered |
| Culture | Common practices of a society, its shared understanding and its social organization |
| Abu Bakr | The first caliph after the death of Muhammad to spread Islam north |
| Hajj | The pillar of Islam in which a believer must make a pilgrimage to Mecca |
| Julius Caesar | A member of the first triumvirate in Rome, who was elected consul in 59 B.C. |
| Karma | The belief in good or bad deeds |
| Pyramid | Pharaohs were placed after death in this immense structure |
| Hammuarabi | The Babylonian emperor who established its first written law |
| Cyrillic Alphabet | Russian culture was strongly influenced by this invention of St. Cyril and St. Methodius |
| Dictator | The republic of Rome could give absolute power during emergencies to one individual that would allow him to make laws and command the army |
| Pax Mongolia | A period from the mid-1200s to the mid-1300s when order was imposed across much of Europe and Asia |
| Islam | The belief that one “surrenders to the will of God” |
| Hinduism | This religion is mixed with India’s variety of cults as well as the Aryan beliefs so it can not be traced back to one founder with a single set of ideas |
| Five Pillars of Islam | The major duties required of all Muslims |
| Cultural Diffusion | The process of transferring new idea’s or products from one culture to another |
| Hagia Sophia | Built by Justinian, it was intended to be the world’s most beautiful church |
| Republic | A form of government where the citizens has the right to choose their representatives |
| Hellenistic | Alexandria became the center of the culture that can relate to the blending of Greek, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian influences |
| Wedge Shaped | Cuneiform can be translated into this |
| Justinian Code | The body of civil law created for the Byzantine Empire |
| First | The Crusade that resulted in the capture of Jerusalem by the Christians and the creation of four Crusader states |
| Asoka | The leader that ruled the Mauryan Empire by Buddha’s teaching, “Peace to all beings” |
| Byzantine Empire | After the schism, Orthodox Christianity became this state's religion |
| Icons | The use of these in the practices of Eastern Christianity were controversial because church leaders .......42 |
| Novgorod | In AD 862 this first city of Rus was founded |
| Mecca | Muslims pray towards a city where the Ka’aba is located |
| Qur’an | The sacred writing of Islam |
| Plebian | The people that are farmers, artisans, or merchant are considered in Rome a commoner |
| Autocracy | A government, similar to the Qin dynasty under Shi Huangdi that has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner |
| Abbasids | The dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim empire from 750 to 1258 AD |
| god-king | The Egyptians viewed the Pharaoh as this |
| Reconquista | The organized effort to drive the Muslims out of Spain |
| Kublai Khan | This Mongol leader also became the Chinese emperor |
| Marco Polo | A traveler from Venice who served Kublai Khan and wrote about his experiences. |
| Patricians | In the Roman Senate most of the power was held by the aristocratic landowners |
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