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Grade 10 WH TEST 2
World History Test 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A river not in Asia | the Nile |
| What is the caste system | strict social structure of India |
| What was China's longest ruling dynasty | Chou |
| Who built the greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior | Cush |
| What did Asoka do | built the Maurya empire |
| What important African trading center became a famous center for learning and culture | Timbuktu |
| What important African city became an Egyptian center of life and one of the great cities of the Arab world | Cairo |
| who united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation | Menes |
| Ancient India made its greatest contributions to civilization in the realm of | mathematics |
| Who started the largest continental empire in history | Genghis Khan |
| The book of the Dead is important in the history of | Egypt |
| Who were Edesius and Frumentius | missionaries |
| Shinto is the oldest surviving religion in | Japan |
| Which country is known to have first made paper | China |
| What dynasty inaugurated India's Golden Age | Guptas |
| Africa's largest desert | Sahara Desert |
| Africa's longest lake | Lake Tanganyika |
| Japan's highest mountain | Mount Fuji |
| Africa's highest mountain | Mount Kilimanjaro |
| Africa's largest lake | Lake Victoria |
| Longest river in the world | Nile River |
| What false religion, founded by Siddhartha Gautama, tries to reach a state of nirvana | Buddhism |
| What ruler is considered the founder of Japanese civilization | Prince Shotoku |
| Who was the Frenchman that was able to decipher the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone | Champollion |
| What best symbolizes the Egyptian conception of state and society | Pyramid |
| Who was the Egyptian female pharaoh that ruled jointly with her nephew | Hatshepsut |
| What highway linked China to the Roman world | Great Silk Road |
| What is the largest rift in the earth's surface | Great Rift Valley |
| What beautiful building was built as a tomb for a Mogul Ruler's wife | Taj Mahal |
| What two territories seceded from India to become independent states | Pakistan and Bangladesh |
| What Term was given to the warriors, or knights, of feudal Japan | samurai |
| wrote the longest surviving hymn | Clement |
| Great pharaoh whose pyramid is the largest | Cheops |
| emperor of Japan | Mikado |
| first emperor of a united China | Shih Huang Ti |
| Egyptian teenage pharaoh | Tutankhamen |
| great ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa | Mansa Musa |
| established the Mogul Empire in India | Baber |
| Greek Father of History | Herodotus |
| remembered for carrying Jesus cross | Simon of Cyrene |
| The Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of | Egyptian writing |
| Alexander's general Ptolemy was given | Egypt to rule |
| Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines are Southeast Asian countries that give some measure of freedom | to their people |
| was the pagan religion of the Chinese philosopher Lao-tse | Toaism |
| spent 20 years in the service of the Kublai Khan | Marco Polo |
| is and Indian belief of reincarnation | Hinduism |
| Chung-Kuo is an ancient name of | China |
| The Hyksos ended the ------kingdom of Egypt | middle |
| the world's oldest living civilation | China |
| Mizraim is an ancient name of | Egypt |