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WH semester Review
Review of chapters 1-9
Question | Answer |
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What is the term for the man-made items that are the sources used to study history? | artifacts |
Which of the following is not a primary source? | textbooks |
Legends, religious beliefs, and social customs are examples of | tradition |
What is the most important type of primary source? | Written records |
What is the name of the command for man to control the earth by exercising preeminence over it? | Creation Mandate |
What is the division of labor that is part of the culture of every city | Specialization |
Whose human efforts did God use to save mankind from the universal Flood? | Noah’s |
Who committed the first murder? | Cain |
Through which son of Adam and Eve did the line of Christ come? | Seth |
Who were the first people to live in cities? | Cainites |
Which two rivers cradled the first civilizations? | Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
Which one of the following peoples was not polytheistic? | Hebrews |
The Epic of Gilgamesh gives and account of what biblical event? | The Flood |
What geographic factor helped preserve the monuments, the documents, and the bodies of ancient Egyptian rulers? | The desert |
What geographic factor contributed to the unity of Egypt? | The Nile |
Giza is the location of the | Great Pyramid of Cheops |
The great female ruler of Egypt was | Hatshepsut |
The Pharaoh of the Exodus was probably | Amenhotep II |
Howard Carter is best known for his discovery of the | Tomb of Tutankhamen |
The greatest merchants of Canaan were the | Phoenicians |
The language spoken by Jesus and His disciples was probably | Aramaic |
Israel’s history can be traced back to | Abraham |
The Messianic line is through | David |
Which civilization supplied much of the materials needed for the building of the Hebrew temple? | Phoenician |
The Twelve tribes of Israel divided over what issue? | Tax increase |
Which of the following civilizations was used by God to protect and provide for His chosen people? | Persian |
Assyrians were known for | cruelty to captives, military strength, terrorism |
The Chaldeans can also be called the | Babylonians |
The king at the height of the Chaldean empire was | Nebuchadnezzar |
Which of the following civilizations included all of the other civilizations? | Persian |
The bible refers to Cyrus as | “the Lord’s anointed” |
The “Royal Road,” which ran 1,677 miles, was part of which civilization? | Persian |
The leading commercial center of the early mainland Greek civilization was | Mycenae |
What characterizes the Greek “Dark Ages”? | New intruders entered Greece, Little contact was made with cultures outside of Greece, Common Greek Culture developed |
The Olympic Games were originally held in honor of | Zeus |
The basic political unit of Greece was the | polis |
The Spartan way of life centered on | Military training |
Which island did the Greeks heavily colonize? | Sicily |
Sparta formed which league to thwart the advance of Athenian democracy? | Peloponnesian League |
At what mountain-pass battle of 480 BCE did a Spartan army fight to its death? | Thermopylae |
Which Persian king burned Athens? | Xerxes |
The defensive alliance formed by Athens to protect Greece from further Persian attack was called the | Delian League |
The government of Athens under Pericles was | A democracy |
The Peloponnesian War developed over | A rivalry between Athens and Sparta |
The most important result of the Peloponnesian War was | Political disunity in Greece |
What is the name of the period in which Greek culture was spread throughout the ancient world? | Hellenistic Age |
Which famous philosopher taught Aristotle? | Plato |
The apostle Paul’s visit to Athens brought him into conflict with | Epicureans and Stoics |
Which of the following were historians? | Herodotus and Thucydides |
What did Sophocles and Aristophanes have in common? | Drama |
Which of the following is the correct order for the periods of Greek Sculpture? | Archaic, classical, Hellenistic |
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian refer to Greek | Architecture |
Rome was established on what river? | Tiber |
The mountains that run down the middle of the Italian Peninsula are the | Apennines |
When Rome began to develop in Italy, portions of the peninsula were also inhabited by the | Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians |
In the Roman Senate each senator served for | Life |
The Law of Twelve Tables was important primarily because it | Was the first Roman law that was written down |
Which of the following occurred last? | The death of Pompey |
The Carthaginians were descendants of Canaanites who had once lived in | Phoenicia |
Which of the following occurred first | Defeat of Pyrrhus |
Much of the First Punic War was fought over control of the island of | Sicily |
The Romans defeated the Carthaginians at sea during the First Punic War by | Boarding their ships on blanks |
Hannibal began his march into Italy from | Spain |
At the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal defeated the Romans by | Surrounding them on all sides |
The Romans won the Second Punic War because | Allies remained loyal to her, Hannibal was unable to besiege the city of Rome, Scipio forced Hannibal to leave Italy. |
Judging from what you know about the Third Punic War, you would understand the term “Carthaginian Peace” to mean a | Severe peace |
The Gracchi brothers wanted to | Divide the “public lands” among the poor |
Augustus’s greatest failure in his attempt to restore order and stability in Rome was his attempt to | Reform morals |
The Romans are properly regarded as having made valuable contributions to law because they | Sought basic principles as a foundation for their legal system |
When a Roman poet wrote that “conquered Greece took captive her rude conqueror” he meant that | Roman culture was based on Greek culture |
What city was destroyed yet preserved, by volcanic eruptions? | Pompeii |
Jesus was born in the Roman Province of | Judea |
Which city was the meeting place of East and West and the vital link in both land and sea trade routes? | Constantinople |
Justinian’s goal during his reign was to | Restore the greatness of the Roman Empire |
Hagia Sophia means | Holy Wisdom |
The byzantine secret weapon which would burn on water was called | Greek fire |
Constantinople’s biggest commercial rival was | Venice |
Which of the following was not a threat to Constantinople? | Mongolians from the East |
The Swedish Norsmen who plundered Slavic villages in Russia were | Varangians |
In early Russia, what important river was used as a major route for trade with the Byzantine Empire? | Dnieper |
Who established the first ruling dynasty in Russia? | Rurik |
The Slavic alphabet was adapted from the | Greek Alphabet |
After the two centuries of Mongol rule in Russia, which city rose to power in the North? | Moscow |
The Arabs trace their beginnings to | Ishmael |
What aspect of the Judeo-Christian belief impressed and influenced Muhammad? | Belief in one god |
At first Muhammad was persecuted in Mecca because of fear that he would? | Interfere with the profitable business of the Black Stone |
The primary authority on Muslim belief and practice is the | Koran |
Reasons for the military conquests made by the Muslims | desire for fertile and productive land, weakness of the byzantine and Persian empires, and Unification of the Arabs around a common cause. |
The major problem after Muhammad’s death was that | He did not appoint a successor |
The Muslim advance in Europe was stopped by the Battle of | Tours |
Al-Razi and ibn Sina are best known for their knowledge in the field of | medicine |
The Muslims borrowed much of their basic mathematical knowledge from | India |
Which Catholic doctrine states that the wine and the bread become the body and the blood of Christ in the hands of the priest? | transubstantiation |
The true power behind the “do-nothing kings” was the | Mayor of the palace |
What was the basis of wealth and power during the Feudal Age? | Land ownership |
The majority of those living on manor were | serfs |
King John clashed with Pope Innocent III over | Who would be the archbishop of Canterbury |
The Parliament was able to serve as a check on the king’s power by asserting its | “power of the purse” |
What motivated the Crusaders to go to Jerusalem? | Pious desire to serve Christ , Enjoyment of fighting for the Roman church, Desire for commercial gain |
The Fourth Crusade ended with the capturing of which city? | Constantinople |