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World History Final Exam Review
2015
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
The first civilizations began along river valleys.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
Writing was the most important development of prehistoric times.
Fire
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
The first dynasty of China was the Shang.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
The Egyptians measured things in cubits.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?Constantine was Rome’s first emperor.
Octavian
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
Egyptians believed in reincarnation, the wrapping of dead bodies in cloth strips.
mummification
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
A monsoon is a seasonal wind that brings rain to India.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
Geography is the science that deals with land, weather, bodies of water, and plant and animal life.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
The Sumerians invented writing.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
A century is a period of a hundred years.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
Egyptian civilization has given nothing important to the modern world.
Many important
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
Solon, a Greek leader, helped create democracy.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
The Iliad and the Odyssey tell us about the Trojan War.
Only Iliad is bout the war
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
The reign of Augustus Caesar is known as the “Golden Age of Rome”.
TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?
A republic is a kind of government with no king in which a few people speak for the many.
A.
B.
C.
The earliest people were
embers
artifacts
nomads
A.
B.
C.
_______ fought with bows and arrows.
acrobats
artisans
archers
A.
B.
C.
In a _______ war people of the same country fight each other.
cultural
world
civil
A.
B.
C.
_______ is the record of past events.
culture
civilization
history
A.
B.
C.
Prehistory is the period in which people did not produce ________ records.
stone
pained
written
A.
B.
C.
The Sumerians built their city-states in _______.
Egypt
China
Mesopotamia
A.
B.
C.
The Egyptian civilization developed in the valley of the _______.
Indus
Yellow
Nile
A.
B.
C.
An agreement to work together to help one another is a _______.
bargain
covenant
alliance
A.
B.
C.
An _______ studies the beginnings and behavior of early people.
artifact
astronaut
anthropologist
A.
B.
C.
_______ was one of the most important prehistoric discoveries.
artifacts
obsidian
fire
A.
B.
C.
An empire is a nation which _______ a large area of land.
annexes
rules
adopts
A.
B.
C.
The Jewish people call their scared book the _______.
Vedas
papyrus
bible
A.
B.
C.
_______was the first woman pharaoh.
Darius I
Mohenjo-Daro
Hatshepsut
A.
B.
C.
The first villages in India and China grew up along _______.
deserts
mountains
River valleys
bison
culture
eclipse
diary
decay
To rot away or spoil
Another name for buffalo
When the moon hides the sun
The values, attitudes, customs & language
of a group
A primary source
Match each item
pharaoh
Hindus
subcontinent
caste
Grand Canal
Believe in reincarnation
A large piece of land smaller than a
continent
An Egyptian ruler
Class of people in India
Joined the Yellow & the Yangtze Rivers
Match each item
cuneiform
Sargon I
Phoenicians
Assyrians
rebel
Became famous as sailors
Sumerian writing
Everyone feared their powerful army
To disobey or fight against
United the city-state of Mesopotamia
Match each item
Zoroaster
ziggurat
Hammurabi
Hebrews
nomads
Temple where Sumerians worshipped their gods.
Created the first law code
Moses led them out of slavery
Religious leader who preached to Persians
People who do not live in one place
Match each item
Claudius
Theodosius
plague
Justinian
practical
One reason for the decline of the Roman Empire
Chosen by guards to be emperor of Rome
His code became the basis for European legal systems
useful
Made Christianity the official religion of the Roman
Empire
Match each item
democracy
plebeians
Mycenaean
helots
chorus
A group of actors who stand on stage and tell what is
happening in a Greek play
fought the Trojans in the Trojan War
Greatest contribution of the Greeks
Common people in Rome who were not rich
Spartan slaves
Match each item
Another word for the human race.
humanity
A first-hand account of a historical event.
Primary source
The customs, values, and language of a people.
culture
Having to do with the whole world.
global
An object made by a person.
artifact
Scientists measure the amount of carbon left in an artifact in this kind of dating.
Radiocarbon
The earliest period of human history.
prehistory
This helped Stone-Age humans store their food.
pottery
A hard metal made of copper and tin.
bronze
A people who have government and cities.
civilizations
What metal covering protects the body in battle?
armor
What area in the Middle East is shaped like a quarter-moon?
Fertile Crescent
What is the system of making and trading things called?
economy
Vocabulary word What do we call a ruler of a province or a state?
governor
Which Egyptian kingdom is known as the “empire age”?
New
Who crossed the Alps with elephants and invaded Italy?
Hannibal
Which Roman emperor was considered insane or mentally ill?
Caligula
Which war last for 100 years and was fought between Rome and Carthage?
Puncic
A _____________________ is a Greek city-state. Vocabulary word
polis
When King Philip II conquered Greece, the Greeks lost their ________________ or freedom.
independence
A _________________ is a governing body that helps rulers make decisions.
Senate
Rule by three people is called a
triumvirate
_______________________ was a Greek philosopher who questioned Athenian democracy and was put to death for doing so.
Socrates
Many Romans saw the new religion of ________ as an answer to their problems.
Christianity
____________________ was a soldier who conquered the world between 334 B.C. and 323 B.C.
Alexander the Great
Make a list of the things you have learned about this year in World History.
List of possible answers
A.
B.
C.
The rich layer of soil left behind after a flood is_______.
delta
papyrus
silt
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