World History Final Exam Review 2015. TRUE or FALSE? The first civilizations began along river...

World History Final Exam Review

2015

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

The first civilizations began along river valleys.


Writing was the most important development of prehistoric times.

Fire


The first dynasty of China was the Shang.


The Egyptians measured things in cubits.

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?Constantine was Rome’s first emperor.

Octavian


Egyptians believed in reincarnation, the wrapping of dead bodies in cloth strips.

mummification


A monsoon is a seasonal wind that brings rain to India.


Geography is the science that deals with land, weather, bodies of water, and plant and animal life.


The Sumerians invented writing.


A century is a period of a hundred years.


Egyptian civilization has given nothing important to the modern world.

Many important


Solon, a Greek leader, helped create democracy.


The Iliad and the Odyssey tell us about the Trojan War.

Only Iliad is bout the war


The reign of Augustus Caesar is known as the “Golden Age of Rome”.


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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