World History Midterm Review

Midterm Review JeopardyPrehistoric

PeopleMesopotamia Egypt Ancient

GreeceAncient

IndiaAncient China

100 100 100 100 100 100

200 200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300 300

400 400 400 400 400 400

500 500 500 500 500 500

Prehistoric People: 100

Describe Paleolithic People:

ANSWER: Hunter/ Gatherers, Nomadic people

Prehistoric People : 200

Describe Neolithic people:

ANSWER: Settled in one spot. Farmers/domesticated animals.

Prehistoric People : 300

What is the main difference between Paleolithic and Neolithic people?

ANSWER: How they got their food.

Prehistoric People : 400

What is pre history?

ANSWER: The time before writing occurred.

Prehistoric People : 500

What is the Agricultural Revolution?

ANSWER: Growing of food on a schedule (farming), made it possible for prehistoric

people to settle down in one spot and develop villages.

Mesopotamia: 100

This modern day country is located where Mesopotamia

once was:

ANSWER: Iraq

Mesopotamia : 200

Why is Mesopotamia known as the “Fertile Crescent?”

ANSWER: Fertile land (Excellent farming land) and crescent shape gave

the “cradle of civilization” its nickname.

Mesopotamia : 300

What did Sumerians invent that helped alter their environment?

ANSWER: Irrigation systems (Controlled floods on the rivers)

Mesopotamia : 400

What is Hammurabi most famously known for?

ANSWER: Creating a code of written laws.

Mesopotamia : 500

What did the people of Mesopotamia invent that helped the modern world?

ANSWER: Cuneiform writing, wheel, sailboat, plow.

Ancient Egypt: 100

Why were the pyramids built?

ANSWER: To honor pharaohs of the Old Kingdom.

Ancient Egypt : 200

What method did the Egyptians use to prepare bodies for the afterlife?

ANSWER: Embalm the bodes because the soul needs a body in the

afterlife.

Ancient Egypt : 300

What two important subjects did the ancient Egyptians contribute

greatly to the modern world?

ANSWER: Math and Medicine

Ancient Egypt : 400

True or False: The Nile River flowed into the center of Africa.

ANSWER: False

Ancient Egypt : 500

Name 3 things pharaohs were responsible for:

ANSWER: building granaries, repairing irrigation systems, and performing important religious

rituals.

Ancient Greece: 100

What was the main interest of Sparta:

ANSWER: Military

Ancient Greece : 200

What type of government did Sparta have?

ANSWER: Oligarchy

Ancient Greece : 300

Who was the great leader of the city-state Athens?

ANSWER: Pericles

Ancient Greece : 400

What was the last city-state to take over Greece?

ANSWER: Thebes

Ancient Greece : 500

What civilization did Greece and the modern world get the

alphabet from?

ANSWER: Phoenicia

Ancient India: 100

What river did the ancient Indians settle on?

ANSWER: Indus River

Ancient India : 200

What two ancient Indian cities are known for their streets being

laid out in a grid pattern?

ANSWER: Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

Ancient India : 300

What was the first major, modern city?

ANSWER: Harappa

Ancient India : 400

What natural resource did people of the Indus River

depend on?

ANSWER: Rivers

Ancient India : 500

How did people move around in the Caste System?

ANSWER: You Karma was decided on if you followed your

dharma

Ancient China: 100

What ancient Chinese philosophy says people should

live by the Golden Rule :

ANSWER: Confucianism

Ancient China : 200

What are oracle bones?

ANSWER: Kings would scratch questions bones and heat them over a

fire. They believed the pattern of cracks in the bones were the answers to their

questions from the gods and ancestors.

Ancient China : 300

What nickname have the Chinese given the Huang He River?

ANSWER: China’s Sorrow

Ancient China : 400

Which two ancient Chinese philosophies want to improve

society?

ANSWER: Confucianism and Daoism

Ancient China : 500

The great differences between the rich and the poor weakened

this Chinese dynasty:

ANSWER: Shang Dynasty

The power of the Supreme Court to review government actions to see if they are

allowed under the constitution is called:

Judicial Review