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Name: _________________________ Date: ________________ Period: ________ __ 1st semster final study guide: __ Directions: Answer the Following Questions Provided? 1. What does Prehistory mean? 2. Who were the "australotithecines"? 3. Why do nomads travel from place to place? 4. What were the Homo eretus first to do? 5. What is the greek word for neolithic? 6. What are the 6 basic characterists of civilization? 7. Who were the first creators of the Mesopotamian cilivation? 8. What is a City-state? 9. What is a Thecracy? 10. Who set up the first empire in world history? 11. What is Hammurabi rembered for? 12. List 3 examples of Sumerian technology? 13. List the 3 periods that divides Egyptain history? 14. What event stuck Egypt in 3100 B.C. 15. Who was the first women to become a Pharoah? 16. What was hieratic script used for? 17. Why did the Egyptains develope a 365 day calendar? 18. who were the first Indo European group to make the use of Iron? 19. What was the most significant cultural invention of the Phoenicians? 20. Who were the "ten lost tribes"? 21. What does monastistic mean? 22. what was Ashuibanipal known for? 23. What did the Assyrians use as an instrument of warfare? 24. Who was the rebuilder of Babylon? 25. Why was Cyrus called "the great"? 26. Name the 3 things a satrap does? 27. Where does the Indian Subcontient hang from? 28. What is the highest mountains in the world? 29. What did the Persian King create before Darius ruled? 30. What did Darius do to make him famous? 31.Who were the Aryans? 32. What was the caste system in India? 33. Name the 5 major division and their role in India's caste system? 34. What is recarnation? 35. Who was Sidharta Guathen? 36. List 3 characterists about Asoka? 37. What was the silk road? 38. who were the Pilgrims? 39. Why did the Zhou claimed it ruled China? 40. List the 3 major schools that taught about human beings? 41. List the 3 divisions that divided the central government into 3 ministities? 42. What was the Great wall of China? 43. Who is the found of the Han dynasty? 44. In 1917, farmers dug out a underground pit that did what? 45. What was the Royal road? 46. By 2800 B.C, the Bronze Age civilization used bronze metals that had been established where? 47.What geographical features played signifant roles in the development of Greek history? 48. name the 2 epic poems created by Homer, and what was included in his teachings? 49. Where did the Greeks settle, During the dark age? 50. What was the first Greek state? 51. What is an acropolis? 52. What did the reforms of Cheisthanes create? 53. What does Oligarchy mean? 54. What happened at Thermopylae? 55. In the Age of Perticles, The Athenians became deeply attach to what? 56. What was the Delican Leauge? 57. What was the turning point in the Great Peloponesian war? 58. Wher does the 12 chief greek gods and godesess live? 59. Who was Plato? 60. What was the result of Alexander the great conquests? 61. How are Eqicuranism and Stocism alike? 62. What is a republic? 63.Who were the Etruscans? 64. What was Rome's first code of laws? 65. What 2 counries were involved in the Punic wars? 66. What was the //Pax Romama?// //67.// Why is the Austugan Age known as the Golden Golden Age of Latin Literture? 68. List 3 accompoliments in which Romans used Architecture and Enginerring in the form of building? 69. What is inflation? 70. Who was Spartacus? 71. Who was Constine? 72. List the ethical concepts voiced by Jesus? 73. What did the Edict og Millan proclaim? 74. Who were the first invaders to sack Rome? 75. Identify the economic and social policies of Diocletian and Constantine? 76. Why did Muhammad began to Meditate in the hills? 77, What is Omar Rheyyai most famous for? 78. According to Islamic belif, Muhammad is the prophet of whom? 79. What are the 5 Pillars of Islam? 80. In addition to the 5 pillars of Islam, Muslims must obey the Shari'ah, which forbids them to do what? 81. What was the Umayyah dynasty replaced by? 82. Name the 3 centers that provides, adimistration, cuture, and economic activity for thie region? 83. Why did the crusaders have little less impact on southwest Asia? 84. General Muk\lawiyah was known for what outsiding vitute? 85. Who were the Seljuk turks? 86. Who was Ibn sina, and what did he do? 87. Who was clovis, and what did he do? 88. What is a wergield? 89. What was the signifance of clovis's conversion to christanity? 90. Who was Saint Benedict, and what did he do? 91. Who was Georgy I known as, and what did he do? 92. Who was Charlemagne? 93. What was the importance of the missi dommci? 94. How were the vikings made part of European civilization? 95. What was the most important gift a vell could give a lord? 96. Who was william of Normandy, and what did he do in 1066? 97. What was the Magna carta? 98. How did Philip II August greatly increase the power of the french monarchy? 99. List 5 factors on how food production increased in the middle ages? 100. List 3 results that led to agricultural requirments in the high middle ages? 101. What did Flanders and Italy do in order to exchange trade in the high middle ages? 102. How were surfs different from Peasants? 103. The struggles between Henry IV and Georgy VII was known as what? 104. Who was John the Arch, and what did he do? 105. Merchants and Artisans live in wall cities known as what? 106. What was the Blackdeath? 107. What was the Grand Council? 108. What was the Mayan civilization? 109. Why did the Aztec civilization practice human sacrifice? 110. What are the Hopewell people especially known for? 111. What is the oldest known Mesotampia civilization in the world? 112. What did the Great Peace create? 113. What was the names given to the areas mexico and central america that were civilizied by the Spanish armies? 114. What was the war of Roses? 115. Why did Mayans create a sophicated writing sytem based on hieroglyphs? 116. What was one of the factors that contributed to the downfall of both the Inca and Aztec empires? 117. What was the Aztec religion based on? 118. What is a long house? 119. What was the Great Schism and what did it result from? 120. What territories did the Byzantine empire consists of?