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JEOPARDY!!!JEOPARDY!!!
Review for I.B. World History I Mid-Term
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Pre-History India GreeceChina
Egypt and
Mesopotamia
100:What is the development of
written language?
This is what ended pre-historic time.
200:What is irrigation?
This is the term for the digging of trenches and ditches to transport water.
300:What is a unique culture?
This is what develops when humans live together over a period of time.
400:What is Africa?
This is the continent that is associated with the birth of civilization.
500:What is an artisan?
This is another name for a skilled craftsman.
100:What is the Code of
Hammurabi?
This is the first known codification of law, which can be summed up in the phrase,”an eye for an eye”.
200:What are clay tablets?
This what the Sumerians wrote on to preserve important records.
300:Who were the Hittites?
These were the first people to use iron weapons.
400:What is a ziggurat?
This is the name given to a Sumerian layered temple.
500:What is the Nile River?
This was the most important geographical feature in the development of Egyptian civilization.
100:Who are the Brahmans?
This was the highest class in the modern Indian class system.
200:What is Nirvana?
One could achieve this by following the eight-fold path and renouncing desire.
300:What are the monsoon winds
and high temperatures?
These would be the two factors that have the greatest effect on the climate of India.
400:What is the Deccan Plateau?
This is the high plain of Central India.
500:What is a stupa?
This building would be a half-domed structure holding Buddhist artifacts.
100:What is calligraphy?
This is a term describing Chinese writing that is considered art.
200:What is the Great Wall of
China?
This is the large structure built by Shi Huangdi to protect China from northern invaders.
300:What were rags and mulberry
bark?
This is what the Chinese learned to make paper out of during the Han Dynasty.
400:What was the Qin Dynasty?
This was the Dynasty that first unified China, if only for a brief period of time.
500:What were civil service tests?
This was how government officials were chosen during the Han Dynasty, which led to competent people holding government positions.
100:Who was Draco? ( Draconian laws)
This was the Greek leader who developed a harsh code of justice.
200:What were Corinthian
columns? Doric, Ionian and than Corinthian.
This would be the most complex of the ancient Greek columns.
300:What is polytheistic?
This is the type of religion practiced by both the Greeks and the Romans.
400:Who was Myron?
This was the sculptor who created the “Discus Thrower”.
500:Who was Pericles?
He was the leader during the Golden Age of Greece.
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Hellenistic Society
ByzantineEmpire
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Mid-Term Questions
VocabularyRome
200:What was a phalanx?
This was a Greek or Macedonian military unit consisting of 16 rows of tightly packed men using lances.
400People had no interest in inventions or mechanical labor saving devices or
progress?This was the ultimate result of
the Greeks relying on slave labor.
600:Who were the Cynics?
These were the Greek philosophers who scorned pleasure, wealth, and social position.
800:Who were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
( Who taught Alexander the Great)
These would be the three great Greek philosophers, who each taught the next in line.
1000:Who was Alexander the
Great?
He was the brilliant young general who spread Greek culture throughout much of the western world.
200:What were the Coliseum, the
Pantheon, and the Forum?
These would all be examples of Roman architecture, many which still stand today.
400:What were the twelve
tables?
This was the codification of ancient Roman law.
600:What was a Roman Legion?
This was the name for a Roman military unit consisting of 4500 to 6000 men.
800:What was the Council of
Nicea?
This was the meeting that confirmed Christian doctrine and the Holy Trinity of the Catholic Church.
1000:Who were Constantine and
Diocletian?
These are the two Roman Emperors who tried to restore order to the Roman Empire after a period of weak rulers and Civil War.
200:What is Ramadan?
This is the name given to the Muslim month of fasting, which is celebrated the ninth month of Islamic calendar and no food is to be eaten during the day.
400:Who was Ivan IV or Ivan the
Terrible?This is the Russian ruler who is
given credit for establishing the modern Russian state.
600:Who is the Metropolitan?
This is the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
800:Who were the Ottoman
Turks
The City of Constantinople fell to this group of conquerors in 1453.
1000:What were Cairo, Baghdad, and Cordoba ( sometimes
Cordova)
These would be the main Islamic Caliphates.
200:What was the iconoclastic
controversy?
This the disagreement that split the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches and eventually leads to the Great Schism of 1054.
400:What is monism?
This is the Hindu belief that God and man are one.
600:What is Sikhism?
This is the Indian religion that combines elements of Hinduism and Islam.
800:What are nomads?
This is another name for a group of people that wander from place to place in search of food.
1000:What was the Rosetta
Stone?
This was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, discovered by a Napoleonic soldier during the invasion of Egypt.
200:What are the caves of Ajanta.
This is one of greatest treasures of the Gupta dynasty in India, and much can be learned about the time from the elaborate paintings and architecture.
400:What is a jihad.
( means struggle to please God)
This is the Muslim Holy Crusade that vowed to spread the faith.
600:Who was Paul or Saul of
Tarsus
He was the Jewish convert who by his teachings and writings spread the Christian faith throughout the Middle East and the world.
800:Who was Zoroaster? ( In India the followers are
known as Parsis)He was the Persian religious
leader who practiced monotheism and struggle of good over evil.
1000:Who were the Phoenicians (Hooked on Phoenicians)?
These sea traveling people spread Middle Eastern culture and ideas throughout the Mediterranean world.