World History: Foundations 10,000 BCE to 600 CE

5 Written Questions

1. 
   Called himself the First Emperor. He united China and buried himself with hundreds of terracotta soldiers.
2. Before agriculture, men and women are believed to have a greater degree of equality. But after the rise of agriculture, most human societies became ________
3. Belief system that started in India in the 500s BC. Happiness can be achieved through removal of one's desires. Believers seek enlightenment and the overcoming of suffering.
4. This body of Water separates Europe and Africa
5. Although initially it was seen as a bizarre cult and was violently persecuted, eventually it gained acceptance and in the 300s became the official religion of the Roman state.

5 Matching Questions

1. Empire
2. Fertile Crescent
3. Greeks
4. Gupta Dynasty
5. Persian Wars

1. a Indian Empire (320 CE-550 CE) known for re-establishing Hinduism and for achievements in math and science.
2. b Known for their culture (such as art, architecture and philosophy). Made up of city-states. Didn't have a large empire or military.
3. c Two failed attempts by the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE to conquer the Greeks in the 400s BCE
4. d Starting in approximately 2500 BC, the Akkadians invaded the Sumerians and created what is probably the first ______, which is when societies are in some way taken over and dominated by a central authority.
5. e The swath of land in the Middle East where agriculture and later urbanization and later the first empires began.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. This city state was ruled by a senate, spoke Latin, and borrowed heavily from Greek culture. They militarily expanded their territory for centuries but the senate eventually was overthrown by an imperial system.
   1. Roman Empire
   2. Urban Revolution
   3. Roman Republic
   4. Persian Gulf
2. Greatest empire in the world up to 500 BCE. Spoke an Indo-European language. A multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire. Fell to Alexander the Great.
   1. Empire
   2. Persian Empire
   3. Persian Wars
   4. Roman Empire
3. During a civil war the Roman Senate allowed him to become a dictator but he refused to give it up and the senate eventually killed him. But his name came to mean "emperor".
   1. Julius Caesar
   2. universal
   3. Persian Wars
   4. Black Sea
4. The Phonecian traders brought the first alphabet from the Middle East to the Greeks because both were seafaring traders in this sea.
   1. Indo-Europeans
   2. Mediterranean Sea
   3. Reincarnation
   4. Mediterranean
5. Between approximately 4000 and 1500 BCE human societies in certain river valleys transformed from Neolithic farming villages into more complex urban societies. What might this transition be called?
   1. Reincarnation
   2. Roman Republic
   3. Neolithic Revolution
   4. Urban Revolution

5 True/False Questions

1. Han → Chinese Dynasty from 1750 BCE to 1050 BCE. Area around Yellow River valley. First dynasty we have physical evidence of (oracle bone writings and bronze art).

   True        False

2. Shang → Chinese Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) ruled a centralized and growing empire for 400 years. Complex centralized buraucracy with Civil service system based on Confucianism. Traded on Silk Road.

   True        False

3. Qin → Chinese Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) ruled a centralized and growing empire for 400 years. Complex centralized buraucracy with Civil service system based on Confucianism. Traded on Silk Road.

   True        False

4. Reincarnation → Hindu and Buddhist belief that souls are reborn into new bodies over and over.

   True        False

5. cuneiform →
   The first written language, which was created by the Sumerians in about 3000 BCE.

   True        False