World History 1, Final Exam, Patterson

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What are the two methods used to determine the age of artifcats?

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*radio carbondating
*thermal luminescanse

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Who discovered the bones of hominid 1.8 million years old at Olduvai Gorge?

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*L & M leakey

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Paleolithic peoples were nomads because they had no choice but to?

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*follow animal migrations and vegetation cycles.

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Anthropology is the study of?

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*human life and culture

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What is the name for the period before writing was developed?

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*prehistory

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Farmining in ancient Mesopotamia resulted in an abundance of food, which did what?

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*enabled civilizations to emerge.

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The sumerians believed gods and goddesses did what to the cities?

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*owned

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A government by divine authority is called?

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*theocracey

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The invention of cuneiform is credited to whom?

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*Surnerians

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Hammurabi is remembered for his?

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*law code-collection of laws for Mesopotanian society.

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The first empire in world history was the

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*Akkadian

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Hammurabi is remembered for his

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*law code-collection of laws for Mesopotanian society.

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The history of Egypt begins around around 3100 B.C. when who did what?

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*King Menes united upper and lower egypt.

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Modern historians have divided Egyptians history into three major periods, known as

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*old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom

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The religion of judaism differed from the other religions of the time in that it was

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*monotheistic

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Cyrus the Great showed such wisdom and compassion when he conquered Babylon that who did what?

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* everyone accepted him as a ruler.

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Which leader of the Persian Empire extended it to become the largest empire the world had yet seen?

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*darius

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What contributed to the efficient system of communication that was crucial to sustaining the Persian Empire?

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*well maintained roads and way stations that provided food, shelter, horses for the officials.

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By the time of Darius, the Persian Kings had created what called what because why?

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*a standing army known as the Immortals. when a member was killed, he was immediately replace.

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The Indo-Eruprean written language was started by the early Aryans around 1000B.C

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*Sanstrict

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India's ___ was created by the Aryans.

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*caste system

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Who was Siddhartha Gautama?

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*founder of Buddhism

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Who is generally considered to be the greatest ruler in the history of India?

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*Asoka

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The silk road was a

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*trader route between the Roman Empire and China

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In the Chinese culture, priests mad_____ to communicate witht he gods.

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*use of bones

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The Zhou dynasty claimed it ruled China because?

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*It had the Mandate of Heaven.

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This dynasty ruled for almost 800 years and is the longest-lasting dynasty in Chinese history

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*Zhou

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The period after the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization is called the

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*dark ages

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homers Lliad and Odysseys were

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*epic poems

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By 750 B.C., the _____ or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life.

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*polis

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The main gatherin place int he Greek city state at the top of a hill on a fortified area was called

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*accopotis

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What is the sequence for cause and effect?

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1. Lack of farmland
2.Colonization
3. spread of culture
4. trade/wealth

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The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that is was

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*ruled by a few.

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After Cleisthenes, the government of Athens became

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*the foundation for Atherian democracy

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Who is considered by many historian today to be the greatest hirstorian of the ancient world?

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*Thueydides

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The conquests of Alexander the Great created what era that saw the expansion of?

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*Hellenwtic Era (spelling?)
Greek ideas, non greek world.

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What form of government has a leader who is not a monarch and certain citizens have the right to vote?

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Republic

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By the end of the second century B. C. what group had become the governing body of the Roman State?

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*senate

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the first Triumvirate was made up of whom?

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*crassus, Pompey, Julius Caesar

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What name is given to the period of peace and prosperity that lasted almost 200 years?

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*Pax Romana

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This jewish prophet traveled and preached in Judaea and Galilee

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Jesus

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What did the Edict of Milan proclaim?

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*Official tolerance of christiantiy.

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Who became the first christian emperor?

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*constantine

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Under which emperor did rome adopt christiantiy as its official religion

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*Theodosius the Great

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Diocletian and Constantine's policies were based on what two principles?

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*control and coercion

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Muhammad began to mediate in the hills because why?

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*troubled by the gap between the honesty of most makkans and the greediness of trading elites in the city.

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One of the five pillars of islam, the hajj is about what?

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*pilgrimage to Makkah

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The crusades had little lasting impact on Southwest Asia except what negative impact?

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*breed centuries of mistrust between huslims and christians.

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It was through the mustlim world that Europeans recovered what ?

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*works of aristotle and other greek philosophers.

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The Kush civilization declined because of the rise of

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*Axum, a new power located in modern Ethiopia.

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Who was the first of the great trading states to emerge in West Africa?

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Ghara

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Many africans societies were matrillineal meaning

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*decent was traced through the mother.

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Technological developments during the Tang dynasty included

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*gunpowder

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Who brought much of the Eurasian land mass under a single rule, creating the largest land empire in history

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*Mongols

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What philosophy waw at the heart of the Chinese state government from the Song dynasty tot he end of the dynastic system in the twentieth century.

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*confucianism

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Between the Tang and Ming dynasties, Chinese lieterature flourished because

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*printing was invented.

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Saint Benedict founded a community of monks that established what

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*basic form of monasticism in the catholic church.

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The vikings were made part of European civilization by what policy that did what

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*Frankish policy of settling them and converting them to christianity.

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The most important gift a lord could give a vassal

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*a piece of land.

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At the heart of feudalism was

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*vassalage which meant warriors swore loyalty to a lord who took care of their needs.

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In 1066 William of Normandy invaded

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*england defeating King Harolds forces at the Battle of Hastings.

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The magna Carta was a document that was used to do what to monarchs power

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*the idea that a monarchs power was limited not absolute.

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What kingdom was created by the vikings

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*russia

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The push for the crusades came when who asked for what

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*Alexius 1 asked for aid from christians

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Serfs were different from peasants in that serfs were

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*legally bound to the land which they lived and worked.

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The struggle between Henry lV and Gregory Vll was known as

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*Investiture controversy

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To achieve his political ends, Pope Innocent lll often used an interdict

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*prohibited priests from giving sacraments.

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The inquistion was

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*a court created by the catholic church

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The black death killed nearly 38 million people resulting in

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*severe economic consequences.

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Which conflict resulted int he loss of political power by the catholic church

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*great schism.

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Joan of arc brought the hundred years war to a decisive turning point

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*inspiring the french army with her faith.

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What was the name given to the areas of Mexico and Centrol America where ancient empires flourished

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*Mesoamerica

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Which mesoamerican civilization carved giant stone heads

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*olmec

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The Maya civilization was composed of what type of government

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*city states, each ruled by a hereditary ruling class.

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What Mesoamerican civilization created a sophisticated writing system using hieroglyphs

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*Maya

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The Aztec captial of____ was built on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco

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*Tenochtitlan.

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The Aztec practiced human sacrifice in order to delay what

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*final destruction of the world

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Since the Inca lacked a writing system they kept record by doing what

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*Knotted strings, quiper

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To Portuguese explorers, the southern coast of West Africa became known as what

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*gold coast.

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Why did Vasco da Gama's discovery of a route to India by sea prove to be valuable

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*because he returned with cargo of spices and horses.

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Originally, African slaves were brought tot he Americas to supply labor for what

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*sugar cane plantations.

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What was the name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America

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*middle passage

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What is the correct order of social classes from colonial Latin America

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1. peninsulaves,
2. creoles
3. mestizos
4. mulattoes

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Who aided the European powers in exploiting the Native Americans

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*Catholic missionaries.