1st semester exam

Question 1

what is the agricultural revolution

Answer 1

When people started to farm and domesticate animals, instead of hunting and gathering

Question 2

when was the agricultural revolution

Answer 2

10,000 BC

Question 3

what does paleolithic mean

Answer 3

old stone age

Question 4

what happened during the paleolithic era

Answer 4

people lived in hunter-gatherer tribes, and used stone tools

Question 5

what does mesolithic mean

Answer 5

middle stone age

Question 6

what happened during the mesolithic era

Answer 6

the agricultural revolution began

Question 7

what does neolithic mean

Answer 7

new stone age

Question 8

what happened in the neolithic era

Answer 8

villages started to form, and people relied on domesticated crops and animals

Question 9

what does prehistory mean

Answer 9

time before written language

Question 10

what does hunter-gatherer mean

Answer 10

nomads who hunt and gather plants and animals instead of growing and raising them

Question 11

when does history start

Answer 11

3000 BC

Question 12

dates of Harappan civilization

Answer 12

2600-1800 BC

Question 13

who was Ashoka

Answer 13

ruler of the Maurya empire, he retired and became Buddhist which helped make buddhism more popular and more prominent

Question 14

years of Ashoka’s reign

Answer 14

268-233 BC

Question 15

who is siddhartha guatama

Answer 15

he was “the Buddha’ he founded Buddhism

Question 16

when did Siddhartha guatama live

Answer 16

563-483 BC

Question 17

when and why does the Harappan Civilization disappear

Answer 17

theory 1) environmental change, the river dried up
theory 2) the aryan invasion

Question 18

dates of mauryan empire

Answer 18

321-185

Question 19

what is the caste system

Answer 19

a rigid social class system passed down through families

Question 20

what is reincarnation

Answer 20

when you die and are reborn in a different body

Question 21

what is dharma

Answer 21

is positive, removes karma, comes from good deeds

Question 22

what is karma

Answer 22

is a negative, you don’t want it, comes from bad deeds, dharma gets rid of it, prevents you from reaching nirvana

Question 23

what is nirvana

Answer 23

the final goal, an escape from reincarnation and karma, there is no no desire or suffering

Question 24

what are the 4 noble truths of Buddhism

Answer 24

1) life is suffering
2) desire & ignorance are the cause of that suffering
3) you can get out of the suffering
4)the way out of suffering = the 8 fold path

Question 25

what is the 8 fold path

Answer 25

right view, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort,right mindfulness, right samadhi

Question 26

religous text of Aryans

Answer 26

Veda

Question 27

who is Hammurabi

Answer 27

king of Babylon, made the oldest most complete law code we have

Question 28

when did Hammurabi reign

Answer 28

1792-1750 BC

Question 29

1st empire

Answer 29

Akkadian empire

Question 30

what is a city-state

Answer 30

a city that forms an independent sovereign state

Question 31

what is the capital of the Hittite empire

Answer 31

Hattusa

Question 32

when was the battle between the Egyptians and Hittite empire

Answer 32

1285 BC

Question 33

when did the Egyptians perfect and build pyramids

Answer 33

old kingdom

Question 34

how is Egyptian history divided

Answer 34

old kingdom, middle kingdom, new kingdom, intermediate 1, intermediate 2

Question 35

king of Lydia

Answer 35

croesus

Question 36

date of aryan invasion

Answer 36

1500 BC

Question 37

who are the Phoenicians, why do we care

Answer 37

highly skilled sailors and merchants, known for the purple dye they sold, invented the alphabet

Question 38

Israel split is the 2 kingdoms of:

Answer 38

Judah and Israel

Question 39

when was Judah destroyed?

Answer 39

598

Question 40

when was Israel destroyed

Answer 40

722

Question 41

years of babylonian exile

Answer 41

598-538

Question 42

when do israelites enter canaan

Answer 42

1200

Question 43

where is Minoan Civilization

Answer 43

on Crete

Question 44

dates for seize of troy

Answer 44

1194-1184

Question 45

what are Greek dark ages

Answer 45

caused by the Dorian invasion, a time of no records or writing, so we don't know much about it

Question 46

when are greek dark ages

Answer 46

1200-800

Question 47

evidence from the minoan civilization comes from what site

Answer 47

knossos

Question 48

where does the name of the aegean sea come from

Answer 48

the father of Theseus, Aegeas, threw himself into the sea when he thought his son was dead

Question 49

who was Darius, what did he do

Answer 49

king of Persia started the Royal Road, conquered thrace and indus valley, organised the empire into satrapies (provinces)

Question 50

when did Darius reign

Answer 50

521-486 BC

Question 51

who was Cyrus the Great, what did he do

Answer 51

king of Persia, conquered Lydia, Babylon, and the Medean empire

Question 52

when did cyrus the great reign

Answer 52

559-530

Question 53

who was Cambyces, what did he do

Answer 53

king of Persia, moved the capital of Persia to Susa, conquered egypt

Question 54

reign of Cambyces

Answer 54

529-522

Question 55

what is zoarastrianism

Answer 55

the monotheistic religion of Persia, with one universal, uncreated, supreme deity= Ahura Mazda, truth was revealed through the prophet Zoroastar, when you die your soul stays on earth for 3 days and 1 night

Question 56

theory for the end of the Mycenaean civilization

Answer 56

Natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

Question 57

what is the Achaemenid empire

Answer 57

the first persian empire, started by cyrus the great,