Chapter 4-6

Question 1

What is NOT a major river valley in Asia?

Answer 1

Nile

Question 2

What is the caste system?

Answer 2

strict social structure of India

Question 3

What was China’s longest ruling dynasty?

Answer 3

Chou

Question 4

Who built the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior?

Answer 4

Cush

Question 5

What did Asoka do?

Answer 5

built the Maurya Empire

Question 6

What important African trading center became a famous center for learning and culture?

Answer 6

Timbuktu

Question 7

What important African city became an Egyptian center of life and one of the great cities of the Arab world?

Answer 7

Cairo

Question 8

Who united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation?

Answer 8

Menes

Question 9

Ancient India made its greatest contributions to civilization in the realm of ____.

Answer 9

mathematics

Question 10

Who started the largest continental empire in history?

Answer 10

Genghis Khan

Question 11

The Book of the Dead is important in the history of ___.

Answer 11

Egypt

Question 12

Who were Edesius and Frumentius?

Answer 12

missionaries

Question 13

Shinto is the oldest surviving religion in ___.

Answer 13

Japan

Question 14

Which country is known to have first made paper?

Answer 14

China

Question 15

What dynasty inaugurated India’s “golden age”?

Answer 15

Guptas

Question 16

longest river in the world

Answer 16

Nile River

Question 17

Africa’s largest lake

Answer 17

Lake Victoria

Question 18

Africa’s highest mountain

Answer 18

Kilimanjaro

Question 19

Japan’s most famous mountain

Answer 19

Mount Fuji

Question 20

Africa’s longest lake

Answer 20

Lake Tanganyika

Question 21

Africa’s largest desert

Answer 21

Sahara

Question 22

What false religion, founded by Siddhartha Gautama, tries to reach a state of “nirvana”?

Answer 22

buddhism

Question 23

What ruler is considered the founder of Japanese civilization?

Answer 23

Prince Shotoku

Question 24

Who was the Frenchman that was able to decipher the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 24

Champollion

Question 25

What best symbolizes the Egyptian conception of state and society?

Answer 25

the pyramid

Question 26

Who was the Egyptian female pharaoh that ruled jointly with her nephew?

Answer 26

Hatshepsut

Question 27

What highway linked China to the Roman world?

Answer 27

Great Silk Road

Question 28

What is the largest rift in the earth's surface?

Answer 28

Great Rift Valley

Question 29

What beautiful building was built as a tomb for a Mogul ruler's wife?

Answer 29

Taj Mahal

Question 30

What two territories seceded from India to become independent states?

Answer 30

Pakistan & Bangladesh

Question 31

What term was given to the warriors, or knights, of feudal Japan?

Answer 31

Samurai

Question 32

wrote the oldest surviving hymn

Answer 32

Clement

Question 33

great pharaoh whose pyramid is the largest

Answer 33

Cheops

Question 34

emperor of Japan

Answer 34

Mikado

Question 35

first emperor of a united China

Answer 35

Shih Haung Ti

Question 36

Egyptian teenage pharaoh

Answer 36

Tutankhamen

Question 37

great ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa

Answer 37

Mansa Musa

Question 38

established the Mogul Empire in India

Answer 38

Babar

Question 39

Greek "Father of History"

Answer 39

Herodotus

Question 40

remembered for carrying Jesus' cross

Answer 40

Simon of Cyrene

Question 41

T/F | The Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of Arabian writing

Answer 41

False. Not Arabian but Egyptian

Question 42

T/F | Alexander's general Ptolemy was given Macedonia to rule.

Answer 42

False. not Macedonia but Egypt

Question 43

T/F Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines are Southeast Asian countries that give some measure of freedom to their people.

Answer 43

True

Question 44

T/F | Taoism was the pagan religion of the Chinese philosopher Lao-tse

Answer 44

True

Question 45

T/F | Marco Polo spent 20 years in the service of the Kublai Khan.

Answer 45

True

Question 46

T/F | Animism is an Indian religion of reincarnation.

Answer 46

False.Not Animism but Hinduism

Question 47

T/F | Chung-kuo is an ancient name of Japan.

Answer 47

False. Not Japan but China

Question 48

T/F | The Hyksos ended the Old Kingdom of Egypt.

Answer 48

False. Not Old but Middle

Question 49

T/F | China is the world's oldest living civilization.

Answer 49

True

Question 50

T/F | Mizraim is an ancient name of Egypt.

Answer 50

True

Question 51

Compare Hinduism with Buddhism and discuss at least two effects these false religions have had on the people of Asia.

Answer 51

They both believe in one diety, Hindus believes in Brahma and Buddhists believe in Buddha. They place their belief on works. The result is spiritual darkness for the people of Asia.