Mid Term EXAM - 2022

Question 1

What is the term for the study of society’s interaction with the past?

Answer 1

History

Question 2

What is the term for “land between the rivers” in Greek?

Answer 2

Mesopotamia

Question 3

What is the term for the systems that use canals and dams to bring water from rivers to the fields?

Answer 3

irrigation

Question 4

What is the term for the belief in only one god?

Answer 4

Monotheism

Question 5

What is the term for “great house?’

Answer 5

Pharaoh

Question 6

What is the term for a tablet that enabled the French to decipher hieroglyphics?

Answer 6

Rosetta Stone

Question 7

What is the term for the nomads who used chariots to conquer Egypt around 1660 BC?

Answer 7

Hyksos

Question 8

What is the term for a wind pattern that brings heavy rainfall to India during the summer?

Answer 8

Monsoons

Question 9

What is the term for a pass that provides access to India through the Hindu Kush Mountains?

Answer 9

Khyber

Question 10

What is the term for a title which means “Enlightened One?”

Answer 10

Buddha

Question 11

What is the term for an escape from self, suffering and reincarnation in Buddhism?

Answer 11

Nirvana

Question 12

What is the term for the Greek city and the surrounding countryside?

Answer 12

Polis

Question 13

What is the term for slaves who are owned by Spartan citizens?

Answer 13

Helots

Question 14

What is the term for a Roman army unit with approximately 5000 men?

Answer 14

Legion

Question 15

What is the term for a victory parade held in honor of a victorious Roman commander?

Answer 15

Triumph

Question 16

Who was defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus?

Answer 16

Pompey

Question 17

Where were the first races of human activity found?

Answer 17

Great Rift Valley

Question 18

What did the Assyrians use to increase their power and territory?

Answer 18

Iron weapons
Battering rams
Fear

Question 19

Which innovation developed in Sumer?

Answer 19

The wheel

Question 20

Which of the following was the largest settlement during the Neolithic Revolution?

Answer 20

Catalhuyuk

Question 21

Which development defined the Neolithic Revolution?

Answer 21

Agriculture

Question 22

The term prehistorical refer to what time period?

Answer 22

Before the development of writing

Question 23

What city served as the final Assyrian capital and home to a great library?

Answer 23

Nineveh

Question 24

Who ruled as the first female pharaoh in Egyptian history?

Answer 24

Hatshepsut

Question 25

What was the most important responsibility of an Egyptian pharaoh?

Answer 25

Preserve maat

Question 26

Who united the northern and southern Egyptian kingdom's around 3100 BC?

Answer 26

Menes

Question 27

What civilization was the first to develop an alphabet?

Answer 27

Phoenicia

Question 28

Who built the first temple in Jerusalem to honor Yahweh?

Answer 28

Solomon

Question 29

What occurred after the collapse of the New Kingdom?

Answer 29

Assyrians conquered Egypt Kingdom of Israel emerged in Canaan Phoenician city states flourished in the Levant

Question 30

Why di the Harappan civilization decline around 1700 BC?

Answer 30

Indus River gradually changed its course

Question 31

What river served as the center of the Harappan civilization?

Answer 31

Indus River

Question 32

What pharaoh brought the Egyptian Empire to its largest size ever?

Answer 32

Thutmose III

Question 33

Who led the Egyptian army during the Battle of Kadesh?

Answer 33

Ramses II

Question 34

Where did the Hittites form a powerful kingdom?

Answer 34

Anatolia

Question 35

Who became known as the Buddha by meditating under a tree to find enlightenment?

Answer 35

Siddhartha Gautama

Question 36

What group was excluded from the caste system?

Answer 36

Pariahs

Question 37

What empire united the small kingdoms in northern India for the first time?

Answer 37

Mauryan Empire

Question 38

What group enjoyed the highest level of respect in the caste system?

Answer 38

Brahmins

Question 39

What is Hinduism's one true being which is manifested in many gods and living things?

Answer 39

Brahman

Question 40

What were religious myths written in Sanskrit by the Aryans?

Answer 40

Vedas

Question 41

Where did the Romans finally defeat Hannibal?

Answer 41

Zama

Question 42

What city was destroyed during the Third Punic War?

Answer 42

Carthage

Question 43

What island did Romans and Carthaginians want to control during the First Punic War?

Answer 43

Sicily

Question 44

What region rebelled against Persian rule in 499 BC?

Answer 44

Ionia

Question 45

Who created the council of Five Hundred in Athens?

Answer 45

Cleisthenes

Question 46

Who established the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes around 550 BC?

Answer 46

Cyrus the Great

Question 47

Who was assassinated by a group of senators after her was declared dictator for life?

Answer 47

Julius Caesar

Question 48

Are primary sources first hand accounts?

Answer 48

YES

Question 49

Does AD stand for After Death?

Answer 49

NO

Question 50

Is disease a risk associated with agriculture?

Answer 50

YES

Question 51

Was King David the first king to unite the Hebrews against the Philistines?

Answer 51

NO

Question 52

Did Hatshepsut fight many wars to expand the Egyptian Empire?

Answer 52

NO

Question 53

Did the Hittites speak a Semitic language?

Answer 53

NO

Question 54

Are clay trade seals the only remnants of Harappan writing?

Answer 54

YES

Question 55

Are the Upanishads the written interpretations of the Vedas?

Answer 55

YES

Question 56

Did Chandragupta become the first Indian emperor by conquering rival kingdoms?

Answer 56

YES

Question 57

Did Asoka turn away from warfare when he converted to Buddhism?

Answer 57

YES

Question 58

Did the Olympic Games allow MALE athletes to demonstrate military skills?

Answer 58

>S

Question 59

Is a patriarchal society controlled by women?

Answer 59

NO

Question 60

Were strong women valued in Sparta?

Answer 60

YES

Question 61

Did the Persians build roads to transport messages, taxes and soldiers?

Answer 61

YES

Question 62

Did Themistocles defeat the Persian navy at the Battle of Salamis?

Answer 62

YES

Question 63

Did Pericles lead Sparta during the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 63

NO

Question 64

Did Athens win the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 64

NO

Question 65

Did Alexander the Great conquer Greece at the Battle of Plataea?

Answer 65

NO

Question 66

Did the Greek Empire collapse after Alexander the Great was assassinated?

Answer 66

NO

Question 67

Were dishonored Roman Legions punished with decimation?

Answer 67

YES

Question 68

Did Xerxes march an army through the Alps to invade Roman Territory?

Answer 68

NO

Question 69

Did the Romans behead 6,000 slaves after Spartacus was defeated?

Answer 69

NO

Question 70

Did Julius Caesar become a victorious military commander in Gaul?

Answer 70

YES

Question 71

Who was the Gladiator who escaped and led a slave revolt?

Answer 71

Spartacus

Question 72

What was the Athenian victory over the Persians that was led by Darius?

Answer 72

Marathon

Question 73

What was Alexander's greatest victory?

Answer 73

Gaugumela

Question 74

What were Sun Tzu's military treatise's that are still studied today?

Answer 74

Art of War

Question 75

Who were the mysterious raiders who were defeated by Ramses III?

Answer 75

Sea People

Question 76

What is the name of the famous last stand that ended in defeat for the Greeks?

Answer 76

Thermopylae

Question 77

What was a victory for Hannibal and a military disaster for Rome?

Answer 77

Cannae

Question 78

What was a stalemate between Ramses II and the Hittites?

Answer 78

Kadesh

Question 79

What is the rebirth of a soul in a new form?

Answer 79

Reincarnation

Question 80

Who was the Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens?

Answer 80

Nebuchadnezzar