Test 2

Question 1

Three major river valleys in Asia are the Tigris-Euphrates, Huang He and _______.

Answer 1

Indus

Question 2

What is the strict social structure of India called?

Answer 2

caste system

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

Who built the Maurya Empire?

Answer 5

Asoka

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 and 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

What is the longest river in the world?

Answer 16

Nile River

Question 17

What is Africa’s largest lake?

Answer 17

Lake Victoria

Question 18

What is Africa’s highest mountain?

Answer 18

Mount Kilimanjaro

Question 19

What is Japan’s most famous mountain?

Answer 19

Mount Fuji

Question 20

What is Africa’s longest lake?

Answer 20

Lake Tanganyika

Question 21

What is Africa’s largest desert?

Answer 21

Sahara Desert

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 who 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

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 and Bangladesh

Question 31

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

Answer 31

samurai

Question 32

Who wrote the oldest surviving hymn?

Answer 32

Clement

Question 33

The great pharaoh whose pyramid is the largest.

Answer 33

Cheops

Question 34

The emperor of Japan.

Answer 34

Mikado

Question 35

Who was the first emperor of a united China?

Answer 35

Shih Huang Ti

Question 36

The Egyptian teenage pharaoh.

Answer 36

Tutankhamen

Question 37

Who was the great ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa?

Answer 37

Mansa Musa

Question 38

Who established the Mogul Empire in India?

Answer 38

Babar

Question 39

Who is the Greek "Father of History"?

Answer 39

Herodotus

Question 40

Who is remembered for carrying Jesus' cross?

Answer 40

Simon of Cyrene

Question 41

The Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of _______ writing.

Answer 41

Egyptian

Question 42

Alexander's general Ptolemy was given _______ to rule.

Answer 42

Egypt

Question 43

Malaysia, Singapore, and the ________ are Southeast Asian countries that give some measure of freedom to their people.

Answer 43

Philippines

Question 44

Taoism was the pagan religion of the Chinese philosopher _______.

Answer 44

Lao-tse

Question 45

Marco Polo spent 20 years in the service of the _________.

Answer 45

Kublai Khan

Question 46

________ is an Indian religion of reincarnation.

Answer 46

Hinduism

Question 47

Chung-kuo is an ancient name of ______.

Answer 47

China

Question 48

The Hyksos ended the _______Kingdom of Egypt.

Answer 48

Middle

Question 49

______ is the world's oldest living civilization.

Answer 49

China

Question 50

Mizraim is an ancient name of _______.

Answer 50

Egypt