Download final exam review 2014

1. Modern historians divide Egypt into three major periods
known as?
2. Who invented cuneiform?
3. Why was Judaism different from other religions of its time
4. What is Hammurabi remembered for?
5. What are the basic characteristics of civilizations?
6. Why were Paleolithic peoples nomadic?
7. What are the Twelve Tables?
8. What is the Pax Romana?
9. Whose conquests created the Hellenistic Era that saw
Greek culture expand?
10.
According to Buddha, what can release a person from
suffering?
11.
What is the Silk Road?
12.
What is Bushido?
13.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
14.
What is not a similarity between Egypt and
Mesopotamia concerning language?
15.
Technological developments during the Tang Dynasty
included what?
16.
Which desert is the largest on Earth?
17.
What did Axum owe much of its prosperity to?
18.
What is Shari’ah?
19.
The revolt led by Hussein in the early Umayyad period
led to what?
20.
What is a republic?
21.
What is Mesoamerica?
22.
What is a carruca?
23.
Where did the Bubonic Plague first begin?
24.
Who brought much of the Eurasian landmass under
single rule?
25.
What did the Plains Natives use buffalo for?
Essay – Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt and Ancient China all
began through the “silt process.” Describe in detail the process
which starts with snow at the top of mountains and ends with a
prosperous civilization.