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World History and Geography Unit 2 Study Guide
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1. What field was the ancient Indians’ most important contribution made in?
2. In the Chinese culture, priests made these to communicate with the gods.
3. What dynasty ruled for almost 800 years and is the longest-lasting dynasty in Chinese history?
4. What is it called when characters combine two or more pictographs to represent an idea.
5. India’s ___________________________________ was created by the Aryans.
6. Which empire traded with China, Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean?
7. Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
8. Describe the Silk Road.
9. Why did the Zhou dynasty claimed it ruled China?
10. What important concept became a crucial part of Chinese history?
11. How did Qin Shihuangdi unified the Chinese world?
12. What are some of the technological advances of the Han dynasty?
13. Who were the Aryans?
14. What did Buddha believe caused suffering?
15. What was one element of the Confucian view of the Dao?
16. Who was the founder of the Han dynasty?
17. What was discovered in 1974, when farmers weredigging a well about 35 miles east of Xi’an?
18. According to the Confucian concept of duty, if each individual works hard to fulfill his or her duties,
then society as a whole will do what?
19. What is the religious center of a Greek city-state was often in a fortified area called?
20. The end of tyranny in Greece led to the development of ___________________, or government by
the people.
21. What was an Athenian family’s primary function?
22. Who was the chief god and father of the gods according to Greek religion?
23. What is an organized system of thought referred to as?
24. By 750 B.C., the _________________________________, or city-state, became the central focus of
Greek life.
25. What was the first Greek state?
26. What is an Oligarchy?
27. According to Plato, what did individuals have to do to achieve a good life unless?
28. What did the conquests of Alexander the Great create?
29. Who said that “the unexamined life is not worth living”?
30. Who is considered by many historians today to be the greatest historian of the ancient world?
31. Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander’s death?
32. What impact did the high mountain ranges in Greece have on the development of Greek
communities?
33. How did physical geography facilitate trade among the Greek colonies?
34. What best describes Greek religion?
35. What is the form of government in which the leader is not a monarch and certain citizens have the
right to vote?
36. What was the Roman Senate?
37. How did Julius Caesar, the first dictator of Rome, reign end?
38. What was a period of peace and prosperity that lasted almost 200 years?
39. Who was the first Christian emperor?
40. Who were the first invaders to sack Rome?
41. What mountain range forms a ridge that divides the western Italian peninsula from the east?
People Places and Things to know:
Virgil
Spartacus
Republic
Visigoths
Diocletian
Triumvirate
Vandals
Theodosius the Great
Etruscans
Antony and Cleopatra
Knossos
Olympus
Socrates
Homer
agora
yoga
Bodhi
censorate
Dao
Reincarnation
Legalism
Buddha
Eightfold Path
Qin Shihuangdi