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The Tutor of Alexander
the Great Was:
A. Socrates
B. Pericles
C. Aristotle D. Herodotus
• What type
of writing is
this?
Where can this type of building
be found?
How did the signing of the
Magna Carta affect future
monarchs in England?
Which group of people came
up with this form of writing?
Which group of people came
up with this form of writing?
•
Who created this statue?
A. Myron
B. Pericles
C. Sophocles
D.
Michelangelo
What is the exchange of
goods and ideas between
peoples?
A. Barter
B. Trading
C. Cultural
Diffusion
D. Theocracy
Of the following, which
was invented during the
Neolithic Revolution:
A. Wheel
B. Fire
C. Religion
D. Boat
All humans and humanlike
creatures fall into what
category?
A.
Australopithicus
C. Nomads
B. Hominids
D. Tribunes
The study of written records
is:
A. Anthropology
C. History
B.
Archaeology
D. Education
The worship of one god
is called:
A.
Monotheism
C. Polytheism
B.Theocracy
D.
Theology
Who was the King of
the Greek gods:
A. Jupiter
B. Athena
C. Venus
D. Zeus
What is the Name of
this building:
Which of the following
individuals do Jewish people
trace their roots back to?
A. Abraham
B. Moses
C. Jesus
D. Exodus
Which of the following
is not a characteristic of
an ancient river valley:
A. Mild
Climate
B. Water
C. Cold
Winters
D. Fertile Soil
The oldest continuous
civilization in the world is:
A. Egypt
B. China
C. India
D. Pakistan
The Lines Illustrated on
this globe are:
A. Longitude
B. Latitude
C. Parallels
D. Distortion
In the following
coordinate, which is
latitude, 35ºN, 28ºW
B.
W
A. 28 º
C. South
D. 35 º
The Greek Leader who
built the Parthenon was:
A. Socrates
B. Pericles
C. Aristotle
D. Myron
Many scientist date the
existence of humanlike
creatures to about:
B. 10,000
A.5,550
years ago
C. 50,000
years ago
years ago
D. 4.4 million
years ago
The author of a great
code of laws was:
A. Narmer
C. Yu the
Great
B.
Hammurabi
D. Sargon I
A long line of rulers from
the same family is called a:
A.
Theocracy
B. Dynasty
C.
D. Monarchy
Bureaucracy
The key to translating
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
was:
A. Rosetta
Stone
B.
Cuneiform
C. Oracle
Bones
D. Book of
the Dead
The Discus Thrower
was carved by:
A.
Hippocrates
B. Myron
C.
Euripides
D.
Thucydides
Which of the following
is a cardinal direction:
A. South
B. Northeast
C. Right
D. NorthNorthwest
The holiest city for the
Jewish people is:
A. Jerusalem
B. Babylon
C. Damascus D. Persepolis
What is the name for
the Israelite God?
A. Shiva
B. Judah
C. Torah
D. Yahweh
Put the following in the order in
which they occurred:
A. Agricultural
Villages
B. City-state
C. Nomads
D. Empires
Complex societies with
advanced knowledge of
farming, trade, government, and
art are called:
B.
A.Cultures
Cooperatives
C. Civilizations D. Agricultural
villages
The Greek alphabet was based
on the easy-to-learn 22
character writing system of:
A. The
Chinese
C. The
Persians
B.The
Phoenicians
D. Zoroaster
Claiming to be the sun god’s
equal, Amenhotep changed his
name to:
A. Ramses II B. Ramses III
C. Hatshepsut
D. Akhenaton
All of the following valleys are
sites of early urban civilizations
EXCEPT:
A. Tigris and B. Huang He
Euphrates
C. Nile River
D. Neander
The Greek Philosopher who was
st
the 1 to challenge the sophists:
A. Plutarch
B. Herodotus
C.
Socrates
D. Plato
The “Father of History”:
A. Alexander
B. Socrates
C.
D. Herodotus
Nebuchadnezzar
The Spartans fought the
Athenians in :
A. Persian
B. Punic War
War
C.
Peloponnesian
War
D. Trojan
War
Name the continent :
What is the latitude of the
Tropic of Cancer?
A.23.5º S B. 23.5º N
C. 25.3º S
D. 25.3º N
The Furthest East that
Alexander the Great got was :
A. India
B. China
C.
Babylon
D. Greece
What is the latitude of the
North Pole?
A. 180ºN B. 23.5ºN
C. 90 ºN D. 75 ºN
Where can this building be
found :
Hieroglyphics is to Egypt as
Cuneiform is to :
A. Greece
B. Rome
C. Persia
D. Sumer
Title meaning “great house of
the King”
A. Aramaic
B. Satraps
C. Pharaoh D. Ziggurat
Terraced temple found in
Sumerian cities:
A.
B. Ziggurat
Pyramid
C. Church D. Phalanx
Where Leonidas made his
valiant stand:
A. Marathon
B. Salamis
C. Thermopylae
D. Alexandria
Includes the first five books of
the bible:
A. Old
B. The Koran
Testament
C. The Torah
D. The 10
commandments
Student of Plato, tutor of
Alexander:
A. Aristotle
B. Socrates
C.
D. Sophist
Herodotus
Name this continent :
Which of the following is NOT
an essential map component :
A. Key
B. Compass
Rose
C. Scale D. State
Lines
What is present in all
maps :
B. Contour
A.
Distortion
Lines
C. Lines of D. Lines of
Latitude
Longitude
Israelite leader who led
the Jews out of Egypt:
B.
A. Moses
Abraham
C. Joshua
D. Jesus
The Founders of Rome
were:
A. Aaron B. Julius &
& Moses
Augustus
C. Romulus D. Alexander
& Remus
& Aristotle
What is the longest river
in the World?
B. Amazon
A. Nile
C. Tigris
D. Huang He
The ancient Israelite’s code
of laws was called:
A. Code of
B. Twelve
Hammurabi
Tables
C. Ten
Commandments
D. Draco’s
Code
What river is also known as
the “Great Sorrow?”
B. Indus
A. Tigris
C. Nile
D. Huang He
The Egyptians settled
along what body of water:
B. Tiber
A. Tigris
River
River
C. Rhine
River
D. Nile River
Mesopotamia means:
A. Fertile B. Sacred
Land
Land
C. Land
between 2
Rivers
D. Middle
Eastern
Land
The Greek who created an
oath of medical ethics was
A.
Herodotus
C.
Pericles
B.
Hippocrates
D. Homer
The Greek who wrote the
Odyssey & Iliad was
A.
Herodotus
C.
Pericles
B.
Hippocrates
D. Homer
Who Created the Last
Supper?
A.Michangelo
B. Leonardo Da Vinci
C. Raphael
D.Petrarch
Who Created the statue
of David?
A.Michangelo
B. Leonardo Da Vinci
C. Raphael
D.Petrarch
Who invented the
Printing Press?
A.Leonardo Da
Vinci
B. Johannes
Gutenberg
C. Petrarch
D.Shakespeare
Which city is important to
Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam?
D Islam
A.Rome
B. Constantinople
C. Mecca
D.Jerusalem
The movement patterns of
early humans were mostly
determined by -a. Tribal Wars
b. Language
development
c. Animal migrations
d. Religious
practices
What archaeological site is
this?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Chichen Itza
Babylon
Machu Picchu
Stonehenge
This statue represents the
founder of -•
a.
b.
c.
d.
Buddhism
Hinduism
Shintoism
Confucianism
Which geographic factor was
most important to the growth
of the Byzantine Empire?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Extensive iron deposits
River water for irrigation
Abundant fertile soil
Access to trade routes
Which civilization created this
architectural structure?
Dome of the Rock
a.
b.
c.
d.
Islamic Islamic
Greek
Roman
Egyptian
Which nearby civilization
strongly influenced Japan’s
cultural development?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Indian
Mongol
Chinese
Russian
Which city was a center of
trade and learning in West
Africa?
•
•
•
•
Axum
Timbuktu
Alexandria
Great Zimbabwe
Which nearby civilization had
the strongest influence on the
culture of Kush?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Mesopotamian
Egyptian
Chinese
Indus
Which religion contributed to
the unification of Russia?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Islam
Judaism
Eastern Orthodox
Roman Catholicism