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World History Midterm Study Sheet

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1.  Define Archaeology	5

2.  Difference between modern humans and Neanderthals	10

	
3.  Occupied top level in ancient society	20
	
4.  Cultural diffusion and how did it occur	23

	
5.  Hominids currently living on earth	10	
6.  Ruler who conquered cities created this	23	
7.  Stones the Leakey’s found revealed this about hominids	8

8.  New Stone Age began when people learned how to do this.	13	
9.  A belief when tools and weapons were found in graves	13	
10.  How did nomadic life differ from civilizations?  List their differences.	22

	
11.  What is a ziggurat and what was its function?	32

12.  Who developed mathematics and the number system?	34	
13.  Why was Hammurabi’s Code so important?	37	
14.  Major accomplishment of Old Kingdom, Egyptian pharaohs.	46	
15.  What new war technology did the Egyptians master from the Hyksos.	46	
16.  The Torah said this person led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt.	59	
17.  Sumerians view of an afterlife.	32	
18.  What Persian spread the ideas of heaven, hell, and judgment day?	42	
19.  Egyptians believed the pharaohs had the right to rule from this god.	50	
20.  To show their importance, how did the Egyptian artist portray pharaohs?	56	
21.  The Jews believed God gave them the Ten Commandments through this person.	60	
22.  Area of the Indian subcontinent unproductive for farming.	69	
23.  What is dharma?	77

24.  How did Chandragupta Maurya establish empire order?	84

	
25.  What math system developed during the Gupta dynasty?	88	
26.  Reason the Great Wall was constructed.
	102

	
27.  Achievement during Han Golden Age regarding Technology	106	
28.  Caste system—which had the toughest rules?  	78	
29.  Compare the differences between Buddhism and Hinduism.	80	
30. Maurya emperor who ruled by moral example.	85	
31.  Discuss the trade of the Tamil kingdoms.	86

	
32.  Chinese used the dynastic cycle to explain the mandate of heaven.  If the rulers were to become weak, what would happen?	95	
33.  Oldest examples of Chinese writing were found on these.	100	
34.  What is monarchy?	120	
35.  What are the responsibilities of the Women of Sparta?	121

	
36.  Victory in Persian Wars provided Greeks with this.	126	
37.  What helped Alexander the Great conquer Persia	139

	

38.  What happened in 507 B.C.?	122

	
39.  Acropolis	119

	
40.  Theme of the plays of Euripides	134

	
41.  Alexander the Great extended his empire as far east as	139	
42.  What belief did Zeno the philosopher urge people to do?	141

	
43. What is the plot of the Illiad?	116

	
44.  Rome had control of lands around the Mediterranean Sea in the Punic Wars by defeating ……	155-156	
45.  In Roman society what family member was in command?	153	
46.  Who built the aqueducts and what was their purpose?	164

	
47.  In A.D. 313, what important change was made to Christians?	170	
48.  In Aztec mythology, who created the world?	193-194	
49.  The Nazca people culture created this.	196	
50.  How did the Ancestral Puebloans protect themselves?	203	
51What objects did the Hopewell people find to show they traded over a wide area?	203	

52.  What made the Mesoamerica people expand their population?	187

	
53. Define the term kiva.	203

	
54.  The Inuit people traveled this way.	204

	
55.  Define the term stela (plural, stelae)	190

	
56.  Oldest culture archaeologists found in Andean region.	195

	
57.  This is how Christians found salvation.	225	
58.  Under Benedictine Rule, monks, nuns, took these vows.	228

	
59.  Truce of God?	229

60.  In medieval city, why would newcomers settle outside city walls?	236	
61.  What is missi dominici?	216	
62.  What important step did King Clovis take?	215	
63.  Discuss Vikings.  What did they do?	218

	
64.  Why was Feudalism developed?	219

	
65.  Difference between friars and monks.	229

66.  What is a merchant guild?	235	
67.  Due to overcrowding medieval cities built this to their houses?	236

	
68.  What is the Concordat of Worms?	252

69.  What did Queen Isabella do regarding religion after the Reconquista was complete?	260

	
70.  What did Frederick II when involved in Italy	253

	
71.  Christian knights captured this in 1099.	256	
72.  Theme of Song of Roland.	265

	
73.  Gothic style of architecture	266

	
74.  In the 1300’s economy was suffering.  To limit rising costs, what did landowners do?
	270	
75.  1309 brought decline to the papacy.  Why?	270

	
76.  Translations in the 1100’s caused this.	264

	
77.  Henry II’s debate with the church claimed what right	246	
78.  Discuss the southern steppe.  	289

	
79.  Mongols influenced Russia.  How did it serve later Russian rulers?

	291	
80.  Ivan the Great limited the power of the boyars or….	293
	
81.  Where was the city of Constantinople located? 	282

82.  Under the rule of Justinian, discuss the military strength of the Byzantine empire.

	285

	
83.  This is how the medieval Russian’s reached the Byzantine world.	290	

84.  Mongol rule cut this from medieval Russia	291

	
85.  1380, Russian princess of Moscow took control over Mongols.  What happened?	292	
86.  Ivan the Terrible.	293

	
87.  Why were Mecca’s merchants angered with Muhammad?

	305	
88.  Sufis	312

	
89.  Arab writes gathered stories from own culture and that of others in this collection.	320

	
90.  What did Muslims and Sikhs religions have in common?	327

	
91.  Conflict between Ottoman and Safavid empires.	333

	
92.  Mecca became the holiest city because of Muhammad’s rededication to what?

	305	
93.  What resources spurred trade to Africa from Asia?	341

	

94.  Ghana:  The Land of Gold	347

	
95.  Contributions in education of Mansa Musa.	348

	
96.  Porcelain remains show the Great Zimbabwe was part of what?

	356	
97.  How was the king of Kongo chosen?	360

98.  Sahara and Neolithic people migrated south because of this.	341

99.  Women were rulers of this West African city-state.	351	
100.  Mongol rulers of China said this regarding the military	377

	
101.  What happened in 939?	401	
102.  Daoist tradition, painters sought to capture this.	372	
103.  Mongol armies had a problem of attacking walled cities.    How did they conquer this?	376	
104.  	385	
105.  Brought Buddhism to the Burman people.	400	
106.  Made decisions in early farming communities.	72	
107.  During the old kingdom, Egyptians built this.	46	
108.  What was the early Hebrews unique belief system regarding religion	57	
109.  Created the first books.	100	
110.  What is Brahman?	73	

111.  Siddhartha Gautama’s 4 truths	80

	
112.  What does Daoism teach?	98

	
113.  Dominated the Aegean world 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C.	115	
114.  What are the responsibilities of the Women of Sparta?	121

	
115.  Ancestral Puebloans	203	
116.  To unite their empire, the Inca people built this.	197

117.  Medieval society developed Feudalism for this reason.	219	
118.  Effect of Black Death in regards to economy.	270	
119.  Where was the city of Constantinople located? 	282

120.  Mongols influenced Russia.  How did it serve later Russian rulers?
	291	
121.  China under Tang dynasty for neighboring lands to…….	369	
122.  Theme Albert Durer’s engravings portray.	419	
123.  Swiss city-state became model of Protestant morality under him.	427	
124.  Humanist scholars focused on what?	411

125.  ?	429          ?	
126.  How did the beliefs of Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes differ in their methods of understanding?	436	
127.  What is the Renaissance?	410	
128.   List the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci	414

	
129.  Who created the microscope?	437-438	
130.  Name those religions that can trace their religious ancestry to Anabaptists.	428

131.  List the changes the Catholic Church made during the Catholic Reformation.	430

	
132.  Between 1450 and 1750, the belief in both magic and Christianity led to this.	433

	
133.  Name the countries involved in the Line of Demarcation.	450	
134.  American silver flowed  into East Asia through what important Spanish trading center.	459	
135.  After the Japanese and Manchus invaded Korea, how did they respond?	464

	
136.  By the 1400’s, Europeans searched for trade to obtain spices.  Where did they mainly come from? 	446	
137.  Significance of the settlement of Cape Town in regards to Africa.	455  	
138.  Who captured Malacca in 1641?	459	
139.  When the Mughal empire weakened, French and British armies fought for power in India with their help.  Who were they?	460	
140.   	464	
141.  This conqueror added the lands of the present-day countries of Peru, Ecuador and Chile.	475	
142.  Define peninsulares.	480

143.  Legs of the triangular trade.	487

	
144.  When Christopher Columbus encountered the Taino people, what did the Taino men and women do?	472   	
145.  Aztec emperor Moctezuma heard about the Spanish.  Worried that he was a god, what did he do?	473	
146.  Results of the Treaty of Paris, what land did Britain gain?	486      	
147.  What are some of the foods introduced to the Americans by the Europeans?	491	
148.  	488               	
149.  In 1620 landed here and created the Mayflower Compact as a governing agreement.	484  	
150.  To gain control of the Inca’s and their leader, Atahualpa; the Spanish did this even though Inca’s paid ransom.	475