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Period One and Five Exam Questions
(7.1.1) What did the Romans use to transport water?
aqueduct
(7.1.2)What ancient empire was hard to hold together because of its size?
Roman Empire
(7.1.3)What Roman emperor created a new capital called Constantinople?
Constantine
(7.2.1.) What are two ways of life in the Arabian Peninsula?
Nomadic and sedentery
(7.2.2)What was the name of the angel that visited Muhammad?
Gabriel
(7.2.3.) What book do the Muslims believe contains the word of God?
Qur’Äôan
(7.2.4)What was the common language used in the Muslim world?
Arabic
(7.2.5.) What word means ’Äúhaving to do with cities?’Äù
Urban
(7.2.6.)What ancient learning did Muslims preserve?
Greek and Roman
(7.3.1.)What religion spread through China, Korea, and Japan during the Tang dynasty?
Buddhism
(7.3.2)What dynasties were known as the Golden Age of China?
Tang and Song
(7.3.3)What religion that emphasized family and respect for government influenced nearly every aspect of Chinese society?
Confucianism
(7.3.4)What land trade route linked Asia Africa and Europe?
Silk Road
(7.3.5) What Chinese invention helped make navigation easier?
Compass
(7.3.6) What is a process for hiring and promoting people based on talent and skills?
Merit system
(7.4.1)What river was very important to West African society?
Niger River
(7.4.2) What is the name for the division of jobs and skills in a society?
Labor specialization
(7.4.3)What allowed ideas to travel to and from West Africa?
Trade routes
(7.4.4)In West Africa what common language was used for government, trade, and learning?
Arabic
(7.4.5)What did African societies use preserve their history and culture?
written documents and stories
(7.5.1)From what countries did Japan borrow many cultural elements?
China and Korea
(7.5.2)What religion spread through Japan during Prince Shotoku’Äôs reign?
Buddhism
(7.5.3)What is the name for the warrior code that the Samurai followed?
Bushido
(7.5.4)What religion divided into many different forms adapting to Japanese culture?
Buddhism
(7.5.5)What was the name of the world’Äôs first novel?
The Tale of Gengi
(7.5.6)What was Japan’Äôs military society based upon?
Personal loyalties
(7.6.2)What religion spread through Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire?
Christianity
(7.6.3)In Medieval Europe what system of government was based on loyalty, military skills and
a code of honor?
fudalism
(7.6.4)Who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church?
Pope
(7.6.5)What is the name for the representative political body that protects English people’Äôs rights?
English Parliament
(7.6.6)What were the religious wars called that were fought between the Christians and
Muslims during the Middle Ages?
Crusades
(7.6.7)What epidemic killed millions of people in Asia Africa and Europe during the middle Ages?
the Bubonic plague
(7.6.8)What church influenced nearly all aspects of European life during the middle Ages?
Catholic Church
(7.6.9)What was the name of the movement to drive Muslims from Spain?
Reconquista
(7.7.1)What is the name of the region extending from Central Mexico into Northern Central America?
Mesoamerica
(7.7.2)What did the Inca, Maya and Aztec religions have in common?
polytheistic
(7.7.3)What country defeated the Aztecs and Incas?
Spain
(7.7.4)What is a symbol that stands for a word, idea, or a sound?
heiroglyphs
(7.7.5)What civilizations used math and astronomy to develop an accurate calendar?
Maya, Aztec
(7.8.1)In what time period did scholars revive interest in ancient Greek and Roman works?
Renaissance
(7.8.2)In what city did the Renaissance begin?
Florence
(7.8.3)What continents did the Silk Road connect?
Europe and Asia
(7.8.4)What was the first book Johann Gutenberg published with his movable type printing?
bible
(7.8.5)Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
(7.9.1)What was the religious movement called that began in the 1500’Äôs to reform the Catholic Church?
Reformation
(7.9.2)Who wrote the 95 Theses which challenged the Catholic Church?
Martin Luther
(7.9.3) Who created the first English translation of the New Testament?
William Tyndale
(7.9.4)Most of Northern Europe became Protestant during what event?
Reformation
(7.9.5)What is the name for the Catholic Church response to the Reformation?
Counter-Reformation
(7.9.6) Who converted pagan Germany to Christianity?
St. Boniface
(7.9.7)What was a court called that was set up by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages
to try people of heresy?
Inquisition
(7.10.1)What time period was based on scientific advances by Greeks, Medieval scholars, and
thinkers of Renaissance?
Scientific Revolution
(7.10.2)Who was the great thinker that discovered that the sun, rather than the Earth, was the center of
the universe?
Nicolaus Copernicus
(7.10.3) What person invented the Scientific Method?
Rene Descartes
(7.11.1)What is the name for the science of map making?
cartography
(7.11.2)What started a global exchange of people, plants, animals, and ideas?
Trade
(7.11.3) What did mercantilists believe would help increase a nation’Äôs power?
Trade
(7.11.4) Who created the idea for three branches of government?
Motesquieu
(7.11.5)Who said a government must protect people’Äôs natural rights?
John Locke
(7.11.6)What was signed in 1215 that limited the King’Äôs power and said rulers must obey
certain laws?
Magna Carta