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Period Two and Four Exam Questions

(7.1.1) What did the Romans use to transport water?

aqueducts?

(7.1.2) What three continents did the Roman Empire spread across?

asia, europe, africa?

(7.1.3) Who decided to divide the Roman Empire into two parts? Diocletian?

(7.2.1) What were the two ways of life in Ancient Arabia?

nomadic and sedimentary?

(7.2.2) What religious figure did Muhammad see in the cave outside of Mecca?

Gabriel the angel?

(7.2.3) What book does the Sunnah help interpret?

Qur'an

(7.2.4) The use of what common language helped spread ideas in the Muslim world?

Arabic?

(7.2.5) What word means ’Äúhaving to do with cities?’Äù

urban?

(7.2.6) What type of math did Muslims scholars invent?

algebra?

(7.3.1) Which Asian religion required someone to reach nirvana?

buddhism?

(7.3.2) What two dynasties were considered the golden ages of China?

tang and song?

(7.3.3) Which type of Confucianism was influenced by Buddhism and Daoism?

neo-confucianism

(7.3.4) Name the important trade route that linked Asia, Africa, and Europe?

"silk road"?

(7.3.5) What Chinese invention helped make navigation easier?

magnetic compass?

(7.3.6) What is a process for hiring and promoting people based on talent and skills?

merit system?

(7.4.1) What was the most prized resource of West Africa?

gold?

(7.4.2) What two products was the Trans-Sahara trade based upon?

gold and salt?

(7.4.3) What spread religion, values, and laws throughout Africa?

trade?

(7.4.4) What did West Africa use for a common language for government, trade, and learning?

Arabic?

(7.4.5) What method was used to preserve West Africa’Äôs history?

Oral Literature?

(7.5.1) From where did Japan get most of their intellectual, linguistic, religious, and philosophical ideas?

china and korea?

(7.5.2) Under Prince Shotoku’Äôs reign, what religion spread through Japan?

buddhism?

(7.5.3) What high ranking military commanders gained power in Japan?

shoguns?

(7.5.4) From which country did the Japanese borrow the religion of Buddhism?

China?

(7.5.5) What novel written by Murasaki Shikbu is considered the world’Äôs oldest novel?

the tale of genji?

(7.5.6) What was Japan’Äôs military society based upon?

personal honor and loyalty?

(7.6.1) How is the shape of the continent of Europe sometimes described?

a peninsula of peninsulas?

(7.6.2) What group of people did Saint Patrick convert to Christianity in the 400s?

the Irish?

(7.6.3) Who farmed the lands on a manor in order to gain protection?

peasants/serfs?

(7.6.4) What pope excommunicated emperor Henry IV?

Pope Gregory IV

(7.6.5) What document did rebellious nobles force King John to approve?

Magna Carta?

(7.6.6) What was the name of the Christian war that Pope Urban II called to free the holy land?

crusade?

(7.6.7) What epidemic killed nearly half of Europe?

bubonic plague or Black Death?

(7.6.8) What was the one thing that influenced nearly every aspect of European life during the Middle Ages?

Catholic Church?

(7.6.9) What was the movement called that drove Muslims out of Spain?

reconquista?

(7.7.1) What was the Maya’Äôs main farming technique?

slash-andburn agriculture?

(7.7.2) What were the two main social classes of the Maya?

nobles and commoners?

(7.7.3) The Aztecs and Incas were defeated by people from what nation?

Spain

(7.7.4) What South American civilization was a master of stone construction?

the incas?

(7.7.5) What two skills did the Maya and Aztecs use to create accurate calendars?

math and astronomy?

(7.8.1) What kind of art and literature did Renaissance scholars revive the interest in?

Greek and Roman works?

(7.8.2) In what city did the Renaissance begin?

Florence, Italy?

(7.8.3) What trade route did Marco Polo use to travel from Europe to China?

"Silk Road"?

(7.8.4) What new system of printing was invented by Johann Gutenburg?

moveable type?

(7.8.5) Who was the Renaissance genius who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Michaelangelo?

(7.9.1) What did the Catholic Church sell that would pardon a person’Äôs sins?

indulgences?

(7.9.2) Who posted the 95 theses on the Wittenberg church door?

Martin Luther?

(7.9.3) Who created the first English translation of the New Testament?

William Tyndale?

(7.9.4) England brought Protestantism to their American colonies. However, two other countries brought Catholicism to their colonies. Name these two countries.

Spain and France?

(7.9.5) What was the Catholic response to the Reformation?

Counter-Reformation?

(7.9.6) Who converted pagan Germany to Christianity?

St. Boniface?

(7.9.7) What was the name of the movement to drive Muslims out of Spain?

Reconquista?

(7.10.1) What period of time was based on scientific advances made by the ancient Greeks, medieval scholars, and Renaissance thinkers?

Scientific Revolution?

(7.10.2) According to church teachings, God put what planet at the center of the universe?

Earth?

(7.10.3) Who invented the Scientific Method?

Rene descates?

(7.11.1) What is the name for the science of making maps and globes?

cartography?

(7.11.2) What name is given for the exchange of people, other living things and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres?

columbian exchange?

(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?

Montesquieu?

(7.11.5)- Who said that a government should protect people’Äôs natural rights?

John Locke?

(7.11.6)- What document paved the way for the English Parliament, the English Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence?

Magna Carta?