Question 1

People's way of life.

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Culture

Question 2

Person whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.

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Hunter-gatherer

Question 3

Belief in one God.

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Monotheistic

Question 4

Person who wanders from place to place.

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Nomads

Question 5

Agricultural revolution that occurred during the Neolithic period.

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Neolithic Revolution

Question 6

Two ways archaeologists analyze artifacts and fossils

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Radiocarbon (C14) Dating; Stratigraphy

Question 7

Human or other creature that walks upright.

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Hominid

Question 8

Two early farming communities located in the Fertile Crescent

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Aleppo, Jericho

Question 9

First people to have written language and name of the language

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Sumerians; cuneiform

Question 10

Hellenic

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Greek

Question 11

What two terms would best describe the economy in ancient Greece?

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Trade and shipping

Question 12

Two continents on which the first four river valley civilizations appeared

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Asia and Africa

Question 13

Four monotheistic religions we have studied.

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Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism

Question 14

Father of Greek tragedies; wrote Oresteia and Prometheus

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Aeschylus

Question 15

Hellenistic

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Alexander the Great

Question 16

Important writings of Hinduism

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Upanishads and Vedas

Question 17

Greek god that kept same name in Roman Mythology.

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Apollo

Question 18

Civilization known for being tolerant of conquered people

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Persians

Question 19

Studied by archaeologists to learn about past cultures.

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fossils, artifacts, settlements, human remains

Question 20

Important writing of Islam

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Quran

Question 21

What had the largest impact on the creation of Greek city-states?

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physical geography

Question 22

Indian leader known for spreading Buddhism to Asia

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Asoka

Question 23

Wrote tragedies about hubris; Oedipus Rex and Antigone

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Sophocles

Question 24

Type of government system of Athens

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Direct democracy

Question 25

Sum of all good and bad deeds.

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Karma

Question 26

When homo sapiens first emerged in Africa.

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100,000 to 400,000

Question 27

Famous for Allegory in the Cave, The Republic, and opening the school called The Academy

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Plato

Question 28

In what two ways were the Greek city-states alike?

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language and religion

Question 29

Type of government system of Sparta

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Oligarchy

Question 30

Silk, Great Wall, Silk Road, civil service system, porcelain

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Chinese

Question 31

Guptas were the first to develop this mathematical concept.

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Zero

Question 32

Athenian tyrant known for harsh rule

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Draco

Question 33

Golden Age of India

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Gupta

Question 34

Religion that accepts Jesus as incarnation of God

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Christianity

Question 35

As far as Alexander the Great's men would conquer, but refused to cross

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Indus

Question 36

Greek leader from Athens that extended democracy

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Pericles

Question 37

Belief that the soul is reborn.

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reincarnation

Question 38

First Greek philosopher

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Socrates

Question 39

Created this theorem

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Pythagoras

Question 40

Wrote History of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides

Question 41

Buddha's word for release from selfishness and pain.

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Nirvana

Question 42

Archaeological site in England started during the Neolithic Age, finished during the Bronze Age.

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Stonehenge

Question 43

Supervised the building of this temple in Athens.

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Phidias

Question 44

Major conflict that weakened the Greek city-states, allowing Alexander the Great to conquer them

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Peloponnesian War

Question 45

Order in which the continents were inhabited by migrating man

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Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, Americas

Question 46

Persian king who built the Royal Road.

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Darius

Question 47

What factor had the greatest effect on the movements of early nomadic societies?

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Survival needs (food)

Question 48

First Persian king; created a huge empire.

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Cyrus

Question 49

Blind poet famous for Iliad and Odyssey

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Homer

Question 50

Road that helped unify the Persian Empire.

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Royal Road

Question 51

Father of Alexander the Great who was murdered

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Philip

Question 52

War in which the Iliad and Odyssey are about

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Trojan War

Question 53

Theory in which Plato is famous

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The Forms

Question 54

Early city located in what is today Turkey (Anatolia)

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Catalhoyuk

Question 55

Taught Alexander the Great

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Aristotle

Question 56

Chinese, Indian, Persian have this in common.

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Bureaucracy

Question 57

Two religions that originated in India

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Buddhism and Hinduism

Question 58

Style of teaching used by Socrates

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Socratic Method

Question 59

Early people living in the Upper Nile region of Africa

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Nubia

Question 60

Hereditary ruler

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Dynasty

Question 61

Father of History

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Herodotus

Question 62

Developed agriculture, domesticated animals and plants, weaving, pottery

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New Stone Age

Question 63

Sea-faring, alphabet, along Med. Coast

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Phoenicians

Question 64

Two philosophies originating in China

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Confucianism and Taoism

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