Title: JEOPARDY!!!
1JEOPARDY!!!
- Review for I.B. World History I Mid-Term
2Pre-History
India
Greece
Egypt and Mesopotamia
China
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3100What is the development of written language?
- This is what ended pre-historic time.
4200What is irrigation?
- This is the term for the digging of trenches and
ditches to transport water.
5300What is a unique culture?
- This is what develops when humans live together
over a period of time.
6400What is Africa?
- This is the continent that is associated with the
birth of civilization.
7500What is an artisan?
- This is another name for a skilled craftsman.
8100What is the Code of Hammurabi?
- This is the first known codification of law,
which can be summed up in the phrase,an eye for
an eye.
9200What are clay tablets?
- This what the Sumerians wrote on to preserve
important records.
10300Who were the Hittites?
- These were the first people to use iron weapons.
11400What is a ziggurat?
- This is the name given to a Sumerian layered
temple.
12500What is the Nile River?
- This was the most important geographical feature
in the development of Egyptian civilization.
13100Who are the Brahmans?
- This was the highest class in the modern Indian
class system.
14200What is Nirvana?
- One could achieve this by following the
eight-fold path and renouncing desire.
15300What are the monsoon winds and high
temperatures?
- These would be the two factors that have the
greatest effect on the climate of India.
16400What is the Deccan Plateau?
- This is the high plain of Central India.
17500What is a stupa?
- This building would be a half-domed structure
holding Buddhist artifacts.
18100What is calligraphy?
- This is a term describing Chinese writing that is
considered art.
19200What is the Great Wall of China?
- This is the large structure built by Shi Huangdi
to protect China from northern invaders.
20300What were rags and mulberry bark?
- This is what the Chinese learned to make paper
out of during the Han Dynasty.
21400What was the Qin Dynasty?
- This was the Dynasty that first unified China, if
only for a brief period of time.
22500What were civil service tests?
- This was how government officials were chosen
during the Han Dynasty, which led to competent
people holding government positions.
23100Who was Draco? ( Draconian laws)
- This was the Greek leader who developed a harsh
code of justice.
24200What were Corinthian columns? Doric, Ionian
and than Corinthian.
- This would be the most complex of the ancient
Greek columns.
25300What is polytheistic?
- This is the type of religion practiced by both
the Greeks and the Romans.
26400Who was Myron?
- This was the sculptor who created the Discus
Thrower.
27500Who was Pericles?
- He was the leader during the Golden Age of Greece.
28Hellenistic Society
Byzantine Empire and Islam
Mid-Term Questions
Rome
Vocabulary
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29200What was a phalanx?
- This was a Greek or Macedonian military unit
consisting of 16 rows of tightly packed men using
lances.
30400People had no interest in inventions or
mechanical labor saving devices or progress?
- This was the ultimate result of the Greeks
relying on slave labor.
31600Who were the Cynics?
- These were the Greek philosophers who scorned
pleasure, wealth, and social position.
32800Who were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?(
Who taught Alexander the Great)
- These would be the three great Greek
philosophers, who each taught the next in line.
331000Who was Alexander the Great?
- He was the brilliant young general who spread
Greek culture throughout much of the western
world.
34200What were the Coliseum, the Pantheon, and
the Forum?
- These would all be examples of Roman
architecture, many which still stand today.
35400What were the twelve tables?
- This was the codification of ancient Roman law.
36600What was a Roman Legion?
- This was the name for a Roman military unit
consisting of 4500 to 6000 men.
37800What was the Council of Nicea?
- This was the meeting that confirmed Christian
doctrine and the Holy Trinity of the Catholic
Church.
381000Who were Constantine and Diocletian?
- These are the two Roman Emperors who tried to
restore order to the Roman Empire after a period
of weak rulers and Civil War.
39200What is Ramadan?
- This is the name given to the Muslim month of
fasting, which is celebrated the ninth month of
Islamic calendar and no food is to be eaten
during the day.
40400Who was Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible?
- This is the Russian ruler who is given credit for
establishing the modern Russian state.
41600Who is the Metropolitan?
- This is the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox
Church.
42800Who were the Ottoman Turks
- The City of Constantinople fell to this group of
conquerors in 1453.
431000What were Cairo, Baghdad, and Cordoba (
sometimes Cordova)
- These would be the main Islamic Caliphates.
44200What was the iconoclastic controversy?
- This the disagreement that split the Roman
Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches and
eventually leads to the Great Schism of 1054.
45400What is monism?
- This is the Hindu belief that God and man are one.
46600What is Sikhism?
- This is the Indian religion that combines
elements of Hinduism and Islam.
47800What are nomads?
- This is another name for a group of people that
wander from place to place in search of food.
481000What was the Rosetta Stone?
- This was the key to deciphering Egyptian
hieroglyphics, discovered by a Napoleonic soldier
during the invasion of Egypt.
49200What are the caves of Ajanta.
- This is one of greatest treasures of the Gupta
dynasty in India, and much can be learned about
the time from the elaborate paintings and
architecture.
50400What is a jihad. ( means struggle to please
God)
- This is the Muslim Holy Crusade that vowed to
spread the faith.
51600Who was Paul or Saul of Tarsus
- He was the Jewish convert who by his teachings
and writings spread the Christian faith
throughout the Middle East and the world.
52800Who was Zoroaster? ( In India the followers
are known as Parsis)
- He was the Persian religious leader who practiced
monotheism and struggle of good over evil.
531000Who were the Phoenicians (Hooked on
Phoenicians)?
- These sea traveling people spread Middle Eastern
culture and ideas throughout the Mediterranean
world.