World History Final Jeopardy

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World History Final Jeopardy Review Game
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Name the kings who consulted the gods through the
use of oracle bones?
Who are the Shang ?
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Name the ruler who was famous for a uniform code
of laws that unified his empire?
Who is Hammurabi?
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Name the belief in many gods.
What is Polytheism?
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What scientific concept did Indian astronomers
prove long before the Europeans did?
That the Earth is Round
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Name the ruler was considered to be both a
king and a god?
What is Pharaoh?
A5
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Why was Alexandria Egypt, important during the
Hellenistic period?
It became the foremost center of commerce and
Hellenistic culture.
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What is the Indus Valley Civilization sometimes
called?
What is the Harappan Civilization
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What concept was the belief in divine right
used to support?
Absolute rule
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How did the first Americans support themselves?
Hunting and Gathering
A9
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Name the oldest known city in Africa south of the
Sahara?
What is Djenne-Djeno?
A10
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The German Blitzkrieg was a military strategy
that depended on what advantage?
Surprise and overwhelming force
B1
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Name the title of Hitlers book?
What is Mein Kampf ? Which means My Struggle
B2
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Why did Britain and France adopt a policy of
appeasement toward Germany?
Wished to avoid war with Germany.
B3
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What prompted Great Britain and France to declare
war on Germany?
Invasion of Poland
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That Hitlers advances could be blocked.
What lesson was learned from the Battle of
Britain?
B5
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What was significant about the Battle of Midway?
It was the turning point of the pacific war
against Japan
B6
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In Germany, what effect did the Nuremberg Laws
have?
German Jews were stripped of citizenship, jobs,
and property.
B7
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For German Jews wishing to emigrate out of
Germany, what problems did they run into?
Other nations set quotas on the number of German
Jews they would accept.
B8
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941

• What event was described as A date that will
  live in infamy?

B9
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What is Auschwitz?

• Name the worst of the Nazi concentration camps.

B10
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What action on November 11, 1918 brought an end
to WWI?
An Armistice was signed
C1
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What is the policy of glorifying power and
keeping an army prepared for war?
Militarism
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What region was referred to as the Powder Keg of
Europe?
The Balkan Peninsula
C3
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Who led Germany during the last decade of the
1800s and most of WWI?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
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How did Hitler rationalize the taking of the
Sudetenland to the German people and the world?
Czechs were abusing German-Speaking people
C5
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How did Italy follow the aggressive actions of
its neighbor Germany?
Italy invaded one of the last independent nations
in Africa, Ethiopia.
C6
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How did the Axis Powers hope to keep the United
States out of the war?
By forming an alliance, the Axis Powers created a
two ocean war for the United States.
C7
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What plan called for the attack on France first
and then Russia?
What is the Schlieffen Plan
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Because they were located in the central part of
Europe

• Why were Germany and Austria Hungary called the
  Central Powers?

C9
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Germany

• Which nation cause the U.S. to fight in World
  War I?

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Who were the Bolsheviks?
Radical Russian Marxist Revolutionaries
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What did the pogroms do that occurred in the late
19th century Russia?
Persecuted the Jews
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Who fought in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta
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What do we call the forced dispersal of the
Jews?
Diaspora
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What was unusual about the West African Iron Age?
West Africa skipped the Copper and Bronze Age
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Who were the Mamelukes?
Turkish slaves who became a powerful force in the
Abbasid Empire
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Name the title Ivan III use?
What is Czar?
D7
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The Treaty of Verdun resulted in?
The division of Charlemagnes empire into 3 parts
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The main difference between the original Roman
Empire and the Holy Roman Empire of Frederick I
was what?
Fredericks empire had no strong central
government
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What is a Codex

• The Maya wrote on a bark-paper book known as a

D10
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Name Malis first great leader?
Who is Sundiata?
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Leader of the Fascist government in Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
E2
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Leader whose totalitarian regime was based on a
communist philosophy.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
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Name the first European to sail around the tip of
Africa, now known as the Cape of Good Hope?
Who is Bartolomeau Dias?
E4
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Who first landed in an island in the Caribbean
Sea 1492?
Christopher Columbus
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The heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was
proposed by?
Copernicus
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The Bill of Rights was proposed by ?
Who is Voltaire, John Locke and Rosseau
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Who seized power from Persias shah and changed
the name of his country to Iran?
Reza Shah Pahlavi
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Who led the famous Salt March?
Mohandis Gandhi
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In 1978, the Camp David Accords were signed by
who?
Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
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The 1956 Suez Crisis began when?

• Egypt seized control of the Suez Canal

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During the Cultural Revolution, who were the new
heroes of China?
The Peasants
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What is the policy of South African that means
separating the races?
Apartheid
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What caused two Germanys to reunite?

• The fall of Communism in East Germany

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Name the Russian Republics first elected
president?
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
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What was the main purpose of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty?

• To prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to other
  nations

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What is meant by Global interdependence?

• The idea that nations are dependent on other
  nations and affected by the actions of others far
  away.

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How did Empress Lu maintain her power?

• She named one infant emperor and then another

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How did the rulers of Ghana grow rich?

• By taxing the goods traders carried through their
  territory.

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What did Hongwu do first to help China become a
dominant power?

• He overthrew the Mongols and established the Ming
  Dynasty.

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