ABCTE World History Exam 55 Questions with Verified Answers
4 Ancient Civilizations - CORRECT ANSWER Mesopotamia, China, Egypt, and the Indus
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Mesopotamia - CORRECT ANSWER "the land between 2 rivers"
first major civilization, Sumer
first city, Jericho
Sumer - CORRECT ANSWER first major civilization
Cueniform
first culture to enter written history
Epic of Gilgamesh
powerful city state- Ur
Jericho - CORRECT ANSWER world's first known city - 8,000 BCE
Ancient China - CORRECT ANSWER -ruled by dynasties
-Daoism
-Confucianism
-Legalism
Shang Dynasty - CORRECT ANSWER -intricate metal work, skill bronze and other metals
-first examples of Chinese writing
Mandate of Heaven - CORRECT ANSWER -idea that Heaven selects the ruler on a moral basis
-Zhou Dynasty
Doaism - CORRECT ANSWER
Confucianism - CORRECT ANSWER
Legalism - CORRECT ANSWER
Han Dynasty - CORRECT ANSWER -development of Silk road
-Confucianism
-expansion of China's borders
Qin Dynasty - CORRECT ANSWER -Legalism
-establish a central government and a bureaucratic government
-imperial system
Ancient Egypt - CORRECT ANSWER -Nile River valley
-Pharahh Menes
Pharaoh Menes - CORRECT ANSWER -united the people of lower and upper Egypt in ancient times
The Indus Valley - CORRECT ANSWER -covered Pakistan and Afghanistan
-maybe most mysterious ancient culture
-highly organized and urban cultures
-street grid system, sanitation systems, thousands of residents
Tigris & Euphrates - CORRECT ANSWER Sumer, Babylon, Assyria
Nile - CORRECT ANSWER Pharaoh Menes's Egyptian empire
Yellow River - CORRECT ANSWER Shang and Zhou Dynasties
Indus - CORRECT ANSWER ancient Indian civilization
Hammurabi - CORRECT ANSWER produced Code of Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi - CORRECT ANSWER earliest known example of written law
Torah - CORRECT ANSWER -Judaism
-began to make standards of ethics clear
-leader of moral and ethical traditions of western civilization
-Family, Altruism, and Economic Ethics
Early Judaism - CORRECT ANSWER -promoted ideas that still influence our modern day sense of justice, morality, and ethics
Altruism - CORRECT ANSWER -honesty and truthfulness
-revenge is unethical
-golden rule is formed
Economic Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER -Talmud denounces gains obtained by gambling
Athenian Greek ethics - CORRECT ANSWER -first practiced democracy and ostracized tyrants
Spartan Greeks - CORRECT ANSWER -employed lawmaking body known as the senate to prevent absolute power from falling into the hands of one man
Greco Roman ethics and innovations - CORRECT ANSWER -idea of national citizenship as a priviledge
-Olympics
-basic concepts of democracy
-lasting legacy in the arts and sciences
Pliny the Elder - CORRECT ANSWER -Roman archivist, first encyclopedia
Pythagoras - CORRECT ANSWER
Plato - CORRECT ANSWER
Socrates - CORRECT ANSWER
Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER
Jesus - CORRECT ANSWER
Buddha - CORRECT ANSWER
Confucius - CORRECT ANSWER
Moses - CORRECT ANSWER -the 10 commandments serve as models for laws today
Periclean amendments - CORRECT ANSWER -Athenian rules of citizenship
Julius Caesar - CORRECT ANSWER -Roman military and political ruler
-transformation from republic to empire
-made himself dictator for life
-assassinated by friends, including Marcus Brutus
Caesar Augustus - CORRECT ANSWER -Rome's first emperor, Octavian
-he ended the Roman civil wars
Cleopatra - CORRECT ANSWER -Last Greek ruler of Egypt
-romantically involved to Caesar and Mark Antony
Mark Antony - CORRECT ANSWER -Roman political leader
Alexander the Great - CORRECT ANSWER -Macedonian king who conquered the Persian Empire and more
-one of the most powerful military leaders of the ancient world
Silk Road - CORRECT ANSWER -connector between the East and West
-helped bring the two parts of the globe together
-trade brought an exchange of ideas, cultural practices, and peoples
Aztecs - CORRECT ANSWER -capital Tenochtitlan, in modern day Mexico City
-had distinct class system, schools and a complex religion
-Spanish conquistadors took them down
Mayans - CORRECT ANSWER -southern Mexico and northern Central America
-massive temples and stelae
-numerous city states
Incas - CORRECT ANSWER -west coast of South America
-developed civil service system
-basic federalist government
-Spanish conquistadors took them down
Medieval - CORRECT ANSWER -the era of human history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance
Constantine - CORRECT ANSWER -Roman emperor who built Constantinople (new rome) on the strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. It connects Europe and Asia
-converted to Christianity and ends the widespread persecution of Christians
Constantinople - CORRECT ANSWER -caused Rome to be vulnerable to attacks and be sacked
-Constantinople became the center of the Byzantine Empire
Spread of Christianity - CORRECT ANSWER -spread westward from Asia Minor into Europe
-Monasteries began sprouting up
-had dr
Theodosius I - CORRECT ANSWER -Roman emperor who establishes Christianity as state religion
Charlemagne - CORRECT ANSWER -first to be crowned as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Dark Ages - CORRECT ANSWER -term used to describe the medieval era
Petrarch - CORRECT ANSWER -coined the phrase "dark ages"
-valued the artistic advancements of the Greeks [Show Less]