Global Midterm Exam Questions With Verified Answers
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Global Midterm Exam Questions With Verified Answers
How did priests read oracle bones? - Answer-By scratching questions on them, sticking heated metal rods in it, and discerning answers from the cracks
/.How do most historians think the Minoan civilization ended? - Answer-Invaded and destroye...
Global Midterm Exam Questions With
Verified Answers
How did priests read oracle bones? - Answer-By scratching questions on them, sticking
heated metal rods in it, and discerning answers from the cracks
/.How do most historians think the Minoan civilization ended? - Answer-Invaded and
destroyed by Mycenaeans
/.In the 1st century AD, what made the Kushan kingdom prosperous? - Answer-Traded
along the Silk Road
/.The Akkadians conquered the Sumerian city-states around 2340 BC under what ruler?
- Answer-Sargon
/.The Mauryan Empire flourished under Asoka. What did he do? - Answer-Convert to
Buddhism, set up hospitals, and build up India's role in regional trade
/.The Mesopotamia religion can be described as what? - Answer-Polytheistic (had 3,000
gods)
/.What 3 major periods is Egyptian history divided into? - Answer-Old, Middle, and New
Kingdoms
/.What are 3 Sumerian inventions? - Answer-Wagon wheel, a math system based on
units of 60, and the sundial
/.What are the earliest Egyptian writings? - Answer-Hieroglyphics ("priest-carvings/
sacred writings")
/.What are the highest mountains in the world? - Answer-Himalayas
/.What are the major ancient cities of the Indus River Valley? - Answer-Harappa and
Mohenjo-Daro
/.What are yin and yang? - Answer-Heaven and Earth; the belief in true harmony and
balance in the universe
/.What civilization is known for its alphabet, which revolutionized writing and language? -
Answer-Phoenicians
/.What did early hominids that migrated from the tropics to colder regions use? -
Answer-Fire
, /.What did invasions by nomadic Huns do in India by late 5th century AD? - Answer-
Reduced the power of the Guptas
/.What did Shang rulers use to communicate with the gods? - Answer-Oracle bones
/.What did Siddhartha deny the reality of? - Answer-The material world
/.What did subjects find in obeying the pharaoh? - Answer-A belief that they were
contributing to a stable world order and a feeling of control
/.What did the draining of the swampland in the Nile Delta provide? - Answer-
Thousands of acres of new farmland
/.What did the Egyptians base their accurate 365-day calendar on? - Answer-The
movement on the moon and the star Sirius
/.What did the Greek historian Herodotus report about the Egyptians? - Answer-That it
took 100,000 Egyptians 20 years to make the Great Pyramids
/.What does Osiris, an important figure in Egyptian religion, symbolize? - Answer-
Resurrection
/.What emerged in China by the end of the Zhou Dynasty? - Answer-3 major schools of
thought about the nature of human beings and the universe
/.What happened in ancient China by 403 BC? - Answer-The nature of warfare changed
in China (the cavalry had crossbows, which were invented in 7th century BC)
/.What influenced Greek history? - Answer-A geography of mountains and sea coast
/.What is a city that functions as an independent country? - Answer-City-state
/.What is a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family? - Answer-
Dynasty
/.What is a government where the same person is both the religious and political
leader? - Answer-Theocracy
/.What is a group of government officials? - Answer-Bureaucracy
/.What is an upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed
from one generation to another? - Answer-Aristocracy
/.What is one independent city-state in Sumeria? - Answer-Uruk
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