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| 5905180118 | It challenged the beliefs of religion. | Why was the discovery of the remains of humanlike creatures initially upsetting? | 0 | |
| 5905180119 | Africa | Current archaeological theory supports Louis and Mary Leakey/s discovery that the cradle of humanity is where? | 1 | |
| 5905180120 | Bipedalism (walking on 2 legs), very large brains, and location of the larynx | What traits do humans possess that distinguish them from other primates? | 2 | |
| 5905180121 | How did the Great Ice Age affect plants and animals? | 3 | ||
| 5905180122 | Large Brains | The success of Homo erectus over a span of one million years was due in large part to their what? | 4 | |
| 5905180123 | material objects, clothing tools, and crafts along with beliefs, values and language | Define culture | 5 | |
| 5905180124 | What caused many species of large mammals to disappear between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago? | 6 | ||
| 5905180125 | Ukraine (southeast of Kiev) | Where were the most permanent shelters constructed by Stone Age humans built? | 7 | |
| 5905180126 | Diet of farmers was less varied and nutritious than the hunter and gatherers | The food supply of early farmers, compared with that of hunting and gathering peoples was | 8 | |
| 5905180127 | violence and war broke out between villages | What occurred as a result of the growth of settled agricultural communities? | 9 | |
| 5905180128 | Flooding | Why was Mesopotamia sometimes a dangerous place to live? | 10 | |
| 5905180129 | Code of Hammurabi (principles for judges to employ) | What is Babylonian leader Hammurabi best known for? | 11 | |
| 5905180130 | Mesopotamia it was all agriculture so the men did it; however, in hunters and gathering the women get the food. | Why did women in Mesopotamian society have a lower status than in a hunter-gatherer society? | 12 | |
| 5905180131 | deposits of fertile soil and water | Early societies developed civilizations in the floodplains of great rivers because the rivers and floodplains provided | 13 | |
| 5905180132 | Stability in Egypt's landscape and tons of natural resources | The Egyptian creation myth presents the universe as orderly and benevolent. This is due to | 14 | |
| 5905180133 | Egyptians believed a "divine king" was the source of law and justice | The Mesopotamian law code is famous. Why didn't Egypt have a similar code of law? | 15 | |
| 5905180134 | they worked on country estates or in royal households | How were slaves used in ancient Egypt? | 16 | |
| 5905180135 | belief in afterlife | Why is the Egyptian death ritual complex? | 17 | |
| 5905180136 | Each civilization was centered on a river valley | What do Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley civilizations all have in common? | 18 | |
| 5905180137 | Urban centers controlled farmlands around them. | What do the architecture and layout of Indus Valley cities indicate? | 19 | |
| 5905180138 | In the 2nd millennium BCE in the Yellow River Valley | In East Asia the development of complex societies arose | 20 | |
| 5905180139 | According to the theory, the ruler was chosen and favored by the supreme diety and would retain backing as long as he served as a wise, principled and energetic guardian of the people | What is the Mandate of Heaven? | 21 | |
| 5905180140 | Each person has a specific role to play w/ rules of conduct and ceremonial behavior. | How does Confucian philosophy attempt to create societal harmony? | 22 | |
| 5905180141 | All that matters is the individuals understanding of the "path." | What is the fundamental idea behind Daoism? | 23 | |
| 5905180142 | Male toughness is balanced by female gentleness | Explain the concept of the yin and the yang | 24 | |
| 5905180143 | The era of the New Kingdom in Egypt is characterized by restoration of Egyptian rule and (66) | 25 | ||
| 5905180144 | His tomb was the only one not pillaged by robbers | Why is the pharaoh Tutankhamun famous? | 26 | |
| 5905180145 | Very harshly | How did the Egyptian government treat the Nubian people? | 27 | |
| 5905180146 | illicd and the Odyssey | The myths and literary practices of the Mycenaeans may be traced through what source? | 28 | |
| 5905180147 | Political unity | Early Greek cultural unity can best be explained by | 29 | |
| 5905180148 | 15,000 years | How long did the Americas remain isolated from the rest of the world? | 30 | |
| 5905180149 | Some warriors fought naked | What is a distinctive feature of Celtic military activity? | 31 | |
| 5905180150 | The king controlled everything; successor was approved by oracles and elite. | How did the Assyrians governed their empire? | 32 | |
| 5905180151 | Superior military organization and technology | Why were the Assyrians were able to conquer vast territories? | 33 | |
| 5905180152 | Friction between nomadic herders and settled farmers | The stories of Cain and Abel and Sodom and Gomorrah reflect what? | 34 | |
| 5905180153 | Murder, adultery, theft, lying, and envy | The basic tenets of Jewish belief and practice prohibit what? | 35 | |
| 5905180154 | Made Jerusalem the political and religious center | When the Ark of the Covenant was brought to Jerusalem, how did it transform the city? | 36 | |
| 5905180155 | Jewish Diaspora (they separated) | What happened to the Jews after the conquest of Israel and Judah? | 37 | |
| 5905180156 | Canaanite models | The Phoenicians developed a system of writing based on what? | 38 | |
| 5905180157 | They ran out of money | What was the principal reason for the fall of the Assyrian Empire? | 39 | |
| 5905180158 | What caused the economic decline in the Persian Empire? | 40 | ||
| 5905180159 | Very well and fair | Under King Darius' central body of law, how was the subject people in Persian territories treated? | 41 | |
| 5905180160 | Struggle between good and evil | Explain the basic concepts behind Zoroastrianism? | 42 | |
| 5905180161 | Greeks produced new forms of literature, law codes, religious dedications, epitaphs on gravestones. | How did the Phoenician alphabetic writing system benefit the Greeks? | 43 | |
| 5905180162 | Because of the physical barriers between communities. | Why did the polis or city-states develop in Greece? | 44 | |
| 5905180163 | A military state of preparedness | Describe Spartan society? | 45 | |
| 5905180164 | The spartans won | What was the result of the Persian Wars? | 46 | |
| 5905180165 | Polis fostered rivalry, fear, and mistrust among neighboring communities | How does the Peloponnesian War reveal an inherent flaw in Greek society? | 47 | |
| 5905180166 | divided into 3 kingdoms | What happen to the empire of Alexander the Great after his death? | 48 | |
| 5905180167 | The lands in NE Africa and W Asia were under greek rule. | The Hellenistic Age refers to the | 49 | |
| 5905180168 | Males could only vote. Wealthy votes counted more than poor. | Describe the Roman democracy | 50 | |
| 5905180169 | The romans emerged as unchallenged and acquired overseas territory. | What happened as a result of defeating the Carthaginians? | 51 | |
| 5905180170 | They took their land away and slaves took labor jobs. | How did the Romans treat the people they conquered? | 52 | |
| 5905180171 | A change in the composition of Rome's army. | A critical factor contributing to the Senates loss of authority was | 53 | |
| 5905180172 | Romanization- The spread of Latin language and roman way of life. | What was one of the most enduring consequences of the Roman Empire? | 54 | |
| 5905180173 | Constantine | Which Roman emperor was the first to convert to Christianity? | 55 | |
| 5905180174 | Hiearchy | Because of the influence of Confucian ethics, Chinese values emphasized | 56 | |
| 5905180175 | First Ruler | The Qin ruler took the title Shi Huangdi, which meant what? | 57 | |
| 5905180176 | Unified Chinese civilization | The Qin emperor was committed to standardization of coinage, weights and measures, the law code, and writing. This shows a commitment to | 58 | |
| 5905180177 | 1) developed a system for training officials to be intellectually capable. 2) set a code of contact. | Why is the development of the scholar gentry a significant development during the Han | 59 | |
| 5905180178 | used to regulate relations between different groups | Why was the Varna system developed? | 60 | |
| 5905180179 | a widespread belief in reincarnation | How is the class and the caste systems in India connected? | 61 | |
| 5905180180 | "You are where you deserve to be." | What is the underlying message of the cycle of reincarnation? | 62 | |
| 5905180181 | Women were expected to be passive, chaste and devoted to their husband. | What does the literature of the Vedic Age reveal about the role of women? | 63 | |
| 5905180182 | By distancing oneself from desires of the world they will reach moksha and be released | Explain the cycle reincarnation | 64 | |
| 5905180183 | 1. life is suffering 2. suffering arises from desire 3.the solution is to not desire 4.follow 8 fold path to not desire. | Siddhartha Gautama articulated the Four Noble Truths, which taught that | 65 | |
| 5905180184 | Nirvana | What is the ultimate spiritual reward in Buddhism? | 66 | |
| 5905180185 | the worshiper's personal devotion to a particular deity. | What does the religion of Hinduism emphasize? | 67 | |
| 5905180186 | he preached nonviolence, morality, moderation, and religious tolerance. | After converting to Buddhism, the Mauryan leader Ashoka became a unique leader because | 68 | |
| 5905180187 | creating the silk road | How did Southeast Asia first rise to prominence? | 69 | |
| 5905180188 | bringing together Eurasian peoples | What is the most enduring effect of the Silk Road? | 70 | |
| 5905180189 | Chariot warfare and mounted bowmen and stir ups | What military technologies did the Silk Road spread? | 71 | |
| 5905180190 | The seas were easily navigable w/ predictable winds | Why is the monsoon important to the Indian Ocean Trade? | 72 | |
| 5905180191 | Indian Ocean trade was much lower than Mediterranean . | What is the difference between the Indian Ocean trade and the Mediterranean trade? | 73 | |
| 5905180192 | Why was trade across the Sahara accelerated? | 74 | ||
| 5905180193 | Sub- Saharan Africa | The West African kingdom of Ghana was established because of the trade in | 75 | |
| 5905180194 | The African network of cultural exchange can be described as | 76 | ||
| 5905180195 | Cultivation by hoe and digging stick. | Describe the most common African form of agriculture | 77 | |
| 5905180196 | Southeast Asia domesticated so did Egypt but Islamics and Israelites prohibit eating pork | How is the custom of eating pork an example of spreading ideas? | 78 | |
| 5905180197 | Buddhism | The Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade fostered the spread of which religion? | 79 | |
| 5905180198 | About a struggle between good and evil | How is Manichaeism similar to Zoroastrianism? | 80 | |
| 5905180199 | Mecca is a pilgrimage site and is where the profit Muhammad was born | Why is Mecca an important city? | 81 | |
| 5905180200 | The Angel Gabriel spoke to him | How did Muhammad conceive Islam? | 82 | |
| 5905180201 | Judaism and Christianity | Muhammad's teachings seem to be in agreement with what two main religions? | 83 | |
| 5905180202 | People fought over who would become the new caliphate | What happened to the Muslim community after Muhammad's death? | 84 | |
| 5905180203 | Spain and Sicily and India | Under the leadership of the caliphs, an enormous expansion was completed, including territory in | 85 | |
| 5905180204 | The Muslims sought to force their faith on conquered people. | What is one of the false assumptions about Muslim rule over foreign lands? | 86 | |
| 5905180205 | Translation of Aristotle into Arabic, the founding of the main currents of theology and law, and the splendor of the Abbasid court. | Why is the Abbasid rule consider a golden age? | 87 | |
| 5905180206 | Blending Roman, Germanic, and Jewish traditions with Arabic | How did Umayyad Spain develop a distinctive Islamic culture? | 88 | |
| 5905180207 | Under Islamic leadership, the Jewish people of Spain | 89 | ||
| 5905180208 | It went into the Dark Ages | What happened to the Western Roman Empire after the fall of Rome in the fifth century? | 90 | |
| 5905180209 | Relations between landholders and serfs varied a good deal from region to region. | Why is the traditional description of Europe from 300 to 1200 as feudal an oversimplification? | 91 | |
| 5905180210 | Feudal society was a specifically European response to | 92 | ||
| 5905180211 | Christian Church | What sole institution claimed jurisdiction over a large segment of the European population? | 93 | |
| 5905180212 | Religious legitimization of his rule | Secular rulers such as Charlemagne upheld papal rights in return for what? | 94 | |
| 5905180213 | Celibacy, continual devotion to prayer, and living apart from society. | What are some practices connected with monasticism? | 95 | |
| 5905180214 | An authority that combined Caesar and papal | Define caesaropapism | 96 | |
| 5905180215 | The Byzantine continued Roman rule and tradition | How did the Byzantines differ from their western counterparts? | 97 | |
| 5905180216 | It became the basis for civil law in Western Europe | Why is the Byzantine Corpus Juris Civilis important in the late eleventh century? | 98 | |
| 5905180217 | Social and economic currents of the 11th century. | Although the Crusades are viewed as a religious campaign, they were actually motivated by what? | 99 | |
| 5905180218 | Sui | Which empire reunited China in the sixth century? | 100 | |
| 5905180219 | They're economy relied on trade and communication | Why is the Tang Empire considered cosmopolitan? | 101 | |
| 5905180220 | Independent countries acknowledged supremacy of the emperor in China and they sent embassies back to pay tribute. | Explain the tributary system | 102 | |
| 5905180221 | Women were allowed to be seen in public and noblewoman could play polo. | The Tang court gave women permission to | 103 | |
| 5905180222 | Who did the Tang blame most for growing instability in the Empire? | 104 | ||
| 5905180223 | Monks assassinated the King | When the Tibetan government attempted to eradicate monasteries, Tibetan Buddhists responded by | 105 | |
| 5905180224 | They wanted the most talented men for government service | Why did the Song institute the civil service examinations for entrance into the government bureaucracy? | 106 | |
| 5905180225 | Changed Chinese terrain and agriculture | The development of movable type and the availability of printed material had what impact on China? | 107 | |
| 5905180226 | Korean warriors united the small countries of Japan under a central government | On the basis of present evidence, most scholars believe that the first unification of central Japan occurred when | 108 | |
| 5905180227 | The trung sisters were known as local heroes in Vietnam because they led an agricultural revolt | What evidence show that women enjoyed greater status in Korea and Vietnam | 109 | |
| 5905180228 | Narrow artificial islands anchored by trees and created by heaping lake muck and waste material on beds of reeds. | Define Chinampas | 110 | |
| 5905180229 | aligned w/ movements of the sun and venus, very detailed | How did the Maya's build their monuments? | 111 | |
| 5905180230 | women maintained essential garden plot and weaving | What was the role of Maya women? | 112 | |
| 5905180231 | organizing the labor of the clans and additional laborers sent by defeated peoples to expand agricultural land. | How did the Aztecs meet the challenges of feeding a growing population? | 113 | |
| 5905180232 | War and Agricultural | The twin temples of Tenochtitlan symbolize the two bases of what Aztec economy? | 114 | |
| 5905180233 | war captives | As sacrificial victims, Aztecs preferred | 115 | |
| 5905180234 | vast herds of llamas and alpacas | Inca prosperity and military strength depended on what? | 116 | |
| 5905180235 | a thinly veiled system of hostage taking and military garrisons | How did the Inca ensure the loyalty of defeated regions? | 117 | |
| 5905180236 | Inca Roads | Inca's greatest accomplishment is the construction of what? | 118 | |
| 5905180237 | Young virgins selected by representatives of the Inca ruler to serve the cult of the sun or be given as marriage partners and concubines to the ruler himself or inca nobles and favored nobles from dependencies. | Who or what were the acllas? | 119 | |
| 5905180238 | promoted the movement of ideas and people from one end of Eurasia to the other | What were the advantages of Mongol rule? | 120 | |
| 5905180239 | They were superb riders and they were adept at shooting arrows from moving horses. | Describe what Mongol warriors were well known for | 121 | |
| 5905180240 | Their extraordinary weapons | Why were the Mongols able to defeat the armies they faced? | 122 | |
| 5905180241 | Trade increased greatly | What effects did the Mongol expansion have on trade? | 123 | |
| 5905180242 | the government sold contracts to small companies and let them use any methods to collect money | Define Tax farming | 124 | |
| 5905180243 | Timur | Who was the last great Central Asian conqueror? | 125 | |
| 5905180244 | Europeans believed there was an "Orient" that was uniform in its tastes and political cultures. | The sharing of artistic trends and political ideas between Iran and China led to | 126 | |
| 5905180245 | granted great privileges to the church | The Mongols took what action against Russia's Orthodox church? | 127 | |
| 5905180246 | Describe the setup of the Mongol army | 128 | ||
| 5905180247 | Diplomatic passports, the mining and uses of coal, movable type, high temp. metallurgy, efficient enumeration and higher mathematics, gunpowder, and the casting of bronze weapons. | What did the Europeans learn from the Mongols? | 129 | |
| 5905180248 | gave his oldest son a Chinese name and had Confucianists participate in his education, made Beijing capital. | How did Khubilai Khan acknowledge the advantages of Chinese traditions? | 130 | |
| 5905180249 | Destroyed the regimes and made Beijing the capital. | How did the Mongol's create central control over China? | 131 | |
| 5905180250 | Closed off the borders to foreigners and eradicated paper money and cut off trade. | To demonstrate their rejection of the Mongols, the Ming emperor | 132 | |
| 5905180251 | He sent Zheng-He by sea | How did Emperor Yongle restore commercial links with the Middle East? | 133 | |
| 5905180252 | scarcity of metals, a large labor suplly lowered the need for mechanization, and educated men were drawn into government emplyment | Why did technological development slow down in the Ming period? | 134 | |
| 5905180253 | Why did the Chinese rigorously censor information to foreigners? | 135 | ||
| 5905180254 | family influence | What influence did the Mongols have on Korea? | 136 | |
| 5905180255 | printing press | What led to the rise of literacy in Korea? | 137 | |
| 5905180256 | Kamikaze winds | What prevented the Mongols from invading Japan? | 138 | |
| 5905180257 | Gradual and peaceful expansion | The spread of Islam to lands south of the Sahara came about through | 139 | |
| 5905180258 | To display the exceptional wealth of his empire | What purpose did Mansa Musa's famous pilgrimage serve? | 140 | |
| 5905180259 | Turkish adventurers from Central Asia | The Turkish conquest of northern India was aided by what? | 141 | |
| 5905180260 | Daughter | Sultan Iltutmish passed his empire to Raziya, his what? | 142 | |
| 5905180261 | By religious tolerance and aggressive expansion | How did the Delhi Sultans control their empire in India? | 143 | |
| 5905180262 | Commercial Interests | The Indian Ocean trade was decentralized and cooperative and it was united by | 144 | |
| 5905180263 | Mosques and a place of worship | The cultural blending associated with the expansion and spread of Islam from 1200 to 1500 can be seen by examining | 145 | |
| 5905180264 | Literacy, math, science, medicine of the Greeks and Islamic law, theology and administration. | What did the spread of Islam between 1200 and 1500 encourage? | 146 | |
| 5905180265 | Regional trade routes | How did Islam spread in Africa and Asia? | 147 | |
| 5905180266 | Women gave birth, cooked, farmed, and were hosts | What was the impact of Islam on women in the tropical regions? | 148 | |
| 5905180267 | they were better treated slaves | Describe the life of serfs | 149 | |
| 5905180268 | 1/3 every english person | How many people did the Black Death kill? | 150 | |
| 5905180269 | laborers demanded higher pay | What was the social result of the Black Death epidemic? | 151 | |
| 5905180270 | jews/muslims were expelled | In 1492, the Jews and Muslims of Spain were | 152 | |
| 5905180271 | an association of men (rarely women), such as merchants, artisans, or professors who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests. They were important in other societies, such as the ottoman and safavid empires | Which of the following is most true of guilds? | 153 | |
| 5905180272 | charging high interest rates for loans | The Latin Church condemned usury, which was the practice of what? | 154 | |
| 5905180273 | Efforts to synthesize reason and faith | Define Scholasticism | 155 | |
| 5905180274 | Monarchs were subject to established law; independence of the church, granted nobles hereditary rights | In 1215, King John of England signed the Magna Carta, which entailed | 156 | |
| 5905180275 | A woman believing she was instructed by god to save France | Who is Joan of Arc? | 157 | |
| 5905180276 | permanent check on royal power | What powers did the English Parliament possess by 1500? | 158 | |
| 5905180277 | predictable winds | Why was Sailing in the Indian Ocean less difficult and dangerous than other places? | 159 | |
| 5905180278 | muslim traders had a common language, ethic, and law and spread religion | How did the rise of Medieval Islam give trade in the Indian Ocean an important boost? | 160 | |
| 5905180279 | because they didn't want contact w/ mongols. | Why did the Ming court suspend the voyages of Zheng He? | 161 | |
| 5905180280 | Spain and Portugal | What two nations began a maritime revolution that profoundly altered the course of world history? | 162 | |
| 5905180281 | caravel/astrolabe | An important addition to the maritime revolution was | 163 | |
| 5905180282 | Bartolomeu Dias | Who was the first Portuguese explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa and view the Indian Ocean? | 164 | |
| 5905180283 | To complete columbus's voyage westward | What was Magellan's westward voyage intended to do? | 165 | |
| 5905180284 | Unlike the Spanish empire that was almost exclusively American, the Portuguese empire included colonies and outposts in Asia and Africa as well as Brazil. | What is the difference between the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire? | 166 | |
| 5905180285 | Amerindians | Spanish capture of the Aztec capital was assisted by what? | 167 | |
| 5905180286 | they kidnapped their leader | How did Francisco Pizarro defeat the Inca Empire? | 168 |
