151225699 | Who was the main ambassador sent out by Han Wudi? | Zheng Qiuan | 0 | |
151225700 | What is the land route of the silk roads ran from this Han capital to this Mediterranean port? | Chang'an to Antiloch | 1 | |
151225701 | What was the name of the Christian community that emphasized the human nature of Jesus? | Nestorians | 2 | |
151225702 | In 476 C.E. the Germanic leader Odivasor brought an end to the end of the western empire when he overthrew what roman emperor? | Romulus Augustulus | 3 | |
151225703 | Chaos threatened the Roman Empire in mid 5th century when Germanic tribes poured into the empire seeking protection from who? | Atilla the Hun | 4 | |
151225704 | The prophet who promoted a syncretic blend of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Buddhist elements into a religious faith that would serve a cosmopolitan world. | Mani | 5 | |
151225705 | Who devised the cyrilic alphabet? | Cyril and Methodious | 6 | |
151225706 | The Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca is known as? | Hajj | 7 | |
151225707 | What is the turning point in the rise of Islam? | Hagira | 8 | |
151225708 | After the death of Muhammad, political leadership fell to a caliphate by the name of what? | Abu Baker | 9 | |
151225709 | Who believed that the caliphate should follow the line of ali? | Shi'ite | 10 | |
151225710 | Of all the new crops that spread throughout the Islamic world during all the new trade, which proved to be the most important? | Cotton | 11 | |
151225711 | What new industry transmitted to the islamic world from china was introduced during the abasid period? | papermaking | 12 | |
151225712 | What is a caravansary? | A roadside inn for caravan trader | 13 | |
151225713 | In an effort to bring learned students Islamic leaders supported what higher learning institution? | Universities Madrasas | 14 | |
151225714 | Northern India was dominated through the 12th to the 16th century by what? | Dehli Sultanate | 15 | |
151225715 | In 1492 on Oct 12th Columbus made landfall on an island that the Tainos natives called? | Guanahani | 16 | |
151225716 | Who designed the dome in Florence? | Brunelleschi | 17 | |
151225717 | In 1500-1800 the largest contingent of migrants to America consisted of what group? | African slaves | 18 | |
151225718 | The first circumnavigation was completed in 1522 by who? | Magellan's Slave; Henry the Black | 19 | |
151225719 | The explorer who led 3 expeditions into the pacific in 18th century was who? | James Cook | 20 | |
151225720 | In the long term, the Columbian exchange led to an economic instability because of what? | Silver Inflation | 21 | |
151225721 | Where did the outbreak of the bubonic plague begin? | China | 22 | |
151225722 | What style of painting is being described? use of linear perspective, choice of themes from Greek and Roman world, creation of individual portraits? | Renaissance | 23 | |
151225723 | Why was Ibn Batuta able to travel so extensively? | He is a Muslim Judge | 24 | |
151225724 | Why did Kublai Khan employ Marco Polo in an administrative job? | He is a foreigner, the Khan doesn't trust the Chinese people | 25 | |
151225725 | What heretical group in the 16th century attacked increasing materialism of European society? | Walensians | 26 | |
151225726 | What was the capital of Aztecs? | Tenochtitlan | 27 | |
151225727 | The influence of Maya on Toltec can be seen in the similarities between Tula and the Mayan city of what? | Chicien Itza | 28 | |
151225728 | Where did the Hanseatic league trade? | The Baltic | 29 | |
151225729 | Who invented both the stern port runner and the magnetic compass? | The Chinese | 30 | |
151225730 | What is a wind wheel? | Circular Wind patterns | 31 | |
151225731 | Who was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope? | Bartholomue Dias | 32 | |
151225732 | What first century B.C.E. work dealt with moral behavior and social relationships in India? | Upanishads Law Code of Manu | 33 | |
151225733 | A passage from the Upanishads, explain concept: according to the path a man walks a man acts in the path of good he is good, if he walks in the path of evil he becomes evil. | Karma | 34 | |
151225734 | Chronological order: Shang, Zhou, Xia, Yang Shao. | Yang, Xia, Shang, zhou | 35 | |
151225735 | What were the Zhou emperors forced to establish because of the size of the Zhou state? | Feudalism | 36 | |
151225736 | In an attempt to foretell the future the Shang made use of what? | Oracle bones | 37 | |
151225737 | In regards to gaining or losing the mandate of heaven the Chinese spoke of what term? | Tian | 38 | |
151225738 | Know the correct groupings of river valley civilizations and their rivers | Mesopotamia- Tigris and Euphrates China- Yellow/Huang He Egypt- Nile Mohenjo-Daro- Indus River Valley | 39 | |
151225739 | Put the Persian empires in correct chronological order: Seleucids, Sassanid, Parthians, Achaemenids. | Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sassanid | 40 | |
151225740 | Overall the battle of marathon in 490 B.C.E proved to be what? | End of Persian-Athenian war; Persians lose, Athenians win | 41 | |
151225741 | Who was the founder of Achaemenid Empire? | Cyrus | 42 | |
151225742 | Who were the Persian eyes and ears of the king? | spies appointed by the king | 43 | |
151225743 | What word best expresses the Chinese concept of pheliopeiety? | Xiao | 44 | |
151225744 | Who is the most influential post Confucian philosopher who served as chief spokesman for Kong Fuzi? | Mencius | 45 | |
151225745 | Which empire normally displayed the greatest degree of toleration towards its subject people? | Persian | 46 | |
151225746 | These are the basic tenants of what religion: belief in heaven and hell, good morals, final judgment? | Zoroastrianism | 47 | |
151225747 | What is the name of the Jain principal of nonviolence? | Ahimsa | 48 | |
151225748 | What are Buddha's four noble truths? | 1. Universality of suffering. 2. Desire is the cause of suffering. 3. Nirvana is the cessation of desire. 4. Follow the eightfold path | 49 | |
151225749 | In 320B.C.E. who created the Gupta dynasty? | Maharaj Syri-Gupta | 50 | |
151225750 | What is the most decisive naval battle of the Persian war? | battle of Salamis | 51 | |
151225751 | What is the name of the Indian work which deals with the dialog between Arguna and his charioteer Krishna? | Bahagavad gita | 52 | |
151225752 | Who said the "unexamined life is not worth living?" | Socrates | 53 | |
151225753 | Who did Plato propose to be the true ruler of society? | Philosopher Kings | 54 | |
151225754 | Who was the largest part of Alexander's conquest, essential former Acheamenid Empire taken over by? | Seleucid Monarchy | 55 | |
151225755 | Later Christian scholastic philosophers refer to person as "masters of those who know" | Aristotle | 56 | |
151225756 | In 380 C.E. Christianity was proclaimed the official religion of the roman empire by what emperor? | Theodoisus | 57 | |
151225757 | Christians were allowed to openly practice their religion when Constantine wrote what document? | Edict of Milan | 58 | |
151225758 | Who built a capital city, reunited empire, and allowed Christians to practice their own religion? | Constantine | 59 | |
151225759 | What was the wealthy trading state that controlled India from 850-1267? | Chola Kingdom | 60 | |
151225760 | What was the first of the Indianized states centered around the capital port of Okeo? | Funan empire | 61 | |
151225761 | The design of the Khmer temples Angkor Tam and Angkor Wat show what? | The spread of Hinduism in southeast Asia | 62 | |
151225762 | In 1336 Harihara and Bukka, 2 emissaries renounced Islam, reconverted to Hinduism and founded what kingdom? | Vijaynagara | 63 | |
151225763 | Who am I describing: actively supported pope, instigated missing missi dominici, extended authority as far down as rome in the middle ages. | Charlemagne | 64 | |
151225764 | Who was the Carolingian dynasty named after? | Charlemagne, Charles Martel Karl the Hammer | 65 | |
151225765 | England was unified in the 9th century by whom? | Alfred the great king of the Anglo-Saxons | 66 | |
151225766 | In 962 Otto the first received a crown from the pope marking the foundation of what? | Holy Roman empire | 67 | |
151225767 | What is the great epic story of Mali? | The life story of Sundiata who was king of the Ghana Empire. Was told as an oral tradition | 68 | |
151225768 | Where did Bantu (language) originally come from? | an oral language of the Bantu people in west Africa Niger river basin | 69 | |
151225769 | What was most powerful state in west Africa during arrival of Islam? | Ghana | 70 | |
151225770 | Mali became the wealthiest kingdom in Sub-Saharan Africa because of what? | Gold Copper and Salt | 71 | |
151225771 | What was Axum? | Naval Power in Ethiopia | 72 | |
151225772 | What is the historical capital of Zimbabwe? | Great Zimbabwe | 73 | |
151225773 | Who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1334? | Mansa Musa | 74 | |
151225774 | Who sacked the Swahili state of Kilwa in 1505? | The Portuguese | 75 | |
151225775 | What West African power had a series of powerful kings, strong cavalry, and a control of west Saharan trade? | Mali | 76 | |
151225776 | Who was Hatshepsut? | The first female pharaoh in Egypt | 77 | |
151225777 | What is "holy inscriptions" in Greek? | hieroglyphics | 78 | |
151225778 | What object reflects early humans deep interest in fertility? | Venus Statues | 79 | |
151225779 | Chronological order: #1Neanderthal, # 2ostrolopithicus, # 3chromagnin, #4homo erectus | 2, 4, 1, 3 | 80 | |
151225780 | What do anthropologist prefer to the term Agricultural revolution? | Agricultural transition | 81 | |
151225781 | What is the earliest Neolithic settlement located at a fresh water oasis near the Dead Sea? | Jericho | 82 | |
151225782 | Who was the first creator of an empire in Mesopotamia? | Sargon | 83 | |
151225783 | What is the Mesopotamian style of writing called? | Cuneiform | 84 | |
151225784 | Who is the most important of the humanistic thinkers? | Erasmus | 85 | |
151225785 | Who was the Chinese admiral who made seven journeys of exploration? | Zheng He | 86 | |
151225786 | In regards to exploration, Prince Enrique was to Portugal as ______ was to china. | Yongle | 87 | |
151225787 | What Portuguese mariner reached India in 1498? | Vasco De Gama | 88 | |
151225788 | In 1492 what marked the end of the reconquista? | The capture of Granada | 89 | |
151225789 | In a larger sense what is the world or title for the struggle between church and state of Europe? | investiture | 90 | |
151225790 | What is the most important relationship in feudalism? | Lord-vassal | 91 | |
151225791 | In 1279 Kublai Khan proclaimed the beginning of what dynasty? | Yuan Dynasty | 92 | |
151225792 | Who founded the Ottoman Turks? | Osmar | 93 | |
151225793 | In the late 14thC what Turkish ruler did all of the following, weakened golden hoard, sacked deli, launched campaigns in south west Asia and Anatolia? | Timur/Tamerlane | 94 | |
151225794 | Why did Genghis Khan send troops in Persia in 1219? | ... | 95 | |
151225795 | What did the invasions of the nomadic Turkish and Mongol tribes facilitate between the 11th and 15thC? | trade | 96 | |
151225796 | Who spread the Benedictine rule to women living in convents? | St. Scholastic | 97 | |
151225797 | In 1295 the Il Khan Gizan converted to what religion? | Islam | 98 | |
151225798 | Who was the most important figure in providing the roman church with the sense of direction during the early middle ages by reasserting papal primacy? | Pope Gregory I | 99 | |
151225799 | What Islamic lea lead 17 different raiding expeditions into India during 11thC? | Mahmud of Ghazhi | 100 | |
151225800 | In 711 the northern Indian area of Sind fell to what group? | Ummayad Dynasty | 101 | |
151225801 | What was brought to an end by an invasion of the white Huns in 451? | Gupta Empire | 102 | |
151225802 | What is the most important virtue of Boshido? | loyalty | 103 | |
151225803 | What is the most popular school of thought of Buddhism in China? | Chan Buddhism | 104 | |
151225804 | When was the chinese influence on Japan most profound? | Heian period | 105 | |
151225805 | In 1185 the minimoto clan defeated their rival the Tyra clan and created what? | Kamakura Shogunate | 106 | |
151225806 | What Sui construction would have important economic implictations well into the 20thC? | Grand Canal | 107 | |
151225807 | What Islamic think studied Aristotle and thought in turn influenced the the rise of European scholasticism? | Ibn Rushd | 108 | |
151225808 | The Tang planned to avoid the concentration of land of the wealthy and the resulting unrest was called what? | equal-field system | 109 | |
151225809 | In 325 what decided that Jesus possessed both human and divine natures? | Council of Nicea | 110 | |
151225810 | What is the name system historians us when the emperor has political and religious authority? | Caesaropapism | 111 | |
151225811 | Justinian issued what and won recognition as definitive codification of Roman law? | Corpus ciulis iuris | 112 | |
151225812 | Constaninople fell in 1453 to whom? | Ottoman Turks | 113 | |
151225813 | In 1054 the pope and the patriarch in Constantinople did what? | The great schism | 114 | |
151225814 | Emperor Leo the III inaugurated the divisive ecclesiastical policy called what? | Iconclasm | 115 | |
151225815 | Direct to the Byzantine emperor arose tin the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown the what Frankish king? | Charlemagne | 116 | |
151225816 | In a disaster which he Byzantine empire never really recovered Constaninople was sacked in 1204 by whom? | 4th Crusade | 117 | |
151225817 | Who wrote the Bacchae? | ... | 118 | |
151225818 | Which of the Hellenistic philosphies viewed pleasure as the greatest good? | Eupirians | 119 | |
151225819 | In an effort to alleviate social tensions, what group was allowed to elet two and then ten tribunes? | Relbians | 120 | |
151225820 | The turning point in roman history was their struggle in the punic wars against who? | Carthage | 121 | |
151225821 | In the early period of roman expansion the eastern half of the Mediterranean was dominated by the Antigonids, the saludids and the talamayids while the western half was controlled by whom? | Carthagians | 122 | |
151225822 | What were the latifundia? | Roman estates like manors | 123 | |
151225823 | In rome whose political philosophy favored liberal policies and social reform? | Julius Caesar | 124 | |
151225824 | Jesus of Nazareth's followers call him Christ, meaning... | anointed one | 125 | |
151225825 | What religions were popular during the roman empire? | Judaism, Christianity, Mishoism | 126 | |
151225826 | what two great Indian epics commonly portrayed women as weak willed and emotional creatures? | Ramayana | 127 | |
151225827 | What is the collection of Confucian sayings and teachings called? | Analects | 128 | |
151225828 | The high point of Maryan success would come during the reign of whom? | Asoka? | 129 | |
151225829 | The first ruler to unify India was? | Chandragupta Maurya | 130 | |
151225830 | In 124BCE Han Wudi transformed China by doing what? | suggesting congucianism | 131 | |
151225831 | Name the person whose most important contricution to china was establishing a president for central imperial rule? | Han Whodi | 132 | |
151225832 | What is the philosophy which criticized social activism and instead proposed a life in reflection and introspection in China? | Daoism | 133 | |
151225833 | Whose policies are closely resemble these: stong centralized rule, guge public project, disarming regional military? | Shing Huangdi | 134 | |
151225834 | When did the Chinese begin an extensive use of writing? | Shang Dynasty | 135 | |
151225835 | What cult produced deities with the features of humans and wild animals in Americas? | Chavin | 136 | |
151225836 | What American culture had a system of writing, concept of zero and most elaborate calendar? | mayan | 137 | |
151225837 | what group collapse due to internal dissension and civil war, failure of water control and spread of epidemic diseases in the americans like yellow fever? | mayan | 138 | |
151225838 | Why were many of literary works of the Chinese destroyed? | didn't agree with former dynasties, emperor qing | 139 | |
151225839 | what was the first society of mesoamerican that founded traditions that will be followed by all following civilizations? | olmec | 140 | |
151225840 | what destroyed the ceremonial centers of San Lorenzo anhod La Wenta? | internal uprising | 141 | |
151225841 | by five thousand BCE mesoamericans had discovered potential of what crop? | maize | 142 | |
151225842 | What is the Varna hierarchy? | caste system | 143 | |
151225843 | what group may have been the first people to demesicate horses and hitch animals to wagoans had original homeland in Ukraine and spread variations of their language from Indai to Europe? | Indo-European | 144 | |
151225844 | All archeological evidence from early Indain history suggests what two places had central authority? | Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro | 145 | |
151225845 | What pharaoh tried unsuccessfully to make Egypt monotheistic? | Akhenaten I | 146 | |
151225846 | Egypt was united in 3100BCE by what conqueror? | menes | 147 | |
151225847 | The epic of Gilgamesh deals with several subjects, what were they? | life/death, friendship, relationship between gods and people | 148 | |
151225848 | what does Lex Talianos mean? | eye for an eye | 149 |
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