study guide

1. Define barter economy__________________________________________ 2. Define Nomad _________________________________________3. What did the Sumerians invent?____________________________________________________________4. Define hieroglyphics______________________________________________________________5. What were the pyramids used for? __________________________________________________________6.Who made up Cuneiform? _____________________7. Where was it used? __________________________8. Who used it?_______________________________9. Where is the fertile crescent located? _________________________________10. What did the Phoenicians do? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________11. Who lived in New Delhi? ___________________________________________ 12. What religion had an empire in India? ________________________________13. Who introduced it? _____________________________________________14. Define monsoons _________________________________________________15. What are the four social castes?____________________________________________________________________16. According to the caste system, what determines your status for life?___________________________________________________17. Define Hinduism ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________18. Which religion influenced the political and social standings of India and China?__________________________________________________________________19. Who was the founder of Buddhism? __________________________________20. Who helped to spread Buddhism, and what empire did it spread in?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________21. What is the Mandate of Heaven? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________22. What dynasty built the Great Wall of China? ____________________________23. Define Daoism _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________24. In Confucianism, who ranked higher, the merchants or the peasants?__________________________________________________________________25. Define Legalism _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________26. What was the hierarchieal system of Japan (social classes)________________________________________________________________________________________________, _______________27.Define Shintoism__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________28. Polis is a ______________29. T or F the Greek city states were isolated from eachother.30. Define Monarchy____________________________ Define Aristocracy___________________________ Define Tyranny______________________________ Define Democracy____________________________31. Plato wrote__________________32. Who was the father of history? _____________________________33. Who fought in the Persian War?34. Peloponnesian War was fought between who? ___________________________35. Define Polytheism_________________________________________________36. What were the 2 social classes of Rome and list in superiority______________________________________________________37. Define Leigons_____________________38. The Punic wars were fought between who and for what reason? _______________________________________________________________________________39. What offered early hope and salvation to the Romans? ____________________40. T or F- The Romans had a general tolerance of religious differences.41. Fall of Rome was because of: (3 reasons)______________________________________________________________________________________________________42. Art and Literature had a _____________________ influance.43. The Byzantime empire preserved ______________________________________________________________________________________________________44. Justinian Code preserved ________________________________________45. What did the Mongols Rule provide?__________________________________46. Who founded Islam? __________________________________________47. What is the reason for the disunity between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________48. Name three Islamic Empires in Africa_________________________________________________________________________________49. What was Mecca?_________________________________________________50. Which leader traveled there? _______________________________51. What was Timbuktu? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________52. Why did Axum prosper? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________53. Complete the feudal hierarchy system__________________________(ruler)________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (worked the land)54. What code were knights expected to follow? ____________________________55. Who signed the Magna Carta, What year, and what did it do? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________56. Who fought in the Hundred Year’s War? ________________________________________________________________________________________________57.Who was Joan of Arc? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________58. Define heresy ___________________________________________________59. Who was the Head of the Church? _____________________60. During what years did the Black Plague decrease the population of Europe?__________________________________________________________________61. What was the purpose of the Crusades? _______________________________62. What were the outcomes of the Crusades? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________63. What did Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain do?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________64. Define Reconquista?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________65.Where did the Renaissance originate?__________________________________________________________________66. What was the Renaissance?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________67. Who painted the Sistine Chapel?_______________________________________________________68. Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________69. Who was Bacon?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________70.What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?_______________________________________________________71.What did printing and the moveable type lead to?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________72. What was the Protestant Reformation?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________73. Explain the Inquisition ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________74. Define Shintoism_______________________________________________________75. Define Polytheism_______________________________________________________76. HinduismHoly Book-________________________Believe in-_______________________________77. BuddhismFounder-____________________________________________Who is the enlightened one? ______________________________________What places did the teaching influance?_______________________________________________________78. ConfusianismFounder-________________________________Basic Philosiphy-______________________,_____________________________,_______________________________________________________79. DaoismFounder- _______________________________________________________Explain “the way” __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________80. JudiaismFounder-_______________________________________________________Holy Place- _______________________________________________________81. ChristianityFounder- _______________________________________________________Holy Books- _______________________________________________________Holy Place- _______________________________________________________82. IslamFounder- _______________________________________________________Holy Places- _______________________________________________________Holy Book- _______________________________________________________Basic Tenets- 1)____________________________________ 2)___________________________________What was the counter Reformation?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________