JEOPARDY!!!

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JEOPARDY!!!

• Review for I.B. World History I Mid-Term

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Pre-History
India
Greece
Egypt and Mesopotamia
China
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100What is the development of written language?

• This is what ended pre-historic time.

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200What is irrigation?

• This is the term for the digging of trenches and
  ditches to transport water.

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300What is a unique culture?

• This is what develops when humans live together
  over a period of time.

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400What is Africa?

• This is the continent that is associated with the
  birth of civilization.

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500What is an artisan?

• This is another name for a skilled craftsman.

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100What is the Code of Hammurabi?

• This is the first known codification of law,
  which can be summed up in the phrase,an eye for
  an eye.

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200What are clay tablets?

• This what the Sumerians wrote on to preserve
  important records.

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300Who were the Hittites?

• These were the first people to use iron weapons.

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400What is a ziggurat?

• This is the name given to a Sumerian layered
  temple.

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500What is the Nile River?

• This was the most important geographical feature
  in the development of Egyptian civilization.

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100Who are the Brahmans?

• This was the highest class in the modern Indian
  class system.

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200What is Nirvana?

• One could achieve this by following the
  eight-fold path and renouncing desire.

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300What are the monsoon winds and high
temperatures?

• These would be the two factors that have the
  greatest effect on the climate of India.

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400What is the Deccan Plateau?

• This is the high plain of Central India.

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500What is a stupa?

• This building would be a half-domed structure
  holding Buddhist artifacts.

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100What is calligraphy?

• This is a term describing Chinese writing that is
  considered art.

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200What is the Great Wall of China?

• This is the large structure built by Shi Huangdi
  to protect China from northern invaders.

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300What were rags and mulberry bark?

• This is what the Chinese learned to make paper
  out of during the Han Dynasty.

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400What was the Qin Dynasty?

• This was the Dynasty that first unified China, if
  only for a brief period of time.

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500What were civil service tests?

• This was how government officials were chosen
  during the Han Dynasty, which led to competent
  people holding government positions.

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100Who was Draco? ( Draconian laws)

• This was the Greek leader who developed a harsh
  code of justice.

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200What were Corinthian columns? Doric, Ionian
and than Corinthian.

• This would be the most complex of the ancient
  Greek columns.

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300What is polytheistic?

• This is the type of religion practiced by both
  the Greeks and the Romans.

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400Who was Myron?

• This was the sculptor who created the Discus
  Thrower.

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500Who was Pericles?

• He was the leader during the Golden Age of Greece.

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Hellenistic Society
Byzantine Empire and Islam
Mid-Term Questions
Rome
Vocabulary
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200What was a phalanx?

• This was a Greek or Macedonian military unit
  consisting of 16 rows of tightly packed men using
  lances.

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400People had no interest in inventions or
mechanical labor saving devices or progress?

• This was the ultimate result of the Greeks
  relying on slave labor.

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600Who were the Cynics?

• These were the Greek philosophers who scorned
  pleasure, wealth, and social position.

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800Who were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?(
Who taught Alexander the Great)

• These would be the three great Greek
  philosophers, who each taught the next in line.

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1000Who was Alexander the Great?

• He was the brilliant young general who spread
  Greek culture throughout much of the western
  world.

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200What were the Coliseum, the Pantheon, and
the Forum?

• These would all be examples of Roman
  architecture, many which still stand today.

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400What were the twelve tables?

• This was the codification of ancient Roman law.

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600What was a Roman Legion?

• This was the name for a Roman military unit
  consisting of 4500 to 6000 men.

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800What was the Council of Nicea?

• This was the meeting that confirmed Christian
  doctrine and the Holy Trinity of the Catholic
  Church.

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1000Who were Constantine and Diocletian?

• These are the two Roman Emperors who tried to
  restore order to the Roman Empire after a period
  of weak rulers and Civil War.

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200What is Ramadan?

• This is the name given to the Muslim month of
  fasting, which is celebrated the ninth month of
  Islamic calendar and no food is to be eaten
  during the day.

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400Who was Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible?

• This is the Russian ruler who is given credit for
  establishing the modern Russian state.

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600Who is the Metropolitan?

• This is the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox
  Church.

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800Who were the Ottoman Turks

• The City of Constantinople fell to this group of
  conquerors in 1453.

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1000What were Cairo, Baghdad, and Cordoba (
sometimes Cordova)

• These would be the main Islamic Caliphates.

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200What was the iconoclastic controversy?

• This the disagreement that split the Roman
  Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches and
  eventually leads to the Great Schism of 1054.

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400What is monism?

• This is the Hindu belief that God and man are one.

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600What is Sikhism?

• This is the Indian religion that combines
  elements of Hinduism and Islam.

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800What are nomads?

• This is another name for a group of people that
  wander from place to place in search of food.

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1000What was the Rosetta Stone?

• This was the key to deciphering Egyptian
  hieroglyphics, discovered by a Napoleonic soldier
  during the invasion of Egypt.

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200What are the caves of Ajanta.

• This is one of greatest treasures of the Gupta
  dynasty in India, and much can be learned about
  the time from the elaborate paintings and
  architecture.

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400What is a jihad. ( means struggle to please
God)

• This is the Muslim Holy Crusade that vowed to
  spread the faith.

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600Who was Paul or Saul of Tarsus

• He was the Jewish convert who by his teachings
  and writings spread the Christian faith
  throughout the Middle East and the world.

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800Who was Zoroaster? ( In India the followers
are known as Parsis)

• He was the Persian religious leader who practiced
  monotheism and struggle of good over evil.

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1000Who were the Phoenicians (Hooked on
Phoenicians)?

• These sea traveling people spread Middle Eastern
  culture and ideas throughout the Mediterranean
  world.