Global 9 - Review
Mr. Centeno
Periods 1 and 4
1. How did people get food before the Neolithic
Revolution?
They were Hunter-Gathers.
2. People who do not settle are called:
Nomads
3. What 4 rivers where civilization started:
Nile, Tigris/Euphrates, Indus, Yangzi Rivers
4. They started around rivers because:
The rivers provide fertile land.
5. Two earliest world religions were:
Hinduism and Judaism
6. First great European civilization was:
The Greeks
7. City-state that started democracy?
_______________ was militaristic?______________:
Athens and Sparta
8. Athens was destroyed as a result of the
conflict with the Middle East called:
The Persians
9. Athens had a Golden Age with the coolest
building called ____________________ on the hill
called_______________:
Parthenon and Acropolis
10. Sparta and Athens fought a war leading to
Greece’s decline called:
The Peloponnesian War
11. This Greek/Macedonian Guy took over
the Middle East:
Alexander the Great
12. He spread Greek culture referred to as:
Hellenistic Culture
13. Second great European civilization was Rome
which lasted ________________ years:
1,000
14. Rome’s first 500 years had this type of
government:
Republic
15. Second half the government was:
Empire
16. Roman guy murdered by the Senate was:
Julius Caesar
17. Roman guy who switched the government at
year zero:
Augustus Caesar
18. The Golden Age of Rome was called:
Pax Romana
19. Some amazing examples of Roman
engineering:
The Colosseum, Roman Roads,
Aqueducts
20. The Roman Empire converted to what
monotheistic religion:
Christianity
21. Rome fell because:
Corrupt government, high taxes, weak
military, declining infrastructure, and
invasions
22. China was having a golden age which was the
dynasty called:
Han Dynasty
23. China had tests called ___________________ based on the
philosophy called __________________:
Civil Service Exams and Confucianism
24. India has a golden age called:
The Gupta
25. All 3 golden age civilizations were connected by the
trade route:
The Silk Road
26. The new monotheistic religion spreading across
the Middle East:
Islam
27. After Rome fell, western Europe fell into a period of
chaos called:
Middle Ages/Dark Ages
28. In Europe the castle/lands economic system
was ________________:
Manorialism
29. The political system was ________________ and the Knights
followed the Code of _________________:
Feudalism and Chivalry
30. Western Africa had the civilization of Mali whose
King was:
Mansa Musa
31. He went where and why?:
Mecca and Spread Islam to Africa
32. A fierce warrior nomadic group who took over
central Asia into Russia, India, and China was:
Genghis Khan and the Mongols
33. This epic disease during the Middle Ages was called:
The Plague/Bubonic Plague
34. The Middle Ages was called the Dark Ages
because:
It was a time of death and no growth
in Europe.
35. The event that ended the Middle Ages and started the
Renaissance was:
The Crusades
36. The Crusades were Christians from __________ and
went to ____________ and killed ____________:
Europe, the Middle East, Muslims.
37. The new artistic style during
the Renaissance was:
Humanism
38. The Byzantine Empire fell to the ________________:
The Ottomans.
39. Michelangelo and Da Vinci were famous
artists but who was the most famous Italian
writer:
Niccolo Machiavelli
40. The Age of Exploration was started by Europeans who
wanted to get to:
India and China
41. They wanted to go by water because the goods of the
Silk Road were too expensive like:
Spices – Cinnamon and Pepper
42. The Protestant Reformation
was started by:
Martin Luther
43. He disagreed with the Catholic Church and wrote the:
The 95 Thesis
44. The Chinese dynasty of the Ming also sent out a naval
expedition lead by:
Zheng He.
45. In Central America, the earliest great civilization was
The Mayas
46. The Aztecs built ball courts and pyramids too and lived
in/where?:
Mexico – Latin America
47. The Inca lived where?:
Peru – Latin America.
48. They both were conquered by :
The Spanish
49. The Spanish settled the Americas setting up the
plantation system of:
The Encomienda System
50. Slaves from Africa were brought over to work in the
Americas as part of the ______________ trade:
Slave
51. The slave journey across the
Atlantic was called:
The Middle Passage
52. Mughals were Muslim in
charge of India and built what
famous tomb?
Taj Mahal
53. Tokugawa did what to Japan?
Unified but Isolated Japan
54. Japan realized it fell behind and modernized itself
this new government was ________________:
Meiji Restoration