On what continent do scientists believe mankind began?
Africa
100
What was Hammurabi's code?
Code of laws that was written in three different languages on large stone tablets that were placed in the town squares of ever village in Hammurabi's empire
100
What is the oldest of the 5 major world religions
Hinduism
100
In the _____________ War, Sparta and Athens worked together to defeat an enemy Empire
Persian
100
The Roman emperor who relocated the Capital of the Eastern Empire over to the city of Byzantium?
Constantine
200
Paleolithic man mastered the use of ____________, to help control his environment
Fire
200
What is the mandate of Heaven?
A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
200
Who was the founder of Buddhism?
Siddhartha Gautama
200
Ancient Athens was the first city-state to develop a _________ type of government.
Democratic
200
What was the language of the Roman (western) Empire?
Latin
300
The discovery of _____________, is what shifted Paleolithic man into the Neolithic Age
Agriculture
300
True or false - Ruins of settlements in the Indus Valley show that the building were constructed of oven-baked bricks
True
300
What was the founder of Judaism?
Abraham
300
Who was the Greek philosopher that said "People would only understand themselves by questioning what they believed"?
Socrates
300
Name 2 reasons why rome fell?
Warring city states
Invading Germanic tribes
Week government system
400
Kings of ancient Egypt were know as ____________
Pharaohs
400
True or false - The rise, decline, and replacement of families of rulers is called the dynastic cycle
true
400
Holy writing of Islam ?
Qur'an
400
What Greek philosopher is credited with creating the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
400
What institution held medieval society together after the fall of the roman empire?
Christianity
500
The trade route that facilitated trade between China and the west ?
Silk road
500
True or false - The main purpose of the pyramids in Egypt was to function as temples
False - tombs
500
Hold writings of Hinduism
Vedas and The Upanishads
500
What do Historians call the culture created by Alexander the Great?
Hellenistic
500
The angles and Saxons settled in this region of western Europe