World History SOL Review

River Valley Civilizations

100

This civilization was ruled by pharaohs and built pyramids along the Nile River.

What is EGYPT?

200

This is where the Mauryan and later Gupta empires ruled.

What is INDIA?

300

This was the largest Fertile Crescent empire that ruled with tolerance and an imperial bureaucracy.

What is PERSIA?

400

This is the approval to rule given by the gods in China.

What is the MANDATE OF HEAVEN?

500

This philosophy found education, filial piety, and ancestor worship important in China.

What is CONFUCIANISM?

World Religions

100

This is the founder of Islam.

Who is MUHAMMAD.

200

This is the strict version of Christianity.

What is ROMAN CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY?

300

This religion finds reincarnation, karma, and the caste system important.

What is HINDUISM?

400

This is what Buddhist aim to attain when they follow the Eightfold Path and reach enlightenment like Siddhartha Gautama.

What is NIRVANNA?

500

This is the dispersal of Jews.

What is the DIASPORA?

Greece, Rome, etc.

100

This is the form of government used in Rome where citizens elect leaders into the Senate.

What is a REPUBLIC?

200

This is the Greek city Athens fought against during the Peloponnesian War.

What is SPARTA?

300

This is the Byzantine emperor who codified Roman laws, ruled in Constantinople, and built the Hagia Sophia.

Who is JUSTINIAN?

400

This group of nomads conquered the early Russians and were lead by Genghis Khan.

Who are the MONGOLS?

500

This is the alphabet that Byzantine missionaries created to convert Russians to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. 

What is the CYRILLIC ALPHABET?

Medieval & Renaissance

100

This institution had the most power during the Middle Ages.

What is the CHURCH?

200

What disease spread throughout Europe in the 1300s that killed 1/3 of the population?

What is the BUBONIC PLAGUE or BLACK DEATH?

300

This is who unified Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and was named Holy Roman Emperor.

Who is CHARLEMAGNE?

400

This is the holy city that Pope Urban II told Christians to recapture during the Crusades.

What is JERUSALEM?

500

This is the philosophy that greatly influenced the Renaissance due to the reintroduction of Greek & Roman texts.

What is HUMANISM?

AAA

100

This trade of these two goods made the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai wealthy.

What is GOLD and SALT?

200

This civilization built Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains in South America.

What is the INCA?

300

This civilization ruled the Yucatan Peninsula, built Chichen Itza for polytheistic worship, and created an accurate calendar.

What is the MAYA?

400

This Northeastern African kingdom was the first to practice Christianity.

What is AXUM?

500

This is a Japanese religion where believers worship nature, family, and the emperor.

What is SHINTO?