GACE HISTORY (534) STUDY GUIDE AND TEST PREP
Redeemers - Answers :were a white political coalition in the Southern United States
during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War
Jim Crow laws - Answers :were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the
Southern United States
cotton gin - Answers :is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from
their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
Great Migration - Answers :was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the
rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred
between 1910 and 1970
Trail of Tears - Answers :was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations
in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830
New Deal - Answers :was a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United
States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later
Populist Party - Answers :was an agrarian-populist political party in the United States
Bill of Rights - Answers :is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the
United States Constitution
Eurasia - Answers :is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia
theocracy - Answers :is a form of government in which a deity is the source from which
all authority derives
Tamed animals - Answers :A tame animal is an animal that is relatively tolerant of
human presence.
Prehistory - Answers :Prehistory means literally 'before history', from the Latin word for
'before', præ, and Greek ιστοÏ?ία.
Population density - Answers :Population density is a measurement of population per
unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
Agriculture - Answers :Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants and fungi for food,
fiber, biofuel, medicinal plants and other products used to sustain and enhance human
life.
,Ziggurats - Answers :Ziggurats were massive structures built in the ancient
Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step
pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
Fertile Crescent - Answers :The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region containing
the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia,
the Nile Valley and Nile Delta.
Zionism - Answers :Zionism is a nationalist political movement of Jews and Jewish
culture that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined
as the historic Land of Israel.
Cuneiform - Answers :Cuneiform script is one of the earliest systems of writing,
distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt
reed for a stylus.
Torah - Answers :The Torah, or the Pentateuch, is the central reference of the religious
Judaic tradition.
Writing - Answers :Writing is a medium of human communication that represents
language and emotion through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols.
Obelisk - Answers :An obelisk is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which
ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
Peasant - Answers :A peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers, either
laborers or owners of small farms, especially in the Middle Ages under feudalism, or
more generally, in any pre-industrial society.
Hammurabi - Answers :Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty,
reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC.
Kingdom of Judah - Answers :The Kingdom of Judah was an Iron Age kingdom of the
Southern Levant.
Hatshepsut - Answers :Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of
Egypt.
Egyptian hieroglyphs - Answers :Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system
used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements.
Kingdom of Kush - Answers :The Kingdom of Kush or Kush was an ancient Nubian
kingdom situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in
what is now the Republic of Sudan.
, Persian Empire - Answers :The Persian Empire is any of a series of imperial dynasties
centered in Persia.
Satraps - Answers :Satraps were the governors of the provinces of the ancient Median
and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as the Sasanian
Empire and the Hellenistic empires.
Inca Empire - Answers :The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka
Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest
empire in the world in the early 16th century.
Cyrus the Great - Answers :Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and
also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
Olmecs - Answers :The Olmecs were the first major civilization in Guatemala and
Mexico following a progressive development in Soconusco and modern southwestern
pacific lowlands of Guatemala.
Stateless society - Answers :A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a
state, or, especially in common American English, has no government.
Filial piety - Answers :In Confucian philosophy, filial piety is a virtue of respect for one's
parents, elders, and ancestors.
Tao - Answers :Tao or Dao is a Chinese word signifying 'way', 'path', 'route', or
sometimes more loosely, 'doctrine' or 'principle'.
Qin Dynasty - Answers :The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China, lasting
from 221 to 206 BC.
Confucianism - Answers :Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as tradition,
a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or
simply a way of life.
Mandate of Heaven - Answers :The Mandate of Heaven was a principle used to justify
the power of the emperor of China, as well as explaining suitability for the office.
Taoism - Answers :Taoism, also known as Daoism, is a religious, philosophical and
ritual tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao.
Confucius - Answers :Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and
philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
Feudalism - Answers :Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in
medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
Redeemers - Answers :were a white political coalition in the Southern United States
during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War
Jim Crow laws - Answers :were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the
Southern United States
cotton gin - Answers :is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from
their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
Great Migration - Answers :was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the
rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred
between 1910 and 1970
Trail of Tears - Answers :was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations
in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830
New Deal - Answers :was a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United
States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later
Populist Party - Answers :was an agrarian-populist political party in the United States
Bill of Rights - Answers :is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the
United States Constitution
Eurasia - Answers :is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia
theocracy - Answers :is a form of government in which a deity is the source from which
all authority derives
Tamed animals - Answers :A tame animal is an animal that is relatively tolerant of
human presence.
Prehistory - Answers :Prehistory means literally 'before history', from the Latin word for
'before', præ, and Greek ιστοÏ?ία.
Population density - Answers :Population density is a measurement of population per
unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
Agriculture - Answers :Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants and fungi for food,
fiber, biofuel, medicinal plants and other products used to sustain and enhance human
life.
,Ziggurats - Answers :Ziggurats were massive structures built in the ancient
Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step
pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
Fertile Crescent - Answers :The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region containing
the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia,
the Nile Valley and Nile Delta.
Zionism - Answers :Zionism is a nationalist political movement of Jews and Jewish
culture that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined
as the historic Land of Israel.
Cuneiform - Answers :Cuneiform script is one of the earliest systems of writing,
distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt
reed for a stylus.
Torah - Answers :The Torah, or the Pentateuch, is the central reference of the religious
Judaic tradition.
Writing - Answers :Writing is a medium of human communication that represents
language and emotion through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols.
Obelisk - Answers :An obelisk is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which
ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
Peasant - Answers :A peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers, either
laborers or owners of small farms, especially in the Middle Ages under feudalism, or
more generally, in any pre-industrial society.
Hammurabi - Answers :Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty,
reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC.
Kingdom of Judah - Answers :The Kingdom of Judah was an Iron Age kingdom of the
Southern Levant.
Hatshepsut - Answers :Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of
Egypt.
Egyptian hieroglyphs - Answers :Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system
used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements.
Kingdom of Kush - Answers :The Kingdom of Kush or Kush was an ancient Nubian
kingdom situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in
what is now the Republic of Sudan.
, Persian Empire - Answers :The Persian Empire is any of a series of imperial dynasties
centered in Persia.
Satraps - Answers :Satraps were the governors of the provinces of the ancient Median
and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as the Sasanian
Empire and the Hellenistic empires.
Inca Empire - Answers :The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka
Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest
empire in the world in the early 16th century.
Cyrus the Great - Answers :Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and
also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
Olmecs - Answers :The Olmecs were the first major civilization in Guatemala and
Mexico following a progressive development in Soconusco and modern southwestern
pacific lowlands of Guatemala.
Stateless society - Answers :A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a
state, or, especially in common American English, has no government.
Filial piety - Answers :In Confucian philosophy, filial piety is a virtue of respect for one's
parents, elders, and ancestors.
Tao - Answers :Tao or Dao is a Chinese word signifying 'way', 'path', 'route', or
sometimes more loosely, 'doctrine' or 'principle'.
Qin Dynasty - Answers :The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China, lasting
from 221 to 206 BC.
Confucianism - Answers :Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as tradition,
a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or
simply a way of life.
Mandate of Heaven - Answers :The Mandate of Heaven was a principle used to justify
the power of the emperor of China, as well as explaining suitability for the office.
Taoism - Answers :Taoism, also known as Daoism, is a religious, philosophical and
ritual tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao.
Confucius - Answers :Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and
philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
Feudalism - Answers :Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in
medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
