Semester Exam- World History Questions & Answers

Where were the oldest remains of man found? - ANSWERSEast Africa Which people were the "terror of the ancient world"? - ANSWERSAssyrians What was the writing of the ancient egyptians called? - ANSWERSHeiroglyphics What was the writing of the ancient sumerians? - ANSWERSCuneiform Who discovered the Rosetta Stone? - ANSWERSNapolean why was the rosetta stone an imortant discovery? - ANSWERSno on ecould read egyptian writing until then what does the word Poenicia mean? - ANSWERSPurple-handed people What does Buddha mean? - ANSWERSEnlightened One What was the most famous Phoenician colony? - ANSWERSCarthage where was egypts natural barrier of protection broken? - ANSWERSIsthmus of Suez which river calley civilization invented porcelain? - ANSWERSShang What was the first chinese dynasty? - ANSWERSshang what was the longest lasting dynasty in chinese history? - ANSWERSZhou who were the original spartans? - ANSWERSdorians who were the original Romans? - ANSWERSLatins What people introduced the alphabet into Greece? - ANSWERSPhoenicians who was the father of athenian democracy? - ANSWERSsolon who created the worlds first empire - ANSWERSakkadians what organ was left in the body after mummification? - ANSWERSheart what was the first organ removed during the mummification processs? - ANSWERSbrain what country is wthe land of Persia today? - ANSWERSiran what was the prize of the first punic war? - ANSWERSsicily who was the first roman emperor? - ANSWERSoctavian who was the second roman emperor? - ANSWERSTiberius what is a bureaucracy? - ANSWERSgovt. with department of bureaus what was a phalanx? - ANSWERSsoldiers marching in boxed form what is the greek word for city-state? - ANSWERSpolis what is the belief in many gods? - ANSWERSpolytheism what was the written language of the aryans? - ANSWERSsanskrit what city state held philip 2 hostage during his youth? - ANSWERSthebes how many cities did alexander the great build? - ANSWERS70 what was the showcase cirt of the hellenistic world? - ANSWERSalexandria what were the aryan social classes called? - ANSWERScase system on what river was rome built on? - ANSWERSTiber who was the alleged father of romuls and remus? - ANSWERSmars name the first triumverate? - ANSWERSceasar, pompey, crassus name the second triumverate - ANSWERSlepidus, octavian, mark antony where was Hadrians wall built? - ANSWERSbritian what is an autocracy - ANSWERSone person controls everything who wast he napoleon of egypt - ANSWERSthutmose 3 who was the founder of buddhism - ANSWERSsidartha gautama who built the hanging gardens of babylon - ANSWERSking nebuchadnezzar