Transcript World History A Exam Review Questions 2010

World History A Exam Review
Questions
Indo –Europeans migrating from the steppes
were what type of people?
How did Buddhism spread across Asia?
What in the term used to describe when
Buddhist are released from all pain
What group of people established the caste
system in India?
What are the first 5 books of the Hebrew
Bible known as?
What do Buddhist and Hindus have in
common?
Review Questions
Who reigned in Greece before the golden age of
Athens?
What is the common land form in Greece with
separated the regions?
What cultures blend to make Hellenistic culture?
What do Sparta and Athens have in common?
What were some advances created during the
Han Dynasty?
What role did Confucius believe women should
have?
What do Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva represent?
Review Questions
What is the Sahel and Savanna?
What direction did the Bantu Speaking people
travel?
What does Bantu mean?
What was the Nok?
Describe a Push Pull factor
How did agriculture change early societies?
Who was Muhammad according to Muslims?
What is the difference between a Sunni and a
Shi’a?
Review Questions
What was the code created as law for the
Byzantine Empire?
Who was Yaroslav the Wise?
What was the Khanate of the Golden Horde?
What does Czar mean? Why did Ivan III use
this title?
How did Genghis Khan become a successful
conqueror?
Who lead the Mongol Empire? How did they
treat the people they conquered?
What is Shintoism?
Review Questions
Describe the three-field system
Who did the Magna Carta protect?
Who created the English common law?
How was the Great Schism resolved?
What does it mean to assign authority based on
lineage?
Swahili is the mixture of what two languages?
Who was part of the noble class in Aztec Society?
What was Tikal?
Why did the Mayan civilization have a need for a
calendar system?
Review Questions
How did the Inca’s add territory to their
empire?
Define Renaissance
What did John Calvin teach?
Why did Europeans seek voyages of
exploration?
In the Columbian Exchange what was
carried west Across the Atlantic?