Test Review Packet-Answers
1) Manors were self sufficient in that all things that a person on the manor would ever need were
available for them there. In the Middle Ages, travel was virtually unheard of so people needed
everything to be on their manor as they never left it during their lives.
2) The Neolithic Revolution was the time in human history when agriculture was developed. It is
significant because it allowed people to stop being nomadic and thus opened the door for
civilization to begin.
3) Reincarnation is the belief in both Hinduism and Buddhism that a person’s “soul” continues on
after they die into another body. In this way they are reborn
4) Hammurabi’s code was the first written law code. It was written in Babylon and was very harsh.
Most famous law: An eye for an eye
5) Early civilizations developed near rivers because of the availability of water in order to water
their crops. This was done through irrigation, the building of channels from the rivers to the
fields for water.
6) The Indus Valley, although their written language has not yet been deciphered, was obviously
well-organized based on their planned city “grid system” as well as their plumbing.
7) Advanced Cities, Advanced Technology, Complex Institutions, Specialization of Labor,
8) Mediterranean
9) The Caste system was the social stratification system of Hinduism. It was based on occupation
and did not allow for movement during someone’s lifetime.
10) Gold/Salt
11) Life is suffering, suffering is caused by desire, to end suffering end desire, follow the eight fold
path
12) Four noble truths/eight fold path
13) Filial Piety was the Confucian system in which one respected their elders/parents/government
14) Filial Piety/ Respect/
15) Follow the government/
16) Nature was the only way to find happiness/ yin and yang
17) Hanfezi
18) Lao-Tzu
19) Monotheism
20) Koran
21) A. Algebra
B.Medicine
C.Arches
22) Math, Science
23) Rome, Greece
24) Basis for law codes for developing Europe
25) Byzantine
26) Good: taxes on non-christians
27) Geography
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Both believe in spirits and natural objects
China
Code of honor among samuri
Horses, took no prisoners
Roads
Barter/trade
Calendar, polytheistic, advanced building
So didn’t have to pay taxes
Who should follow Mohammad as leader of the religion
Church
Nature spirits in objects
Trade
Believed sun would not rise if they didn’t
Mountains/hills/geography
One man one vote
Athens
Landowner, free, man, natural born
Egypt, Greece, Macedonia, india
Germanic tribes, inflation, corrupt rulers, high taxes, civil unrest
Brought about middle ages
Golden age
Chart
Chart
Sparta
Added to army/ more tax $
200 years of peace
Missionaries spreading messages
Germanic tribes in west, more $ in east, safer trade routes
Trade moved east, weakened west
Lack of food (Germanic tribes) lack of army (rome)
increased infrastructure
Constantine
War elephants over Alps, power of surprise
Rome
Division between eastern orthodox and roman catholic church: role of pope, marrying of clergy,
icons
68) Orthodox
69) Scandanavia
70) Began Christianity as dominant European religion
71) Need for protection
72) Dominant law power, only learning institution
73) Solidified church/government connection
74) Non-existent
75) Stopped spread of islam in Europe
76) Prophecy
77) Mecca
78) Fast during Ramadan, 5x day prayer, almsgiving, visit Mecca, declaration of faith
79) Pope stated concentrating more on wordly laws etc.
80) Money (service)/ protection
81) Clans
82) Siddhartha Gautama
83) Veda
84) Moksha
85) Nirvana
86) Karma, reincarnation
87) Diocletion
88) Constantinople
89) Greek/ orthodox
90) Pope
91) Patriarch
92) Latin
93) Greek
94) Cyrillic/bibile
95) Salvation
96) Torah/bible
97) Prophets
98) Trade/barter
99) Church/feudalism
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Aided in learning/ copies bible
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Revelation from angel Gabriel
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Monarchy/ aristocracy/ tyranny/ democracy
***make sure to look up all the people and know at least one fact about each as well as what
civilization they were from!!!