Name: ________________________ Date: _______________

ANCIENT HISTORY
Final Exam
Fill in the Blank (1 pt. each) 1. _____________ was the main means of trade during ancient times. 2. Chinampas were small islands of dirt, vegetation, & mud used by Aztecs to ____________ _____________. 3. A _________________ is a loose alliance that was often formed among different Indian peoples north of Mexico. 4. ______________ were priests and priestesses who predicted the future. 5. The _______________ Wars was the long string of battles which united the Greek city-states against a common foe. 6. The _____________ were the Germanic tribe with a kingdom in North Africa who sacked Rome in 455A.D. 7. The _____________ ______________ was a well-watered zone of potential farmland, surrounded by mountains and deserts in the Middle East. 8. The ______________ controlled North African trade routes and pushed others south. 9. The Great Wall was completed during the _____________ Dynasty. 10. ______________ means about that time. 11. The ______________ were seafarers and were known for producing a deep purple dye. 12. The ______________ of ______________ was the approval of the gods to rule. 13. ______________ was the first Christian Roman emperor. 14. Greek philosophy reached its height when the philosopher ______________ was alive. 15. ____________ _____________ fought for ten years in Gaul, showing his genius for leadership and military strategy. 16. An ____________________ is one who studies the human past. 17. ___________________ is the rebirth of the soul into different bodies until it is purified. 18. The father of history is ______________. 19. In India they have fixed social groupings called ______________. 20. People are believed to have crossed into America along the ______________ Strait.

21. A quipi was a colored cord knotted at intervals and used for ________________ by the Inca. 22. Ostracism was the practice of ______________ people. 23. An ______________ is anything used, manufactured, or modified by human beings. 24. The Greeks called the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers Mesopotamia which means the land _____________ the ______________. 25. ______________ means before written history. 26. Centuries before Greek civilization, the Minoan civilization grew up on the island of ______________. 27. The Mycenaean civilization began to decline after 1200 B.C. and was known for being ruled by ____________________. 28. Sparta was known for their ____________________ warriors. 29. Athens known for the development of ______________. 30. ______________ were the ten officials the plebeians elected in Rome. 31. Etruscan kings ruled Rome for more than __________years. 32. The ______________ was the 300-member council of patricians who led the Roman Republic. 33. The Parthenon is the temple of ______________ on the Acropolis of Athens. 34. ______________ was the first advanced civilization in Mesopotamia. 35. In ______________ exams were given on Confucian ideas about government. 36. A ______________ is a family-line of rulers. 37. The people from the kingdom of ______________ would say their kings were descendents of Solomon & the Queen of Sheba. 38. The secular forms for B.C. and A.D. (and their meanings) are ________________ and _____________________. 39. About 547 B.C. the Persians, led by _____________ the Great, began to build the largest empire that had yet existed in the ancient Middle East. 40. ______________ was an early apostle who concentrated his missionary activities in Egypt. 41. A _____________ was an independent, self-governing community that included a city and the surrounding farmlands. 42. In Egypt, the ______________ was considered to be a god and believed to possess the secrets of heaven and earth. 43. A ______________ was a large, brick temple shaped like a stair-step pyramid. 44. The Anasazi valued ______________ and had a farming culture in the dry lands of the southwest United States.

45. The ______________ had colossal heads that were carved from blocks of volcanic rock. 46. The Hopewell were also known as the ______________ _____________. 47. ______________ was the first emperor of Rome. 48. ______________ most famous work wasThe Republic. 49. ______________ was the poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. 50. Chinese were taught to respect their _______________, which was called filial piety. 51. The ______________ were known for using terror to control their subjects and for building the Library at Nineveh. 52. The ______________ Dynasty was the first historical dynasty in China. 53. The ______________ method was the question and answer approach to teaching started by Socrates. 54. The Peloponnesian War was the war between _____________ and Sparta that eventually led to the weakening of the Greek city-states. 55. The Hellenistic Age was the period following _______________ conquests when Greek culture was spread throughout the lands he had conquered. 56. A ______________ is a form of government without a king or queen in which power rests with citizens who elect their leaders. 57. The Punic Wars was a series of three wars fought between Rome and the North African city-state of ______________. 58. The First Triumvirate was made up of three generals (Pompey, Crassus, and ______________) who ruled the Roman Republic from 60 to 46 B.C. 59. The ______________ started to migrate in 1 AD and went across central & southern Africa. 60. About 3100 B.C. ______________, the ruler of Upper Egypt, conquered Lower Egypt and brought all of Egypt under his rule. 61. ___________________, the ruler of Babylon from 1792to 1750 B.C., had the laws of the land collected and carved onto a block of stone eight feet high. 62. The _____________ ______________ was build about 2600 B.C. during the Old Kingdom for Khufu. 63. Terrace-farming is the method of growing food on ____________________. 64. The Second Triumvirate was made up of the three supporters of Julius Caesar (Mark Antony, Lepidus, and ______________) who controlled Rome after defeating Caesars murders. 65. The ____________ ____________ was the 200 year period when the Roman Empire enjoyed long periods of peace and prosperity. 66. ______________ are people who suffer or die for a cause.

67. The __________s____ built Tenochtitlan on an island that is the present-day site of Mexico City. 68. _________ ____ priests taught the gods would destroy the world if ceremonies werent done on the right days. 69. The ______________ were known for building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. 70. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were the two ancient cities that developed on the ______________ River. 71. In 586 B.C. ______________ was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of Babylon. 72. ______________ ______________ was the wealthy king of Mali who made a pilgrimage to Mecca. 73. Egypt, Libya, and _____________ were the three countries that the ancients considered Africa to be made up of. 74. The wealth of the Ghana Empire came from gold and controlling _____________ ______________. 75. The Teotihuacanos built the Pyramid of the ___________--larger than any pyramid made by the Egyptians. 76. The ______________ had an empire that stretched 2,000 along the Pacific coast and had probably about six million people in it. 77. Alexander the Great is known for developing an empire on ____________ continents. 78. Socrates encouraged his fellow Athenians to Know ______________.

Map (1 pt. each) Write the # on the map in RED for each of the following: 1. Nile Riever 2. Tropic of Cancer 3. Himalaya Mts. 4. Tropic of Capricorn 5. Gulf of Mexico 6. Red Sea 7. Ganges River 8. Cape of Good Hope 9. Yellow River 10. Indus River 11. Congo Basin 12. Euphrates River 13. Aegean Sea 14. Lake Chad Write the # on the map in BLUE in the central area for each of the following: 15. Aztec Empire 16. Inca Empire 17. Illyrians 18. Center of Roman Empire 19. Athens 20.Sumer 21. Carthage 22.Kush