Study Guide—Unit 1

1.  Cuneiform=______

2.  What group of people invented cuneiform? ______

3.  Fertile Crescent=______

4.  Polytheism=______

5.  City-State=______

6.  What did the ruler Hammurabi make/create?______

7.  Dynasty=______

8.  Pharaoh=______

9.  Hieroglyphics=______

10.  The purpose of the pyramids was to serve as ______.

11.  Who made up the upper class of Egyptian society?

12.  What new achievements did the cities of the Indus River Valley have?

13.  The Indus River Valley is also known as the ______Civilization.

14.  Feudalism was started during the ______dynasty.

15.  What is feudalism?______

16.  The ______dynasty was the first Chinese dynasty to leave written records.

17.  The Chinese developed the idea of ______to justify the overthrow of the Shang dynasty.

18.  The Sumerians (people of Mesopotamia) invented the ______, the ______, and the ______.

19.  Phoenician's greatest contribution was the phonetic ______.

20.  The ______were traders who made a red-purple dye from murex snails.

21.  What was the basis of Hebrew law?

22.  What person led the Hebrews out of Egypt?

23.  Reincarnation can be affected by a person’s good or bad deeds in life. This is known as ______.

24.  What is the Hebrew name for God?

25.  This religion teaches a belief in one god and that earth is a battleground where the spirits of good and evil fight.

26.  In, Buddhism, the release from selfishness and pain is known as ______?

27.  Hinduism and Buddhism have a common belief in ______.

28.  The social class system that came to be known as the caste system was established in India by the______.

29.  The most sacred writings of the Jewish religion are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the______.

30.  Who founded Buddhism?

31.  To restore social order, harmony, and good government, Confucius believed it was necessary for society to be organized around what?

32.  Who was the founder of Hinduism?

33.  Who was the “father of the Hebrews?”

34.  Who claimed to be the ‘son of God?’

35.  What is the term Hebrews used for the savior of the world?

36.  What were the 12 men who followed Jesus called after His death?

37.  This religion teaches a belief in one god and that earth is a battleground where the spirits of good and evil fight?______

38.  Who led the Hebrews out of Egypt?

39.  What is a Muslim?

40.  The Holy month of Ramadan is the month they celebrate______?

41.  The hajj is a pilgrimage to ______.

42.  During the month of Ramadan, Muslims do not eat during ______.

43. Muhammad was a ______.