WORLD HISTORY CHALLENGE 4 8TH
  • 1. Chinese philosopher, he was the most influential teacher in Chinese history. His teachings focused on morality, family, society and government
A) Laozi
B) Confucius
  • 2. Confucius believed that social order, harmony, and good government could be restored if society were organized around 5 basic relationships: ____.
A) ruler-subject, father-son, husband-wife, older-younger brother, friend-friend
B) king-queen, father-son, husband-wife, older-younger brother, friend-friend
C) ruler-subject, father-son, husband-wife, brother-sister, friend-friend
  • 3. Respect shown by children for their parents and ancestors.
A) family loyalty
B) Daoism
C) Legalism
D) filial piety
  • 4. What does filial piety require?
A) Devoting oneself to one's parents and honoring their memories after their death.
B) Devoting themselves to God and worshipping their dead parents.
C) Performing rituals and honoring your brother.
  • 5. Book that was written with Confucius' teachings and ideas.
A) Book of Knowledge
B) Analects
C) Bible
D) Confucianism
  • 6. Ethical system based on accepted principles of right and wrong, became a foundation for the Chinese government and an influence throughout East Asia.
A) Legalism
B) Confucianism
C) Daoism
  • 7. Chinese thinker who said that only natural order was important.
A) Laozi
B) Confucius
C) Mencius
  • 8. What does "dao" mean?
A) the Path
B) the Way
C) the Truth
  • 9. Group of political thinkers that contrasted Confucius and Laozi's teachings.
A) Legalists
B) Followers
C) Seekers
  • 10. ______ taught that a ruler should provide rich rewards for people who carried their duties well; the disobedient should be harshly punished.
A) Legalism
B) Confucianism
C) Daoism
  • 11. The natural order is more important than the social order, a universal force guides all things, human beings should live in harmony with nature are the foundations of ________.
A) Confucianism
B) Daoism
C) Legalism
  • 12. _______ helped people to lead a happy life by offering good advice and simple common sense.
A) Analect
B) Book of Mormon
C) I Ching
  • 13. a person who takes power by force and rules with total authority
A) democracy
B) helot
C) noble
D) oligarchy
E) tyrant
  • 14. peasants forced to stay on the land they worked.
A) nobles
B) democrats
C) helots
D) monarchs
E) tyrants
  • 15. State is ruled by a small group of citizens.
A) democracy
B) aristocracy
C) oligarchy
D) tyrant
E) monarchy
  • 16. State ruled by a king, the rule is hereditary and claimed divine right.
A) democracy
B) oligarchy
C) aristocracy
D) monarchy
  • 17. State is ruled by its citizens and a majority decides the vote.
A) oligarchy
B) monarchy
C) aristocracy
D) democracy
  • 18. State ruled by nobility, rule is hereditary through family ties, social rank and wealth.
A) democracy
B) monarchy
C) aristocracy
D) oligarchy
  • 19. Persian king who acted like a coward, tried to negotiate a peace settlement. He offered Alexander all of his lands west of the Euphrates River.
A) Salamis
B) Xerxes
C) Darius III
D) Darius II
E) Alexander
  • 20. A wise and noble statesman who had three goals: (1) to strengthen Athenian democracy, (2) to hold and strengthen the empire, and (3) to glorify Athens.
A) Draco
B) Pericles
C) Xerxes
D) Alexander
E) Solon
  • 21. Under the Greek definition of “citizen,” who qualified for citizenship?
A) wealthy women who owned land
B) freed slaves who owned land
C) foreign-born men with land
D) free native-born men who owned land
  • 22. These women were trained in child-rearing, weaving cloth, preparing meals, managing the household, and other skills that helped them become good wives and mothers.
A) Athenian Women
B) Spartan Women
  • 23. In what way did a boy’s life in Athens differ from a boy’s life in Sparta?
A) Athenian boys lived in barracks; Spartan boys lived at home.
B) Athenian boys became citizens at 30; Spartan boys became citizens at 18.
C) Athenian boys went to school; Spartan boys served in the military.
D) Athenian boys studied combat; Spartan boys played sports.
  • 24. Athenian ruler whose reforms were popular among the common people, he outlawed debt slavery.
A) Cleisthenes
B) Draco
C) Solon
D) Pericles
  • 25. Who wrote History of the Persian Wars?
A) Herodotus
B) Themistocles
C) Xerxes
D) Cyrus the Great
  • 26. Greek city-states formed an alliance that took its name from Delos, the island in the Aegean Sea where it had its headquarters.
A) Athenian League
B) Spartan League
C) Delian League
D) Persian League
  • 27. Fearsome formation that became the most powerful fighting force in the ancient world.
A) Squadrons
B) Phalanx
C) Leagues
D) Hoplites
  • 28. The _____ spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks.
A) Myceneans
B) Athenians
C) Dorians
D) Spartans
  • 29. In 431 B.C., Sparta and other city-states joined forces against Athens to fight this war.
A) the Spartan War
B) the City-States War
C) the Persian War
D) the Peloponnesian War
  • 30. leader who broke up the power of the nobility by organizing citizens into ten groups based on where they lived rather than on their wealth. He also created the Council of Five Hundred.
A) Cleisthenes
B) Draco
C) Darius
D) Solon
E) Pericles
  • 31. Foot soldier who stood side by side, each holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other.
A) Helots
B) Phalanx
C) Athenians
D) Spartans
E) Hoplites
  • 32. Fortified hilltop and a place where people could go and to debate issues.
A) Acropolis
B) Senate
C) Polis
D) Agora
  • 33. an Athenian general who came up with a plan to fight the Persians
A) Xerxes
B) Pericles
C) Aspasia
D) Themistocles
E) Darius
  • 34. A city-state that was fundamental political unit in ancient Greece.
A) Tyrant
B) Agora
C) Colony
D) Acropolis
E) Polis
  • 35. A public open space that served as a marketplace.
A) Agora
B) Peninsula
C) Colony
D) Tyrant
E) Polis
  • 36. These women received some military training, they also ran, wrestled, played sports, and had considerable freedom in running the family estates when their husbands were on active military service.
A) Spartan women
B) Athenian women
  • 37. Dashing the 26 miles from Marathon to Athens, ______delivered his message, “Rejoice, we conquer.” He then collapsed and died.
A) Pericles
B) Xerxes
C) Cleisthenes
D) Pheidippides
  • 38. Darius the Great’s son and successor ______ assembled an enormous invasion force to crush Athens. Lead his army into Thermopylae where 7,000 Greeks, including 300 Spartans, blocked his way.
A) Pheidippides
B) Cyrus
C) Darius II
D) Xerxes
  • 39. Pericles had the League's approval to spend a huge amount of the league’s money to buy gold, ivory, and marble. Still more money went to pay the artists, architects, and workers who used these materials.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
  • 40. A masterpiece of architectural design and craftsmanship, was not unique in style. Rather, Greek architects constructed the building in the traditional style that had been used to create Greek temples for 200 years.
A) Acropolis
B) Parthenon
C) Alexander's Temple
D) Polis
  • 41. Sculptor during the golden age that aimed to create figures that were graceful, strong, and perfectly formed. Their faces showed only serenity.
A) Pericles
B) Athena
C) Solon
D) Phidias
  • 42. Greek sculptors also tried to capture the grace of the idealized human body in motion. They wanted to portray ideal beauty, not realism. Their values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion became the standard of what is called classical art.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
  • 43. Blending of Egyptian, Persian, and Indian influences became known as ________.
A) Greek Mythology
B) Hellenistic culture
C) Spartan culture
D) legacy
E) Alexandrian Culture
  • 44. Ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history’s greatest military minds who, as King of Macedonia and Persia, established the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. His greatest legacy was hellenistic culture.
A) Cyrus
B) Alexander the Great
C) Xerxes
D) Darius III
E) Phillip II
  • 45. The most important city in the ancient world that became an international community, with a rich mixture of customs and traditions from Egypt and from the Aegean.
A) Persepolis
B) Macedonia
C) Alexandria
D) Salamis
E) Athens
  • 46. This Greek poet wrote many poems about heroic deeds, including the Iliad.
A) Homer
B) Croesus
C) Aesop
D) Odysseus
  • 47. The Greeks performed both types of drama— ____ —as part of religious festivals.
A) comedy and myth
B) epic and tragedy
C) comedy and tragedy
D) myth and fable
  • 48. Athenian orator, tried to warn the Greeks of the threat Philip and his army posed. He urged them to unite against Philip.
A) Plato
B) Thucydides
C) Demosthenes
D) Aristotle
  • 49. During the Hellenistic Era, scientists made major discoveries in _____ and ______.
A) Math and Astronomy
B) Geography and Chemistry
C) Astronomy and Medicine
D) Mythology and Math
  • 50. Became king of Macedonia, though only 23 years old, he quickly proved to be a brilliant general and a ruthless politician. He transformed the rugged peasants under his command into a well-trained professional army.
A) Alexander the Great
B) Darius III
C) Phillip II
D) Xerxes
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