Quizzes 3,4,5,6

Quiz 3
1. All human cultures develop religion or philosophical systems.
2. The 4 great Philosophical and Religious Revolutions: Chinese philosophy, Indian religion, Hebrew monotheism, Greek philosophy.
3. Legalism was type of Greek philosophy.
4. Greeks were the first who tried to explain the natural world without using gods.

5. In Buddhism all life is dukkha or joy.
6. In the Upanishads, samsara is an endless cycle of existence.
7. Hindu is not a term for a single or uniform religious culture.
8. Dao is the way.
9. Aristotle used empirical evidence.
10. Monotheism is belief in a single god.


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Quiz 4
1. A Polis is a Greek city-state.
2. The hoplite phalanx was the main basis of Greek warfare.
3. A tyrant was a monarch who had gained power in an unorthodox way and maintained a one-man rule.
4. The Areopagus was made of warriors and ruled over Sparta.
5. By the sixth century, Greek cities in Asia Minor came under the control of the Persian Empire.

6. Philip II was from a family of nobles in Attica.
7. Some of the most spectacular intellectual accomplishments of the Hellenistic Age were in math and science.
8. Heliocentric theory places the earth at the center of the universe.
9. Thucydides wrote about the Peloponnesian Wars.
10. The Academy was founded by Plato.

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Quiz 5
1. The Achaemenids were in Persia and the Mauryans were in India.
2. Zoroastrianism is polytheistic.
3. Shahanshah means “king of kings.”
4. States conquered by Persia were called satraps.
5. Darius I built the great palaces in Susa and Persepolis.

6. Chandragupta Maurya created the first true Egyptian empire.
7. Strong administration, an imperial ideal and Buddhism crushed the people of India.
8. The successors of the Indo-Greeks were steppe peoples.
9. The Kushan kingdom of India was one of four major centers of civilization in Eurasia.
10. Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Hinduism would come of age and spread through Asia at the same time.

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Quiz 6
1. Civilization can be associated with the sophistication of people’s intellectual, cultural and artistic traditions.
2. In the story of Gikuyu a reason for matrilineal structure is given.
3. Africa is three and a half times the size of the continental United States.
4. The are four indigenous language families in Africa.
5. Kush was located in South Africa near the Kalahari Desert.

6. Aksum was located in the farthest tip of Southern Africa.
7. Aksum was the last Southern region to become Christian.
8. The Maasai were and still are cattle pastoralists proud of their separate language and culture.
9. Lack of writing about Africa makes it difficult for historians to have a full understanding of its history.
10. The Sahara is located in North Africa.

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