World History Final Jeopardy

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Ancient Times

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A1

Name the kings who consulted the gods through the use of

oracle bones?

Who are the Shang ?

A2

Name the ruler who was famous for a uniform code of laws that

unified his empire?

Who is Hammurabi?

A3

Name the belief in many gods.

What is Polytheism?

A4

What scientific concept did Indian astronomers prove long

before the Europeans did?

That the Earth is Round

A5

Name the ruler was considered to be both a king and

a god?

What is Pharoah?

A6

Why was Alexandria Egypt, important during the Hellenistic

period?

It became the foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic culture.

A7

What is the Indus Valley Civilization sometimes

called?

What is the Harappan Civilization

A8

What concept was the belief in “divine right” used

to support?

Absolute rule

A9

How did the first Americans support themselves?

Hunting and Gathering

A10

Name the oldest known city in Africa south of the

Sahara?

What is Djenne-Djeno?

B1

The German Blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what

advantage?

Surprise and overwhelming force

B2

Name the title of Hitler’s book?

What is Mein Kampf ? Which means My Struggle

B3

Why did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement

toward Germany?

Wished to avoid war with Germany.

B4

What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on

Germany?

Invasion of Poland

B5

That Hitler’s advances could be blocked.

What lesson was learned from

the Battle of Britain?

B6

What was significant about the Battle of Midway?

It was the turning point of the pacific war against Japan

B7

In Germany, what effect did the Nuremberg Laws have?

German Jews were stripped of

citizenship, jobs, and property.

B8

For German Jews wishing to emigrate out of Germany, what

problems did they run into?

Other nations set quotas on the number of German Jews they

would accept.

B9

THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR DEC. 7,

1941

What event was described as “A date that will live in

infamy”?

B10

WHAT IS AUSCHWITZ?Name the worst of

the Nazi concentration camps.

C1

What action on November 11, 1918 brought an end to WWI?

An Armistice was signed

C2

What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army

prepared for war?

Militarism

C3

What region was referred to as the Powder Keg of Europe?

The Balkan Peninsula

C4

Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800’s and most of

WWI?

Kaiser Wilhelm II

C5

How did Hitler rationalize the taking of the Sudetenland to the

German people and the world?

Czechs were abusing German-

Speaking people

C6

How did Italy follow the aggressive actions of its

neighbor Germany?

Italy invaded one of the last independent nations in

Africa, Ethiopia.

C7

How did the Axis Powers hope to keep the United States out of the war?

By forming an alliance, the Axis Powers created a “two

ocean war” for the United States.

C8

What plan called for the attack on France first and then Russia?

What is the Schlieffen Plan

C9

BECAUSE THEY WERE LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL

PART OF EUROPE

Why were Germany and Austria Hungary

called the Central Powers?

C10

GERMANY

Which nation cause the U.S. to fight in

World War I?

D1

Who were the Bolsheviks?

Radical Russian Marxist Revolutionaries

D2

What did the pogroms do that occurred in the late 19th century

Russia?

Persecuted the Jews

D3

Who fought in the Peloponnesian

War?

Athens and Sparta

D4

What do we call the forced dispersal of the Jews?

Diaspora

D5

What was unusual about the West African Iron Age?

West Africa skipped the Copper and Bronze Age

D6

Who were the Mamelukes?

Turkish slaves who became a powerful force in the Abbasid

Empire

D7

Name the title Ivan III use?

What is Czar?

D8

The Treaty of Verdun resulted in?

The division of Charlemagne’s empire into 3 parts

D9

The main difference between the original Roman Empire and the Holy

Roman Empire of Frederick I was what?

Frederick’s empire had no strong central government

D10

WHAT IS A CODEX

The Maya wrote on a bark-paper book known as a

E1

Name Mali’s first great leader?

Who is Sundiata?

E2

Leader of the Fascist

government in Italy.

Who is Benito Mussolini?

E3

Leader whose totalitarian regime was based on a

communist philosophy.

Who is Joseph Stalin?

E4

Name the first European to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as the Cape of Good

Hope?

Who is Bartolomeau Dias?

E5

Who first landed in an island in the Caribbean Sea 1492?

Christopher Columbus

E6

The heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was proposed by?

Copernicus

E7

The Bill of Rights was proposed by ?

Who is Voltaire, John Locke

and Rosseau

E8

Who seized power from Persia’s shah and changed the name of his

country to Iran?

Reza Shah Pahlavi

E9

Who led the famous Salt March?

Mohandis Gandhi

E10

In 1978, the Camp David Accords were signed by who?

Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin

F1

THE 1956 SUEZ CRISIS BEGAN WHEN?

Egypt seized control of the Suez

Canal

F2

During the Cultural Revolution, who were the “new

heroes” of China?

The Peasants

F3

What is the policy of South African that means separating the

races?

Apartheid

F4

WHAT CAUSED TWO GERMANY’S TO REUNITE?

The fall of Communism in East

Germany

F5

Name the Russian Republic’s first elected president?

Who is Boris Yeltsin?

F6

WHAT WAS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE NUCLEAR

NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY?

To prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to other

nations

F7

WHAT IS MEANT BY GLOBAL

INTERDEPENDENCE? The idea that nations are

dependent on other nations and affected by the actions

of others far away.

F8

HOW DID EMPRESS LU MAINTAIN HER POWER?

She named one infant emperor and

then another

F9

HOW DID THE RULERS OF GHANA GROW RICH?

By taxing the goods traders

carried through their territory.

F10

WHAT DID HONGWU DO FIRST TO HELP CHINA BECOME A DOMINANT

POWER?

He overthrew the Mongols and

established the Ming Dynasty.