| Question | Answer |
| 1. The most honored teacher in China's history. | Confucious
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2. Greek military commander threatened India with his armies in 326 BC. | Alexander the Great
| 3. Term in Buddhist teaching that denotes the state of absolute peace and happiness where one loses himself into nothingness. | nirvana
| 4. What ruler of Japan made Buddhism the country's favored national religion? | Prince Shotoku
| 5. What Syrian Christian was responsible for Aksum's becoming nominally Christian? | Frumentius
| 6. What African language contains influences from Arabic, Persian, and Indian. | Swahili
| 7. What term denotes the physical features of a land. | topography
| 8. The seed of the _____________ refers to those who are loyal to God through salvation. | woman
| 9. ___________ sources are usually produced by people involved in the events being studied. | Primary
| 10. ___________ fathered a line of people who "call[ed] upon the name of the Lord," and he was a replacement for Abel. | Seth
| 11. Noah placed a curse on Canaan, a son of ____________. | Ham
| 12. Historical _____________ is the practice of gathering useful information and weaving it together into a narrative of the past. | synthesis
| 13. ___________________ united the land of Mesopotamia and is remembered for his code of laws. | Hammurabi
| 14. ________________ established the first known empire. | Sargon
| 15. Egypt became a great power in the Old, Middle or New Kingdom. | New
| 16. Khufu built the Great Pyramid at Giza in the Old, Middle, or New Kingdom. | Old
| 17. Egyptian pharaohs directed their attention to public projects in the Old, Middle, or New Kingdom. | Middle
| 18. Moses probably led the Israelites out of Egypt during the reign of _________________. | Thutmose III
| 19. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for __________ years before entering the land of Caanan. | forty
| 20. Jerusalem was destroyed, and many Jews were taen as captives to Babylon in _________ BC. | 586
| 21. Around 2000 BC the ___________ began to settle in Asia Minor. | Hittites
| 22. The Hittite Army was led by a ___________. | king
| 23. Abraham traveled from ___________ and became the founder of the nation of Israel. | Ur
| 24. _________________ destroyed Jerusalem and carried the Jews into exile for seventy years. | Nebuchadenezzar
| 25. Seljuk Turks annihilated the Byzantine army at the Battle of ________________. | Manzikert
| 26. Cyril and Methodius were missionaries to the _______________. | Russians
| 27. Damascus was the capital of the ______________ caliphate. | Umayyad
| 28. The ___________ stopped Muslim advancement into Europe at the Battle of Tours. | Franks
| 29. Arabs are descendants of ______________. | Ishmael
| 30. Mansa Musa was the most famous ruler of _____________. | Mali
| 31. According to legend _____________________ was the founder of Taoism. | Lao-tzu
| 32. ____________________ founded the first strong empire of India in the fourth century AD. | Chandragupta Maurya
| 33. _____________________ was known as Buddha, or the "Enlightened One." | Siddhartha Gautama
| 34. Akbar was a member of the ___________________ dynasty. | Mughal
| 35. Early Christians used the term _________________ to describe the church's universal nature. | catholic
| 36. _____________________ persuaded Atilla the Hun to spare the city of Rome in 452. | Leo I
| 37. The term pope was initially used to praise the actions of ______________. | Leo I
| 38. The Petrine theory was used to enhance the position of the bishops of ______________. | Rome
| 39. The _____________________ Church defines a sacrament as an act that grants grace by its very performance, based on the recipient's intentions. | Roman Catholic
| 40. According to the Roman Catholic Church, __________________ is both a sacrament and a sacrifice. | Holy Eucharist |
