1. World History Final Jeopardy
Review Game

2. 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Ancient Times WWII WWI Potluck Famous
People
MISC 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
100

3. Name the kings who consulted the gods through the use of oracle bones?
Who are the Shang ? A1

4. Name the ruler who was famous for a uniform code of laws that unified his empire?
Who is Hammurabi? A2

5. Name the belief in many gods.
What is Polytheism? A3

6. What scientific concept did Indian astronomers prove long before the Europeans did?
That the Earth is Round A4

7. Name the ruler was considered to be both a king and a god?
What is Pharoah? A5

8. It became the foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic culture.
Why was Alexandria Egypt, important during the Hellenistic period?
It became the foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic culture. A6

9. What is the Indus Valley Civilization sometimes called?
What is the Harappan Civilization A7

10. What concept was the belief in “divine right” used to support?
Absolute rule A8

11. How did the first Americans support themselves?
Hunting and Gathering A9

12. Name the oldest known city in Africa south of the Sahara?
What is Djenne-Djeno?
A10

13. Surprise and overwhelming force
The German Blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what advantage?
Surprise and overwhelming force B1

14. What is Mein Kampf ? Which means My Struggle
Name the title of Hitler’s book?
What is Mein Kampf ? Which means My Struggle B2

15. Wished to avoid war with Germany.
Why did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement toward Germany?
Wished to avoid war with Germany. B3

16. What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
Invasion of Poland B4

17. That Hitler’s advances could be blocked.
What lesson was learned from the Battle of Britain? B5

18. It was the turning point of the pacific war against Japan
What was significant about the Battle of Midway?
It was the turning point of the pacific war against Japan B6

19. In Germany, what effect did the Nuremberg Laws have?
German Jews were stripped of citizenship, jobs, and property. B7

20. 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. B8

21. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941
What event was described as “A date that will live in infamy”? B9

22. Name the worst of the Nazi concentration camps.
What is Auschwitz?
Name the worst of the Nazi concentration camps.
B10

23. An Armistice was signed
What action on November 11, 1918 brought an end to WWI?
An Armistice was signed C1

24. What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?
Militarism C2

25. What region was referred to as the Powder Keg of Europe?
The Balkan Peninsula C3

26. Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800’s and most of WWI?
Kaiser Wilhelm II C4

27. Czechs were abusing German-Speaking people
How did Hitler rationalize the taking of the Sudetenland to the German people and the world?
Czechs were abusing German-Speaking people C5

28. How did Italy follow the aggressive actions of its neighbor Germany?
Italy invaded one of the last independent nations in Africa, Ethiopia. C6

29. 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. C7

30. What is the Schlieffen Plan
What plan called for the attack on France first and then Russia?
What is the Schlieffen Plan C8

31. Because they were located in the central part of Europe
Why were Germany and Austria Hungary called the Central Powers? C9

32. Which nation cause the U.S. to fight in World War I?
Germany
Which nation cause the U.S. to fight in World War I?
C10

33. Radical Russian Marxist Revolutionaries
Who were the Bolsheviks?
Radical Russian Marxist Revolutionaries D1

34. What did the pogroms do that occurred in the late 19th century Russia?
Persecuted the Jews D2

35. Who fought in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta D3

36. What do we call the forced dispersal of the Jews?
Diaspora D4

37. What was unusual about the West African Iron Age?
West Africa skipped the Copper and Bronze Age D5

38. Turkish slaves who became a powerful force in the Abbasid Empire
Who were the Mamelukes?
Turkish slaves who became a powerful force in the Abbasid Empire D6

39. Name the title Ivan III use?
What is Czar? D7

40. The Treaty of Verdun resulted in?
The division of Charlemagne’s empire into 3 parts D8

41. Frederick’s empire had no strong central government
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 D9

42. The Maya wrote on a bark-paper book known as a
What is a Codex
The Maya wrote on a bark-paper book known as a
D10

43. Name Mali’s first great leader?
Who is Sundiata? E1

44. Who is Benito Mussolini?
Leader of the Fascist government in Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini? E2

45. Leader whose totalitarian regime was based on a communist philosophy.
Who is Joseph Stalin? E3

46. Who is Bartolomeau Dias?
Name the first European to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as the Cape of Good Hope?
Who is Bartolomeau Dias? E4

47. Who first landed in an island in the Caribbean Sea 1492?
Christopher Columbus E5

48. The heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was proposed by?
Copernicus E6

49. Who is Voltaire, John Locke and Rosseau
The Bill of Rights was proposed by ?
Who is Voltaire, John Locke and Rosseau E7

50. Who seized power from Persia’s shah and changed the name of his country to Iran?
Reza Shah Pahlavi E8

51. Who led the famous Salt March?
Mohandis Gandhi E9

52. Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
In 1978, the Camp David Accords were signed by who?
Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
E10

53. The 1956 Suez Crisis began when?
Egypt seized control of the Suez Canal F1

54. During the Cultural Revolution, who were the “new heroes” of China?
The Peasants F2

55. What is the policy of South African that means separating the races?
Apartheid F3

56. What caused two Germany’s to reunite?
The fall of Communism in East Germany F4

57. Name the Russian Republic’s first elected president?
Who is Boris Yeltsin? F5

58. What was the main purpose of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
To prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to other nations F6

59. What is meant by Global interdependence?
The idea that nations are dependent on other nations and affected by the actions of others far away. F7

60. How did Empress Lu maintain her power?
She named one infant emperor and then another F8

61. How did the rulers of Ghana grow rich?
By taxing the goods traders carried through their territory. F9

62. What did Hongwu do first to help China become a dominant power?
He overthrew the Mongols and established the Ming Dynasty.
F10