7th Grade World History                                             
Teacher: Mr. Cap  Sem Exam Review Practice Test               Name: _____________________________

1.  Greek conqueror of Persia ______________________

2.  What did God create "in the beginning"?_______________________________

3.   Evolution is the theory that man and animals ______________________________

4.  What is the way of life of a group of people?______________________________

5.  On which Mountain did the ark come to rest?_____________________________

6.  What are the stepped shaped towers that people worshiped at? ____________________________

7.  The last great Assyrian king remembered for his cuneiform library was ________________________

8.   What is the scattering of people over the earth?______________________________

9.   What does the names Tigris mean? ____________________________________

10.  What early Greeks people lived in the island of Crete?___________________________________

11.  Which Hebrew was the chief assistant to the Egyptian pharaoh? ___________________________

12.  Who was the first human king of Israel  _____________________________________________

13.  What name is given to the land between the two rivers?________________________________

14.  Why was Israel’s theocracy the best form of government?  _______________________________

15.  Why does the persecution of Christians fail to destroy Christianity? __________________________

16.  _______________ The Egyptian process of preserving dead bodies was ___________.

17.  ______________ A group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit is called a .

.18.  _______________ The Jewish captive __________ became the chief advisor to Nebuchadnezzar.

.19.  _______________ Sumerians invented the wheel and

20.  _______________ Sumerians were monothesists they believed in one god  True/ False

Short Answer: 

. 21. The Israelites wandered in the desert for _______________ yrs.

 22. For 300 yrs God ruled Israel through _________________________.  12 in all not counting ____________.

  23.Name the chief god of the Canaanites? _____________________________

  24. After wandering in the desert the Israelites conquered Canaan at the battle of ___________________________.

25.  Who are legendary founders of Rome?__________________________________

26.  Roman general ,_____________________     attacked Carthage

27.  What did the Roman conquests corrupt the people of Rome with? __________________________________

28.  What does it mean to cross the Rubicon today? _____________________________________________

29.  What is the meaning of "Et tu Brute"? _____________________________________________________

30.  Who was ruling Palestine as a local king and part of the Roman Empire.__________________________________

31.  Who was the Roman Governor? ___________________________________________

32.  Nero was the first emperor to _______________________            Christians.

33.  Which volcano erupted in A.D. 70? ________________________________

34.  Which Roman general saw the cross in the sky?_________________________________

35.  How many books are in the New Testament?

 Which of these is not a physical feature of Arabia? _____________________________________

  Who did the Arabs descend from? ______________________________

.  Ka aba is a religious building that houses the________________________________________

   Mohammed started receiving revelations from the angel _____________________________________

.  What is a "jihad" ?______________________________________________

.  Who was the first great Frankish king?__________________________________________

. Charles Martel AKA "_______?__________" led the Franks ________________________________________

.  Which treaty divided Charlemagne into three parts? ______________________________________________

36.   God Gave his laws to Moses at__________________________

37.  What is promulgation?____________________________________

38.   Who was conquered by Hammurabi ? ________________________________

39.   What are laws? ____________________________________________________________

40.   Which of these is not a prtriarch of Israel? a. Jacob, b. Moses, c. Abraham, d. Issac.

41.  _____________________________ led in the building of the tower of Babel.

42.   The Egyptian Empire reached it's greatest height under ______________________ III

43.   Hatshepsut was the only female ___________________________________.

44.   What is a tribute?___________________________________________

45.   _______________________________________built the hanging gardens for his wife.

46.  creator of the Iliad and Odyssey        _____________________________

47.  What happened to most of Egypt's tombs?_________________________________

48.  Studied the Rosetta Stone               _____________________________

49.  wisest king of Israel                           _____________________________

50.  Egyptians preserved bodies through a process called:   _______________________________________

True False:

51.  Abraham believed in the one true God and lived a life of health

52.  Greek historian Capotious marveled at the ancient relics of Egypt

53. The delta region is one of the most fertile regions in the world.