7th Grade History 2nd Semester Exam Review Sheet Name: ___________________________
Master the material below
1. What did God create "in the beginning"? __________________________________________
2. Evolution is the theory that man and animals __________________________________________
3. What is the way of life of a group of people?__________________________________________
4. Which Hebrew was the chief assistant to the Egyptian pharaoh? ______________________________________
5. What are the stepped shaped towers that people worshiped at?______________________________________
6. What is the scattering of people over the earth?__________________________________________
7. What early Greeks people lived in the island of Crete?__________________________________________
8. What name is given to the land between the two rivers?__________________________________________
9. Who was the first human king of Israel?__________________________________________
10. Name the three large islands off the coast of Italy?____________________________________
11. Who are legendary founders of Rome?__________________________________________
12. What does it mean to cross the Rubicon today? __________________________________________
13. What is the meaning of "Et tu Brute"? __________________________________________
14. Nero was the first emperor to ________________________________________ Christians.
15. Which volcano erupted in A.D. 70?__________________________________________
16. How many books are in the New Testament? __________________________________________
17. Who did the Arabs descend from? __________________________________________
18. What is a "jihad" ? __________________________________________
19. Charles Martel AKA "_______?__________" led the Franks ______________________________________
20. Which treaty divided Charlemagne into three parts?__________________________________________
21. How many times did the peasants revolted in Germany? __________________________________________
22. How did the Roman Catholic Church respond to the breaking away?________________________________
23. What was a special church court that used torture and terror to obtain confessions of heresy?________________
24. What did the Roman Empire call Switzerland? __________________________________________
25. What did the Celts do before they entered battle?__________________________________________
26. Alfred the Great was the 1st great King of England. The first part of his name come from a long line of :
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27. During who's reign is the legend of Robin Hood? __________________________________________
28. King Henry __________________________________________
29. King Richard __________________________________________
30. King William __________________________________________
31. Lancaster __________________________________________
32. King John __________________________________________
33. By the time Catherine was 40 Henry determined to get rid of Catherine and : _________________________
34. What was Vasco da Gama's great feat? __________________________________________
35. Which river along with the Indus River are part of the main geographic features of the sub continent of India?
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36. Which religion tried to escape to a peaceful place called nirvana? __________________________________
37. Which group believed that every local church congregation should be independent, free from any religious
hierarchy, and entirely self-governing? __________________________________________
38. William Wilberforce __________________________________________
39. Robert Raikes __________________________________________
40. William Carey __________________________________________
41. Jonathan Edwards __________________________________________
42. George Whitefield __________________________________________
43. What was the most inportant human statement of political principles in the history of the world?
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44. What did Louis XV say would happen after he died? __________________________________________
45. Name a cause of the French Revolution? __________________________________________
46. Francis Bacon __________________________________________
47. Nicolaus Copernicus __________________________________________
48. Johannes Kepler __________________________________________
49. Galileo Galilei __________________________________________
50. Albert Einstein __________________________________________
51 Bach __________________________________________
52. Handel __________________________________________
53. Watts __________________________________________
54. Who was the leader of the German Unification? _________________________________________
55. American troops during WWI were called? _____________________________________________
56. Where did Peter the Great travel to get ideas to make Russia modern?________________________________
57. Who was Stalin's main rival?_______________________________
For each country write the letters down for the correct leader and ISM.
Germany 58. ISM _____________________________ 59. Leader _________________________
Italy 60. ISM _____________________________ 61. Leader __________________________
Japan 62. ISM _____________________________ 63. Leader __________________________
Russia 64. ISM _____________________________ 65. Leader __________________________
66. What happened on December 7th 1941? ___________________________________________
67. What name was given to the "a war of words" after WWII? ________________________
68. What name did Churchill give to the idea that Communist slavery had descended on the peoples of
Eastern Europe?__________________________________________
69. What did Gandhi advocate in India? _____________________________________
70. What did East Pakistan become known as? _________________________________________
There will be two maps on the Semester Exam. 1. Map of the Asia, 2. Map of Europe
