History 111 Mid-Semester Learning Assessment

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Across
  1. 1. These animals are our closest evolutionary cousins, sharing 98.4% of our DNA. (Week 1)
  2. 3. Known as modern man, they have been around for about 250,000 years, have expanded our toolkit, invented cave art, and even the world’s first musical instruments. (Week 1)
  3. 6. It lay at the heart of 1st Wave Civilizations, as people increasingly settled in cities, which became administrative and political capitals as well as centers of trade and production. (Week 3)
  4. 7. Fanged serpent god worshipped by the Olmec. (Week 3)
  5. 9. The zenith of Greek culture that spread as a result of the conquest of Alexander the Great. (Week 4)
  6. 10. Classical Era emperor who sought to help peasants by nationalizing territory of private landowners and distributing it to those who had no land of their own. (Week 6)
  7. 14. Conflict spawned by Athenian imperialism following their victory in the Greco-Persian Wars, which allowed Alexander the Great to conquer the fractured Greek city states with little difficulty. (Week 4)
  8. 17. Persian religion that was nearly destroyed by Alexander the Great; it called upon adherents to worship the god of light, Ahura Mazda. (Week 5)
  9. 19. The figure most closely associated with the founding of Daoism. (Week 5)
  10. 20. Greek philosopher who wrote about a society ruled by a class of highly educated guardians who could penetrate the illusions of the material world. (Week 5)
  11. 22. Mesopotamian city with a population of nearly 50,000 people that was surrounded by 20 foot tall walls and included a ziggurat in the center of the city. (Week 3)
  12. 23. The primary way that evolution occurs,which is when populations change in response to environmental pressures. (Week 1)
  13. 24. Christian missionary who experienced his own conversion on the road to Damascus, he became a passionate missionary who put people at ease and included non-Jews in his teachings. (Week 5)
  14. 25. Gladiator from Rome, a slave society, who became famous for leading a group of slaves in a school for gladiators to freedom and attracting a following of 120,000 slaves to rebel against Roman authorities. (Week 6)
  15. 27. One of the largest cities of the ancient Olmec, it housed 100,000 people in residential apartments along the Avenue of the Dead, which connected two large temple pyramids. (Week 3)
  16. 28. The first hominid species to begin making controlled use of fire and to become adaptable enough to move into different Old World Climates. (Week 1)
  17. 31. Provincial governors who administered the Persian Empire’s 23 provinces. (Week 4)
  18. 32. Indian emperor who carved a series of rock edicts throughout the Mauryan Kingdom and showed tolerance to both Hinduism as well as Buddhism within his kingdom. (Week 5)
  19. 33. Ancient Indian city housing nearly 40,000 people, featuring large, richly built homes of 2-3 stories, complete with indoor plumbing, luxurious bathrooms, private wells, streets laid out in a grid-like pattern, and grand public buildings. (Week 3)
  20. 35. First Wave Civilization that practiced feudalism and followed the Mandate of Heaven in choosing their emperor. (Week 3)
  21. 36. This class existed completely outside the social hierarchy of classical China and were feared by nobility (Week 6)
  22. 37. Cultural tradition utilizing a series of harshly enforced rules, that was used by Qin Shihuangdi to reunify China during the classical era. (Week 5)
  23. 38. Religious tradition used by Chinese peasants to inspire and support rebellions against landowners, such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion. (Week 5)
  24. 39. Mesopotamian stepped pyramid. (Week 3)
Down
  1. 2. The moment in time in which learned or invented ways of living became more important than biological instinct in determining how humans behaved. (Week 2)
  2. 4. Greek statesman who reformed the government by ending exclusive aristocratic control, introducing a new and more humane legal code, abolishing debt slavery, and opening public office to a larger number of people. (Week 4)
  3. 5. Chinese Empress who commissioned biographies written by famous women, made the mourning period for mothers and fathers equal, and created a Chinese character for the word human being. (Week 6)
  4. 8. 300 years of peace and prosperity ushered in during the rule of Octavian Augustus in the 1st and 2nd centuries of the classical era in Rome. (Week 4)
  5. 11. The ultimate aim of Hinduism, this is when the Atman and the Brahman became unified, allowing a person to achieve liberation from the endless cycle of rebirth. (Week 5)
  6. 12. Religious leader who emphasized the necessity of classical arts education in achieving moral betterment as well as the cultivation of ren. (Week 5)
  7. 13. Native Americans born anatomically male who dress and adopt the gender roles of women. (Week 2)
  8. 15. Scientists believe that this was the first hominid species to become fully bipedal around 4 million years ago (just ask John Green if you don’t believe me)! (Week 1)
  9. 16. A hereditary class of Hindu society that distinguishes people by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution, as well as by social status. (Week 6)
  10. 18. Ancient Indian texts that urged introspection and questioned the need for sacrifices to the Brahmins. (Week 5)
  11. 21. A series of colored, knotted strings that formed a sort of proto-writing system in Andean cultures and was often used for record keeping. (Week 3)
  12. 23. A First Wave Civilization with an economy based upon the fishing industry, textile technology, and the exportation of rich dyes and hallucinogenic snuff. (Week 3)
  13. 26. War against Carthage in which Rome extended control over the western Mediterranean and made itself a naval power. (Week 4)
  14. 29. The worldview of Australian Aboriginal peoples that is expressed in stories, ceremonies and rock art, and holds that everything in the natural order is a vibration of ancient happenings. (Week 2)
  15. 30. The theory that life began billions of years ago, when a group of chemicals inadvertently organized themselves into a self-replicating molecule, which gave rise to every single living thing on the planet. (Week 1 & 2)
  16. 34. King of Babylon who wrote a God-given set of rules utilizing Lex Talonis and the notion of innocent until proven guilty. (Week 3)