Vocab Final review 1st semester

The practice of cultivating the soil, growing crops, and raising livestock to provide food and raw materials for human use and consumption is _______?

• Archaeology

• Agriculture

• Gardening

• Corn

The study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains is _______?

• archeology

• petroleum

• futurism

• anthropology

Religious wars undertaken by Christians were called ______?

• Crusades

• World War I

• Mongol invasions

• The Thirty Years' War

A crescent-shaped region in Western Asia is called The ________?

• Anatolia

• Sinai Peninsula

• Sickle moon

• “Fertile Crescent"

A system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return is called _____?

• Aristocracy

• Reciprocity

• Hierarchy

• Feudalism

Involving the public directly in making decisions against or in favor of decisions, policies, laws, etc. is called _______? 

• Oligarchy

• Republic

• Direct Democracy

• Monarchy

The ancient Egyptian writing system that used pictorial symbols, or hieroglyphs, to represent sounds, ideas, and objects refers to ______?

• Hieroglyphics

• Hangul

• Cyrillic

• Kanji

When a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain that is called ______?

• Greed

• Imperialism

• Colonialism

• Nationalism

Who is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church?

• Mary

• The people

• Pope

• Clifford the Big Red Dog

What form of government do the people elect, or choose, their leaders?

• Totalitarianism

• Monarchy

• Republic

• Democratic