World History Quiz Questions - Ancient Period

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• The father of the history:

Herodotus

• In which year Alexander invaded India

In 326 B.C

• The period of unrecorded history is known as:

 Pre Historic Age

• Which Indian king put up tough residence and fights against Alexander?

Porus of Panjab

• The thing Neanderthal man accidentally discovered:

Fire

• The superior type of human being compared top the Neanderthal:

The Co-Magnon

• The greatest king of Mesopotamia who gave his subject a code of laws:

Hammurabi

• The ancient people who invented the writing of Cuneiform:

The Sumerians

• What was the king of ancient Egypt?

 The Pharaoh

• The preserved dead body of the ancient Egyptians is called:

Mummies

• The greatest pyramid:

Khufu

• The great temple of ancient Egyptians which was dedicated to the Sun God:

The temple of Abu Simbel

• The ancient Egyptians script which means”Scared Writing “:

Hieroglyphic

• Which was the major Chinese states exit in third centuries BC?

Chin, Chu, Ehi

• The Chinese ruler who built the Great Wall of China:

Shih-Hwang-Ti

• The dynasty which ruled china for nearly 400 years?

Han

• A religious leader and philosopher who lived in china about 500 BC

Confucius

• The ancient people who invented Seismograph

The Chinese

• The most powerful leader in Persia in the 6^th century B.C:

Cyrus

• The founder of the religion, Zoroastrianism:

Zoroaster

• The god of Parsees was called:

Ahura Mazda

• The most famous Greek poet:

Homer

• The important Epics of the Greeks:

Iliad and odyssey

• What were the most important city states in ancient Greece?

Athens and Sparta

• What is meant by oligarchy?

The rule by a few rich men

• The most famous ruler of the ancient Athens:

Pericles

• The great Greek women who sang on the beauty of love and nature:

Sappho

• The great lyric poet who wrote poem to honors the victorious Greek athletes?

Pindar

• The founder of tragedy drams:

Aeschylus

• The greatest of Greek tragedians:

Sophocles’

• The most famous philosophers of ancient Greece:

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle 

• The most famous student of Socrates:

Plato

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