Which best describes political patterns of India in the classical era?

Decentralized rule punctuated by Maurya & Gupta unification

Which best characterizes the relationship between early civilizations and writing?

Permitted record keeping for trade and government

Which policy did both Roman & Han armies tend to implement upon taking control of foreign land?

Relative autonomy for cooperative local elites

What best shows the evolving role of women as society moved to agricultural production?

Having greater confinement to the home to care for children

Which was true for ALL of the early agricultural civilizations?

Domestication of enduring plants in each region

Which best describes BOTH the Roman and the Han empires?

Mounting costs for defense led to crisis

Why did long-distance trade flourish in classical world?

Stable imperial authority provided passage for merchants

Which statement comparing Chinese civilization w/ western civilization is most accurate?

China set enduring pattern of more sophisticated techniques

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Classical Empires Review

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1
What was a common feature of empires in India, China and the Mediterranean?
Agricultural systems dependent on monsoon rains
Social hierarchy
Absence of coerced labor
Elimination of patriarchy over time
2
Which best describes political patterns of India in the classical era?
Decentralized rule punctuated by Maurya & Gupta unification
Stateless societies
Continuous dynastic rule under Maurya Epire
Decentralized rule by princes lacking wide authority
3
Which of the following early river valley civilizations developed in the most isolation?
Indus River
Euphrates River
Huang He River
Tigris River
4
Which belief do Hinduism and Buddhism have in common?
Reincarnation
Reverence for Muhammad
Damnation of sinners
Belief in the caste system
5
Where did the earliest civilizations tend to develop?
Grassland steppes
Mountain plateaus
River valleys
Coastlines
6
What important idea is credited to intellectuals of the Gupta Empire?
Invention of the magnetic compass
The concept of zero
Invention of the telescope
Development of humanity's first written script
7
Which best characterizes the relationship between early civilizations and writing?
No sophisticated civilization developed without writing
Led to the development of civilization more than agriculture
Most civilizations developed without writing systems
Permitted record keeping for trade and government
8
Which policy did both Roman & Han armies tend to implement upon taking control of foreign land?
Repression of local worship and imposition of state religion
Cessation of trade contact with the rest of the world
Enslavement of the working-age population
Relative autonomy for cooperative local elites
9
Which of the following is NOT a common trait of early civilizations?
Formal state structures
Nomadism
Urban Life
Writing
10
What best shows the evolving role of women as society moved to agricultural production?
Having greater confinement to the home to care for children
Foraging and fashioning stone tools
Spending more time at market to trade the family's surplus
Tending to large flocks of domesticated animals
11
Which was true for ALL of the early agricultural civilizations?
Domestication of enduring plants in each region
Wheat and barley cultivation
Primary reliance on pastoral forms of social organization
Economic activity based on raising plants and animals
12
Which best describes BOTH the Roman and the Han empires?
Neither empire was linked to the Silk Roads
New religions were assimilated into existing ideologies
Both empires used family as the model for state organization
Mounting costs for defense led to crisis
13
Why did long-distance trade flourish in classical world?
Navigation by the Romans increase access to goods
Silk Roads safe that individual traders travel frequently
Stable imperial authority provided passage for merchants
Stable central rule in India made it vital hub of trade
14
Which neighboring power posed the greatest military threat over classical Greece?
Persian
Balkan
Mongol
Egyptian
15
Which statement comparing Chinese civilization w/ western civilization is most accurate?
Chinese developed simplified phonetic writing system
Women had greater mobility within Chinese civilization
China set enduring pattern of more sophisticated techniques
Chinese economy rely on slavery to greater extent than West

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