Sem Review

Question 1

History is more importantfor individuals than it is for groups.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Women made importantcontributions to the Vedic texts.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Asoka gave up his throne when he converted to Buddhism.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

The Sumerians first usedtheir method of writing to create stories and poems.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

A famous saying warns usthat those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

During the Mesolithic Era, people settled in new lands.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Scientists are not exactly sure when or where the first modernhumans lived.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Sumerian women could be important religious leaders.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Irrigation made farmers in Mesopotamia more productive.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

A region’s main roads are related to its physical features.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Early people believed ingods such as the thunder god.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

A person’s job was animportant part of the caste system.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

People in the ancient worldbuilt huge temples and discovered planets

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Scholars do not know whyHarappan civilization ended.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Despite many improvements,people resented the Qin government.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The Buddha’s teachings wereinfluenced by other religions.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Some farmers in ancientNubia were able to become rich.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Aryan society was verysimilar to Harappan society.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

Egypt was called the gift of the Nile because the Nile neverflooded the land around it.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

The reason for the AssyrianEmpire’s success was its strong army.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

The Zhou legend of the king’s warning fires tells about a wiseleader.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

Delayed migration intonorthern Asia was due to low ocean levels.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

The invention of thealphabet changed the purposes for which written language was used.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

Religion in India was verydifferent from the ideas of other cultures.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

The Mauryan Empire had anadvanced system of government.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The Egyptians builtpyramids for all people who died.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

Phoenicia became powerfulbecause its land was rich in resources.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

About 5,000 years ago,people created writing

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

During her reign, Queen Hatshepsut destroyed the monuments herfather had built.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

Weather and climate are thesame.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

Military technologyadvanced in the Shang period.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Another name for thePaleolithic Era is the New Stone Age.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

Historians who study how people lived their lives are interestedin a people’s culture.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

A court document is anexample of a secondary source.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

Over time, theinterpretations of historians stay about the same.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

The highest mountains inthe world separate India from Africa.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

Land ownership was an important part of Zhou politics.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Hunters and gatherers werepeople who gathered and ate only fruit, seeds and nuts.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 39

Mountains, valleys, and plains are all landforms.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

One way prehistoric peopleadapted to their environment was to create tools to process food.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

Humans learned how to make fire during the Neolithic Age.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Being a scribe in Sumer wasa way to move up in social class.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

Egypt’s geography kept itisolated from other cultures.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

The ice ages led to people migrating to all parts of the world.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

The Qin built the first sections of the Great Wall.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 46

The amount of landcontrolled by each city-state depended on its population.

Accepted Answer

False

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