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 best describes BOTH the Roman and the Han empires?

Mounting costs for defense led to crisis

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

Relative autonomy for cooperative local elites

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

Decentralized rule punctuated by Maurya & Gupta unification

Which was true for ALL of the early agricultural civilizations?

Domestication of enduring plants in each region

Why did long-distance trade flourish in classical world?

Stable imperial authority provided passage for merchants

Which best characterizes the relationship between early civilizations and writing?

Permitted record keeping for trade and government

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

China set enduring pattern of more sophisticated techniques

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

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