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What do you know about the earliest periods of human history?
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Meso-American and Andean cultures:
had sophisticated diplomatic relationships.
Merged into a single empire
fought frequent wars
had little if any direct contact with each other
2
How is India's social structure different than China's?
India's social groups are more rigidly defined
social groups in India are defined by literary training
India has fewer social groups
social groups in India are more fluid
3
How do we know something is an Empire?
state formed by conquering territory & extracting resources
alliances between competing states
a state with democratic participation
a common ethnicity, religion, and language
4
How did the Persians treat people of different cultural traditions?
higher taxation
suppression and elimination
forced assimilation
respect and tolerance
5
Which foreign religion spread throughout China during the classical era?
Islam
Christianity
Hinduism
Buddhism
6
What did Buddhism reject in Hinduism?
meditation
the idea that life is an illusion
the cycle of rebirth
the authority of the Brahmins
7
How did Confucianism affect China?
the civil service exam was based on Confucian texts
confucianism encouraged individualism
it was the state religion of China
confucianism redefined the social hierarchies
8
What advantage did Bantu speaking farmers have over hunter-gatherer groups?
Horse drawn chariots
yam based agriculture
iron-working technology
gunpowder
9
Why did patriarchy emerge in the First Civilizations?
emergence of large scale war with professional soldiers
participation of women in plow-based agriculture
increased role of women outside the house
decline in birthrates
10
When the Roman Empire disintegrated in 476 CE, the eastern part became known as:
Macedonia
Holy Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire
Gupta Empire
11
How did Mesopotamians look at life and death?
life is a mess but the afterlife is amazing
you make it to the afterlife if you life a good life
life is a mess and the afterlife is too
your destiny is predetermined before you are born
12
Which of these was a major development during the Hellenistic era?
Spata's defeat
Mongol conquest of Europe
expansion of Rome
spread of Greek culture throughout the world
13
What is another name for the Agricultural Revolution?
Fertile Cresent
Mesoamerica
Paleolithic Revolution
Neolithic Revolution
14
How did patriarchy show up in the first civilizations?
use of gifts in backing up political authority
state's monopoly on force
on Father's Day
Laws that regulated female sexuality
15
Which of the following is true about ancient Egypt?
the Nile was an unpredictable river
it was ruled by pharaohs who were thought to be devine
women did not have any rights
they used gunpowder
16
Which of these was a big development during Paleolithic times?
Humans went from food collectors to food producers
Stephen Orban got a date
the first cities appeared
Humans spread to all parts of the globe
17
Societies in the classical era:
were patriarchal in organization
were based on written laws
rarely included slaves
lacked clear social groups
18
Confucianism and Greek rationalism both:
both are monotheistic
both are polythesitic
believe in the supernatural
both have a secular approach to understanding the world
19
What did Buddhism and Christianity have in common?
both were closely tied to a specific group of people
both died out in the land of their birth
both started out to reform the religions of their time
neither was an evangelical religion
20
What was kingship like in the First Civilizations?
always help power through coercion
kings claimed they were divinely ordained
most were women
kings depended on written constituions
21
Who were the first slaves?
artists
prisoners of war
female peasants
merchants
22
What was true of all classical empires?
equality under the law for all citizens
they had a single language and religion
the Mandate of Heaven controlled them
they were powerful states capable of coercion
23
What was a unique feature of Greek political life?
representative democracy
free males running the state
limited political rights for slaves
universal suffrage
24
Mesopotamia was in what modern country
Iraq
China
India
Afghanistan
25
In contrast to the Roman Empire, the Chinese
did not really appreciate Carter Binkley's dance moves
were less dependent on the military
took centuries to complete
had precedents to follow
26
What is a possible explanation for the origins of the First Civilizations?
a lack of military elite
limits on lands for cultivation
need for large scale irrigation projects
end of slavery
27
Which of these provided a unifying ideology for peasants?
Legalism
Daoism
Hinduism
Confucianism
28
Which of the following had the weakest tradition of rule by kings?
Athens
Persia
Gupta
Han dynasty
29
What was the primary economic foundation for civilizations?
Writing
Agriculture
Warfare
Slavery
30
What role did women play in agricultural villages?
organized irrigation
led important ceremonies
fought in battles
did farming and textile work
31
Which was a result of the Agricultural Revolution?
higher risk of disease and famine
Chelsey Coleman's great uncle's creamed corn recipe
decline of trade
invention of the plow
32
Both Buddha and Jesus
actively supported polytheism
were turned into gods by their followers
actively sought to start a new religion
supported the religious authority in their region
33
Which civilization relied on the Mandate of Heaven for their authority to rule?
Egypt
China
Mesopotamia
Norte Chico
34
Why did the Roman Empire expand?
to spread religion
to reject Greek culture
to take the wealth of the eastern Mediterranean societies
to compete with Persia
35
In the classical era, most people of the world lived in:
Haley Carlson's basement
North America
Africa
Eurasia
36
How did the Agricultural Revolution in the Americas differ from the Ag Revolution elsewhere?
uniformity of farming practices
high agricultural yields
absence of animals to domesticate
common climate and vegetation zones
37
What was different about cities in the Niger Valley?
had their own complex political systems
they were part of a large imperial system
they were run by complex bureaucracies
operated without a coercive central authority
38
How did rulers in the First Civilizations display their power?
writing poetry
constructing temples
freeing slaves
working in the fields
39
Peasants were honored and merchants looked down on in:
Sparta
Rome
China
India
40
Slaves were 1/3rd of the population of:
India
China
Rome
Persia
41
Buddhism and Hinduism both:
reject the authority of the Brahmins
offer hope for a release from the cycle of rebirth
were monotheistic
reject karma
42
What was the major source of slaves in Rome?
soldiers
prisoner of war
peasants
untouchables
43
How were gender roles defined in most ancient civilizations
men were inferior to women
women were defined by their relationship to a man
men and women were equal
I don't have a 4th option
44
How do we know there were class distinctions in the first civilizations?
manner of burial
women's submission to men
kinship relationships
naming practices
45
Which of these is associated with Judaism?
divine reality comes from the individual
the rules of nature are never changing
God is engaged in history and demands social justice
heaven is a place of no individual identity
46
What did the Persians and Greeks have in common?
ethnic homogeniety
strong sense of citizenship
expansive civilizations
centralized political systems
47
Unlike the Persian Empire, Greece...
allowed women to participate in politics
had an absolute monarch
featured popular participation in politics
Chloe McBee was not a goddess
48
What was one example of the "weapons of the weak" used by slaves resist?
Varna
Sabotage
Warfare
Obedience
49
Which of these human accomplishments emerged with the First Civilizations?
Village Life
Art
Agriculture
Writing
50
What language was spoken by people who spread throughout eastern Africa in the classical era?
Bantu
Latin
Hebrew
Greek
51
Slaveholding was least widespread in:
Rome
China
Sparta
Athens
52
Which of the following had a huge influence on China?
Legalism
Caste system
Republicanism
Democracy
53
How did Egypt and Mesopotamia differ?
more invasions in Egypt
more cheerful outlook on life in Egypt
salinization of soil in Egypt
Written law codes in Egypt
54
Which of these places an emphasis on logic and doesn't give much role for gods?
Zoroastrianism
confucianism
Greek philosophy
Daoism
55
Which of the following civilizations maintained the most continuity in their culture?
Egypt
China
Norte Chco
Indus Valley
56
How did the Romans and Chinese view good government?
Rome=separation of church/state, China=official religion
Rome=bureaucracy, China=people
Rome=merit based, China=aristocracy
Rome=good laws, China=good men
57
Who spread Hellenistic culture through conquest?
Plato
Qin Shihuangdi
Ashoka
Alexander the Great
58
Why was ancient Mesopotamia so unstable?
rivalries between city-states
failure of patriarchy to emerge
Joad Blauuw-Hara was in charge
no written law codes
59
In which of the first civilizations were women equal to men?
Egypt
China
Mesopotamia
Mesoamerica
60
What was a feature of Paleolithic Society?
High population density
slavery
class conflict
relative egalitarianism
61
Which was considered less patriarchal?
Mayans
Bantu
Hopewell
Pueblo
62
In contrast to what happened when China collapsed, in Rome...
a huge population increase occurred
highly decentralized political systems emerged
there was a long period of stability
a culturally homogenous society emerged
63
Zoroastrianism probably most influenced what other religion?
Confucianism
Daoism
Hinduism
Judaism
64
The Mayan political structure was most like:
Han China
the Greek city-states
the kingdom of Axum
the Roman emprie
65
Persian political organizations had which feature?
a written constitution
a written civil service exam
lower level officials were locals
a figurehead emperor
66
What was one purpose of writing in the First Civilizations?
to record the stories of commoners
Entertain the population
Keep track of taxes
Tell the story of Cameron Knight's family
67
Which factor contributed to the Agricultural Revolution?
A sharp decline in population
the need for additional food
Megan Hope woke up from a very long nap
An increase in large animals
68
A follower of Daoism would:
withdraw from politics
work for social change
engage in public life
pursue higher education
69
What was true about both Roman and Chinese Empires?
their economies relied on slave labor
they had some supernatural support for their rule
they evolved from democracies
they died out because they lost wars with India
70
The Meroe culture was a shift away from:
India
China
Egypt
Greece
