Foundations and Classical Review

Question 1

Who was on top in Indian society?

Accepted Answer

Priests

Question 2

Which of these empires relied most heavily upon slave labor?

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Rome.

Question 3

The Han government was based upon

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merit.

Question 4

Which 2 empires allowed conquered elites to participate in local governments and the military?

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Achaemenid Persia and Rome.

Question 5

The largest group of people in every classical civilization.

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commoners.

Question 6

In the Classical World, women could gain some freedoms by

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becoming nuns.

Question 7

Women in hunting and gathering societies had more __________ than women in farming societies.

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rights

Question 8

Hunter-gatherers used ____________ to survive.

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fire

Question 9

The Silk Roads connected

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Han China and Rome.

Question 10

Mesopotamia struggled more with invasions than Egypt because

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of their lack of natural barriers.

Question 11

Confucianism and Hinduism had which of the following things in common?

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Patriarchal and Ethnic religions.

Question 12

The writing of which River Valley Civilization isn't deciphered, making it harder to study?

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Indus RVC

Question 13

The worst Classical collapse occurred in

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the Western Roman Empire.

Question 14

Hellenism is best described as

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Greek culture spread by Alexander the Great.

Question 15

The Gupta Empire is partly considered a Golden Age because of

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their mathematical breakthroughs, like inventing the zero.

Question 16

In China, merchants

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were lower than farmers.

Question 17

Confucianism encourages

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filial piety, family relationships, and order.

Question 18

Which two cultures are most alike?

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Greek and Roman

Question 19

Neolithic Revolution.

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Population increase

Question 20

Seasonal, unpaid labor. Used to build the Great Wall of China.

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Corvee.

Question 21

The Greek, Latin, and English alphabets are all descended from which alphabet?

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Phoenician.

Question 22

This group of nomads helped spread iron:

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Hittites

Question 23

Secular means

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non-religious.

Question 24

Hammurabi's code and the Twelve Tables of Rome both

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both had social inequality & reinforced social hierarchies.

Question 25

Who was on top in Han Chinese society?

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Scholars

Question 26

Daoism placed a heavy emphasis on

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harmony with nature.

Question 27

Economic inequality most heavily impacted the decline of which empire?

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Rome

Question 28

The invention of the wheel helped most with

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transportation.

Question 29

Believe in reincarnation.

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Buddhism and Hinduism.

Question 30

As they collapsed, the Han, Roman, and Gupta Empires all dealt with

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barbarian invasions.

Question 31

The Indian Caste system

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was very rigid by the Gupta Empire.

Question 32

Filial Piety is

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respect for one's elders; a centerpoint of Chinese ideology.

Question 33

Outgrowths of other religions. Universalizing. Evangelical. Monks & Nuns.

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Buddhism and Christianity.

Question 34

Both the Persians and the Romans

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had many different ethnic groups in their empires.

Question 35

In times of trouble across the classical world, people

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turned to religion.

Question 36

What does diaspora mean?

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scattering

Question 37

Domination by men.

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Patriarchy

Question 38

In order to keep ____________________, Chinese rulers had to be good leaders.

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the Mandate of Heaven

Question 39

Chang'an, the Han capital, was so important because it served as

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a center for government, trade, and religion.

Question 40

In ancient civilizations, like Mesopotamia, pottery most often helped in the area of

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surplus storage.

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