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Duplicate of APWH - Ancient Civilizations
Duplicate of APWH - Ancient Civilizations
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APWH Strayer Ch. 2 - quiz 1
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Which of the following human accomplishments emerged with the First Civilizations?
A) Agriculture
C) Writing
B) Village life
D) Art
2
What was one purpose that writing served in the First Civilizations?
D) To entertain and increasingly literate population
A) To record the stories of ordinary commoners
C) To confine women to the home
B) To keep track of whopaid their taxes to the state
3
Which of the following is an example of a way that rulers in the 1st Civ showed their power?
B) Freeing slaves
A) Writing poetry
C) Constructing temples
D) Engaging in farm work
4
In the First Civilizations, slaves were drawn from which pool of people?
D) Prisoners of war
A) Artisans
B) Merchants
C) Female peasants
5
Which of the following First Civilizations did not rely on grain-based agriculture?
A) Norte Chico
C) China
B) Indus Valley
D) Egypt
6
Which of the following was the last of the First Civilizations to emerge?
D) Indus Valley
C) Norte Chico
B) China
A) Olmec
7
The rulers of the First Civilizations also drew their power from their roles as
B) clan elders.
C) traders.
D) scribes.
A) high priests.
8
In which First Civilization were women recognized as legal equals to men?
C) Egypt
A) Mesopotamia
D) China
B) Mesoamerica
9
The territory of ancient Mesopotamia is presently occupied by which country?
D) India
A) Iran
B) Afghanistan
C) Iraq
10
Which of the following 1st Civ. is sometime referred to as the “mother civ” of Mesoamerica?
A) Mesopotamia
C) Norte Chico
B) Olmec
D) Aztec
11
Which of the following is a feature found in some cities in the First Civilizations?
D) Theaters
B) Large farms
A) Libraries
C) Sewage systems
12
The rulers of which First Civilization based their authority on the Mandate of Heaven?
C) Olmec
B) China
D) Norte Chico
A) Egypt
13
Which of the following provided the primary economic foundation for civilization?
A) Slavery
D) Writing
C) Warfare
B) Agriculture
14
Which of the following represents a way that class distinctions were displayed in First Civs?
B) Manner of a person’s burial
C) Kinship relations
A) Naming practices
D) Women’s submission to men
15
Which of the following is usually considered a feature of “civilization”?
D) The domestication of plants and animals
C) The use of deliberately set fires for human purposes
B) States that use force to compel obedience from subjects
A) Absence of class and gender hierarchies
