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1
What military victory did the trilingual text found at Bisitun talk about?
Alexander the Great
Zoroaster
Darius
Cyaxares
2
Which of these is not a type of island found in central polynesia?
Continental
Lowlands
Artificial
Highlands
3
What was the name of the island one would have to swim to during the Birdman contest?
Orongo
Rano Kau
Motu Nui
Rapa Nui
4
In 890 AD a Norse Chief offers Alfred the Great of Wessex ...
600 untame reindeer only
A reindeer and a sledge
6 Tame reindeer and 600 untame
A Yak and a horse
5
Which maya numeral is shown here?
8
7
6
9
6
The written records tell us that the animal populations in Mesopotamia were male dominant ...
The males were brought into the city but females were not
Mesopotamian citizens preferred male animals
So were selected and livestock production happened elsewhere
They would selectively breed to get males
7
When about did New Zealand become settled and by whom?
Around 500 AD by people from Papua New Guinea
Around 800 AD, by people from the cook islands
Around 1100 AD by people from Molokai
8
Which of these egyptian texts has passwords for the journey to the afterlife
The Book of Two Ways
The Pyramid Texts
The Book of the Underworld
Cosmograms
9
Which of these is an Indus winter crop not a summer crop?
Beans
Cotton
Hemp
Chickpea
10
Which of these did not come from the Americas
Hemp
Potato
Tobacco
Cocaine
11
New Zealand is thought to have had a founding population of ...
500
5,000
1000
100
12
Spanish arrived in 1519 - they had metal, diseases, and armies - population dropped from 30m..
to 15m
to 10m
to 2m
to 5m
13
Great Zimbabwe dates to 500 AD built by an original population, but Europeans used to think ...
It was King Solomon's temple
It was built by Egyptians
It was part of the Indus valley civilisation
It was a satellite settlement of ancient mesopotamia
14
What is the name of the earliest identified ritual site at Easter Island?
Ahu Tongariki
Orongo
Ahu Vinapu
Anakena
15
How many days were in the Mayans sacred round calendar?
300
110
750
260
16
The royal road that leads from the palace at Amarna is thought to have been used as ..
A horse racing track
A way to mark the border of the city
A processional way
A exterrestrial landing runway
17
True or False - writing systems only came into play in Mesopotamia at the end of the 3rdc BC
T - Law codes were the first things to be written down
T - and to begin 90% of the text was for administration
F - As early as c. 4000 BC. write on clay ball show content
F - They used writing as early as c. 5000 BC on clay seals
18
How did the Maori cultivate sweet potato crops?
They couldn't in New Zealand's environment
They would use ridge and furrow techniques
They would grow them in canoes to keep them warm
Used subterranean growing pits and planted tubers in spring
19
Mesopotamian temples were ...
All destroyed in antiquity
Built in situ onto of one another to form a Ziggurat
The same design as ancient Egyptian ones
Used as monumental tombs
20
When do the Pueblos villiages and plaza date to?
Early 1000 AD
Late 1000 AD
Early 1000 BC
Late 1000 BC
21
The Isotopes from human skeletal remains show us that towards 2000 BC people ...
Were feeding millet to animals and eating more C3 plants
Were eating an increased amount of Millet
Spread the staple grain of millet westwards
Spread the staple grain of rice westwards
22
How many centres of origin did Vavilov identify?
4
5
10
8
23
When was the Egyptian New Kingdom?
2686 - 2181 BC
664 - 332 BC
2055 - 1650 BC
1550 - 1069 BC
24
Chiefs were well-dressed and tattooed, what was the name of the tattooing process?
Ta Moko
Peʻa
Ta Malu
Irezumi
25
When did rice paddies begin to be the normal way of farming rice
4000 BC
4500 BC
5500 BC
4300 BC
26
In prehistory the people of the andean coast ...
Survived off of the rich coastal resources
Traded guano
Made portable mummies
All of the above
27
Which of these traits belongs to the Dawenkou culture (4300-2400 BC) and not the Yangshao?
Storage pits
Specialised craft production using Jade and ceramic
Defensive ditches
Houses made from timber and stone
28
Where is the famous valley of the kings?
In Giza on the northern bank of the river nile
In Thebes on the western bank of the river nile
In Luxor on the southern bank of the river nile
In Cairo on the eastern bank of the river nile
29
True or False: Reefs and atols are commonly found around highlands
True
False
30
Where was the trilingual text that allowed archaeologists to decipher mesopotamian script found
Inscribed on the inside of a mudbrick house at Ur
Inscribed into a cliff face in Bisutun
Inscribed on the inside of a piece of pottery at Ubaid
Inscribed into a clay tablet at Ur
31
By what time had most of central polynesia been populated?
1000 AD
500 AD
1000 BC
950 BC
32
During the Aksumite period of the D'mt Kingdom, what were Stelae used for?
Marking where an elite tomb is
Marking the boundaries of the city
Marking individual ownership of land
Marking plots for future monumental structures
33
What place does the name Aztecs come from? 'The place of the white Heron'
Cholula
Azlan
Tula
Coatepetl
34
What was the name of the proto-pyramids that appeared as tombs at the end of the 2nd dynasty
Mastaba tombs
Ziggurats
Rock cut tombs
Mound tombs
35
What is a Pemmican?
Thick stew made from meat, ground biscuits, and water
Hard beef fat or mutton found around the loins and kidneys
A type of sausage made from bison marrow, fat, and berries
Biscuit or cracker, made from flour, water, and salt.
36
Which of these 4 rivers is in north western china
Indus river
Ganji river
Yangtze
Yellow river
37
What does store 'on-the-hoof' mean?
Storing food in pits underground
Keeping many animals so in bad years you'll survive
Eating loads so you can store energy as a pastoralist
Storing loads of food on pack animals
38
What to higher nitrogen isotope values inside later mesopotamian charred seeds tell us?
Agricultural scale stayed the same
Agricultural scale increased cause more were heavily manured
Agricultural scale stopped cause more weren't manured
Agricultural scale decreased cause less were heavily manured
39
Why would it have been difficult to move Moai on wooden rollers?
Because the Moai walked to their resting places
Deforestation, trees didn't regrow after cut down earlier
They were too heavy and would have crushed the logs
They were too fragile to move like that without breaking
40
Which crop makes noodles that look like brown worms?
Kelp
Aruche
Buckwheat
Shirataki
41
Which of these
isn't
thought to be a possible reason for the civilisations rapid decline?
Using up avalible resources
Collapse of Central Authority
Flooding
Mass extinction
42
How height were the walls of The Kingdom of Benin?
17m
15m
8m
20m
43
A 3rd c.BC Sumerian text refers to camels as ...
iCamel
Carts of the dunes
Vessels of trade
Ships of the desert
44
What did the Longshan culture use for divination (3000 - 2000 BC)
Tea leaves
Burnt animal bones
Jade flakes
Millet seeds
45
Which of these did Armarna not have?
Records offices
Rock cut tombs
Administrative offices
Two temples - large and small
46
When America bought louisiana from the french what did they set about doing?
Finding a route to the pacific ocean through the rockies
Selling goods to the plains indians
Decimating the remaining native populations
Recording histories of the native Americans
47
Which of these is
not
something that occurred during the Zhou dynasty
Conquered neighboring states and expanded
Confucius said some things
Setting up of permanent armies
Standardised many systems
48
Hoe many metres up is lake titicaca in the andean highlands?
4000 metres
1600 metres
2400 metres
3800 metres
49
True or False: The Indus civilisation had a measuring and weighing system
True - they were made from limestone
False - the indus valley didn't standardise measurements
50
Tribes link lineage to founding canoe, what was the canoe thought to have brought sweet potato
Ngātokimatawhaorua
Matahourua
Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi
Aotearoa
51
True or False: Indian rice doesn't always need to be domesticated
T - The rice is cultivated by the Ganges flooding
F - Rice wont grow unless constantly irrigated
52
What could down play possible horse milk found in pots at the site of Botai in Kazakhstan
Mortality matches hunted horses and not herded horses
Isotope values not from milk but from place horse came from
The horse skeletons have bit wear
53
What is Shortugai thought to have been?
A ancient Indus fort
A military base of ancient Mesopotamia
An Indus trading outpost
Attempts by the Indus to expand
54
Which of these did the people of Zimbabwe not have?
Islamic Glass
Indus Valley seals
Chinese Jade
55
What pottery does this describe: plain, paddle pressed, 200 BC - 1100 AD
Ta-p'en-k'eng
Nawatu
Polynesian plainware
Futuna
56
When were the years of the warring states in China?
481-221 BC
495-201 BC
437-251 BC
477-291 BC
57
What is the name of the site with the oldest evidence for human occupation in the americas?
Bluefish Caves
Taima Taima
The Page-Ladson site
Clovis
58
In the story of the Hoe and the Plough, which one is a staple of elite agriculture?
The plough
The hoe
59
Chicha is an alcoholic drink made by the Inca from ...
Potato
Maize
Beans
Barley
60
How tall s the conical tower found at Great Zimbabwe?
9m
12m
6m
10m
61
By 1500 AD how many people lived in Tenochtitlan?
56,000
90,000
200,000
110,000
62
When did easter island become occupied?
8 AD
4 AD
We don't really know ... ?
6 AD
63
The 'Great Households' of Mesopotamia used to house rooms for the mass production of ...
Grain
Wall cones
Clay sickles
Bevelled Rim Bowels
64
Which of these is not an aspect of Inca religion?
Worship of the sun
Sacrifice
Seasonal festivals
Monotheism
65
How to Archaeologists think Humans arrived in America?
They travelled from northern Europe to canada then south
The Laurentide ice sheet melted and they walked across
They sailed there from Africa
66
What date does the Mayan long count calendar start from?
3330 BC
3114 BC
3794 BC
3511 BC
67
Akhenaten encouraged the worship of ...
Aten (the sun god)
The pantheon of gods
Two gods: Aten and Osiris
Osiris (God of life and death)
68
What evidence suggests the pastoralists of the desert-forest steppe were mixed farmers
Isotope analysis from human skeletons
There isn't they were pastoralists
The written accounts
Crop movement in antiquity
69
When did European contact occur at Easter island?
1722
1735
1783
1776
70
Which of these practises was not a part of mummification?
Placement inside a boat shaped coffin
Mashing the brain but leaving the heart in place
Removing the organs and filling the body with salt
Embalming and wrapping in linen cloth strips
71
What was considered the worst way to die by the Aztecs?
Dying peaceful at an old age
Ceremonial sacrifice
Dying during a military battle
Death by drowning
72
What was the capital of china during the Shang dynasty?
Anyang
Banpo
Erlitou
Shi Ji
73
Which one of these is not a feature found at Rapa?
Fortified ridge-top villages
Abandoned after 1 or 2 generations
Easy fishing in a sheltered bay
Fish hooks made out of shell and wood
74
What is the Workmans villiage?
Where the poorest in society lived worked and died
A nice suburban area for relaxing in the sun
Where people would go if they lost their job
A Underground village used for mining
75
Where was maize thought to have been domesticated 8,000 - 10,000 years ago
San Juan Teotihuacán
Oaxaca
Chiapas
Mérida
76
Which settlement built in late 2m BC, has a 40m high ceremonial platform with decorative frieze
Tiwanaku
Cerro
Caral
Ayllu
77
What is the name of the 3000 year old pottery culture developed in Taiwan
Sigatoka
Tridacnaware
Ta-p'en-k'eng
Polynesian plainware
78
Out of these things what did plains indians not have before European settlers sold it to them?
Tipis
Horses
Domesticated dogs
Travel sledges
79
From which parent population is the domesticated donkey thought to have come from
The nigerian population
The Arabian population
The kenyan population
The Nubian population
80
Who was the person to decipher Mesopotamian script?
Goold
Caster
Drehem
Rawlinson
81
What month would ancient egyptians harvest following the nile floods and crop cultivation
May
April
March
July
82
What coordinate would polynesian inhabitants polt by looking at the stars?
Longitude
Latitude
83
at Inkawasi Khipu found in situ underneath crop remains may suggest ...
They were being thrown away
They had some for of agricultural purpose
They were used as mats for food
They were some form of record of what was in the pile on top
84
Which of these pre-dynastic Chinese cultures appeared earlier?
Cowri
Erlitou
Yangshao
Dawenkou
85
What is Whānau?
Māori philosophy of health and well-being
Sacred place that serves religious and social purpose
Functions as the political unit within Māori society
A Māori-language word for extended family
86
For a safe journey away from home one would need to sail ...
With the prevailing wind
Against the prevailing wind
87
When was the classical period in New Zealand
1770s
Pre - 1550
1640s
Post - 1550
88
What is a Shabti?
Protection from evil spirits
A type of canopic jar
A slave to work for you in the afterlife
Security, an alternative body if the mummy needs it
89
Which of these would not be a reason to explore the pacific ocean?
Kinship rivalry
exploration
Population Pressure
90
When does evidence suggest Chinese rice travelled to the indus valley?
1 BC
1 AD
2 BC
2 AD
91
Elite had power over food, the bakery at Amarna is for mass production and is attached to ...
The Kings house (administrative office)
The royal north riverside palace
The temple of Aten
The small temple
92
Which of these would small towns not be associated with
State-run activities
Pyramid construction workers
Elite family groups
Craft areas
93
Inside which lake was Tenochtitlan built?
Lake Cuitzeo
Lake Chapala
Lake Titicaca
Lake Texcoco
94
Which of these statements about polynesian voyaging canoes is not true
Single hulled
They were 15-25m and could catch rainwater
They would sail for as long as 3 months at a time
Could travel 150 miles in 24 hours
95
Which of these was a precursor to the Maya?
Toltecs
Olmecs
Inca
Muisca
96
Before the beginnings of decline in 900 AD what was the name of the dominante Maya city?
Chichén Itzá
Tikal
Chapultepec
Teotihuacan
97
Which of these methods is not used to learn more about ancient crops
Comparative pattern analysis
Human and animal bone Isotope analysis
Modern plant DNA analysis
Microscopic Archaeobotany
98
When was the Mayan classical period?
250 - 900 AD
400 - 900 AD
300 - 700 AD
200 - 500 AD
99
When did neolithic occupation begin of the Indus valley?
6000 BC
7000 BC
8000 BC
5000 BC
100
How would Maori kill their enemies?
Hung from a wooden platform, used to warn off enemies after
Burning them alive, ashes scattered on crops
Drowning them under the hull of a canoe, then buried at sea
A single club blow to the head, body is consumed after
101
How many pieces of jade were used to make Lui Sheng's burial suit?
2622 stitched with bronze wire
2895 stitched with silver wire
2690 stitched with gold wire
102
Which of these is not a reason Polynesian people abandoned the use of pottery
it was not used for trade anymore
It was not required to cook things
lower status material
They didn't have the materials to manufacture it
103
What iconography tells us donkey were present in Egypt in 3000 BC
Farmers who have written down their livestock
Pictograms of donkeys marching inline as spoils of war
Administrative documents
A scene depicting someone leading a donkey to a sword
104
Why did people abandon Henderson's Island?
A volcanic eruption
Uninhabitable without regular contact with other islands
Superstitious beliefs
Warfare with other more powerful islands
105
True of False: During the Shang dynasty elite people were buried in wooden painted coffins
F - they were buried in deep tombs with chariots and horses
True - they were also buried with jade blade
106
Why did Aztec sacrifice involve focus on the heart?
It was considered the least important organ
It was considered the seat of the individual
It was the easiest organ to remove whole
It was warm and symbolised the sun god
107
What percentage of people at Armarna were agricultural workers?
An eight
A quarter
A half
A third
108
Sumerian script derived from stylised pictograms, here is an example of how, what verb is this?
To care
To want
To have
To go
109
Which of these is a resource not found on easter island?
Easy fishing and many coastal resources
Sea birds and chickens
Able to grow crops easily
Freshwater
110
When horses and guns were sold to Plains Indians ...
Hunting was easier and they were more mobile
Raiding was made possible
Warfare was more common and easy
More competition for Bison hunting
111
True or False: The prevailing winds over the pacific ocean travel from East to West
True
False
112
Who was the first to methodically excavate Armarna?
Borchardt
Kemp
Petrie
Peet
113
How long were the city walls that enclosured Jenne-Jeno?
1 km
5 km
2 km
0.5 km
114
How were mesopotamian temples decorated?
With Faience beads
With wall cones
With the skulls of their enemies
With carved mudbrick
115
What kind of stone was worked often at Great Zimbabwe?
Limestone
Soapstone
Granite
Sandstone
116
Which of these methods of researching Mesopotamia is the oldest?
Large scale stratigraphic excavation
Regional surveys
Small-scale intensive recovery
117
What did Akhenaten use to show the boundaries of his new city?
15ft heigh walls around the city
Constructed new rivers to surround Aarmana
Stelea
Royal roads
118
Which of these is not the subject of letters found at amarna?
Histories Akhenaten's reign
Diplomatic relations
Resource requests
Trade
119
What is the estimated population size of Amarna?
10 - 15,000 people
15 - 25,000 people
5 - 10,000 people
35 - 55,000 people
120
Which of these do not evidence Indus trade?
Indus seals depicting rhino
Indus potsherds
Etched carnelian beads
Stylish jade axes
121
Under which lake have they discovered a Bison drive & artificial stonework designed for driving
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Lake Erie
Lake St. Clair
122
Out of these which is not a feature found on later ritual platforms at easter island?
Dramatic style
Enclosed Stone platforms
Stone ramps
Parallel to the shore
123
At the cemetery of Harappa people were buried in ...
Large limestone sarcophagi
In small clay balls decorated with Jade
Small funerary urns decorated with geometric patterns
Rectangular timber or mud brick lined coffins
124
What does the scale of agricultural land around large mesopotamian cities suggest?
They would farm on a large scale to feed the entire city
Small scale -would probably import goods from smaller cities
They would use clay sickles to farm crops
They would use slash and burn farming methods
125
How many miles wide was the Inca empire at it's biggest?
420 miles
2500 miles
4790 miles
3700 miles
126
What does every box on an Aztec calendar represent?
A decade
A day
A year
A week
127
In the mayan script what does each icon represent?
A sentence
A letter
A syllable
A word
128
What out of these is not depicted on the frieze at Cerro?
Warfare
Domestic activities
Dismembered bodies
Sacrifices
129
Semi-sedentary plains farmers cultivated which 3 crops known as the three sisters
Tomato, bean and squash
Avocado, bean and squash
Maize, potato and tomato
Maize, bean and squash
130
What god brings a connection between religion of the Indus Valley and modern day hinduism
Siva
Vishnu
Rama
Kali
131
What did Wheeler believe about the indus' origins?
Were an original population that developed independently
They were an alien population from mesopotamia
They weren't a civilisation worth studying
They were from a group of exiled prisoners
132
When Qin united with warring states what happened?
Irrigation canals were built for more agriculture
Legal Systems and administration standardised
All of these things
Measurements and weights were standardised
133
Larger populations of Bison gave them ...
Seasonal aggregations
More sexual dimorphism
A better chance against hunters
less food resources and limited living space
134
Which of these sites in China shows a reliance not only on millet farming but hunting too
Yuhuazhail
Dadiwan
Xinglonggou
Gouwan
135
What was the name of the script used in Easter Island?
Oromo
Tswana
Rongorongo
Pashto
136
Before the inca were the Wari and the Tiwanaku people - who was where?
Wari to the west and Tiwanaku to the north
Wari to the east and Tiwanaku to the west
Wari to the south and Tiwanaku to the east
Wari to the north and Tiwanaku to the south
137
True or False: The Indus civilisation was 10x bigger than Mesopotamia
F - It was a small civilisation
T - It was also bigger than egypt
138
What does the name Mesopotamia mean?
Land on the hillside
Settlement in the valley
Land between two rivers
The promised land
139
After death Egyptians believed ones components were split up, which of these is not a component
The Akh
The Ba
The Ka
The Ra
140
Where has a bison drive been found with 100s of skeletons, some not butchered, from 10m BC
Cowboy Wash, Colorado
Olsen-Chubbuck, Colorado
Dent Site, Colorado
Hovenweep, Utah
141
Which one of these is not a way Polynesians could spot land whilst at sea
Cloud colour and formation
Reflections from swells
Looking through a telescope
Bird flocks and formations
142
True or False: Maize was domesticated at several centres at once
True
False
143
What was especially impressive about the mayan numeral system
It was a 'place' system
It included a symbol for zero
They had symbols for 1x20, 20x20 etc.
They had a weight and measurement system within it
144
What was the name of the European treaty signed by 40 Maori chiefs in 1840?
Treaty of Amiens
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Waitangi
Treaty of Nanking
145
The Moche culture build mud-brick mounds, which modern day company do they give their name to?
Adobe
Samsung
Atari
Microsoft
146
What type of canoes did the Lapita culture produce?
Double hulled canoes
Austronesian canoes
Massau canoes
Outrigger canoes
147
What and when was the first chinese dynasty?
The Zhou Dynasty in 771-221 BC
The Xia Dynasty in 1700-1500 BC
The Shang Dynasty in 1650-1045 BC
The Qin Dynasty in 221-207 BC
148
Why would egyptians mummify bodies?
So future archaeologists could make loads of money
To preserve the body for entry to eternal afterlife
To worship the corpse long after death
Because they wanted to purify the body
149
True or False: Plains Indians leaders didn't inherit their role
False - You need to have an elite lineage to be a leader
True - they were selected off of achievements
150
When did the Europeans start selling guns and horses to the plains indians?
15th c
19th c
17th c
16th c
151
In what egyptian dynasty was Amarna built?
21st
15th
18th
12th
152
True or False: The east was a direction associated with death and burial in ancient egypt
T - east was the land of the dead
F - west was associated with death
153
True or False: The maya used only slash and burn farming for agriculture
False - there is evidence of permanent irrigation channels
True - they would move urban centres to accommodate
154
What were the local kinship agricultural groups called? They utilised Mit'a labour
Colvee
Ayllu
Aymara
Cenotes
155
Who built Armarna as the new capital city of Egypt during the New Kingdom?
Ankhesenamun
Ahmose I
Amenhotep III
Akhenaten
156
True of False: The plains of North america were wetter in the west and more arid in the east
True - woodland grew in the valleys
False - it is dry in the west and wetter to the east
157
Between which dates did the Indus valley do most of it's trade?
Between 2300 - 1900 BC
Between 2300 - 1300 BC
Between 2800 - 1200 BC
Between 2500 - 2000 BC
158
Which of these is not a feature of Great Zimbabwe?
Valley complex
The great bakery
The great enclosure
Hill complex
159
What type of script is sumerian?
Cyrillic script
Proto-writing
Picograms
Cuneiform
160
What does DNA evidence show about what effect domestication had on horse populations diversity
The populations diversity has increased
Domesticating horses has made modern horses prone to disease
Due to human selection there has been a genetic bottleneck
They may once have been giant by due to selection are small
161
Which of these was not a language on the trilingual script found in Bisutun
Old Persian
Sumerian
Babylonian
Elamite
162
Which dynasty overthrew and took power after the Shang dynasty?
Zhou
Xia
Han
Qin
163
The secondary products revolution was devised by ...
Harrison
Carter
Moore
Sherratt
164
Which of these are not a use for writing in mesopotamia
Keeping reciepts
Records of employment and individuals identities
Markers of ownership
The monitoring of livestock movement in and out of the city
165
True or False: millet is a summer crop
F - it is a winter crop
T - you can plant it late if your harvest fails
F - it is a crop which can be grown all year round
166
What artefacts could show us how the Indus traded?
Written Records
Terracotta figurines of carts and sea-faring craft
Huge boats found in Indus temples
167
Which of these is incorrect: We know the Indus script ...
had numerical symbols
was supposed to be phonetic and word based
was supposed to be read from right to left
derived from ancient Akkadian
168
In the Kingdom of Ife what were pavements made out of?
Cobblestone
Tarmac
Pieces of discarded animal bone
Pieces of discarded ceramic
169
After the toltec incursion where was power moved to following abandonment of Chichen Itza
Dzibilchaltún
Labna
Mayapan
Copan Ruinas
170
What societies did Sherratt believe were set up on the desert-mountain-steppe in 3-2 BC
Agricultural workers
Hunter-gatherer bands
Elite royal societies
Pastoralists
171
The Bashidang site was active around 7000 - 6000 BC and which of these did it not have?
Domesticated animals
Houses raised off of the ground
A cemetary
social stratification
172
Which codex issued by the spanish tells of daily life and the construction of Tenochtitlan
The Codex Mendoza
The Codex Telleriano-Remensis
The Codex Magliabechiano
The Codex Borgia
173
Which of these was
not
present at the site of Mehrgarh?
Planned settlement layout
The great bath - could hold 35 gallons of water
Multi-roomed mudbrick houses
Bone tools and microlith tools
174
Where did the Maya move to after collapse in 800 AD?
The northern highlands
To the caribbean islands
The wetter lowlands
The coastal regions
175
What was Coatepetl?
The sacrificial ritual of the Aztecs
The place where the eagle landed eating a snake
The place where last Aztec was killed
A mythical settlement of the maya before Tenochtitlan
176
Those buried here were found with copper beads as grave goods - what could this indicate?
Knowledge of metalwork
Craft specialisation
Nomadic communities
Trade
177
Which part of New Zealand is not ideal for cultivating crops?
The south island
Stewart island
The north island
178
What did plains indians record oral histories on?
Horse hide
Bison robes
The hooves of dead horses
Potato peelings
179
Which of these would women not become in the Aztec empire?
Healers
Priestesses
Dieties
Rulers
180
15,000 artefacts recovered from a site that dates to between 13,200 and 15,000 BP - what site?
Belle Glade - Florida
Buttermilk Creek - Texas
Coles Creek - Mississippi
Fort Walton - Florida
181
What was the mudbrick from Indus houses used for by Europeans?
They used it as landfill
To construct a large dame in the Indus river
To construct a railway
To build their own houses
182
Which language was adapted from Sumerian and used in later mesopotamia?
Jemdetian
Ubiadian
Urukian
Akkadian
183
What was the main export of the Han dynasty?
Jade
Silk
Rice
Gold
184
Which of these is not a feature of domesticating crops?
Selective harvesting
Wind pollination
Larger size
Thinner covers
185
Which Aztec king expanded territory through military expansion and marriages
Moctezuma I
Tizoc
Itzcoatl
Acamapichtli
186
What is the name of the record keeping system that uses strings and knots devised by the inca?
Calchaqui
Orejones
Khipu
Quinoa
187
True or Fale: The early dynastic period in Mesopotamia began in c.4000 BC
T - Settlements spanned over 100 hectares
F - They early dynastic period was c.3000 BC
T - Mesopotamia was an empire at this time
F - The early dynastic period was from c.5000 BC
188
The Maya culture is consistent across the area it dispersed, this means it is a ...
Variegated culture
Homogeneous culture
Heterogeneous culture
189
Which of these does not describe Maori warfare?
Raiding and intimidation
Holding sieges
Building wooden platforms
Small scale squirmishes
190
What is interesting about the suburbs of Amarna?
They housed low and high status people in close proximity
Every citizen shared communal amenities
There aren't any for such a large city
The houses were very clean and trash put into the streets
191
At the site of Meroe in Sub Saharan Africa a bust was found of which Roman leader?
Tiberius
Augustus
Mark-Anthony
Ceaser
192
What out of these is millet not used for?
Porridge
Flat bread
Source
193
In case of crop failure what did the plains indians do?
Constructed a precursor to the refrigerator
Dried out strips of Bison meat
Staggered crop planting and harvest
Dried some of the crop and stored it
194
At Meroe there were structures similar for Roman baths, how were they different?
They were designed to be mud-baths
They were used for a festival purpose not just bathing
They were used during times of drought
They were much smaller in scale
195
What can holloways tell us about the landscape of Mesopotamia?
They show that Mesopotamians had large scale transport
They show where urban centres may have been
They are the border walls of early settlments
They tell us how many people were living there
196
What is significant about the site of Cholula?
It has the largest pyramid in the world
It was a peripheral agricultural settlement
A wall of 100,000 skulls was found here by the Spanish
Over 1000 unused flint knives were found here
197
Where was the Yak domesticated?
Landforms of Tibet
High Tibetan Plateau
Tibet Autonomous Region
Plateaus of Asia
198
Around which river in china was Bashidang located?
The yangtze river
The yellow river
199
What magical properties did the ancient chinese believe Jade held?
If you used jade to cut something it can repair itself
It brought rainfall
Jade gave youth, putting it in tea would make you immortal
Encasing dead bodies in jade meant they would be preserved
200
Which cult was popular on Easter Island at the time of chronic warfare & dominant warrior class
The Ancestor cult
The Birdman Cult
The Makemake cult
The Tangata cult
201
Once Egypt was two kingdoms, upper egypt and lower egypt, which were they unified?
3005 - 2005 BC
3600 - 2600 BC
3050 - 2050 BC
3140 - 2000 BC
202
The epic of Gilgamesh describes the walls of Uruk "no one can equal" - how big is the city wall
4 2 KM
6 2 KM
2 2 KM
5 2 KM
203
What part of the Americas is described: Arid, grassy, dry.
The East
Central America
The North
The west
204
What are the staple crops of the Indus valley civilisation?
Wheat and barley
Barley, wild rice and South Indian pulses
Rice and millet
205
At what point is it suspected Mesopotamia was relying on rain fed crops for farming?
5000 BC onwards
7500 - 6000 BC
7000 - 6500 BC
6000 - 5500 BC
206
Which of these to alpacas and llamas not provide
Transport
Traction
Manure
Wool
207
Where are early Mesopotamian settlements often found?
In forested areas
Along watercourses
In the mountainous regions
Along naturally occuring ridges in the landscape
208
Which of these does Mohenjodaro not have?
Fortification Walls
A great bath
Monumental architecture
Granaries
209
Civilisations that construct large scale water management may be referred to as ...
Pneumatic societies
Affinity societies
Hydraulic societies
Fluid societies
210
Who stated that the colonisation of the Polynesian island was an accident?
Sharp
Cunningham
Irwin
Webb
211
Why did the Egyptians give their dead funerary masks?
So that they would be able to look as they had in death
So that the soul can find it's body easily before afterlife
So that they could display the dead to the public
So that they could remember what the person looked like
212
Why could the site of Mehgarh possibly be a new centre for crop domestication?
Found evidence of domesticated cereals
The nitrogen isotopes of human skeletal remains
Found remains of wild and domesticated cereals
Their script tells us this is what happened
213
Which of these did the Maya not have?
Calenders
Script
Numeral systems
Carts
214
What African Kingdom is described here: Elite cemetery complex, 8 large mounds, largest = 91m
Meroe
Napata
Kerma
D'mt
215
The market at Tenochtitlan saw ...
100,000 people a day and used a barter system
60,000 people a day and used cocoa beans & cloth as currency
10,000 people a day using minted coinage for currency
5,000 people a day and people used flint knives as currency
216
If travelling to an island took you 6 weeks, how many weeks would it take you to return?
2-3 weeks
1 week
7 weeks
4-5 weeks
217
Which one of these is not a profession pastoralists may take up
Sailor
Trading/craft specialist
Robbing
Farming
218
Early 2nd BC horses were domesticated as far as ...
China
Russian
Hungary
Greece
219
What did the egyptians believe the sun would do when it set?
They believed the sun went to sleep at night
They believed it would become a mountain during the night
They believed it would travel to other worlds
They believed it would die and be reborn the next morning
220
When did people in the highlands begin to trade with those in the valley?
4m BC
2m BC
5m BC
6m BC
221
True or False: Qin died in 210 BC and ordered the great wall to be constructed as a monument
T - Qin wanted to be remembered this way
F - Qin ordered for the terracotta army to be built
F-Qin died in 203 BC and finished the great wall long before
222
Which mesopotamian period is meant to have seen most Indus trade
The Ur period
The Ubaid period
The sumerian period
The Akkadian period
223
What are Hatiki?
A ceremonial headdress worn during rituals
Figurines made of Jade ritually deposited
Figurines made of Nephrite traded with Europeans
A ritual platform in the Northern reaches of New Zealand
224
From which horse species was the modern day horse domesticated?
Equus Caballus
Tarpens
Equus germanicus
Equus ferus
225
Which of these did the Maya not have in their urban centres?
Stelae
Sweat baths
Ball courts
Waterways
226
How many humps does a Bactrian camel have?
1
3?
2
