How did Homo Sapiens attack their prey?

It was a complicated progress with advanced weapons

Why did the specialization of labor in the neolithic period allow people to get rich?

People could sell surplus for jewelry and other valued items

When was the era of the Old Kingdom in Egypt?

When the Great Pyramids were built

Why are the Homo Sapiens considered creative?

They were able to form flexible languages

What was true during the paleolithic time period?

The gathered plants contributed more calories

Why was the Nile good for transportation in Egypt?

Current one way, wind the other way

Who was Vardhamana Mahavira?

A monk who laid the foundations of Jainism

Describe relationship between China and Buddhism:

Popularity depended on national stability and social class

What were the results of irrigation in early civilizations?

A surplus of food that led to an increase in population.

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Hum SS - Midterm Examination Review

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1
Where did Egypt get most of their crops and cattle from?
Libya
The Mediterannean
Sudan
Nubia
2
What creation allowed for cultivation to occur in Mesopotamia?
Ground
Aquifers
Canals
Resevoirs
3
How did Homo Sapiens attack their prey?
They lured the animals into traps
They charged mindlessly
They swarmed in groups
It was a complicated progress with advanced weapons
4
Was salt or gold more important in Africa?
Salt
Gold
5
Name this hieratic Egyptian script that infused Greek letters in it:
Demotic
Coptic
Contrapposto
Meroitic
6
What revealed the presence of social structure in ancient Egypt to us?
The offerings
Female scribes
Kerna
Tombs
7
What was the first method of agriculture used in the neolithic period?
Hunting and gathering
Irrigation networks
Gathering and hunting
Slash and Burn
8
Why did the specialization of labor in the neolithic period allow people to get rich?
People could buy other people
People could sell surplus for jewelry and other valued items
Since surplus allowed people to get AirPods
Allowed them to save up to send their kids to college
9
Which religion was once widely popular in India but soon lost its place to Hinduism?
Hinduism
Jainism
Christianity
Buddhism
10
What was the name of the Athenian who enacted reforms in democracy?
Spartacus
Solon
Pericles
Cincinnatus
11
What does “Neolithic” mean?
"ice age"
"before rocks"
"new stone age"
"old stone age"
12
Where did the Australopithecus remain?
East & South Africa
The Eurasian landmass
West & North Africa
Australia
13
Which Roman Emperor is famous for persecuting Christians?
Julius Caesar
Augustus Caesar
Ceasar Salad
Nero
14
When Alexander the Great left northern India in political chaos, which empire rose?
Mauryan
Gupta
Persian
Byzantine
15
Who did the Hittites trade with?
Assyria
Egypt
Uruk
Babylon
16
When was the era of the Old Kingdom in Egypt?
There was no Old Kingdom, only New Kingdom
When the Great Pyramids were built
During Cleopatra's reign
During the Hyksos invasion
17
What was the earliest village?
Jerusalem
Ur
Argos
Jericho
18
Which river valley provided rice to two large areas?
The Indus River
Ganges River
Arabian Sea
Bay of Bengal
19
Which of the following early African societies was the most prominent?
Wakanda
Nubia
Sudan
Egypt
20
Which ancient character became obsessed with eternal life after the death of his best friend?
Odysseus
Gilgamesh
Professor Quirrell
Enkidu
21
What goddess of love is often associated with figurines created by early man?
Mars
April
Ishtar
Venus
22
Why are the Homo Sapiens considered creative?
They could walk upright
Their hunting abilities
They were able to form flexible languages
The ability to create irrigation networks
23
When did the Homo Erectus Arrive?
4-5 million years ago
4.5 billion years ago
1 million years ago
200,000 years ago
24
Where did the Neanderthals flourish?
Southwest Asia
West Africa
North Asia
Europe
25
What was true during the paleolithic time period?
The hunted animals contributed more calories
The gathered plants contributed more calories
26
What figures were used to promote fertility and harvests?
Contrapposto
Horned Goddesses
Venus figurines
Fertility Statues
27
Which of the following places were considered "Gifts of the Nile"?
Egypt
Nubia
Menes
Sudan
28
Which of the following Roman Emperors tried to name his horse a consul?
Caligula
Etruscus XXX
Augustus
Crassus
29
Egyptian domination led to Nubia forming...
New Kingdom
The Hyksos
Kingdom of Kush
Old Kingdom
30
Which one of these was not implicated in the assassination of Julius Caesar?
Nero
Cassius
Marc Antony
Brutus
31
What were large Greek estates of farmland called?
Latifundia
Confucianism
Plantations
Serfs
32
Who invented War Chariots?
Harappans
Adhithyaa Nair
The Hittites
Sumerians
33
Name the trade route that passed through Timbuktu?
Tea Route
Spice Trade
Silk Road
The Gold-Salt Trade
34
Why was the Nile good for transportation in Egypt?
Current one way, wind the other way
It actually wasn't good for transportation
Calm waters
The plants available served as good crocodile repellents.
35
What were gender relations in Paleolithic Society?
Men hunted, women harvested
Men harvested, women hunted
Both genders participated equally
Trump University
36
How were social classes created in early civilizations?
Amount of food
Amount of cows
Amount of street credit points
By occupation
37
Who was Vardhamana Mahavira?
Author of the Mahabharata
A monk who laid the foundations of Jainism
Indian ruler during the Mauryan empire
A monk who laid the foundations of Buddhism
38
What were the languages of the Nile Valley?
Portuguese and Spanish
American and Indian
Linear A & B
Heiroglyphs and Meroitic
39
What forced Sudanic nomads to the Nile River Valley?
Foreign invasions
The Great Menes War
The Sahara becoming a desert
The Nile flooding
40
Describe relationship between China and Buddhism:
Everyone in China hated Buddhism
Buddhism’s effects combined to Tibet
Buddha became a Chinese emperor
Popularity depended on national stability and social class
41
Who was the king who ruled at the peak of the Kushan empire?
Kanishka
King Kushan
Ashoka Maurya
Buddha
42
What state in southern Mesopotamian city had a high benefit from the population boom?
Sumerica
Sumer
Ur
Babylon
43
What were the results of irrigation in early civilizations?
Slash and burn agriculture
A lack of food that led to cannibalism
A surplus of food that led to an increase in population.
The invasion of the Hyksos
44
What ruler came from a region near Sumer, and made it into what is considered the first empire?
Nebuchadnezzar
Sargon of Akkad
Jesus
Brahman
45
What is NOT a late paleolithic agricultural society?
Chinook
Natufion
Natufian
Jomon
46
Which of the following languages has not been deciphered yet?
American
Indian
Sanskrit
The Dravidian language
47
In ancient Roman cities, what was the marketplace and meeting area called?
Forrest Gump
Forest
Forum
Forearm
48
Who was the first king of Rome?
Romulus
Ron Swanson
Remus
Romney
49
Which society had the first domesticated chickens?
The Ottomans
The Aryans
YMCA
The Indus River Valley peoples
50
Who was the ruler who changed the capital of the Roman empire to the Greek colony of Byzantium?
Alexander the Great
Augustus Caesar
Constantine
Nebuchadnezzar
51
Which Hellenistic empire was the largest?
Byzantine
Seleucid
Ptolemaic
Antigonid
52
What advancement during the age of Homo Sapiens led to a higher rate of communication?
The Looks
The Bigger Brain
The Muscles
The Vocal Chord
53
When did Agriculture become a means of beings to sustain themselves instead of just gathering?
Approximately 5,000 years ago
Approximately 12,000 years ago
Approximately 10,000 years ago
Approximately 14,000 years ago
54
What is true about Neolithic religion?
Ritual sacrifice was an important component
They had a wide array of gods
They had agricultural gods for birth, growth, and death
They made a bible
55
What is a step in the Historical Method?
Peer Review
Integrate
Discover
Study
56
What was lex talionis?
One of the Four Noble Truths presented in Buddhism
Some dinosaur's scientific name
Wealthy Roman landowners
The “law of retaliation” that was used by Hammurabi’s Code
57
What ideas needed to be prevented to achieve Nirvana?
Suffering
Monetary Assistance
Desire
Getting an A in HUM
58
Where were the most bananas cultivated?
India
Madagascar
Ghana
Kenya
59
Why did Ashoka target Kalinga?
They were stronger, threat to their reign
Hostile to Mauryan spread
Controlled crucial trade route
Allies with Persia
60
What is the practice in which a widow voluntarily jumps into the funeral pyre of her husband?
Varna
Sati
Skydiving
Purusha
61
Where can you find the Great Pyramids?
Cairo
Aswan
Kenya
Giza
62
What was the first written law set in Rome?
False
The Ten Commandments
The Four Noble Truths
The Twelve Tables
63
Who invented the first wheels?
Babylonias
Hittites
Sumerians
Assyrians
64
This king who founded an empire, by defeating the Sosso at the battle of Kirina?
Simba
Trump
Sundiata
Mansa Musa
65
Who was the third member of the second triumvirate, after Octavian and Mark Antony?
Augustus
Crassus
Lepidus
Pompey
66
What were the students of Vardhamana Mahavira called?
Kalingas
Nerds
Jains
Shudras
67
What is not true about agriculture?
More efficient than hunting and gathering
It catalyzed the establishment of more complex communities
It provided a surplus of food
It suddenly appeared in all parts of the world
68
Name this slave who rose to become a banker in ancient Greece?
Pasion
Sulla
Crassus
Spartacus
69
Who fought the Kalingans and later turned to Buddhism?
Ashoka Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya
Chandra Gupta
Sethumadhavan Gokulakrishnan
70
What material was beginning to grow popular for weaponry about 140,000 years ago?
Iron
Obsidian
Glass
Bronze
71
What kind of transportation was mainly used by the Greeks and Romans?
Bus
Chariots
Boats
Camels
72
Was the religion in early Sudanic culture polytheistic or monotheistic?
Polytheistic
Monotheistic
73
What kinds of jobs did the untouchables have?
Butchering and dealing with dead bodies
Governing
Farming
Soldiers
74
Who conquered Egypt and founded Memphis?
Alexander the Great
Amon
Tuthmosis
Menes
75
What was NOT a material used for cave paint?
Minerals
Saliva
Limestone
Blood
76
What is a theory for the downfall of the Harappans?
Natural disasters
Ecological degradation
Foreign invasions
Not contributing enough money to Sharbaugh's retirement fund
77
Who was the last Etruscan monarch of Rome?
Lucius Tarquinius Schoolbus
Lucius Tarquinius Autobus
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
Lucius Tarquinius Bus
78
Who founded the Mauryan empire?
Ashoka Maurya
Kautalya Maurya
Chandra Gupta
Chandragupta Maurya
79
Which Hellenistic empire contained Greece?
The other one
Antigonid
Ptolemaic
Seleucid
80
What is the benefit of improved metallurgy?
Better attack and defense
nothing much tbh
Easier Farming
People were able to settle and establish communities
81
What was Great Zimbabwe?
Main rival kingdom to Ghana
Empire in southern Africa known for a big city
The main deity of the Zimbabwe culture
Arabic North African empire
82
Who were the Cholans?
A wealthy civilization on India’s southern peninsula
An early race of humans who lived in Armenia
Fierce barbarians from Denmark and Sweden
idk and idc
83
What is NOT a Semitic tongue which came to Sumer?
Phoenician
Hebrew
Akkadian
Afrikkans
84
Which Hellenistic empire was most wealthy?
Seleucid
Antigonid
Ptolemaic
Sharbaugh's retirement fund
85
Homer wrote which Epic?
The Book of Life
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Epic of Gilgamesh
86
What was considered to be the dharma presented in Buddhism?
Confucianism
Sati
Caste System
The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path
87
Who were the Australopithecus?
A tribe of Sumerians
Pre-hominid creatures
Hominids who primarily did agriculture
First hominids who walked on two legs with developed hands
88
Which book contains the Bhagavad Gita?
The Bible
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Mahabharata
The Ramayana
89
What was the one thing, in the neolithic period, which made people wealthy?
Ownership of art
The lottery
Ownership of farmland
Ownership of cattle
90
Which societies were known for their horses?
Armenians
The Hittites
Indo-Europeans
Babylonians
91
Where are the Red Sea Hills in modern day Africa?
Somalia
Ethiopia
South Sudan
Eritrea
92
Based on which river were the cities of Ur and Uruk were founded?
Tigris
Euphrates
Indus
Nile
93
Why did the Neolithic people start agriculture?
They noticed a general warming of the Earth
They noticed a general cooling of the Earth
Too many people got killed from hunting animals.
Animals became extinct, nothing else to hunt
94
Why did agriculture arrive so late?
There was too much conflict going on at that time
Since people actually preferred hunting and gathering
The idea of settling down in one place wasn't appealing
It was nearly impossible due to ice ages
95
What myth explained the natural disasters in Knossos?
The Bull
Krusty Krab vs Chum Bucket
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Minotaur
96
Who were Hammurabi’s inspiration for his code?
Jews
Sumerians
Sumericans
Christians
97
Which society was known for being the first to develop iron metallurgy?
The Hittites
The Hominds
The Hyksos
The Turks
98
What was the largest difference between Paleolithic and Neolithic society?
Barack Obama
Humans evolved in the Neolithic
Able to farm and settle in communities in the Neolithic
Humans evolved in the Paleolithic
99
Where did the first hominids evolve?
Kenya
North Africa
Zimbabwe
Sub-Saharan Africa
100
What modern-day language adopted most of the Cholan language?
Hindi
Sanskrit
Indian
Tamil
101
Which Hindu god is often referred to as “the Protector”?
Balasubramanian
Shiva
Vishnu
Varuna
102
Why was Slash and Burn agriculture bad?
Land would become filled with weeds, caused infertile soil
There was constant war and violence over crops
It was less effective than hunting and gathering
It was not bad

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