8000 BCE - 600 BCE

Question 1

Scholars feel that early domestication of aniamls provided all of the following except

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objects of worship

Question 2

what was the health impact as human abandoned nomadism and settled into a sedentary lifestyle

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Greater exposure to pathogens due to where farm animals were

Question 3

Mesopotamian gods were anthropomorphic, that is, they

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wre humanlike in form and conduct

Question 4

Which people are credited with developing the first phonetic alphabet?

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Phoencians

Question 5

Evidence suggests that human settlement reached which of the following regions most recently

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South America

Question 6

The Egyptians were to the Nile as the Chinese were to the

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Huang He

Question 7

The first metal that the Mesopotamians used was

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copper

Question 8

Which early river valley civilizations was in the greatest state of isolation from the others?

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Huang He River

Question 9

which is the name of the ancient Sumerian writing system?

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Cuneiform

Question 10

what economic effect did food surpluses have on early agricultural societies?

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Trade rose with an ability to feed those who can craft

Question 11

In Mesopotamian cities, the temples

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housed the cult of the diety or deities

Question 12

Agriculture in Mesopotamia depended on

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artificial canals and irrigation

Question 13

Which people are credited for founding Mesopotamia in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley?

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Sumerians

Question 14

Mesopotamian priests

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inherited their positions from their fathers

Question 15

The Agricultural Revolutions occured in which era

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Neolithic

Question 16

Which of the following best describes the development of agriculture during the Neolithic era?

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It was a gradually rising independently in diverse areas

Question 17

What best shows the role of women as human society moved from preagriculture to agriculture

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Having greater confinement to the home to care of children

Question 18

Farming was probably a more difficult way of life than foraging because

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working harder to clear and cultivate land

Question 19

Compared to other revolutions, which feature of the Neolithic Revolution is most unusual

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unfolded over thousands of years in diverse locales

Question 20

Historians can infer that Mesopotamian society was by

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three classes

Question 21

1st dynastic king, Sargon of Akkad, did all of the following except

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attack Egypt

Question 22

Occupations in Egypt were generally

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hereditary

Question 23

all of the early river valley civilizations were?

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polytheistic

Question 24

Which set of Paleolitic practices would prove most durable as humans entered the Neolithic era

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Domestications of animals

Question 25

What motivated Mesopotamian conquests of far-reaching territories

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The need for vital resources

Question 26

Which of the following was not among Egypt's natural resouces

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Salt

Question 27

What is meant by culture

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learned patterns of expression and action

Question 28

The most visible part of the temple compound was the

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ziggurat

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT true of the ancient Egyptian pyramids?

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Were built under the influence of Chinese advisors

Question 30

River valley civilizations, such as the Egyptians, developed all of the follwoing EXCEPT

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Constitutional Monarchy

Question 31

Matrilineal societies were

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defined by maternal heritage

Question 32

Earliest historically documented people of Mesopotamia were the

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Sumerians

Question 33

which of the following was true for ALL of the early agricultural systems?

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Domestication of perennial plants in each region

Question 34

Based on available knowledge, which of the following was NOT a part of Homo Erectus' world?

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Agriculture

Question 35

Earliest transition to agriculture was

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in the Middle East

Question 36

The Mesopotamian writing system is called

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Cuneiform

Question 37

Crucial to Egypt's agriculture was

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proximity to the Nile River

Question 38

all of these were important impacts of the rise of metalwork in the ancient world EXCEPT

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Metal ships revolutionizdd trade and naval warfare

Question 39

which crop was unique to early civilizations of what was later termed as the New World?

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Maize

Question 40

Which of the following about women in Mesopotamia was probably not true?

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they could be appointed to government positions

Question 41

Which civilization's decline was most likely due to drastic environmental change?

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Indus

Question 42

Based on archaeological evidence, which region saw the rise of the earliest civilizations?

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The Middle East

Question 43

Which region of the world had yet to experience the Neolithic transition by 600 CE?

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Australia

Question 44

Metalworking in the late Neolithic period was used for

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decoration or in ceremonies

Question 45

What did ancient Egyptian, Shang, and Sumerian civilizations all have in common?

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River valley location

Question 46

Cave art is generally representative of

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We don't know for sure. Possibly sympathetic magic

Question 47

Since foraging lifestyle was not particularly hard, foragers had a great deal of time left for

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socializing,making tools, and creating art

Question 48

where did the earliest civilizations tend to develop?

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River valleys

Question 49

What is the first recognizable cultural activity of human beings

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toolmaking

Question 50

The term city-state refers to

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urban center and the agricultural hinterlands it controlled

Question 51

Which of the following was NOT a common trait of early civilizations?

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Nomadism

Question 52

Means of distinguishing slaves in Mesopotamian society was by

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a particular hairstyle

Question 53

which places the developments associated with the Neolithic Revolution in correct chron. order

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surplus food, specialization of labor, social stratification

Question 54

Which statement is most accurate regarding Jewish monotheism?

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It traces its origin to Abraham

Question 55

Which of the following is the least intensive and sophisticated agricultural practice

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Slash and burn

Question 56

Most early agricultural communities had a staple crop based on

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grain or rice

Question 57

Which of the following is not included in the Semitic family of languages

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Elamite

Question 58

What are the criteria for "civilization"

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all of the above

Question 59

Egyptian writing were probably 1st used for

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administrative matters

Question 60

Religions of farming communities tended to focus on

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an earth mother or female deity

Question 61

Earliest representation of cave art discovered is in

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Southeastern France

8000 BCE - 600 BCE

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8000 BCE - 600 BCE

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