World History Test 1
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- Which of the following is not one of the ways that Confucian philosophy attempts to create societal harmony?
- By emphasizing individual freedoms
- The earliest transition to agriculture was
- in the middle east
- according to the chapter, why was China's development unique?
- It was geographically seperate from the rest of east asia
- The mesopitamian law code is famous. What might account for the fact that Egypt didnt create a similar code of law?
- As a god on earth, the king was the source of all law.
- The religious farming communities tended to focus on
- an Earth Mother or female deity
- Egypts external interests were primarily concentrated on
- maintaining access to valuable raw materials
- In the third millenium BCE the political syustem that became dominant in Sumer was
- a kingship with the support of priesthood and military
- Which of the following is not generally considered to be an attribute of civilization?
- The absence of social class divisions
- Women played a major role in the transition to crop cultivation because
- they were the primary gatherers of wild plant foods
- How did Nubia become a 'corridor' for long distance trade before 3000 BCE
- It connected sub saharan africa with North Africa
- In the Nubian kingdom's matrilineal system, the monarch who usually inherited the throne was the
- son of the dead king's sister.
- The culture that developed in Egypt was unique largely because of
- Egypt's natural isolation and its essential self sufficiency
- Agriculture in Mesopotamia depended on
- artificial canals and irrigation
- Which of the following is not included among Egypt's natural resources?
- salt
- The duration and isolation of Early American cultures
- distinguished them from the world's other major cultural regions
- Which of the following about women is Mesopotamia was probably not true
- they could initiate divorce
- What is the first recognizable cultural activity of human beings?
- stone tool making
- What motivated Mesopotamian conquests of far-reaching territories?
- the need for vital resources
- The Mesopotamians developed skill in bronze metallurgy. Which of the following is not considered an advantage to bronze over other metals?
- It's inexpensive.
- What is the relationship between tool making an dmeat eating in the stone age?
- the increase in meat eating is linked to increased tool making
- During the shand period, ancestor worship becae important because
- Ancestors has special inlfuence with the gods.
- Two indigenous Chinese philosophies that emerged from the Warring state period are
- Confucianism and Daoism
- The introduction of maize to the Andean region...
- increased food supplies, allowing for greater urbanization
- Which of the following is NOT evidence of Egyptian cultural influence on Numbia?
- Actually, due to the overwhelming force of Nubian culture, things Egyptian had no influence whatsoever on them.
- Scholars feel that early domestication of animals provided all of the following except
- transportation
- The gradual adoption of agriculture trnasformed the world most by causing
- global population increase
- Compared with Mesopotamia, the Egyptian population
- was more rural and agricultural
- Which of the following was probably not one of the components of the 'systems failure' that brought down the Indus Valley cities?
- That invaders from the north and east drove out the inhabitants.
- The earliest historically documented people of Mesopotamia were the
- Sumerians
- The term city state refers to
- an urban center and the agricultural hinterlands it controlled
- Which of the following is not true about the transition to plant cultivation and animal domestication 10000 years ago?
- It was rapid and complete.
- The growth of settled agricultural communities resulted in
- trade and craft specialization
- The mnadate of Heaven meant that the ruler retainted the rught to rule as long as
- he remained a wise and principled guardian of his people.
- Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley civilizations were all
- wiped out by a huge drought (not sure about this one, message me if its wrong)
- Women in Mesopotamia had a lower status than in a hunter gatherer society because of
- the shift of the major role in food provision from women to men.
- All of the following are common to polytheistic religions except
- the gods are metaphysical
- The 'son of heaven' concept was designed to promote all of the following except
- priest's control of state
- Compared to China, Indian social and economic structure
- gave greater latitude to merchants
- In contrast to the situation in China, the values developed in Classical India
- promosted considerable quality between men and women
- The development of writing
- helps explain why governments could become more formal and bureaucratic