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| 5738171589 | Hunting and gathering | Generally produce a food surplus | 0 | |
| 5738171590 | The paleolithic age refers to | The Peoria in which simple stone tools were developed | 1 | |
| 5738171591 | A characteristic of the human species before the advent of civilization was | The ability to spread to various geographic settings and climate zones | 2 | |
| 5738171592 | The development of agriculture caused important changes in all the following EXCEPT | The tendency to believe in many gods | 3 | |
| 5738171593 | The Neolithic revolution occurred first in | The Middle East | 4 | |
| 5738171594 | What early Neolithic civilization in modern day turkey became famous for the specialization production of obsidian (dragon glass) tools | Catal Huyuk | 5 | |
| 5738171595 | Once developed, metal tools were preferred over stone tools for what reasons | They were sharper and more precise, they permitted more diverse shapes, they could be used to make accurate weapons, and they were more durable | 6 | |
| 5738171596 | A society is almost certainly a civilization if | It practices sedentary agriculture | 7 | |
| 5738171597 | The development of writing | Helps explain why governments could become more formal and bureaucratic | 8 | |
| 5738171598 | The earliest known writing in a civilization first developed in | The Middle East | 9 | |
| 5738171599 | Sumerian civilization produced the first | Monotheistic religion | 10 | |
| 5738171600 | The characteristic political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates civilization was | Regional city-states | 11 | |
| 5738171601 | Egypt differed from Mesopotamian civilization by stressing | Well organized, durable empires | 12 | |
| 5738171602 | Which river valley civilization was most completely destroyed either by natural disasters such as climate change or by invasion from outsiders | Huang he | 13 | |
| 5738171603 | Among the early river civilizations | Sedentary agriculture first developed in mesoamerica | 14 | |
| 5738171604 | Which of the following areas was not one of the earliest civilizations to develop | Northwestern India | 15 | |
| 5738171605 | One difference between Zhou China and the earlier Huanghe river valley civilization was that | Human sacrifices were suppressed | 16 | |
| 5738171606 | A "dynasty" in Chinese history was | A convenient fiction legitimizing imperial rule | 17 | |
| 5738171607 | The Mandate of Heaven concept promoted what | Loyalty to the emperor, centralization of power in the state, the remoteness of emperor from subjects, and an explanation of the decline of dynasties | 18 | |
| 5738171608 | Chinese view of nature emphasized | Harmony and balance | 19 | |
| 5738171609 | What was a Confucian belief | A good society has a hierarchy both in family and state | 20 | |
| 5738171610 | We know that's the ruler of what ancient civilization styled himself/herself a god | Egypt | 21 | |
| 5738171611 | What brought about the eventual decline of Sumerian civilization | Inquest of foreign powers | 22 | |
| 5738171612 | The ancient civilization organized around Chavin de Hautar was located in which present day country | Peru | 23 | |
| 5738171613 | What civilization in entes plumbing thousands of years before western Europeans would adopt it | Mohinjo-Daro | 24 | |
| 5738171614 | The Qin Dynasty was founded by what famous Chinese leader | Shi Huangdi | 25 | |
| 5738171615 | In the ancient Hindu caste system, the lowest position was occupied by who | The untouchables, because the were ceremonially unclean | 26 | |
| 5738171616 | Ancient Indus Valley architecture was famous for its inclusion of what celebrated religious | Stupas | 27 | |
| 5738171617 | What geographical barrier discussed in class is partially responsible for the relative isolation of ancient China's civilization | The Himalayas | 28 | |
| 5738171618 | Which of the following is an idea not shared by Hinduism and Buddhism | A special emphasis on the "caste" system | 29 | |
| 5738171619 | The Zhou dynasty is widely famed as | China's longest- lived dynasty | 30 | |
| 5738171620 | The city of Xi An could be considered important because | It was the capital of many Chinese dynasties | 31 | |
| 5738171621 | When did the civilization of the Indus River Valley suddenly disappear | 1750-1700 B.C. | 32 | |
| 5738171622 | According to Buddhist tradition, the correct name of the first Buddha was | Siddhatha Gautama | 33 | |
| 5738171623 | The strangely trans-geographical idea of primogeniture held that | First-born sons ought to inherit a family's property | 34 | |
| 5738171624 | The Hindu god tasked with the destruction of the universe was named | Shiva | 35 | |
| 5738171625 | Which of the following would not be a characteristic belief of Daoism | Filial piety | 36 | |
| 5738171626 | What religion did the Mauryan Ashoka adopt late in his reign | Buddhism | 37 | |
| 5738171627 | Why was Alexander the Great such an important figure in studying the major river civilizations of the ancient world | Because he united four of the five together into what would become a permanent economic world system | 38 | |
| 5738171628 | What would the most accurate translation of the Buddhist term Maya | Illusion | 39 | |
| 5738171629 | In Buddhist practice, what is so unique about bodhisattvas like Guanyin | An enlightened soul who stays behind to help others seeking enlightenment | 40 | |
| 5738171630 | Why did the Qin dynasty die off so quickly | Because it was impossible to keep the empire together without it's founding emperor | 41 | |
| 5738171631 | In the Hindu world-view, every is made up of " being" or | Brahma | 42 | |
| 5738171632 | The upanishads are early texts that | Often feature both pieces of narrative story and broad principles concerned with Hindu religious practice | 43 | |
| 5738171633 | Describe the life of Confucius | He was a scholar who failed at a political career and instead became a teacher | 44 | |
| 5738171634 | The loose collection of townships that allowed long-distance trading across the Gobi desert all the way from China to the Mesopotamian world was | The silk road | 45 | |
| 5738171635 | The Great Wall of china could be described as | A series of border fortifications that protect part of China's traditional borders | 46 | |
| 5738171636 | The Han Dynasty lasted from roughly | 200 B.C. To 200 A.D. | 47 | |
| 5738171637 | Chandragupta was famous for founding | The Mauryan dynasty | 48 | |
| 5738171638 | The early written language of India was called | Sanskrit | 49 | |
| 5738171639 | What famous classical figure was a member of the first triumvirate | Julius Caesar | 50 | |
| 5738171640 | This famous figure was a roman orator and statesman who all but ran the senate during the undisputed reign of Julius Caesar | Cicero | 51 | |
| 5738171641 | What happened at the battle of Thermopylae | Leonidas and some 300 Spartans held off the Persian army long enough for Greeks to mount a defense of their homeland | 52 | |
| 5738171642 | The model of Persian Empire-Building favored by Cyrus the Great included who | Tolerance for foreign cultures and religions, the abolition of slavery infrastructure building, epically roads, and authoritative governance | 53 | |
| 5738171643 | The Peloponnesian war was fought between which cultures | Spartans and Athenians | 54 | |
| 5738171644 | What famous world military leader never lost a battle in his entire life despite often facing overwhelming military odds | Alexander of Macedon | 55 | |
| 5738171645 | What legendary Greek philosopher drank hemlock as a form of protest against the tyrannous ruling of the Athenian League, which required him either to stop teaching, face exile, or drink hemlock | Socrates | 56 | |
| 5738171646 | What form of government did the Ancient Romans employ | Dictatorship, monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy | 57 | |
| 5738171647 | In the second Punic war, how wS Hannibal finally defeated | Scipio Africanus lured him back to Carthage and defeated his army on the beach of North Africa | 58 | |
| 5738171648 | In the Greek city-states' earliest years, what event finally succeeded in binding them together as something more like a nation state | The invasion of the Persians | 59 | |
| 5738171649 | In the Roman Republic, a consul was tasked with doing what job | Leading the military, executing the policies of the senate, and policing the civilian population | 60 | |
| 5738171650 | Stoic philosophers tended to believe in what | That life was bad but should be endured with manful bravery | 61 | |
| 5738171651 | Modern day marathons take their name from what | An ancient battle fought on the beaches of marathon | 62 | |
| 5738171652 | In which of the civilizations recently studied could women own property | Rome | 63 | |
| 5738171653 | The name of the Great roman epic of national origin, written by Virgil during the reign of Caesar Augustus, was what | The Aeneid | 64 | |
| 5738171654 | What civilization practiced a form of slavery | Athens and Rome | 65 | |
| 5738171655 | Philip of Macedon's Great military achievements was what | The unification of all Greece | 66 | |
| 5738171656 | As a roman emperor, Constantine is famous for what | Converting to Christianity, and moving the roman capital from Rome to Constantinople | 67 | |
| 5738171657 | What civilization worshipped a monotheistic deity | Persians | 68 | |
| 5738171658 | In some sections of the ancient world, military leaders started to take a back seat to a new class of civil administrators. They were called | Scholar-gentry | 69 | |
| 5738171659 | Sophocles the Greek playwright, wrote many plays over his life time that have engaged generations of readers, but his most famous is what | Oedipus Rex | 70 | |
| 5738171660 | By far the largest trading network of the ancient world is what | The Indian world system | 71 | |
| 5738171661 | The romans were renowned for their feats of engineering, including the massive stone works designed to move water through their cities, which were called | Aqueducts | 72 | |
| 5738171662 | What kind of classical column is generally considered the simplest and easiest to create | Doric | 73 | |
| 5738171663 | A roman "triumvirate" was what exactly | A period of time when three leading romans came to share all pragmatic civic power | 74 | |
| 5738171664 | The rough dates usually assignedto the classical era are what | 500 BC to 500 AD | 75 | |
| 5738171665 | Coptic christians inhabited what region | East Africa | 76 | |
| 5738171666 | The yellow turbans were instrumental in the fall in what dynasty | The Han dynasty | 77 | |
| 5738171667 | What famous world leader's title in Latin translates to "little daddy" | Attila | 78 | |
| 5738171668 | What famous roman religious and political figure began the Christianization of Northern Europe with a series of missionary expeditions | Gregory the Great | 79 | |
| 5738187099 | The longest-lasting part of the roman empire was what section | the eastern section(Byzantine) | 80 | |
| 5738206099 | the collection ofsxall islands across the pacific ocean settled by people in canoes and coracles go by what name | Polynesian | 81 | |
| 5738231540 | the prophet Muhammad required his followers to pay a particular kind of tax in order to provide for women and children. What was the name of that tax | zakat | 82 | |
| 5738244582 | What famous civilization inhabited the Andean mountains of modern day Peru | the incas | 83 | |
| 5738250580 | what was the arabic word for 'God' | Allah | 84 | |
| 5738266130 | The nomadic inhabitants of arabia finally unified by the activities of the prophet Muhammad went by what name | Bedouins | 85 | |
| 5738289252 | as a word that differentiates Mahayana Buddhism from other kinds of Buddhism, what does the word Mahayana mean | greater vehicle | 86 | |
| 5738301530 | how do Muslims believe that the Qu'ran was composed | they believe it was delivered to Muhammad by the angel gabriel | 87 | |
| 5738339814 | Local Indian princes who had tremendous power after the fall of the Mauryan empire were generally referred to using what term | The Rajput | 88 | |
| 5738351011 | Tell about the prophet Muhammads life | he married a wealthy older widow, he fled from Mecca to Medina, he founded a monotheistic religion by learning from old religions, he claimed to have receive a new revelation every day | 89 | |
| 5738382229 | What office did gregory the great hold during his life | pope | 90 | |
| 5738517201 | what was the name of the central religious shrine around which all of Meccan culture and economy was organized | the kaba | 91 | |
| 5738608137 | early muslim leaders of the cultures centered in saudi arabia went by what formal title | shayk | 92 | |
| 5738645330 | Benedict of Nursia was responsible for the integration of what practice into the Christian religious tradition | monasticism | 93 | |
| 5743579197 | Part of the reason that Islam spread so quickly is because of | the popularity of monotheism in general at the time | 94 | |
| 5743604107 | what dynasty represented a short-lived attempt at recapturing the glory years of the han in china history | the sui dynasty | 95 | |
| 5743610747 | what was the second largest town of the Pre Islamic Arabian peninsula | medina | 96 | |
| 5743619186 | where was the kingdom of Axum located | Africa south of egypt | 97 | |
| 5743806240 | In world history, who or what was devi | all powerful mother goddess | 98 | |
| 5743811461 | what was true about the empire of Harsha, Attila, and alex the great | they all fell apart soon after the death of their first leaders | 99 | |
| 5743827736 | what was the name of the prophet Muhammad's first wife, a wealthy widow who had a long-term impact on muslim impressions of ideal gender relations | Khadija | 100 | |
| 5743870118 | What major problem faced the muslim community after the death of the prophet Muhammad | Many arab or Bedouin tribes returned to their earlier polytheistic habits and left the umma, Islams was no had a centralized political leader | 101 | |
| 5743898095 | what was so important about the death of Ali as one of the early Muslim caliphs | It was one of the major events that led to the Sunni-Shi'a split | 102 | |
| 5743909270 | who served as the third of the Rash dun or 'rightly guided' Caliphs in the early years of Muslim history | Uthmann | 103 | |
| 5743914503 | The Shrivijaya trade compact or national body occupied what geographical region of the world | the straits of Malacca and shipping lanes across the Indonesian archipelago | 104 | |
| 5743923166 | What ancient town did the Abbasid caliphate enlarge and turn into the empire's capital | Baghdad | 105 | |
| 5743926121 | What event marked the end of a unified Muslim state ruled over by a single caliph assumed to have all political and religious power across the muslim world | the invasion of the Abbasid caliphate by the buyids | 106 | |
| 5743938877 | How did southeast asia convert to Islam as a near universal religion | They gradually converted to islam following the collapse of the srivijaya empire, which had enforced Buddhist practice | 107 | |
| 5743946557 | what are the major pillars of Islam | The hajj or pilgrimage to mecca, praying towards mecca five times a day, ect | 108 | |
| 5749454527 | The famous English king who did the most to keep the third crusade from becoming a cataclysmic failure was known as what | Richard I | 109 | |
| 5749458341 | In Muslim history, the term Jihad has been used primarily to describe what | Both personal struggle and a kind of religious based holy war | 110 | |
| 5749463494 | At the risk of great oversimplification, what is a prominent difference between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims | Shi'a Muslims did not view the caliphs who followed after Ali as legitimate | 111 | |
| 5749491032 | How were Coptic Christians and Nestorian Christians divided by geographically | Nestorian Christians tended to be based to the east of the Mediterranean whereas Coptic Christians tended to be based in Egypt, Syria and Ethiopia | 112 | |
| 5749524689 | which arts and sciences underwent revolutionary expansion during the Abbasid caliphate | Math, chemistry, literature and medicine | 113 | |
| 5749538286 | what were the innovated ships called that allowed Muslim merchants used to trade across the Indian ocean | dhows | 114 | |
| 5750652151 | where did the system of numbers that we use today (Arabic numerals) originate? | Indus valley civilization | 115 | |
| 5750656933 | during the Abbasid caliphate, the wazirs were created to fulfill what political purpose? | to perform administrative roles the Caliphs didn't want to occupy | 116 | |
| 5750665735 | which of the following revolutionary changes were made by Abbasid medicine? | The foundation of hospitals | 117 | |
| 5750671092 | The one piece of public infrastructure built by every culture that inhabited the Muslim world was which of the following? | Mosques | 118 | |
| 5750674462 | The Sultanate of Delhi came to rule over which two large river-valley civilizations? | the Indus and Ganghese river valleys | 119 | |
| 5750680940 | The great Caliph was oversaw a golden age of the Abbasid dynasty, and whose court formed the inspiration for the 1001 Nights, was which of the following? | Harun al' Rashid | 120 | |
| 5750689835 | What people group defeated the Buyids and arose from modern-day Anatolia to conquer Baghdad and come to control the central Muslim state? | The Seljuk Turks | 121 | |
| 5750693254 | Who fought against who in the Ridda Wars? | Abu Bakr and the faithful fought to force rebellious arab tribes to join the Umma | 122 | |
| 5750697633 | What famous conqueror finally succeeded in establishing a Muslim empire at Delhi? | Qutb-ud-din-Aibak | 123 | |
| 5750704391 | The famous leader who managed to unify the Mongols and create an unprecedented era of conquest and expansion was which of the following? | Chingis Khan | 124 | |
| 5750723097 | what famous arab word traveler covered most of the known world, from Mali to Indonesia, during his illustrious lifetime? | Ibn Battuta | 125 | |
| 5750726764 | How did the Byzantines come into contact with the early Slavic people groups that made up the Kievan Rus? | The Kievan Rus began to conquer territories that had previously belonged to the Byzantines, especially along the Cremean coast | 126 | |
| 5750737536 | the Swahili cost of eastern Africa was known to early Arab traders as which of the following? | Zenj | 127 | |
| 5750742404 | According to legend, King Vladimir I of Russia converted to Christianity instead of Islam because of which of the following? | He disliked Islam's prohibition of alcohol | 128 | |
| 5750750277 | The Byzantine empire was threatened both by Muslim incursions from the east & by revolts from the European people who lived in its western provinces, which were known as which of the following? | The Bulgarians | 129 | |
| 5750757411 | Mansa Musa, the famous global figure, became famous in a written, textual tradition because of which of the following? | He went on a Hadj to Mecca and distributed gold | 130 | |
| 5750768121 | What Byzantine emperor succeeded momentarily in reclaiming much of the territory of the fallen western Roman empire? | Justinian | 131 | |
| 5750776367 | The Russian alphabet, which contains many letters not used in the conventional Latin alphabet, was the result of the work of what famous Byzantine missionary? | Cyril | 132 | |
| 5750782044 | True or false, the Byzantines generally thought of themselves as Romans, not as citizens of a different empire? | True, but modern historians will point out that they were substantively different from the Romans. For example, they Greek rather than Latin | 133 | |
| 5750794077 | Africans living close to port cities on the Swahili coast of Africa tended to practice what religion? | Islam | 134 | |
| 5750797887 | What key battle effectively ended Byzantine control over Anatolia and the wealthy cities of what today forms central Turkey? | The battle of Manzikert | 135 | |
| 5750805728 | The people who inhabited western Africa before the foundation of any large nations or empires were known as which of the following? | The Berbers | 136 | |
| 5750808606 | What Byzantine city was widely famed as the medieval world's greatest fortress until it was sacked by Crusaders invited into the city by the Byzantine emperor? | Constantinople | 137 | |
| 5750817604 | Which of the following accounts for the Russian people gradually moving north from Kiev towards modern day Moscow? | They were avoiding the Mongols, who tended to prefer settlements further south | 138 | |
| 5750823248 | Which of the following African cultures converted to and remained Christian all the way down until the modern era? | The Ethiopians | 139 | |
| 5750828131 | What city became a central urban port and played a major role in both the slave and gold trades western Africa all the way through the period of European colonization? | Timbuktu | 140 | |
| 5750834435 | When did the Great Schism finally sunder eastern (orthodox) and western (catholic) Christianity? | 1054AD | 141 | |
| 5750837041 | Ivan the Terrible earned his fearsome reputation in Russian history because of which of the following? | His tyrannous rule late in life, which departed from a peaceful early rule His imposition of a secret police force called the Oprechnina His early turn towards authoritarianism, which would have a long & troubling effect on Russian political history His centralization of state power in the hands of the Russian monarch All of the Above | 142 | |
| 5750854971 | Scandinavia and northern Europe were unified with trade across the Black Sea (and hence the Byzantines) by what strange geographical accident? | The presence of two rivers (the Dnieper & the Vulga) that almost meet up in the middle of eastern Europe | 143 | |
| 5750865480 | The invention of the fearsome military technology helped the Byzantines fend off the advances (especially naval advances) of the Muslim world? | Greek fire | 144 | |
| 5750869550 | Early on in Kievan Rus history, the Russian people were effectively rules by landed aristocrats known as which of the following? | Boyars | 145 | |
| 5750874282 | We know less about the history of western & sub-Saharan Africa than we do about many other global regions, and the most prominent reason for that knowledge gap is which of the following? | Those regions did not use an independent writing system, making them more difficult for modern historians to document and track | 146 | |
| 5750880144 | most modern day eastern orthodox Christians live in what country? | Russia | 147 | |
| 5750884280 | According to contemporary demographers, what time period saw a massive change known as a global demographic transformation? | 1750AD to present | 148 | |
| 5750889915 | Early European historians generally attributed the construction of which African civilization to outsiders because they believed Africans incapable of building great public works? | Great Zimbabwe | 149 | |
| 5750909300 | The Frankish/German coalition of states that were neither holy nor roman nor an Empire was often referred to as which of the following? | The Holy Roman Empire | 150 | |
| 5750914597 | In 1066 which of the following figures conquered England and forever changed the course of both the English language and world history? | William the Conqueror | 151 | |
| 5750919216 | Who invented the term 'Indian' as a reasonable description of the inhabitants of the Americas? | Christopher Columbus | 152 | |
| 5750923178 | The medieval period has often been called the middle or dark ages because it occurred between which of the following? | the Roman Empire and the Renaissance | 153 | |
| 5750935815 | What did the Aztecs call the large, independently moored agricultural fixtures on which they grew crops across lake Texcoco? | Chinampas | 154 | |
| 5750940688 | which of the following figures is often described as the greatest of medieval philosophers? | Thomas Aquinas | 155 | |
| 5750944858 | Which of the following facets of the global order was dramatically changed by the so-called Columbian Exchange? | worldwide biotica (especially diseases) animal populations the distribution of technologies the location of crops all of the above | 156 | |
| 5750971196 | the long-term argument over investiture fought between Pope Gregory VII and Henry II of the Holy Roman Empire was primarily about which of the following? | how bishops would be appointed to different bishoprics | 157 | |
| 5750984556 | manga carta was important in English (and global) history in because? | it limited the powers of the monarch | 158 | |
| 5750994511 | what was the great city of the Aztecs built on the water and housing perhaps several million citizens? | Tenochtitlan | 159 | |
| 5751000661 | what region of Europe did the Carolingians kings rule over? | Modern day Germany and northern France | 160 | |
| 5751008655 | The Inca used woven strands of cloth, hair or other stringy substances to keep track of many kinds of information including genealogy, basic accounting, and even astrological phenomena. What were those strands called? | quipu | 161 | |
| 5751010664 | what world-defining event occurred at the Battle of Tours? | the Muslim invasion of Europe was permanently forestalled | 162 | |
| 5751017157 | most of medieval artisan labor was organized into small collaborations of craftsmen that set prices and controlled the market; what were they called? | guilds | 163 | |
| 5751021157 | Which of the civilizations that we've studied nurtured a cult dedicated to caring for the mummies of deceased rulers? | the Incas | 164 | |
| 5751027542 | the traditional Inca system of split inheritance had which of the following effects on the Inca civilization? | it insured the Inca would continue their pattern of conquest | 165 | |
| 5751032273 | Who was the pope that launched the Crusades with the famous phrase deus le vult (God will it)? | Urban II | 166 | |
| 5751039258 | What strange accident of history rendered the lives of Aztec women far more difficult than they might have been? | the absence of mill technologies to grind grain | 167 | |
| 5751043547 | during the middle ages, what kind of architecture became famous for its use (particularly in medieval churches)? | Gothic architecture | 168 | |
| 5751050043 | What facets of social organization (traditionally controlled by nations) did the Hanseatic League take responsibility for during its long existence? | defending merchants against pirates | 169 | |
| 5751054720 | what disease swept across the Eurasian continent, famously coming to the cities of central Europe in 1348 and continually reappearing thereafter? | the bubonic plague | 170 | |
| 5751056973 | what god did the Aztecs invents to represent state service and especially taking of human sacrifices? | Huitzlpochti | 171 | |
| 5751059834 | which of the following books was written by Peter of Abellard? | Yes and No | 172 | |
| 5751063157 | The military leader that unified his people and began the Inca Empire was which of the following figures? | Pachacuti | 173 | |
| 5751067014 | What modern-day nation adopted the snake and eagle of Aztec lore as national symbols of particular importance? | Mexico | 174 |
