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| 3566412386 | Preliterate societies transmitted their culture by | Stone art, cave paintings, oral traditions, and creation myths | 0 | |
| 3566420482 | Shared religious beliefs, learned patterns of expression and action, material | Culture | 1 | |
| 3566427910 | The Neolithic era is associated with the | Rise of agriculture | 2 | |
| 3566433630 | Most early human activity centered on | Gathering food | 3 | |
| 3566450035 | The Agricultural Revolution first occurred in the | Middle East | 4 | |
| 3566456239 | The earliest transition to agriculture was characterized by | The advent of specialized tools | 5 | |
| 3566462068 | Most agricultural communities had a staple crop based on | Grain or rice | 6 | |
| 3566465764 | Scholars feel that earliest domesticated animals were | Dogs | 7 | |
| 3566474051 | The Late Bronze Age in the Middle East was a "cosmopolitan ear" because | Elements of culture were widely shared | 8 | |
| 3566484307 | The two divisions within the population of Mesopotamia were | Assyrians and Babylonians | 9 | |
| 3566492362 | The Hittites were the foremosy power from 1700 to 1200 B.C.E. in | Anatolia | 10 | |
| 3566496848 | The language of diplomacy and government correspondence in the Mesopotamian regions was | Akkadian | 11 | |
| 3566502521 | The Hyskos were able to conquer Egypt because they had | Horse-drawn chariots carrying archers with composite bows | 12 | |
| 3566511741 | The era of the New Kingdom in Egypt is characterized by restoration of Egyptian rule and | Expansion north into Syria and South into Nubia | 13 | |
| 3566519742 | _______ held the throne of the New Kingdom of Egypt | Hatshepsut | 14 | |
| 3566524866 | The pharaoh Akhenaten is credited by many historians with | The invention of monotheism | 15 | |
| 3566528218 | Loess was | A rich dust blown in from Central Asia | 16 | |
| 3566545839 | Geographic determinism is shown in the build-up of the south in China more than the north because | Rice feeds more people per cultivated acre, leading to increased population in the south | 17 | |
| 3566554566 | The Chinese aquired silk by | Raising silkworms and pioneering silk cloth production | 18 | |
| 3566565849 | The practices of _______ orients bulidings in harmony with the terrain and the forces of nature | feng shui | 19 | |
| 3566571593 | The first writing in China that has survived was | Etched in animal "oracle" bones | 20 | |
| 3566581248 | During the Shange Period, ancestor worship became important because | Ancestors had special influence with the gods | 21 | |
| 3568793857 | Characteristics of the supreme god Di in the Shang religion include | not approachable by humans, unleashes the power of storms, be in the same supernatural sphere as other spirits when humans die, and will intercede on behalf of humans by the pleas of their ancestors | 22 | |
| 3566588354 | The Shang elite were the | Warriors of society | 23 | |
| 3566590795 | The most profitable product for Cyrene was | Medicinal herbs | 24 | |
| 3566601994 | Irrigation in Iran was different than others because if the large desert ans | Vertical shafts providedaccess to underground irrigation | 25 | |
| 3566612283 | Iran's mineral resoures, though exploited on a limited scale in antiquity, include | Copper, iron, gold, and silver | 26 | |
| 3566636105 | The Medes were the first Iranian people to | reach a complex level of political organization | 27 | |
| 3566657132 | The founder the of the Archaemenid Persian Empire in 550 B.C.E. was | Cyrus | 28 | |
| 3566660691 | Early Irian social organization was | Patriarchal | 29 | |
| 3566665660 | After uniting Media, Anatolia, Lydia, and Persia, Cyrus conquered | Babylon | 30 | |
| 3566672750 | Cyrus and his son ruled their empire by following a practical approach of | Respecting local priests and native traditions | 31 | |
| 3566677143 | The first Romans to reach China's court of Emperor Huan were | Envoys of Marcus Aurelius | 32 | |
| 3566699626 | The essential economic activity of the early Roman state was based on | Agriculture | 33 | |
| 3566719832 | The council whose members were heads of wealthy landowners families at the center of political n the Roman Republic was | The Senate | 34 | |
| 3566727474 | Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Senate in the | Roman "Republic" | 35 | |
| 3566739308 | Roman women excercised influence | Over husband and sons | 36 | |
| 3566752331 | The early Roman viewed the natural world | as filled with numerous invsible shapeless forces called numina | 37 | |
| 3566760769 | The covalent protection between the gods and the Romans was called | Pax deorum | 38 | |
| 3568175462 | The most common pattern to Roman expansion was | The desire to acquire buffer zones protecting them from attack by enemies | 39 | |
| 3568182140 | The Indian "subcontinent" typically refers to India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and | Sri Lanka | 40 | |
| 3568185628 | Three harvests each year have been possible in some parts of India because of | High rainfall from the monsoons | 41 | |
| 3568277486 | The Vedic Age was a new historical period in India marked by | The dominance of Indo-Europeans over India | 42 | |
| 3568282570 | The varna system developed in order to create | Social order between groups | 43 | |
| 3568286918 | A persistent discrimination problem in Indian society that is traceable to the Vedic Age is | Aryas were Indo-European and lighter skinned | 44 | |
| 3568296333 | The reincarnation is a person's immortal essence- their atman - into a given class depends on | Karma or deeds in life | 45 | |
| 3568302712 | The underlying message of the cycle of reincarnation is that you are where you deserve to be, and the only way to improve your lot in the next cycle of existence is to | Accept your current situation and its attendant duties | 46 | |
| 3568308106 | Indian ritual sacrifices were intended to | Promote stability in the world | 47 | |
| 3568319689 | Scholars refer to the period 1500 bce to 200 ce in Mesoamerica as the preclassical period. The most important civilization in this period was the | Olmec | 48 | |
| 3568331836 | Giant Olmec heads sculpted from basalt and sometimes standing 11 feet tall, are believe ed to represent | All of the above | 49 | |
| 3568343826 | The Chavin dominated a densely populated region between 900 bce and 250 bce that included large areas of | The Peruvian coastal plains and the Andean foothills | 50 | |
| 3568352195 | First bred In the mountainous regions of Peru, these animals were the only domesticated beasts of burden in Mesoamerica | Llama | 51 | |
| 3568355132 | Religion in Teotihaucan was | Polytheistic | 52 | |
| 3568360150 | _______ practiced human sacrifice in the region of the Yucatan peninsula | Maya | 53 | |
| 3568366038 | _________ was practiced by the Maya in the cooler highlands | Terraced landscaping and irrigation | 54 | |
| 3568373774 | What caused the collapse of the Teotihuacan ca. 650 ce? | We dont know | 55 | |
| 3568412338 | The earliest long-distance traders in the Sogdiana area were the | Ferghanese | 56 | |
| 3568453294 | General Zhang Jian is credited with travelling across the deserts and mountains of Central Asia on behalf of Emperor Wu of which empire? | Han Empire | 57 | |
| 3568462070 | Critical to the functioning of the Silk Road were | pastoralists who provided animals, handlers and protection along the road | 58 | |
| 3568468313 | What military technologies did the Silk Road spread? | Chariot warfare, mounted bowmen, and the stirrup | 59 | |
| 3568473300 | Scythians were fearsome horse archers, and they were noted to live in what form of dwelling? | tree houses | 60 | |
| 3568476738 | The mariners involved in the Indian Ocean trade were | a multilingual and multi-ethnic group | 61 | |
| 3568485795 | The Indian Ocean Maritime System forged economic and social ties between Southeast Asia, China, India, Arabia and | East Africa | 62 | |
| 3568494791 | Ships in the Indian Ocean Maritime System were better prepared for long-distance travel than the Greeks because | they could take advantage of monsoon winds to drive their ships using triangular lateen sails | 63 | |
| 3568520689 | All the following are true about camels in Arab society except | They caused disintegration of the internal road structure because it was no longer necessary | 64 | |
| 3568534526 | The Byzantine Empire was centered in the area this is present-day Turkey, while the Sasanid Empire was centered in the area that is present-day | Iran | 65 | |
| 3568544230 | What did the Sasanid and Byzantine Empires have in common? | central control of imperial finances | 66 | |
| 3568550449 | The Sasanid Empire benefited from its location along the Silk Road. Some of the agricultural goods that it gained from China and East Asia were | cotton, sugar, and rice | 67 | |
| 3568568118 | The establishment of Zoroastrianism and Christianity as official faiths in the Sasanid and Byzantine empires (respectively) set the precedent for what future event? | The rise of Islam as the focus of a political empire | 68 | |
| 3568577622 | Religious conflicts in the Byzantine Empire resulted in treatment of Nestorian Christians as | heretics, seeking refuge under the Sasanid shah | 69 | |
| 3568588032 | Manichaeism is a faith derived from Zoroastrianism and is founded on the idea that | there is a cosmic struggle between good and evil | 70 | |
| 3568597363 | The Arabs' involvement in Byzantine and Sasanid conflicts led to the penetration of these religions into the Arabian peninsula | Zoroastrianism and Christianity | 71 | |
| 3568608293 | Schisms, the foremost threat to the Christian church in the Middle Ages, were | formal divisions over differences in doctrine within a religious community | 72 | |
| 3568619838 | The schism of 1054 between the Eastern and Western churches was caused primarily by disagreements over practices of the Latin Church and | the jurisdiction of the western papacy | 73 | |
| 3568628064 | The sixth-century "plague of Justinian" was | an outbreak of bubonic plague during Justinian's rule | 74 | |
| 3568637291 | In the 7th century, The Byzantines experienced an economic transformation similar to, though less pronounced than, that of western Europe. This was caused by all the following except | the rapid growth of the merchant class | 75 | |
| 3568644947 | After the 7th century, Byzantine women were increasingly confined to home life and | were, according to some sources, concealing their faces behind veils in public | 76 | |
| 3568660213 | What is considered the greatest Byzantine architectural monument? | Hagia Sophia | 77 | |
| 3568669464 | A significant Byzantine achievement in the 9th century, carried out by Cyrial and the Methodius, was | the spread Orthodox Christianity among the Slavs | 78 | |
| 3568680778 | In general, which of the following did not occur in western Europe after the decline of Roman authority? | The city of Roman lost its prominence as the seat of the Roman church | 79 | |
| 3568693773 | After the fall of Rome in the 5th century, the western Roman Empire | had no powerful rulers or authority | 80 | |
| 3568726329 | To facilitate communication and trade between northern and southern China, the Sui built the | Grand Canal | 81 | |
| 3568736736 | What was not one of the reasons for the fall of the Sui dynasty? | Adherence to Buddhism | 82 | |
| 3568741212 | What was the political influence of Buddhism in the Tang Empire? | It accorded emperors the spiritual function of welding the people into a harmonious society | 83 | |
| 3568749641 | The Tang Empire is considered "cosmopolitan" because | its breadth of diversity in styles, goods, and cultures from every part of Asia | 84 | |
| 3568759534 | The complex network of religious influence in the Tang dynasty was based on this form of Buddhism | Mahayana | 85 | |
| 3568764902 | The tributary system was a practice in which | independent countries acknowledged the supremacy of the Chinese emperor | 86 | |
| 3568773496 | In the aftermath of the Tang Empire, three new states emerged: the Khitan, the Tanggut, and the __________ | Song | 87 | |
| 3568776465 | Among scientific observations by Song intellectuals was | the explosion of the Crab Nebula in 1054 | 88 | |
| 3568782803 | Chinese maritime innovations included | compasses and junks | 89 |
