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| 287955809 | The development of agriculture caused important changes in all of the following EXCEPT | the tendency to believe in many gods | 0 | |
| 287955810 | The development of writing | helps explain why governments could become formal and bureaucratic | 1 | |
| 287955811 | How did the Hindu doctorine of "dharma" impact Indian society | it fostered the formation of rigid social and economic groups | 2 | |
| 287955812 | Which of the following best describes how Chinese imperial elites viewed their civilization in relation to the rest of the world | China was a unique and superior civilization surrounded by barbarians of one sort or another | 3 | |
| 287955813 | In Chinese tradition, the "Mandate of Heaven" refers to | divine blessing of the rule of an emperor | 4 | |
| 287955814 | Hellenistic culture epitomizes which of the following historical forces or trends? | cultural diffusion | 5 | |
| 287955815 | Which of the following parings most accurately reflects existing trade connections in the Greco-Roman era? | Han-Roman | 6 | |
| 287955816 | Which policy did both the Roman and Han armies tend to implement upon taking control of a foreign land? | Relative autonomy for cooperative local elites | 7 | |
| 287955817 | Why did the western portion of the Roman Empire suffer so much more in the breakdown of Roman imperial unity than the regions of the Eastern Roman Empire(Byzantium)? | the Eastern Roman world had traditionally been more economically vibrant due to more active trade links with the East | 8 | |
| 287955818 | Which of the following civilizations afforded the greatest degree of citizen input into government policy? | Roman | 9 | |
| 287955819 | One major diffrence between the fall of Han China and that of the Roman Empire was | dynastic china would return to equal and even greater prominence | 10 | |
| 287955820 | If the Greek genius was politics, the Roman genius was | engineering | 11 | |
| 287955821 | Although Islam developed in Mecca and Medina, all of these influenced Islam's orgins EXCEPT | Greco-Roman culture | 12 | |
| 287955822 | One aspect of Islam that made it a universalizing religion was its | egalitarianism that transcended previous loyalties, ethnicities or allegiances | 13 | |
| 287955823 | Islam means | "submission" | 14 | |
| 287955824 | Which two Muslim cities retain the greatest symbolic or religious significance in Islam to this day? | III and V | 15 | |
| 287955825 | Which of the following DOES NOT belong in the list of characteristics that is common to the fall of both the Roman and Abbasid empires? | imperial conversion to a new religion | 16 | |
| 287955826 | The proliferation of technical advances and growing wealth of the Abbasid Caliphate was most closely match by which contemporaneous area of civilization? | Song China | 17 | |
| 287955827 | Which of the following was the common unifying feature of sub-Saharan African societies in the post classical era? | common Bantu linguistic roots | 18 | |
| 287955828 | Which of the following is the orgins of the Swahili language? | Arabic-Bantu mix | 19 | |
| 287955829 | How was the institution of slavery viewed in Muslim society? | In theory, slavery was seen as a stage in the process of converting to Islam | 20 | |
| 287955830 | Which of the following European regions felt the influence of the Byzantine civilization in the post classical peroid? | Russia | 21 | |
| 287955831 | After the fall of the western portions of the Roman Empire, the official tongue in Constantinople shifted from Latin to | Greek | 22 | |
| 287955832 | Russian civilization emerged nearest to what modern city? | Kiev | 23 | |
| 287955833 | Kievan Rus is unique in world history because | it adopted religious and bureaucratic practices from a neighboring civilization | 24 | |
| 287955834 | Which group was most likely to be literate in the Dark Ages? | monks | 25 | |
| 287955835 | Which of the following matches this definition: "agricultural laborer tied to an estates with rights including military protection, heritable ownership of a plot of land, and owing obligation to share crop yields each season with her/his lord"? | serf | 26 | |
| 287955836 | Which of the following possessed the greatest influence in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Roman Empire? | Catholic Church | 27 | |
| 287955837 | By 1500, agriculture was | largely diffused throughout the Americas, although not always in sendentary agricultural communities | 28 | |
| 287955838 | Which of the following was utilized in the Inca empire, but NOT by the Aztecs? | extensive use of colonization | 29 | |
| 287955839 | Which of the following statements about the population of the Americas is most true? | the population of the Americas was nearly the same as that of contemporary Europe (not including Russia) | 30 | |
| 287955840 | Which of the following statements concerning the Aztec capital of Tenochititlan in NOT accurate? | Despite the existence of thousands of houses and other varieties of domestic architecture, unlike other Mesoamerican cities it lacked a temple complex | 31 | |
| 287955841 | What was the primary reform that the Sui emperor enacted? | the construction of the Grand Canal | 32 | |
| 287955842 | Which of the following IS NOT a development during the Tang- Song periods? | military domination of the seas | 33 | |
| 287955843 | Why was the construction of the Grand Canal necessary? | the canal connected the larger population of Northern China with the agricultural production centers of the south | 34 | |
| 287955844 | Warrior leaders in Japan who controlled provincial areas bad ruled from small fortresses were called | bushi | 35 | |
| 287955845 | Which of the following Chinese traits were NOT introduced to Vietnam following the Han conquest? | Chinese insistence on the extended family | 36 | |
| 287955846 | Which of the following concerning the status of women during the era of the daimyos is most accurate? | Daughters of the bushi often received some martial training, but women were disinherited and treated as defenseless appendages of men | 37 | |
| 287955847 | What religion played a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan? | Buddhism | 38 | |
| 287955848 | What was the status of Mongol women during the Yuan dynasty of China? | they were relatively independent, retained property rights and refused foot binding | 39 | |
| 287955849 | Which of the following WAS NOT a positive aspect of Chinggis Khan's rule? | grazing lands were created in China for the Mongols | 40 |
