AP World History Flashcards
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| 10610394949 | The term prehistory refers to the period before? | Writing (Heritage) | 0 | |
| 10610394950 | What are considered hominids? | Australopithecus, Homoe erectus, Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens sapiens (Heritage) | 1 | |
| 10610394951 | Homo sapiens had appeared in almost all the habitable regions of the world by around ____ years ago | 15,000 (Heritage) | 2 | |
| 10610394952 | What is true about the habitants of the Paleolithic age? | They domesticated animals and discovered agricultural | 3 | |
| 10610394953 | Most scholars believe that, during the paleolithic age, social organization was characterized by | a rough social equality (Social) | 4 | |
| 10610394954 | Most scholars believe that, during the Paleolithic age the relationship between sexes was marked by | General social equality (Social) | 5 | |
| 10610394955 | A Cro-Magnon human is classified as | Homo sapiens sapiens (Social) | 6 | |
| 10610394956 | The Venus figurines | reflect early humans' deep interest in fertility (Heritage) | 7 | |
| 10610394957 | Instead of the potentially misleading term agricultural revolution, many anthropologists prefer the term | agricultural transition (Economic) | 8 | |
| 10610394958 | The mastery of agriculture led to a population explosion. From a sparse population of around four million in 10,000 B.C.E., the global figure rose by 500 B.C.E. to around | 100 million (Environment) | 9 | |
| 10610394959 | The earliest of the 3 Neolithic craft industries was | pottery (Heritage) | 10 | |
| 10610394960 | The earliest metal worked systematically by humans was | Copper (Economic) | 11 | |
| 10610394961 | The ultimate source of wealth in any agricultural society is..? | land (Economic) | 12 | |
| 10610394962 | Cities differed from Neolithic villages in two principal ways. First, cities were larger and more complex than Neolithic villages. The second difference was that | cities decisively influenced the economic, political, and cultural life of large regions (Environmental/ Heritage) | 13 | |
| 10610394963 | The word Mesopotamia means | "land between the rivers" (Environmental) | 14 | |
| 10610394964 | The word Semitic refers to | a language type (Heritage) | 15 | |
| 10610394965 | A Mesopotamia stepped pyramid is known as a | Ziggurat (Heritage) | 16 | |
| 10610394966 | Mesopotamian cultural and political brilliance reached its peak during the reign of | Sargon of Akkad (Political) | 17 | |
| 10610394967 | What individual believed that the gods had chosen him to "promote the welfare of the people . . . [and] to cause justice to prevail in the land"? | Hammurabi (political) | 18 | |
| 10610394968 | The words lex talionis relate to | the law of retaliation that appears in Hammurabi's Code (political) | 19 | |
| 10610394969 | While Hammurabi's code was based on the concept of lex talionis, it was also shaped by | social standing (Social) | 20 | |
| 10610394970 | Mesopotamian metalworkers discovered that if they alloyed copper and tin they could produce | Bronze (heritage/Economic/ political) | 21 | |
| 10610394971 | Iron metallurgy came to Mesopotamia from the | Hittites (Environmental/ heritage/ Economic) | 22 | |
| 10610394972 | Evidence proves that the Mesopotamians | traded extensively with peoples as far away as Anatolia, Egypt, and India (Economic) | 23 | |
| 10610394973 | In Mesopotamia, prisoners of war, convicted criminals, and heavily indebted individuals were the three main sources for | Slaves (Social) | 24 | |
| 10610394974 | Mesopotamia developed into | a strict patriarchal society (Social) | 25 | |
| 10610394975 | Conditions for women in Mesopotamia | grew increasingly worse over time (Social) | 26 | |
| 10610394976 | The statement, "If she was not careful, but was gadabout, thus neglecting her house (and) humiliating her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water," is drawn from | Hammurabi's code (political/Social) | 27 | |
| 10610394977 | The patriarch of the Hebrews was | Abraham (Political) | 28 | |
| 10610394978 | Ethical monotheism was in the tradition of the | Hebrew (Heritage) | 29 | |
| 10610394979 | Hebrew law | borrowed the concept of lex talionis from Hammurabi's Code (Political) | 30 | |
| 10610394980 | Hebrew monotheism has its origins with | Moses (Heritage) | 31 | |
| 10610394981 | The first simplified alphabet, containing only twenty-two letters, was created by the | Phoenicians (Heritage) | 32 | |
| 10610394982 | The original homeland of the Indo-Europeans was | Southern Russia (Environmental) | 33 | |
| 10610394983 | The Greek historian Herodotus used the phrase "the gift of the ________" to describe Egypt. | Nile (Environmental) | 34 | |
| 10610394984 | The largest Egyptian pyramids were built during the | Old Kingdom (Heritage) | 35 | |
| 10610394985 | Horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons were introduced into Egypt by the | Hyksos (Economic/Heritage) | 36 | |
| 10610394986 | In which of the societies did the women enjoy the most freedom and opportunity? | Egypt (Social) | 37 | |
| 10610394987 | In Africa, iron metallurgy | arose independently (Heritage) | 38 | |
| 10610394988 | The Egyptians traded through the Red Sea with a land they called Punt, which was probably | modern-day Somalia (Economic) | 39 | |
| 10610394989 | The Greek meaning "holy inscriptions" refers to | Hieroglyphs (Heritage) | 40 | |
| 10610394990 | Osiris judged whether or not souls were worthy for immortality by | weighing their hearts against a feather symbolizing justice | 41 | |
| 10610394991 | The Bantu originally came from around | Modern day Nigeria (environmental) | 42 | |
| 10610394992 | The tribes which, as early as 3000 B.C.E., began to spread their language and agricultural techniques throughout Africa were the | Bantu (heritage) | 43 | |
| 10610394993 | By spreading their language across a huge stretch of Africa, the Bantu played a role similar to that played by the | Indo-Europeans | 44 | |
| 10610394994 | The Bantu probably began their migrations because of | population pressures (Environmental) | 45 | |
| 10610394995 | By the middle of the first millennium B.C.E., the Bantu had begun to produce | iron | 46 | |
| 10610394996 | The earliest known civilization in India was the | Harappan | 47 | |
| 10610394997 | Much of early Harappan history remains a mystery because | the archaeological remains are under water and they lacked a written language | 48 | |
| 10610394998 | If the Greek historian Herodotus had known of the Harappan society, he might have used the phrase "the gift of the ________" to describe it. | Indus (Heritage/Environmental) | 49 | |
| 10610394999 | Mohenjo-Daro was | one of the two main cities of the Harappan society | 50 | |
| 10610395000 | Evidence relating to trade indicates that Harappan India | traded with Mesopotamia and Egypt (Economic) | 51 | |
| 10610395001 | One of the biggest reasons for the decline of the Harappan society was | ecological degradation | 52 | |
| 10610395002 | The Aryans came into India | in a centuries-long migration | 53 | |
| 10610395003 | The biggest military advantage of the Indo-Europeans was | their horses (political) | 54 | |
| 10610395004 | Which of the following social classes in the caste system is associated with warriors and aristocrats | Kshatriyas | 55 | |
| 10610395005 | The task of butchering animals or handling dead bodies usually fell to the | Untouchables | 56 | |
| 10610395006 | A jati is | subcaste (Social) | 57 | |
| 10610395007 | When a Hindu widow voluntarily threw herself on her dead husband's funeral pyre it was known as | Sati | 58 | |
| 10610395008 | Vedic society was | strongly patriarchal | 59 | |
| 10610395009 | In Hinduism the highest goal of the individual soul was | to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth and enter into permanent union with Brahman (Heritage) | 60 | |
| 10610395010 | The two principal means to achieve the goal of moksha are | asceticism and meditation (Heritage) | 61 | |
| 10610395011 | Which river takes its name from loess soil? | Huang He (environmental) | 62 | |
| 10610395012 | The Huang He River was given the nickname | China's Sorrow (Environmental) | 63 | |
| 10610395013 | Which of the following groupings of early societies and their rivers is correct? | Mesopotamia-Tigris and Euphrates; Egypt-Nile; Harappan-Indus; China-Huang He (Environmental) | 64 | |
| 10610395014 | The Shang rulers were strengthened by their control over the technological advantage of | bronze (Economic) | 65 | |
| 10610395015 | The Chinese copied their chariots from the | Indo-Europeans (Heritage) | 66 | |
| 10610395016 | Which dynasty laid the foundation for principles of government and political legitimacy? | Zhou (political) | 67 | |
| 10610395017 | The Mandate of Heaven | allowed the ruler to serve as a link between the heavens and the earth | 68 | |
| 10610395018 | Because of the immense size of the Zhou state, its emperors were forced to | institute a feudal system of government (political) | 69 | |
| 10610395019 | One of the reasons for the eventual collapse of the Zhou dynasty was the inability of its emperors to control the production of | Iron | 70 | |
| 10610395020 | In ancient China, which group presided at the rites and ceremonies honoring ancestors' spirits? | the patriarchal heads of the families (social) | 71 | |
| 10610395021 | Which group retained much more influence on family structure in China than in other lands? | extended family (Social/Heritage) | 72 | |
| 10610395022 | The Chinese began to make extensive use of writing during the ________ dynasty. | Shang | 73 | |
| 10610395023 | The early Chinese shipped textiles and metal goods to the ancestors of the Turks and Mongols in the steppes and received what in return? | Horses | 74 | |
| 10610395024 | The staple food of Mesoamerica was | Maize (environmental) | 75 | |
| 10610395025 | Which devices did the ancient maya build in order to trap silt carried by the numerous rivers passing through the mesoamerican lowlands | Terraces | 76 | |
| 10610395026 | Essential for positional notation and the manipulation of large numbers, was invented by Mayan mathematicians? | Zero | 77 | |
| 10610395027 | The most flexible and sophisticated system of writing found in the ancient Americas was created by the | Maya | 78 | |
| 10610395028 | The largest single building in Mesoamerica was | the Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Sun | 79 | |
| 10610395029 | What describes the relationship between the abnormal peoples of Australia and New Guinea? | The aboriginal peoples of Australia maintained hunting and gathering societies while in New Guinea they turned to agriculture | 80 | |
| 10610395030 | Malayan, Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian, and other Oceanic languages are derived from | Austronesian | 81 | |
| 10610395031 | The Austronesian-speaking peoples became the first human settlers on which large island off the east African coast? | Madagascar | 82 |