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Civilizations of the World explores the history and development of major societies from ancient times to the modern era. The course examines the cultural, political, economic, and technological achievements of civilizations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, highlighting both unique characteristics and common patterns in human development. Through comparative analysis, students gain an understanding of how geography, belief systems, trade, conflict, and social structures influenced the rise and interaction of civilizations, laying the foundation for the interconnected world of today.
Recommended Textbook World History Volume I To 1800 7th Edition by
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) All of the following are true about the ancient Sumerian city-states except that
A) their political structure was democratic in nature.
B) warfare between them was common.
C) they were primarily agricultural communities.
D) they mastered the use of bronze.
E) they engaged in monumental construction projects.
Answer: A
Q2) The use of fire may have begun about
A) 2,000,000 years ago.
B) 500,000 years ago.
C) 100,000 years ago.
D) 25,000 years ago.
E) 10,000 years ago.
Answer: B
Q3) By 100,000 B.C.E.,two groups of Homo sapiens had developed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) "Sea Peoples"
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) According to tradition,Ashoka's son:
A) abdicated the throne in humility to a wise advisor.
B) died because Ashoka refused to commit a violet act.
C) sought to convert Ashoka to Jainism.
D) was responsible for converting the island of Sri Lanka to Buddhism.
E) was an academic and found no interest in politics.
Answer: D
Q2) Harappan civilization evolved along the Ganges River.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Chandragupta Maurya
A) may have been a member of the army of Alexander the Great.
B) feared assassination and had a secret police.
C) was the last major Mauryan ruler.
D) worshiped the god Mithras.
E) abolished Buddhism in India.
Answer: B
Q4) jati
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) In early Chinese history,villages were organized by nuclear family units rather than by clans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following is not a true statement?
A) All evidence indicates that the first agricultural villages in China developed only along the Pearl River.
B) Ancient Chinese villages evolved over thousands of years to form the first unified state under the Qin.
C) Chinese topography caused its civilization to develop apart from advancements in other parts of Asia.
D) Nomadic attacks from the north were an ongoing factor in the development of China.
E) Early Chinese literature was didactic and elitist.
Answer: A
Q3) Legalism
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) What did the Greeks mean by democracy? In what ways was the Athenian political system a democracy? How would Athenian democracy differ from modern democracies,such as that found in the United States?
Q2) Alexander the Great
Q3) "Hellenistic civilization had a greater ultimate impact on Western Civilization than the Hellenic/polis world of Athens and Sparta." Discuss,pro and con.
Q4) The earliest Aegean civilization was located
A) in the Peloponnesus.
B) on the island of Delos.
C) in Attica.
D) on Crete.
E) in Macedonia.
Q5) "The Golden Age of Greece was a direct consequence of the results of the Persian War." Discuss,pro and con.
Q6) Arthur Evens
Q7) Olympic Games and Zeus
Q8) Were Epicureanism and Stoicism a continuation of "traditional" Greek thought (Socrates,Plato,and others)or were they a "new," Hellenistic development? Or both?
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Q1) the Apennines
Q2) Edict of Milan
Q3) Roman imperialism was characterized by
A) a desire to improve the economies of conquered peoples.
B) unsuccessful diplomatic moves.
C) pure accident and fate.
D) diplomacy, strategic fortifications, road construction, and allied military support.
E) the successful employment of the phalanx.
Q4) The Third Punic War
A) began with an unprovoked Carthaginian attack on Gaul.
B) took place immediately after the end of the Second Punic War.
C) resulted in Carthage being destroyed and its territory becoming a Roman province.
D) saved North Africa from Roman influence.
E) was caused by the assassination of Cato the Elder.
Q5) consuls and praetors
Q6) Julio-Claudians
Q7) the Colosseum and gladiators
Q8) Wang Mang and the Xin dynasty
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) Which of the following statements is the most accurate depiction of the Aztec Empire?
A) It was a highly centralized, tightly administered monarchy developed through military conquest.
B) It was a confederation of localities linked by a feudal allegiance system in which a central ruler controlled an empire developed through military conquest.
C) It was a highly centralized maritime society that had evolved from a foundation of intense religious piety.
D) It was followed by the Mayan civilization.
E) Human sacrifice was abolished by Montezuma.
Q2) The two commodities that enabled the Maya to develop trade relations with other civilizations in its region were
A) cotton and silver.
B) yams and manioc.
C) obsidian and cacao trees.
D) gold and silver.
E) manioc and turpentine.
Q3) Carthaginians,lost tribes of Israel,and Atlantis
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
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Q1) sultan
Q2) The great mosque constructed in Jerusalem at the site of the old temple is the A) Dome of the Rock.
B) Alhambra.
C) Hegira Sophia.
D) Cordoba Mosque.
E) the Blue Mosque.
Q3) Muhammad began the solitary meditations during which he received the revelations underlying Islam because of A) a dispute with his wife.
B) his desire to expand his knowledge of the message of Allah.
C) the difficulties created in his mind by the corrupt and decadent society of his day.
D) the call of the angel Gabriel.
E) his desire to convert the people of Mecca to Islam.
Q4) Muslim
Q5) Abu al-Abbas and the Abbasid Caliphate and Baghdad
Q6) Ali and Abu Bakr
Q7) Discuss Islam as a preserver and a conduit of the culture and intellectual heritage of Graeco-Roman civilization.
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) The vast grasslands that border the great desert region of the Sahara are known as A) meoris.
B) wetlands.
C) savannahs.
D) jungles.
E) transvaals.
Q2) A unique aspect of the ancient Ethiopian civilization was the fact that A) it was the only Muslim society in the area.
B) it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.
C) its assimilation by Kush was brought about through the development of trade ties. D) the Syrians were able to make it a Muslim nation.
E) it remained animist in religion until the twentieth century.
Q3) Zambezi River
Q4) mansa
Q5) What are the possible explanations-geographical,political,religious,and economic-which kept the West in almost total ignorance of sub-Saharan Africa until relatively recent times?
Q6) the Garamantes
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) What were some of the chief destinations along the Silk Road? What kind of products traded along the Silk Road? In what ways was the Silk Road as much a conduit of ideas as it was a highway for trade goods?
Q2) rock paintings at Sigiriya
Q3) Mamallapuram
Q4) Many upper-class Indian Hindus
A) adopted the Muslim custom of purdah.
B) had largely converted to Islam by 500 C.E.
C) ultimately accepted the Muslim tradition of having no castes.
D) never adopted any non-Indian cultural practices.
E) remained aloof from all Muslims.
Q5) How did the geographic features of Southeast Asia influence the developmental possibilities,and the subsequent evolution,of its two basic regions?
Q6) purdah
Q7) The Delhi Sultanate was a Hindu state that came into existence by 1200 and ruled over northern India.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Silk Road Page 11
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) Published in 868 C.E.,this ____ is the earliest printed work known to exist.
A) Buddhist text
B) Census analysis.
C) edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
D) copy of the travelogue of Zheng He.
E) Daoist text
Q2) Song dynasty
Q3) the Mongols and the Yuan dynasty
Q4) In the attempt to resist the territorial ambitions of the northern Jurchen,the Song turned to the Mongols for support.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In the 1360s,Zhu Yuanzhang put an end to the disintegrating Yuan dynasty,establishing the Ming dynasty in its place.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Uighurs,Kirghiz,and Khitan
Q7) Marco Polo
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Q8) Tale of the Marshes and Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Q9) civil service examination
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) kamikaze/"divine wind"
Q2) The Onin War
A) brought Shitoku Taishi to power.
B) drove the Mongols from Japan after only eleven years in power there.
C) was the major event which caused the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate in 1256.
D) finally restored absolute power to the shogun, Minamoto Yoritomo.
E) effectively destroyed the power of the shogunate in the 1470s.
Q3) Which of the following is true of the Japanese islands?
A) Honshu receives over 200 inches of snow each year.
B) It contains so many mountains that the percentage of land that it can use for farming is under three percent.
C) Since its mountains are volcanic, much of its soil is very poor.
D) The nearness to the Asian and Pacific tectonic plates causes them to be subject to violent earthquakes.
E) The largest of the four main islands is Kyushu.
Q4) Trace the development of government in Korea from the era of the three kingdoms through the establishment of the post-Yuan Yi Dynasty.How did local and Chinese ideas and institutions influence this development?
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) The cleric who called for the Second Crusade in the 1140s was
A) St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
B) Pope Urban II.
C) Pope Innocent III.
D) Peter the Hermit.
E) Cyril.
Q2) wergeld
Q3) Which of the following was not characteristic of Gothic architecture?
A) stained glass windows
B) ribbed vaults and pointed arches
C) flying buttresses
D) thick walls
E) extensive use of colored light
Q4) All of the following are correct about Thomas Aquinas except he
A) relied upon the philosophy of Plato.
B) wrote the Summa Theologica.
C) attempted to reconcile faith and reason.
D) used the dialectical method.
E) used Aristotle's philosophy.
Q5) Abbot Suger and the abbey of Saint-Denis
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West
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Q1) the Great Schism
Q2) The Western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century C.E.,but the Eastern Roman Empire survived for many centuries.Why?
Q3) the Habsburgs
Q4) Political disintegration in the fourteenth century resulted from all of the following except
A) financial problems.
B) use of mercenary soldiers.
C) the breakdown of feudalism.
D) dynasties had too many male heirs.
E) dynasties were unable to produce male heirs.
Q5) The Renaissance artist who moved away from realistic portrayals to idealized forms was
A) Leonardo da Vinci.
B) Michelangelo.
C) Masaccio.
D) Raphael.
E) Alberti.
Q6) Hagia Sophia
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Pedro Cabral
Q2) As a result of European expansion into Africa,
A) the Mwene Metapa was entirely eliminated by the Portuguese.
B) the economic conditions of the continent were unaltered.
C) North African political regimes were toppled by French forces.
D) internal conflict among native African groups was intensified.
E) most Africans became wealthier.
Q3) The VOC
A) was the sacred ruler of the Khmer.
B) had ten times more capital than the English East India Company.
C) was a secret police agency in Burma.
D) was the "divine light" Javanese monarchs were believed to possess.
E) the Malayan ruling class.
Q4) Timbuktu
Q5) "God,glory,and gold"
Q6) Before the coming of the Europeans,most slaves in Africa were prisoners or war captives or had inherited their status.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Buddhist and Islamic kingship models Page 19
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) Anabaptists
Q2) "new monarchies"
Q3) The legacy Louis XIV left to France was
A) control, finally, over the foreign trade of the Netherlands.
B) a hugely expanded territorial domain.
C) a nation that was financially destitute and surrounded by enemies.
D) the friendship of the rest of Europe.
E) an entrenched and powerful nobility
Q4) The Institutes of the Christian Religion,a masterful synthesis of Protestant thought,was written by
A) Martin Luther.
B) Ignatius Loyola.
C) Desiderius Erasmus.
D) Albrecht Durer.
E) John Calvin.
Q5) Peace of Augsburg
Q6) Johannes Gutenberg
Q7) divine-right theory and absolutism
Q8) the Spanish Armada
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) The French defeated the British at the Battle of Plassey in 1757,thus consolidating French economic power in southern India.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following were true about the reign of Shah Jahan except that
A) he was able to expand the Mughal domain.
B) he put economic strains on his people with programs of conquest and construction enterprises.
C) famine and drought did not plague India during his rule.
D) he built the Red Fort in Delhi.
E) the expense of building the Taj Mahal required him to increase agricultural taxes.
Q3) Black Hole of Calcutta
Q4) Sinan
Q5) Discuss the European impact on the Indian subcontinent during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.How did this impact alter conditions in ways that significantly changed the power balance there?
Q6) millet
Q7) sultan
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) How did Qing China and Tokugawa Japan respond to the coming of the Europeans,and what explains the differences? What impact did European contacts have on these two East Asian civilizations through the end of the eighteenth century?
Q2) Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the "sword hunt"
Q3) Probably the best-known artistic achievements of the Ming era were the famous A) court paintings of the artists of Yangzhou.
B) silk masterpieces of the chinoiserie.
C) blue-and-white porcelain objects.
D) intricately carved lacquerware in bold shapes and colored cloisonné.
E) jade jewelry works.
Q4) ronin
Q5) The Dream of the Red Chamber
Q6) Arguably the greatest ruler in Chinese history was
A) Kangxi.
B) Hongwu.
C) Qianling.
D) Yongle.
E) Asoka.
Q7) Edo
Q8) Matteo Ricci,and Jesuits v.Dominicans and Franciscans
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Which of the following was <u>not</u> achieved during the regime of Napoleon?
A) The legal position of women was weakened with the activation of the Civil Code.
B) A concordat was arranged with the pope.
C) The laws of France were codified in the Civil Code.
D) A powerful, centralized bureaucracy was established.
E) All divorces were outlawed.
Q2) Galileo Galilei
Q3) daily newspapers and coffeehouses
Q4) enlightened despotism
Q5) Newton's Principia
A) placed the earth at the center of the universe.
B) rejected the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.
C) mathematically disproved the universal law of gravitation.
D) supplied the new theory of the universe that combined the work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.
E) proved that Luther was correct regarding salvation by faith.
Q6) "cottage industry" or the "putting-out" system
Q7) Napoleon Bonaparte
Q8) Louis XVI
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