Comparative Civilizations to 1600 Test Preparation
Course Introduction
This course explores the development and interactions of major world civilizations from ancient times to 1600 CE. Emphasizing comparative analysis, students examine the political, social, economic, religious, and cultural foundations of societies such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Islamic world, the Americas, and medieval Europe. Through the study of primary sources and scholarly interpretations, the course investigates the factors that shaped civilizations distinct identities and their influence on global history, fostering a deeper understanding of the diverse ways humans have organized communities and responded to common challenges prior to the modern era.
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Voyages in World History Volume 1 to 1600 2nd Edition by Valerie Hansen
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Chapter 1: The Peopling of the World, to 4000 BCE
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Q1) The last place to be populated by humans was
A)Africa.
B)America.
C)Australia.
D)Europe.
E)Asia.
Answer: B
Q2) What characteristics distinguished Homo sapiens sapiens from other species?
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss the following key points:
1.Their build and the size of their brains were different
2.They were descendents of mitochondrial Eve
3.They had developed larynxes
Q3) What does John Noble Wilford's phrase "in this sense,we are all African" imply?
A)European peoples emerged from areas in Asia.
B)All humans are related to groups that migrated from Africa to the Americas.
C)All human species started in Africa but became extinct during the ice ages.
D)Humans evolved in Asia and moved to the warmer African climate.
E)All humans are descendants from African Homo sapiens sapiens.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: The First Complex Societies in the Eastern
Mediterranean, ca 4000 - 550 BCE
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Q1) The characteristics of the Nile River include all of the following except A)It flows north.
B)It is fed by the headwaters of Lake Victoria.
C)Its cataracts form natural barriers against enemies.
D)It has areas of rapids and cataracts.
E)It flows west and east.
Answer: E
Q2) Sargon changed the language of government and daily life in his empire from Sumerian to A)Akkadian.
B)Hebrew.
C)Greek.
D)demotic.
E)Babylonian.
Answer: A
Q3) iron
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: Ancient India and the Rise of Buddhism, 2600
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Q1) The earliest Indian farmers planted
A)Rice and wheat.
B)Potatoes and rice.
C)Wheat and barley.
D)Maize and barley.
E)Yams.
Answer: C
Q2) From reading the Periplus and relating it to archaeological discoveries today,scholars have deduced that trade was very active on the southwestern coast of India because
A)Foreign ships were too big to travel through the shallow waters between India and Sri Lanka.
B)Since Buddhism rejected wealth, very little trade was carried out on the eastern coast of India.
C)Goods from the southwestern coast area had the most precious goods to trade.
D)Foreigners were able to pay in Roman and Greek coins.
E)Precious goods on the eastern coast must be paid for in Roman and Greek coins.
Answer: E
Q3) Rig Veda
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Q1) The Shang believed that they had to perform rituals to,and offer food and drink to
A)Nature spirits.
B)Supreme god.
C)Angels.
D)Wind gods.
E)Ancestors.
Q2) Sima Qian
Q3) Daoism urges rulers to allow things to take their natural course,which is called
A)The Analects.
B)Lessons for Women.
C)Records of the Grand Historian.
D)Wuwei.
E)Tao Te Ching.
Q4) Translated,what does The Analects refer to?
A)Ancestor worship.
B)Discussions and conversations with Confucius.
C)The law of the land.
D)The early history of Shang dynasty.
E)Relations between the emperor and his subjects.
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Q1) Historians use what to distinguish between Maya periods,such as the Early (250-550)and Late Classic (600-800)Maya?
A)The building of city walls.
B)The amount of trade with South America.
C)The building of monuments.
D)The amount of human sacrifices.
E)The Mayans' moving the Olmec basalt head sculptures.
Q2) Mayan agriculture
A)Involved walled fields with guards to protect them from poachers.
B)Produced a money crop that was used in trade, rather than for food.
C)Used mostly slave labor close to the city.
D)Used natural fertilizers, which resulted in year-round agriculture.
E)Developed sophisticated slave-drawn plows.
Q3) The goal of Maya warfare was to increase territory and
A)Capture land.
B)Capture prisoners.
C)Acquire title and trade rights.
D)Establish overlordship.
E)Capture women for marriage.
Q4) Chichen Itza
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Q1) Which of the following statements about Persian couriers is true?
A)They traveled 90 miles a day.
B)Couriers were Persian merchants who developed a vast trade network.
C)They were crucial to government communication with its vast empire.
D)The courier system stationed a man and a horse a day apart.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) Hellenization
Q3) Lydian coins
Q4) By 814 B.C.E.,the Phoenicians had established a Mediterranean port at Carthage and several other cities along
A)The Northern Aegean.
B)The west coast of Africa.
C)The Arabian peninsula.
D)The Nile River.
E)The North African coast.
Q5) oracle
Q6) satraps
Q7) Persia
Q8) Ahura Mazda
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Q9) Trace the evolution of democracy in Athens.
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509 BCE- 476 CE
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Q1) What makes Pliny's account of the Mount Vesuvius' eruption particularly credible?
A)The eruption happened in the lifetime of Pliny.
B)Pliny spoke to someone who had witnessed the eruption.
C)Pliny personally witnessed and experienced the eruption.
D)He read many firsthand accounts of the disaster.
E)His uncle had died in the eruption.
Q2) Because Jesus believed illness was caused by ____,he healed the sick through miracles.
A)Imbalance of humors.
B)Satan's presence.
C)Over-indulgence in eating.
D)Lack of a healthy diet.
E)The poor were overworked.
Q3) The Roman emperor responsible for moving the Roman capital to Byzantium was A)Diocletian.
B)Pachomius.
C)Constantine.
D)Augustine.
E)Pontius Pilate.
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Q1) A historical curiosity took place when the Gupta dynasty's scribes began to use the zero seemingly at the same time that the zero was being used by A)Sumerians.
B)Mayans.
C)Greeks.
D)Egyptians.
E)Phoenicians.
Q2) Which of the following was involved with merchants and pilgrims traveling by sea between India and China?
A)Winds were favorable in spring and summer for travelers leaving China.
B)Most boats had to wait for the right prevailing winds to travel.
C)While waiting for the correct winds, port towns grew to accommodate travelers.
D)Winds were favorable in fall and winter for travelers leaving India.
E)All of these choices.
Q3) Silla
Q4) Jayavarman II
Q5) Songsten Gampo
Q6) Greater Vehicle
Q7) Empress Wu
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Chapter 9: Islamic Empires of Western Asia and Africa, 600 - 1258
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Q1) What is the term that describes the primary obligations of each Muslim?
A)Hajj.
B)Five Pillars.
C)Hadith.
D)Jihad.
E)Qadi.
Q2) Muhammad left Mecca for Medina for which of the following reasons?
A)Clan leaders in Mecca saw Muhammad as a threat to them.
B)He was promised immortality.
C)Medina clansmen needed someone to arbitrate between clans.
D)The angel Gabriel instructed Muhammad to travel to Medina.
E)Mecca had already been converted.
Q3) How was the egalitarianism of early Islam transformed by the Abbasid caliphs?
A)They lived in the splendor of a Sasanian court.
B)Greek became the language of the court.
C)They were increasingly accessible to the public.
D)Caliphs strove to appear as common Muslims in dress and surroundings.
E)Living in Sasanian courts, they were addressed as "the shadow of God on earth."
Q4) Quran
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Q1) The incident described by Gregory of Tours concerns a vase taken from a monastery,which Clovis and most of his men agreed to return.The holder refuses and destroys it.Discuss how this story is a very good description of the war-band/warlord relationship.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A)No evidence has ever been found of Viking settlements in Canada.
B)Viking settlements in the New World involved prosperous ports.
C)Viking boats were limited in traveling in the open sea and could not have landed in Canada.
D)Archeological evidence dating from ca. 1000 of a Viking settlement has been found in Newfoundland.
E)Viking voyages to North America were impossible, since they were unable to sail out of sight of land.
Q3) The reading,"Movement of Ideas: Ibn Fadlan's Description of a Rus Burial," is very emotional and full of unexplained symbolism.Choose three symbols and attempt to analyze their meanings.
Q4) plague
Q5) patriarch
Q6) Theodora
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Chapter 11: Expanding Trade Networks in Africa and India,
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Q1) Which of the following sources provide historians with information regarding sub-Saharan Africa of this time?
A)archeological excavations.
B)oral traditions.
C)language analysis.
D)references from other cultures and peoples.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) Domesticated by the fourth century c.e.,why did the camel become the major source of transport in the Saharan ergion?
A)It was cheaper than human transport.
B)It was hardy.
C)It could go long distances without water.
D)It was capable of carrying heavy loads.
E) All of these.
Q3) Great Zimbabwe
Q4) Although Ibn Battuta started his journey with a limited amount of funds,it appears that by the end of his journey he had acquired both wealth and property.Discuss this statement.
Q5) Delhi Sultanate
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Q1) Both Li Qingzhao and her husband came from what level of Song society?
A)Merchant class.
B)Free serf.
C)Top level.
D)Royal family.
E)Landlord.
Q2) Cost factors involved with the use of movable type included which of the following?
A)that a piece of type had to be made for each of the thousands of Chinese characters.
B)that because of resetting each frame, it was suitable to printing large volumes.
C)that books that could be printed by the thousands became cheaper to buy.
D)that it was more expensive than woodblock printing.
E)all of these choices.
Q3) Zhao Rugua
Q4) Neo-Confucianism
Q5) Iron
Q6) Song Dynasty
Q7) Footbinding
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Chapter 13: Europe's Commercial Revolution,1000 - 1400
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Q1) Abelard's father,who was a ____,intended for him to have some education. A)lord.
B)king.
C)knight.
D)free serf.
E)priest.
Q2) Abelard traveled as a teacher before settling down at the University of A)Oxford.
B)Cambridge.
C)Bologna.
D)Dresden.
E)Paris
Q3) Agricultural changes in Europe
A)were introduced by the Franks. B)were the result of the plague.
C)did not all occur at the same time throughout Europe.
D)were related to the Viking raids.
E)were introduced by the Muslims.
Q4) Cathedrals
Q5) What caused reform inside the established monastic orders after 1100?
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Chapter 14: The Mongols and their Successors, 1200 - 1500
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Q1) How did the principality of Rus emerge as the conqueror of the Qipchaq Khanate and become the strongest principality of the Russian states?
Q2) Animals provided for the Mongols' basic needs,which included which of the following?
A)Clothing.
B)Khumis.
C)Felt.
D)Dairy products.
E)All of these choices.
Q3) Viewed as a usurper all his life,what might have been the goal of the Yongle emperor in building the great Chinese fleet commanded by Zheng He?
Q4) Zheng He expeditions
Q5) Mehmet the Conqueror was able to conquer Constantinople by effectively using A)Archers.
B)Negotiation.
C)Catapults.
D)Mongol mercenaries.
E)Cannons.
Q6) Khara Khorum
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Q1) Atahualpa
Q2) How have archaeologists verified the arrival of the Mexica people to Tenochtitlan?
A)European descriptions.
B)Aztec historical records.
C)Comparative writings of nearby peoples.
D)Excavations.
E)Trade records.
Q3) Quetzalcoatl
Q4) In 1487 Bartholomew Dias was the first European to
A)enslave Africans from West Africa.
B)establish a sugar plantation in the Canary Islands.
C)sail around the southern tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope.
D)build a caravel style ship.
E)discover that the earth was not flat.
Q5) Ferdinand of Aragon
Q6) How were the Spanish able to defeat the Aztec with such a small force?
Q7) Hernan Cortez
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16: Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia, 1500 - 1700
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Q1) After meeting and listening with representatives of many religious leaders and followers,Akbar proclaimed his belief in
A)the Sufis.
B)Protestantism.
C)Buddhism.
D)Divine Faith.
E)Zoroastrianism.
Q2) The status of Mughal India as the most powerful state in South Asia was dependent on which of the following?
A)internal trade.
B)unifying an ethnically diverse people.
C)participation in Indian Ocean commerce.
D)political skill.
E)all of the answers are correct.
Q3) Dutch East India Company
Q4) MughalDynasty
Q5) As active as the Portuguese were in Africa and South Asia,why did their presence encompass such a short time and their power remain so limited?
Q6) Maharajahs
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