Humanities: Ancient to Early Modern Test Questions
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This course provides an in-depth exploration of the humanities from ancient civilizations through the early modern period, focusing on the development of art, literature, philosophy, religion, and society. Students will examine key works and ideas from diverse cultures, tracing the evolution of human thought, values, and creative expression. Through critical analysis of primary sources and interdisciplinary perspectives, the course highlights the enduring legacies and transformative movements that have shaped the foundations of Western and global traditions, fostering an appreciation for the complexities and influences of the human experience across time.
Recommended Textbook 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) By 25,000 BCE,these had died out leaving only homo sapiens sapiens.
A)homo habilis
B)neanderthal
C)homonins
D)austrolopithecines.
E)none of these choices
Answer: B
Q2) Homininscan best described as a term referring to all A)Hunters.
B)Humans.
C)Fishermen.
D)Herders.
E)Apes.
Answer: B
Q3) What were some of the defining characteristics of the cave art in Chauvet and Lascaux?
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss these important characteristics:1.The art depicted the animals they hunted.
2.Some paintings were decorated with patterns of dots and human handprints.
3.Some indicate the varying game available in different hunting seasons.
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Chapter 2: The First Complex Societies in the Eastern
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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) How did the Egyptians display their veneration of the Sun God Amun-Ra,who they believed helped them expel the Hyksos?
A)They made offerings of ivory.
B)They built a temple to Ra at Kush.
C)They built a large temple to him at Karnak.
D)They made human sacrifices at major temples.
E)The pharaoh ordered a yearly sacrifice of the children.
Answer: C
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 Rig Veda provides what insight into the early Indo-European society in India?
A)It illustrates the transition from herding to farming.
B)Horses were still the most important animal in society.
C)The position of women in society was similar to that of men.
D)Girls were educated.
E)All of these.
Answer: E
Q2) When Siddhartha decided to stop starving himself,he went where to meditate for 49 days?
A)To a temple.
B)Under a bodhi tree.
C)In a cemetery.
D)In his palace.
E)At the side of the road.
Answer: B
Q3) jati
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Bhagavad Gita
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: Blueprint
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Q1) Qin Dynasty
Q2) The Chinese referred to oracles to foretell the future by
A)Reading the signs made by the calls of owls at night.
B)Animal sacrifice rituals.
C)Reading the ash of burned poppy leaves.
D)Interpreting the cracks resulting from placing a heated poker on the shoulder blade bone of cattle, turtle shells, and plastrons.
E)Burning the ashes of ancestors.
Q3) The Xiongnu threat to the Han empire finally came to an end because
A)Of the negotiation of the Han diplomat Zhang Qian.
B)Weak Xiongnu kings were unable to raise an army through alliances with other kings.
C)Changing climatic conditions weakened the Xiongnu horses, raised on the Mongolian steppes.
D)Cultural assimilation made the Xiongnu into urban dwellers.
E)The Xiongnu confederacy broke apart into warring groups.
Q4) According to the reading in the textbook,"Movement of Ideas: The Analects and Sima Qian's Letter to Ren," in discussion between the Master and his students,what seems to be of concern to the young scholars of that time that are still relevant today?
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Q1) Discuss the several theories that attempt to explain the relationships between the Olmecs,Teothihuacan,and the Maya.
Q2) What religious practice was common to most Mesoamericans?
A)Worshipping volcanoes.
B)The use of hallucinogenic drugs.
C)Ancestor worship.
D)Mummification of kings.
E)Blood sacrifice.
Q3) The large sculpted heads of the Olmec were produced from A)Volcanic rock.
B)Marble.
C)Concrete.
D)Basalt.
E)Limestone.
Q4) nixtamal
Q5) Hopewell
Q6) Long Count
Q7) Caral
Q8) Olmec
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Q9) Chavin
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Q1) polis
Q2) The Odyssey and the____,written by Homer approximately 800 B.C.E.,describes the Trojan War.
A)The History of Greece.
B)Iliad.
C)The History of the Peloponnesian Wars.
D)The Histories.
E)Avesta.
Q3) Artemisia
Q4) According to Herodotus,in the debate among the Iranian leaders,Darius defended what kind of government?
A)Republic.
B)Oligarchy.
C)Monarchy.
D)Democracy.
E)Federation.
Q5) Achaemenids
Q6) Cyrus
Q7) Socrates
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509 BCE- 476 CE
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Q1) Augustus
Q2) The Roman emperor responsible for moving the Roman capital to Byzantium was A)Diocletian.
B)Pachomius.
C)Constantine.
D)Augustine.
E)Pontius Pilate.
Q3) What was the central issue in the First Punic War?
A)The control of Rome by Carthage.
B)To destroy the capital of Carthage as an economic center in the Mediterranean.
C)The Roman general Scipio's desire to gain power in the republican government.
D)Rome's hope to destroy the Carthaginian navy as a threat to its mainland.
E)Rivalry for dominance over Sicily.
Q4) Which title did Octavian prefer to be called after becoming the sole ruler of Rome in 27 B.C.E.?
A)Emperor.
B)Augustus.
C)Princeps.
D)Dictator.
E)King.
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Q1) Greater Vehicle
Q2) Tang Dynasty
Q3) Buddhist monasteries in India hired laborers because A)monks believed that fieldwork was beneath them socially.
B)to hire field hands was part of the eightfold path.
C)monks were very busy copying Buddhist texts.
D)fieldwork distracted the monks from missionary work.
E)monks were forbidden from working in fields.
Q4) Bodhisattvas
Q5) A bodhisattva is a Buddhist on the verge of enlightenment and chooses to stay in the world due to A)guilt.
B)anxiety.
C)indecision.
D)anger.
E)compassion.
Q6) Empress Wu
Q7) Gupta Dynasty
Q8) Angkor Dynasty
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Chapter 9: Islamic Empires of Western Asia and Africa, 600 - 1258
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Q1) Islamic scholars invented the astrolabe which was used to determine A)Favorable winds to sail around Africa.
B)The location of Mecca for the direction to face during prayer.
C)The number of days in the Islamic year.
D)The location of the Garden of Eden.
E)Who was a descendant of Muhammad.
Q2) Discuss the Abbasid bureaucratic system,which governed an empire of millions stretching from Spain and North Africa to the borders of India.
Q3) Muhammad received his message in a series of visions directly from A)God.
B)Gabriel.
C)Christ.
D)Abraham.
E)Allah.
Q4) caliph
Q5) Quran
Q6) Translation Movement
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Q7) Like all other civilizations before and during its time,slavery was a part of the Islamic Empire.Discuss slavery in the Islamic Empire.
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Q1) Culturally,the residents of the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire had which of the following in common?
A)Both spoke Latin.
B)Both spoke Greek.
C)Both were mostly Christian.
D)Both followed Roman law.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) The first outbreak of the bubonic plague in the Byzantine Empire in 541 occurred during the reign of
A)Constantine.
B)Irene.
C)Justinian.
D)Alexius.
E)Leo IV.
Q3) How was Harald Bluetooth important to early Scandinavian history?
A)He conquered England and Ireland.
B)He abolished slavery in Denmark.
C)His army was important in repelling Muslims from Spain.
D)He forbade trade with Muslims.
E)He unified Denmark, conquered southern Norway, and converted to Christianity.
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Chapter 11: Expanding Trade Networks in Africa and India,
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Q1) Lineage and clan organization,as part of Africa's diverse societies,are characterized by
A)a matrilineal lineage.
B)the evolution of the great man.
C)monogamous relationships.
D)infanticide.
E)weak and small settlements.
Q2) Ibn Battuta's accounts of the various areas he traveled are an important tool for scholars because
A)his accounts give exact dates and locations.
B)they were translated into Arabic.
C)the notes were analyzed and interpreted in the learning center in Baghdad.
D)he wrote alphabets for many indigenous peoples.
E)his notes are the only source of information about this area up to this time.
Q3) Ibn Khaldun
Q4) Camels
Q5) Elaborate on the idea that lineage or clan was the bedrock of Africa's diverse societies.
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Chapter 12: China's Commercial Revolution,ca900 - 1276
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Q1) Emperors who wished to delegate their authority put power in the hands of
A)various government departments.
B)their successor sons.
C)a grand councilor.
D)powerful landed families.
E)local governors.
Q2) What was the purpose of footbinding and how was it connected to the commercial revolution of the Southern Song?
Q3) Li Qingzhao
Q4) Wang Anshi's new policies failed because
A)too much paper money was printed.
B)the government stopped minting coins.
C)there were high interest rates for loans made to peasants.
D)Chinese peasants could not earn enough money to repay loans.
E)the government paid all salaries in cheques.
Q5) With the commercial revolution came Chinese entrepreneurs who invested in goods for the market.One such area is iron production; at its high point in 1078,China was the largest producer of iron in the world,only to be surpassed by England several hundred years later.Discuss the development of iron production and why,centuries later,China was overshadowed by England.
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Chapter 13: Europe's Commercial Revolution,1000 - 1400
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Q1) Primogeniture
Q2) Dominicans
Q3) Black Death
Q4) What brought on the growth of learning centers and the thirst for information in Europe between 1100 and 1400 known as Scholasticism?
Q5) The language used for education throughout Europe in c.1100 was A)French.
B)English.
C)Latin.
D)Greek.
E) Italian.
Q6) How did the cerealization of Europe lead to a growth of market places?
Q7) One of the long-lasting results of the sack of Constantinople in 1203 by the crusaders
A)was to create a permanent schism between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
B)was a retaliatory attack against Venice by the Seljuq sultan.
C)resulted in the exile of Pope Urban II.
D)restricted all future military actions in the Middle East to national forces.
E)resulted in the formal end of the crusading period.
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Q1) Mongke
Q2) Uighur
Q3) How does Chinggis Khan reorganize the Mongol army when he unifies the tribes?
Q4) Yongle
Q5) "They came,they sapped,they burnt,they slew,they plundered,and they departed" was the description Persian historian Juvaini used to describe the Mongol invasion of A)Japan.
B)Sri Lanka.
C)Transoxiana.
D)India.
E)Egypt.
Q6) Mehmet the Conqueror was able to conquer Constantinople by effectively using A)Archers.
B)Negotiation.
C)Catapults.
D)Mongol mercenaries.
E)Cannons.
Q7) Shamans
Q8) Koryo
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Q1) According to Columbus,the natives he met
A)used iron weapons.
B)were fully dressed in cotton.
C)seemed overly aggressive.
D)kept the women out of sight.
E)appeared to be timid.
Q2) Gutenberg
Q3) Quetzalcoatl
Q4) Columbus's proposed trial trip involved sailing west across the ____ in search of the Indies.
A)Aegean Sea
B)North Atlantic Ocean
C)Mediterranean Sea
D)Bay of Naples
E)North Sea
Q5) Discuss the infant stage of European exploration.
Q6) Precious Water
Q7) Hernan Cortez
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Q9) Arawak
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Chapter 16: Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia, 1500 - 1700
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Q1) Which of the following was a new religious philosophy in sixteenth-century Asia?
A)Protestant Reformation.
B)Catholic Counter-Reformation.
C)Orthodox Christianity.
D)Religious pluralism.
E)Sikhism.
Q2) Bourgeoisie
Q3) Slave Trade
Q4) Swahili
Q5) By the time of Matteo Ricci's arrival in 1582,the population of China had reached
A)50 million.
B)120 million.
C)10 million.
D)one million.
E)one-half billion.
Q6) han'gul
Q7) Catholic Reformation
Q8) Son of Heaven
Q9) How was Matteo Ricci an example of the Counter Reformation?
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