Introduction to World Civilizations Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
Introduction to World Civilizations explores the development and legacy of major civilizations from ancient times to the early modern era across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Through a comparative approach, students examine the social, political, economic, and cultural factors that shaped different societies, as well as their interactions and exchanges. Emphasis is placed on understanding the contributions of diverse peoples, the rise and fall of empires, religious and philosophical traditions, technological innovations, and the global forces that have connected and transformed the world throughout history.
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World History Before 1600 The Development of Early Civilization 5th Edition Volume I by Jiu-Hwa
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Chapter 1: Early Civilization in West Africa, the Aegean, and the Western Hemisphere
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Q1) The Kushites of Meroë had indirect trade relations with A)China.
B)India.
C)Arabia.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices
Answer: D
Q2) The Persian king who first engineered Persia's rise to the status of a major power in the ancient world was A)Croesus.
B)Cyrus.
C)Xerxes.
D)Cambyses.
E)Darius.
Answer: B
Q3) Zoroastrianism
Answer: not answer
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Chapter 2: The Early Civilizations of South and East Asia
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Q1) Which of the following has not been found at the site of Chengchow (Ao)?
A)jade artifacts
B)written records
C)kilns
D)evidence of human sacrifice
E)a wall almost two and a half miles in circumference
Answer: B
Q2) The Aryan invaders who came to India after 1500 B.C.E. were
A)more urbanized than the people of the early Indus civilization.
B)non-Indo-European.
C)darker-skinned than the people of the early Indus civilization.
D)closely related to Indo-Europeans migrating into west Asia and Europe in the second millennium.
E)none of these choices
Answer: D
Q3) Mohenjo Daro
Answer: not answer
Q4) karma
Answer: not answer
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Chapter 3: The Flowering of Great Faiths and Philosophies
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Q1) According to Legalism,
A)people are naturally good rather than evil.
B)people will reform if rulers set moral examples.
C)officials should receive job assignments on the basis of talent and not birth.
D)the investing of too much power in the government should be avoided at all costs.
E)none of these choices
Answer: C
Q2) The institution of the Council of Five Hundred at Athens was brought about by A)Draco.
B)Solon.
C)Peisistratus.
D)Cleisthenes.
E)Themistocles.
Answer: D
Q3) li
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Q4) dharma
Answer: not answer
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Chapter 4: The Age of Great Empires
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Q1) Philip II
Q2) Lucretius
Q3) Zama
Q4) Describe the importance of silk in Han China. Be sure to discuss the Silk Road.
Q5) Typical of Mauryan cities were
A)strong walls and watch towers.
B)pleasure parks.
C)assembly halls.
D)gambling places.
E)all of these choices
Q6) Terence
Q7) Who wrote "Plunder, murder, theft, these they [the Romans] misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace"?
A)Cicero
B)Livy
C)Tacitus
D)King Perseus
E)Plutarch
Q8) Tyre
Q9) Roman magistracies
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Chapter 5: Disruption and Renewal in West Asia and Europe
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Q1) The "Vulgate Bible" was a translation into
A)Greek made by Augustine.
B)Latin made by Augustine.
C)Greek made by Jerome.
D)Latin made by Jerome.
E)Latin made by Tertullian.
Q2) chansons de geste
Q3) Moors
Q4) Sunnis
Q5) The City of God
Q6) Which of the following statements is false?
A)Islamic law strictly regulated slavery.
B)Muslims could enslave other Muslims captured in war.
C)Slaves in the Muslim world were not generally used as agricultural labor.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these
Q7) Burgundy
Q8) Who was Aisha and what were her accomplishments?
Q9) Old Church Slavonic
Q10) Black Death Page 8
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Chapter 6: Disruption and Renewal in South and East Asia
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Q1) Japan is approximately the same size as A)California.
B)Ohio.
C)Texas.
D)Louisiana.
E)Delaware.
Q2) Cambodia
Q3) Identify briefly (a) the event(s) that caused the Philippines to enter the historic era, and (b) the cultural and sociopolitical consequences of those events.
Q4) Among the areas brought under Chinese control by T'ai Tsung was A)Mongolia.
B)Tibet.
C)Afghanistan.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices
Q5) T'o-pa
Q6) Vietnam
Q7) Hojo clan
Q8) Kija
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Chapter 7: Developing Civilizations
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Q1) Describe Bantu family structure.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Human life probably first emerged in Africa.
B)Africa is over twice as large as the continental United States.
C)Much of central Africa is subtropical.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices
Q3) Which of the following statements is false?
A)the farther south in Africa, the more tenuous the contacts with Mediterranean cultures.
B)North Africa had always remained independent of the classical empires of Egypt and Rome.
C)Western and northern Africa and Egypt had always been connected by trade routes with Saharan and central African societies.
D)Trade routes to North Africa were generally controlled by the Berbers.
E)Egypt and the Sudan were connected by the exchanges of goods, peoples, and ideas.
Q4) Ghana
Q5) What is impressive about Zimbabwe?
Q6) Thupa Yupanki
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Chapter 8: Three Continents: Conflict and Commerce
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Q1) Pax Mongolica
Q2) What were the main features of Yuan economic policy?
Q3) Briefly summarize the changes that the elimination of Umayyad authority brought to Spain.
Q4) The empire of Genghis Khan did not encompass A)Korea.
B)northern China.
C)Baghdad.
D)the Caspian Sea.
E)most of the length of the Yellow River.
Q5) Latin Empire of Constantinople
Q6) Genghis Khan
Q7) What is alchemy and what was its place in the scientific thought of the Middle Ages?
Q8) Describe Genghis Khan's use of terror as a toll for military domination.
Q9) Briefly characterize relations between the Abbasids and the Fatimids.
Q10) What were the divisive forces at work in the Muslim/Arab world in the eleventh century?
Q11) Timurlane
Q12) Al-Azhar Page 13
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Chapter 9: Emerging Global Interrelations
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Q1) John Calvin's ideas found support in all of the following except A)Switzerland.
B)Italy.
C)France.
D)Scotland.
E)the Netherlands.
Q2) Which of the following was farthest east?
A)Lunda
B)Oyo
C)Benin
D)Gold Coast
E)Congo
Q3) ghulams
Q4) John Knox
Q5) Among the satiric targets of François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel was A)scholasticism.
B)bigotry.
C)church practices.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices
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