Pre-Modern World History Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
Pre-Modern World History explores the major civilizations, cultures, and events that shaped human societies from ancient times up to the early modern period, roughly ending around 1500 CE. This course examines the development of early agricultural communities, the rise and fall of empires, the spread of religions, and the growth of trade networks across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. By analyzing primary sources and comparing different regions, students will gain insight into the interconnectedness of early societies, the foundations of political and social structures, and the enduring impacts of pre-modern developments on the modern world.
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Chapter 1: The Peopling of the World, to 4000 BCE
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Q1) 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.
Q2) People at Catalhoyuk traded goods to obtain what material for making knives and jewelry?
A)Flint.
B)Bone.
C)Obsidian.
D)Silver.
E)Marble.
Answer: C
Q3) What were the primary differences between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sapiens?
Answer: In this essay,students should outline the following points:
1.Neanderthals' skulls and faces were longer.
2.Neanderthals' bones were heavier and bigger.
3.Homo sapiens sapiens' graves were more elaborate.
4.Homo sapiens sapiens' had more sophisticated tools.
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Chapter 2: The First Complex Societies in the Eastern
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Q1) The Hebrews believed in one god they called A)Amun-Ra.
B)Osiris.
C)Anu.
D)Bel.
E)Yahweh. Answer: E
Q2) The epic Gilgamesh,one of the earliest recorded works of literature,tells the story of the area that is given credit for establishing the first complex societies,which is called A)Egypt.
B)Turkey.
C)Spain.
D)Mesopotamia.
E)Africa. Answer: D
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) Since there is no written evidence available,what other evidence have scholars used to explain the social stratification of the Harappan Era society?
A)Scholars made assumptions based on studying other societies that existed at the time.
B)India and Mesopotamia were involved in trade, and Sumerian writing describes India's social system.
C)Since Mesopotamia and India were involved in trade, it is assumed that small shops and craftsmen existed and that wealth and occupational diversity were associated with these.
D)Scholars made assumptions based on studying evidence of societies that existed after the Harappan.
E)Archaeologists have studied the residences of different sizes and complexity, which indicates classes based on wealth.
Answer: E
Q2) Sanskrit
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Q3) dharma
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Chapter 4: Blueprint for Empire: China, 1200 BCE-
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Q1) Shang Yang
Q2) First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty
Q3) Confucianism
Q4) The main written history of the Shang is the Records of the Grand Historian,written in the first century B.C.E.by
A)Sima Qian.
B)Confucius.
C)Emperor Wu.
D)Ban Zhao.
E)Shang Yang.
Q5) Scholars have combined the information from oracle bones and ____ to piece together the outlines of early Chinese history.
A)Trade records.
B)Tomb artifacts.
C)Shang archeological sites.
D)Records in Sumerian.
E)Palace records.
Q6) Yellow River
Q7) Wang Mang
Q8) Elaborate on the political system of the Han dynasty.
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Q1) Easter Island
Q2) Easter Islanders depleted their natural resources by 1600 and had to rely on what for basic tools such as fish hooks and rope?
A)Trade with New Zealand.
B)Human remains.
C)Bird bones.
D)Stone from the Moai.
E)Wood.
Q3) Hopewell
Q4) Describe the Long Count calendar created by the Mesoamerican culture.How were they used?
Q5) Chichen Itza,a post-classic Maya city,has the largest ____ in the Americas.
A)Pyramid.
B)Ceremonial mound.
C)Royal road.
D)Royal cemetery.
E)Ball court.
Q6) double canoes
Q7) Mississippian peoples
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Q1) Though the veracity of his account is subject of debate,according to Herodotus,how did the Phoenicians circumnavigate Africa?
A)They had maps from the Sea Peoples to follow.
B)They invented a new kind of sail.
C)They traded cloth for food with African natives.
D)They planted and harvested grain along the coast.
E)They established trade outpost along the African coast.
Q2) The Avesta is book from circa 1000 B.C.E.best described as a collection of A)Business laws.
B)Hymns.
C)Natural observations.
D)Letters from Zoroaster.
E)Political biographies.
Q3) Achaemenids
Q4) How were the Greeks able to defeat both Darius and Xerxes and the huge Persian military?
Q5) Darius I
Q6) Sparta
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Q1) What title do the Dead Sea Scrolls use for the messiah?
A)The Christ.
B)The son of fire.
C)Ahura Mazda.
D)Teacher of Righteousness.
E)The Chosen One.
Q2) Discuss the role of religion in the Roman Empire.
Q3) Though unsuccessful,who supported public and social reforms at the end of the republic?
A)The Gracchus brothers.
B)Polybius.
C)The Caesars.
D)The Scipios.
E)Augustus.
Q4) The mythological creation of Rome includes
A)A line of kings that eventually built Rome on the Tiber River.
B)The founding of Rome by Romulus in 753 B.C.E.
C)A war between gods over the creation of a holy site.
D)Emigrants to the site from the north.
E)That small walled communities evolved into Rome.
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Chapter
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Q1) The Buddhist kingdom of Funan was centered on the A)Mekong River Delta.
B)Gulf of Thailand.
C)Andaman Sea.
D)Sudra Strait.
E)Irrawaddy River.
Q2) Describe the influences Korea had on Japan after 300 C.E.
Q3) Taizong made Confucianism the basis of education and incorporated it into the government through
A)funding Confucian missionaries.
B)requiring all taxpayers to be Confucian.
C)the examination system.
D)requiring all families to send the youngest son to Confucian school.
E)paying non-Confucian officials one-half the salary of a Confucian official.
Q4) wood block printing
Q5) Angkor Dynasty
Q6) Seven Treasures
Q7) Chakravartin
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Q8) How did the introduction of Sanksrit into Southeast Asia after the fourth century change the culture and rulers there?
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Chapter 9: Islamic Empires of Western Asia and Africa, 600 - 1258
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Q1) ulama
Q2) The Abbasids patronized what religion and spread it to the rest of the world?
A)Zoroastrianism.
B)Islam.
C)Christianity.
D)Buddhism.
E)Judaism.
Q3) At the time of the birth of Muhammad,who were considered the political dominant powers in the Mediterranean world?
A)Romans and Egyptians
B)Egyptians and Assyrians
C)Assyrians and Carthaginians
D)Carthaginians and Byzantines
E)Byzantines and Sasanians
Q4) The Shi'itesbelieve
A)Abu Bakr was the only legitimate caliph.
B)The caliph does not need to be from the bloodline of Muhammad.
C)The first three caliphs were illegitimate.
D)The caliph should be elected.
E)None of these choices.
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Chapter 10: The Multiple Centers of Europe, 500 - 1000
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Q1) Corpus of Civil Law
Q2) Gregory of Tours recounted an incident involving Clovis that illustrates which of the following?
A)War-bands attacked churches for their treasures.
B)The equitable distribution of booty with Clovis and his men.
C)Clovis often had to make decisions based on the approval of his war members.
D)By destroying the vase, a member of Clovis's band had challenged his place as a ruler and had to be punished.
E)All of these choices.
Q3) The iconoclast controversy involved
A)Accepting the pope as the head of the church in Constantinople.
B)A debate about Jesus Christ's divinity.
C)Islamic connotations in the Bible.
D)What Jews were allowed to do in the Christian world.
E)The second commandment and the depiction and worship of religious images.
Q4) Louis the Pious
Q5) In many ways,Charlemagne was a man of his time and a man of the future.Discuss this statement.
Q6) Frankish kingdom
Q7) Bjami Herjolfsson
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Chapter 11: Expanding Trade Networks in Africa and India,
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Q1) Middle Niger Valley
Q2) In Mali history,who was one of the wealthiest successors to Sundiata?
A)Mansa Musa.
B)Sundiata's griot.
C)Muslim umma of the Malinke peoples.
D)The Mali general who defeated the Sosso.
E)A Mali storyteller who wrote down the Sundiata.
Q3) 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.
Q4) The people who populated the Middle Niger Valleyspoke what language?
A)Swahili.
B)Malinke.
C)Arabic.
D)Hadza.
E)Songhai.
Q5) Bantu
Q6) Mamluk empire
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Q1) Which of the following are true of the Jurchen?
A)they were based in Manchuria.
B)they spoke an Altaic language.
C)they allied with the Song to defeat the Khitan.
D)they married into the Song Dynasty.
E)all of these choices
Q2) The Five Dynasties refers to the
A)fifty-three years between the Tang and Song dynasties.
B)length of time it took the Song to reunite China.
C)length of time needed to defeat the Song by the Jin.
D)fifty-three years China was without an emperor after the defeat to the Jin. E)time it took for the Song dynasty to build a new capital at Kaifeng.
Q3) Which dynasty reunited China in 960 after the fall of the Tang in 907?
A)Song.
B)Shang.
C)Jin.
D)Zhou.
E)Wu.
Q4) Zhao Rugua
Q5) Wang Anshi
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Chapter 13: Europe's Commercial Revolution,1000 - 1400
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Q1) Increased crop production in Europe between 1000 and 1300 was attributed to
A)the change to rice.
B)intensification of cerealization in agriculture.
C)increased use of slave labor.
D)mechanized farming.
E)slash-and-burn techniques.
Q2) England and ____ were the leaders in agricultural advancements.
A)Ireland.
B)Spain.
C)the Netherlands.
D)Northern France.
E)Italy.
Q3) Which of the following statements istrue?
A)Many urban artisans relied on family labor.
B)The non-farming class depended on the market for all of their food.
C)Many urban artisans were involved in food preparation.
D)A group of merchants specialized in transportation of good.
E)All of these choices.
Q4) Heloise
Q5) Cluny
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Q1) In the midst of such powerhouses as the Byzantine,Mongol,and Islamic Empires,how were the Ottomans able to emerge as the new power in the area?
Q2) The dynasty that overthrew the Yuan dynasty and drove the Mongols back to their homeland was named the Ming,which means
A)Light or bright.
B)Brave heart.
C)Rising sun.
D)Glorious son.
E)Son of god.
Q3) Chinese knowledge of the world had increased since the Mongol era,and by 1470 included knowledge and location of both the Islamic world and A)Polynesia.
B)North America.
C)Greenland and Iceland.
D)South America.
E)Europe.
Q4) William of Rubruck
Q5) Nestorians
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Q1) Which of the following statements istrue?
A)The trip of Columbus would impact the entire world.
B)Christopher Columbus's patrons were the king and queen of Spain.
C)Columbus's first voyage to the new world landed him on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
D)The voyages of Columbus connected Europe with the Americas.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) Moctezuma
Q3) Portuguese Slave Trade
Q4) Quetzalcoatl
Q5) Discuss the importance of moveable type printing for Europe.
Q6) Storehouses
Q7) An altepetl in the Mexica world of 1300 in Central Mexico was a
A)sacrificial altar.
B)city-state.
C)ballgame court.
D)rain god.
E)dynasty.
Q8) Madeira Islands
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Q9) Cuzco
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Chapter 16: Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia, 1500 - 1700
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Q1) Malacca
Q2) 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?
Q3) Matteo Ricci
Q4) The Japanese emperor
A)had the strong support of the military.
B)was a strong religious leader.
C)had power because he had the support of Ming China.
D)as a Buddhist, had great power over his people.
E)was a ritual leader with no real power.
Q5) Cape of Good Hope
Q6) 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.
Q7) Son of Heaven
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