World Civilizations I Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
World Civilizations I explores the development of human societies from prehistoric times through the early modern era, focusing on the political, social, economic, cultural, and religious transformations that shaped civilizations across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Through the examination of primary sources, historical narratives, and case studies, students will analyze the rise and fall of major empires, the evolution of belief systems, technological advancements, and the interactions between diverse civilizations. The course emphasizes the global interconnectedness of peoples and ideas, highlighting both unique developments and shared human experiences throughout early world history.
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World History Volume I To 1800 7th Edition by William
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) Which of the following is untrue about the Code of Hammurabi?
A) Public officials had numerous responsibilities.
B) It incorporated a system of consumer protection.
C) The largest category focused on marriage and the family.
D) Sexual promiscuity was tolerated for men only.
E) Hammurabi's code did not mention women.
Answer: E
Q2) Hammurabi did all of the following except
A) become Pharaoh of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.
B) "divide and conquer" his enemies as he returned Mesopotamia to unified control.
C) establish his new capital at Babylon.
D) work to stimulate economic revival and enhance the irrigation system.
E) establish a major code of law.
Answer: A
Q3) The first civilizations lacked a system of written record keeping.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) The Aryans
A) were an Indo-European people who spoke the German language.
B) crushed Mohenjo-Daro when the Harappan Civilization was at its peak.
C) never controlled any of the Deccan Plateau.
D) were the first Dravidian people to settle in the Indus Valley.
E) were led by tribal chieftains who were called rajas.
Answer: E
Q2) The Indian warrior caste was known as the A) kshatriya.
B) pariah.
C) brahmin.
D) vaisya.
E) jati.
Answer: A
Q3) dharma
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) The Aryans were a Semetic-peoples.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) The nature of gender relations was demonstrated in the Chinese written language,with the character for woman showing a person in a posture of deference and respect.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following statements is correct about the nature of the Zhou merchant and slave classes?
A) Merchants were independent operators and slaves were a majority of the population.
B) The merchants traded only in domestic goods and the slaves worked only in irrigation.
C) The merchants were the property of the local lord and the slaves were probably individuals who had been seized in warfare.
D) The merchants became the de facto rulers who humanely freed their slaves.
E) Under the Zhou the merchant classes were enslaved by the emperors.
Answer: C
Q3) eunuchs
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) oracle at Delphi
Q2) the Parthenon
Q3) The plays of Euripides
A) were less complex and less realistic than those of other Greek playwrights.
B) reflected a skepticism that questioned traditional values.
C) had a pro-war flavor.
D) were uncontroversial.
E) influenced those of Aeschylus.
Q4) As an island-based civilization in the Aegean Sea region,Minoan civilization had little or no contract with ancient Egypt.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is an accurate statement about classical Greek architecture?
A) It was highly ornate.
B) It was decidedly unclear and confusing.
C) It was turbulent.
D) It reflected calmness, clarity, and freedom from excessive detail.
E) It was mainly constructed of wood and iron.
Q6) battle of Chaeronea
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Q1) Carthage
Q2) The Pax Romana was among the chief benefits of Roman rule during the first and second centuries C.E.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In comparison to Han China,in the Roman Empire
A) merchants were more highly regarded.
B) merchants were less highly regarded.
C) large-scale manufacturing fueled its economy.
D) trade played little role.
E) all officials were selected on the basis of merit only.
Q4) Although at the time of the first Han dynasty census,in 2 C.E.,the population of China was estimated at sixty million,within two centuries the oppressive Han policies had reduced the population to:
A) less than twenty million.
B) less than thirty million.
C) around thirty-five million.
D) less than forty million.
E) around fifty million.
Q5) Cannae and Zama
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) Which of the following was true about Teotihuacán?
A) It did not engage in trade because of its infertile lands.
B) It produced great industrial structures.
C) It met its demise due to unexplained reasons.
D) It was conquered by the Maya.
E) It left no historical records.
Q2) "Olmec civilization was the prototype for all later Mesoamerican civilizations."
Discuss,pro and con.
Q3) kingdom of Chimor
Q4) The tuber cultivated by the Arawak,which is used today to manufacture tapioca,is
A) millet.
B) maize.
C) manioc.
D) cacao.
E) squash.
Q5) Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli
Q6) Zapotec
Q7) Inka
Q8) Cuzco and Machu Picchu
Q9) pulque
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
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Q1) majlis
Q2) Sadi's Rose Garden
Q3) To what degree do the beliefs of Islam,distinct from other aspects of Arab culture between 500 and 650 C.E.,appear to have motivated Muslims to expand the territory under their control? How does the evidence,as you see it,lead you to that result?
Q4) Which of the following is not a correct statement about the Mongols?
A) They caused great havoc and destruction throughout the Middle East.
B) Their westward advance continued on to absorb the Cordova caliphate in Spain.
C) Over time, their upper-class population became Muslim.
D) Initially, the Mongols were not Muslims.
E) They often engaged in acts of mass brutality.
Q5) Charles Martel
Q6) What are the basic beliefs of the Islamic religion? To what degree are they reflective of the experiences of Muhammad and the culture of Arabian society in this time? Why do you think as you do?
Q7) In the early 700s,Charles Martel defeated the Spanish Arabs at the Battle of Tours,in southern France.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) The local chieftain of a Mali farming village was called a A) mansa.
B) nkisi.
C) bantu.
D) saba.
E) sheikh.
Q2) What were some of the possible factors that inhibited the growth of civilized "states" in southern Africa?
Q3) Berbers
Q4) The great iron-working culture of northern Nigeria was the A) Nok.
B) Axum.
C) Kush.
D) Berger.
E) Malagasy.
Q5) Egypt's Coptic Christians were subjected to periodic persecution by the Persian Empire with its Zoroastrian religion,and thus many converted to Islam.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Trade in Southeast Asia
A) was greatly helped by the region's close cultural ties to Japan and Australia.
B) was of considerable importance in the Indonesian archipelago.
C) was the major factor in the economic life of Pagan, Angkor and Vietnam.
D) was exclusively with China.
E) came only with the arrival of the Portuguese.
Q2) Chola and Pallava
Q3) The Kushan peoples
A) were, originally, inhabitants of Mesopotamia.
B) had been herder-nomads until they moved into the Irrawaddy Valley.
C) were of Indo-European background, driven out of Central Asia by the Xiongnu.
D) settled in Sri Lanka.
E) defeated the Aryan invaders of India.
Q4) Under the medieval Indian land-use system
A) most farmers gave their landlord their entire annual harvest.
B) the landlord paid taxes to the local king in the form of manufactured goods.
C) actual title to the farmland in the realm belonged to the king.
D) most farmers owned about 35 acres per family.
E) rajas worked the land themselves.
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) In the 1400s,after the Ming admiral,Zhenghe,had successfully led several large sailing expeditions to the coast of Africa and throughout Southeast Asia,the voyages were discontinued and were never revived.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the possible reasons why China abandoned its seemingly successful naval accomplishments after the death of the emperor Yongle in 1424.Which do you believe to be most convincing,and why?
Q3) Although the earlier Tang dynasty based the civil service examinations exclusively upon Confucian texts,the later Song also included both Daoist and Buddhist texts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Chan
Q5) the Southern Song and Hangzhou
Q6) How significant was international trade to Chinese society? What was traded? From where and to where? Who benefited-China? Its neighbors? Within China?
Q7) foot binding
Q8) Li Yuan
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) In Vietnam,
A) women had less authority than their counterparts in China.
B) women could never initiate divorce proceedings against their husbands.
C) women possessed more rights, in practice and in law, than in China.
D) Confucianism was never an influence.
E) Chinese rule was paramount for almost 1200 years.
Q2) The Three Kingdoms of early Korea were
A) Xinjang, Silla, and Jurchen.
B) Paekche, Silla, and Koguryo.
C) Sakhalin, Koryo, and Tientsin.
D) Pyongyang, Yalu, and Annam.
E) Seoul, Koguryo, and Champa.
Q3) Fujiwara clan
Q4) Taika reforms
Q5) Heian
Q6) Pacific Current
Q7) Minamoto Yoritomo
Q8) What were the major developments in early Japanese literature,art,and architecture? What is meant by the statement "Tea and zen have the same flavor"? Page 14
Q9) bonsai
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) St.Thomas Aquinas and scholasticism
Q2) Monasticism in medieval Europe
A) was entirely a male area of activity.
B) involved an egalitarian governance structure.
C) included women, many of whom belonged to royal families D) was based upon the model established by St. Basil. E) was made up of hermit monks.
Q3) Thomas á Becket
Q4) The incursions of the Scandinavian Vikings into other parts of Europe
A) were the most threatening of the fifteenth century invaders to the peace of Europe. B) were successful because their ships had a shallow draft, allowing them to sail far up rivers.
C) had little impact on the history of England and France. D) were defeated at the Battle of Lechfeld. E) led to Scandinavian control of Greece.
Q5) The Church's primary instrument of conversion was the monastic movement.
A)True
B)False
Q6) feudalism
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery
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Q1) Manzikert,1071
Q2) The phrase l'uomo universale means that one should
A) be capable of achievements in many areas.
B) reject religion and become a student of the universe.
C) specialize in great depth in a single subject, such as history or physics.
D) turn to God as the only answer to the problems of this world.
E) reject public service and satisfy one's personal ambitions.
Q3) France's Louis XI was known as the
A) Frog.
B) Bear.
C) Octopus.
D) Tiger.
E) Spider.
Q4) By the end of the Hundred Years' War,the French gained victory because of A) cannon and gunpowder.
B) the crossbow.
C) the longbow.
D) heavily armored cavalry.
E) German mercenaries.
Q5) peasant revolts
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) The conquistadors of Spain were financed and outfitted by the Spanish crown.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calicut and seized the port of Malacca were,respectively,
A) Jaime Cardose and Pedro Martinez Munoa.
B) Ferdinando Colan and Alhambra da Fonseca.
C) Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque.
D) Henry da Bruscia and Eduardo da Estabano.
E) Juan Montillo and Jorge Sikada Maio.
Q3) the Slave Coast
Q4) Dutch colonial efforts were
A) incredibly unsuccessful, as their huge expenditures did not produce a single profitable colony.
B) ended by superior Portuguese power in North America before 1700.
C) weakened by their principled refusal to take part in the slave trade.
D) highly successful in Southeast Asia, and particularly on the island of Java.
E) most economically profitable in New Amsterdam.
Q5) conquistador
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Q2) Baroque
Q3) John Calvin and Geneva
Q4) Peace of Augsburg
Q5) What was "revolutionary" about Martin Luther,and what was not revolutionary?
Q6) The spark that began the Glorious Revolution was the
A) execution of Charles I.
B) restoration of Charles II.
C) declaration of the Commonwealth by Oliver Cromwell.
D) birth of a son to James II.
E) accession to the throne by Queen Anne.
Q7) All of the following were policies of Peter the Great except
A) the majority of governmental expenditures were for military purposes.
B) state domination of the Russian Orthodox church.
C) isolating Russia from the ways and customs of western Europe.
D) an effort to modernize Russia.
E) strengthening of the power of the tsar.
Q8) Louis XIV
Q9) the witchcraft mania
Q10) Johannes Gutenberg Page 20
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) Safavid power was spread through Persia by
A) resurgent Sunni military leaders.
B) Ismail's militant use of Shi'ite Islam to unify the region.
C) Safi's enforcement of sufi mysticism throughout the region.
D) Shah Abbas' successful military campaigns against the Byzantines.
E) Sunni pashas.
Q2) What were the significant cultural contributions of Ottoman art?
Q3) Were the personal qualities of Mughal leaders,or were the particular circumstances of a period,more influential in determining the success or failure of particular reigns before 1707?
Q4) The Mughal rule of Akbar in India
A) extended over about ten percent of the subcontinent.
B) has been attributed, by some scholars, exclusively to the use of heavily armored cavalry to overwhelm his adversaries.
C) overall was a time of peace and prosperity.
D) collapsed immediately after Akbar's death, when the British East India Co. took over.
E) extended to Indonesia.
Q5) jizya
Q6) Shari'a
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) By the eighteenth century,____ had replaced ____ as the cloth of choice for most Japanese.
A) silk and leather
B) silk and wool
C) wool and cotton
D) silk and cotton
E) cotton and hemp
Q2) During the "Great Peace" of the Tokugawa shogunate,all occurred <u>except</u>
A) daimyo duties for the shogun created economic pressures on the nobles.
B) by transforming the fief into a form of wages, the daimyo were able to ameliorate the economic pressures they experienced.
C) many of the samurai were changed from warriors into managers.
D) culturally a "floating world" came into being.
E) Japan opened its borders to the West in the seventeenth century.
Q3) Was Japan,after the expulsion of foreigners,actually more of a "Hermit Kingdom" than Korea? Why or why not?
Q4) Edo
Q5) Why was capitalism seemingly more successful in Japan than in China in the early modern era?
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Britain decided to end its war against the Americans after a combined American and French force defeated General Cornwallis at
A) Cowpens.
B) Newburgh.
C) Saratoga.
D) Yorktown.
E) Boston.
Q2) What were the causes,the main events,and the results of the French Revolution? Could its outbreak have been avoided,or possibly postponed? Was the revolution inevitable? Why or why not?
Q3) Outside Europe,the major scenes of battle in the Seven Years' War were
A) North America and Africa.
B) Central America and India.
C) India and North America.
D) Latin America and Africa.
E) North America and Latin America.
Q4) Declaration of Independence
Q5) high culture and popular culture and Carnival
Q6) the Scientific Revolution
Q7) "cottage industry" or the "putting-out" system
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