7. The most significant
defining characteristic of the paleolithic era was
that
A) human beings used stone and bone tools in
their cultivation of crops.
B) peoples relied on hunting and gathering for
subsistence.
C) men and women engaged in the same economic
activities.
D) people domesticated animals.
13. The term neolithic era refers to
A) the early stages of a cultivating society.
B) the agricultural transition.
C) the era in which the peoples began to use
polished stone tools.
D) the era in which people began to live
permanently in villages.
E) all of the above.
15 All of the following
social changes were brought about by agriculture except
A) population growth.
B) the emergence of villages and towns.
C) the invention of writing.
D) the specialization of labor.
E) the emergence of social classes.
1. Gilgamesh was
A) a king of the city-state of Uruk.
B) a hero in a popular Mesopotamian epic.
C) a warrior in conflict with the city of
D) a legendary loyal friend of Enkidu.
E) all of the above.
7 Which of the following was
the latest invention?
A) bronze metallurgy.
B) the wheel.
C) ships.
D) iron metallurgy.
E) the
chariot.
17. Which of the following is
not associated with the Phoenicians?
A) agriculture.
B) alphabetic script.
C) Astarte.
D) city-states.
E)
shipbuilding.
3. Which of the following is
true of the
A) By worldwide standards it is a relatively
short river.
B) It is unusual in that it is navigable
throughout its length.
C) It used to flood very predictably.
D) It flows from north to south.
5. Unification of Egyptian
rule came about through the conqueror
A) Menes.
B) Hatshepsut.
C) Ta-Seti.
D) Khufu.
6. The Egyptian pyramids
A) were built during the
B) served as royal tombs.
C) are testimony to the power of the pharaoh.
D) stand at
E) all of the above.
6. By about 1700 B.C.E., the
residents of Harappa and
A) frequent epidemics made city living
impossible.
B) deforestation of the
C) the horse-riding Aryans began to invade the
cities.
D) the
E) all of the above.
11. The Indian caste system
A) was a central institution that served to
promote social stability.
B) was incapable of accommodating social changes.
C) was actually not much of a restriction on the
upward mobility of individuals.
D) did not persist beyond the Vedic age.
E) none of the
above.
13. Which of the following
was evidence of the subordination of women to men in Aryan society?
A) patrilineal descent
B) the Lawbook of Manu.
C) the practice of sati.
D) women had no responsibilities for religious
rituals.
E) all of the above.
1. By exalting the legendary
sage kings (
A) hunting and gathering.
B) military aggression and masculinity.
C) social harmony, selflessness, hard work.
D) matriarchy and the home.
E) none of the above.
7. According to Zhou
political theory, the Zhou king overthrew the Shang
dynasty because
A) the Shang lost the
mandate of heaven.
B) the subjects of Shang
shifted their loyalty to Zhou.
C) the last Shang king
was a criminal fool.
D) the Zhou was a much larger state than the Shang.
13. In practice, the
veneration of ancestors reinforced the authority of the patriarchal head of the
family because
A) only male ancestors were the subjects of
worship.
B) female members of the family did not
participate in honoring ancestors.
C) it was the patriarch who presided at the rites
honoring ancestors.
D) only male ancestors were reincarnated.
E) all of the above.
6. The Persian Royal Road
stretched some 2,575 kilometers (1,600 miles) from
A) six months for caravans.
B) ninety days for caravans.
C) two weeks for
D) one month for imperial couriers.
E) one year for merchants.
17. Zarathustra
was
A) an emperor.
B) a prophet.
C) a magi.
D) a monotheist.
E) none of the above.
1. Confucius left an enduring
mark on Chinese society as
A) an educator and political advisor.
B) a man involved in the practice of statecraft
as an ambitious official.
C) a great traveler and writer of deep
philosophical treatises.
D) a powerful and wise emperor.
E) none of the above.
6. The concept dao means
A) natural laws such as those defined by modern
physics.
B) the
original force of the cosmos, an eternal and unchanging principle that
governs all the workings of the
world.
C) passive and yielding forces that exist only in
water and empty spaces.
D) living according to ren,
li, and xia.
E) all of the above.
11. The excavation site of
the First Emperor's tomb nearby
A) a great terra-cotta army of Qin soldiers and cavalry.
B) sacrificed slaves, concubines, and craftsmen
who designed and built the tomb.
C) a map of the emperor's realm on the ceiling.
D) an underground palace lined with bronze.
E) all of the above.
14. Han Wudi,
the greatest and most energetic emperor of the Han dynasty, was remembered by
later generations
A) as the "First Emperor."
B) as the "Martial Emperor."
C) as a "socialist emperor."
D) for his successful conquest of central
E) none of the above.
15. In preparing governmental
officials, the imperial university of the Later Han enrolled more than three
thousand students, with its curriculum primarily based on
A) the statecraft policies of Legalism.
B) political science and the study of law.
C) Daoism.
D) Confucianism.
3. The invasions of Darius
and Alexander played an important role in Indian politics and history because
A) the conquests brought
B) foreign religions began to take root in Indian
society.
C) the Greeks dominated Indian history for
centuries.
D) the intrusions destroyed many petty kingdoms
and created a political vacuum.
E) all of the above.
4. The man who founded the
first Indian empire was
A) Chandragupta Maurya
B) Chandra Gupta
C) Ashoka Maurya
D) Alexander of Macedon
E) Siddhartha Gautama
5. Ashoka,
the great emperor of the Mauryan empire,
A) was the only emperor who extended
B) wrote a handbook on the principles of
government
C) converted to Buddhism after his bloody war
against Kalinga.
D) abdicated his throne and led a life so ascetic
that he starved himself to death.
E) none of the above
6. Which of the following
caused the Maurya empire to decline and collapse?
A) financial difficulties caused by maintaining
the army and bureaucracy.
B) peasant rebellions and factional violence
among members of the imperial court.
C) foreign invasion by White Huns.
D) too many converts to Jainism refused to fight
wars.
E) all of the above.
9. The White Huns occupied
A) reduced the Gupta empire into an empty name.
B) galvanized local kingdoms to unify themselves
for self-defense.
C) met fierce resistance from the Gupta empire.
D) introduced Buddhism to
E) none of the above.
14. According to legend,
Siddhartha Gautama, the first Buddha, abandoned his
family and comfortable life to lead the existence of a holy man because of his
concern with
A) suffering.
B) the souls of everything in the universe.
C) social responsibility associated with his
caste.
D) his guilt over his behavior in battle.
E) his children.
17. Which of the following
statements do not apply to Ashoka's support of
Buddhism?
A) He banned animal sacrifices and hunting.
B) He became a vegetarian.
C) He built monasteries and stupas
and made pilgrimages to Buddhist holy sites.
D) He sent Buddhist missionaries to foreign
countries.
E) He abdicated his throne, abandoned his
imperial family, lived in a Buddhist
monastery, and finally attained nirvana.
19. Buddhism gradually lost
its popularity in
A) it did not promise to make life easy for its
adherents.
B) brahmans, the
dominant class of classical
C) Buddhist monasteries were abolished in
D) it grew increasingly remote from the
population at large.
E) all of the above.
4. Which of the following was
part of Spartan life?
A) Boys were taken away from their mothers for
military training.
B) Young married women did not live with their
husbands.
C) The helots were unfree
servants of the Spartan state.
D) Vigorous physical exercise for girls was
encouraged, in hopes that they would
bear strong children.
E) All of the above.
5. Which of the following was
an Athenian political leader?
A) Sophocles
B) Sappho
C) Pericles
D) Homer
E) Darius
10. The Peloponnesian War was
fought between
A) two groups of Greek adversaries under the
leadership of
B)
C) Anatolian Greeks and peninsular Greeks.
D) the Persian Empire and
E) none of the above.
11. The freedom and
independence of the Greek poleis finally fell under
A) Xerxes by 480 B.C.E.
B) Pericles by 429
B.C.E.
C) Philip II by 338 B.C.E.
D) Alexander by 336 B.C.E.
E) Plato by 400 B.C.E.
11. By Roman law,
A) a defendant was assumed innocent until proven
guilty.
B) defendants had a right to challenge their
accusers before a judge.
C) the judge enjoyed great discretion in applying
laws.
D) judges could set aside laws.
E) all of the above.
12. Which of the following
were not attractions of the city of
A) public baths, swimming pools, gymnasia.
B) the Pantheon's dome.
C) statues, monumental arches, temples,
aqueducts.
D) public beaches on the
E) chariot races in the Circus Maximus.