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APWH, Unit 1 Test
CLASS SET #: ______
Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements is followed by four suggested answers or completions.
Select the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.
1. What is the name given to the transition from foraging to sedentary agriculture?
A) the Paleolithic revolution
B) the Bronze Age revolution
C) the Mesolithic revolution
D) the Agricultural Revolution
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B)
C)
D)
Historians speculate that the Neolithic Revolution evident in 8,000 B.C.E.
Evolved gradually over a long period of time in different places
Developed in one part of the world and spread from there
Eliminated all forager populations in the world
Caused no negative effects on the environment
3. What is the best explanation for the shift from foraging to sedentary agriculture?
A) Agriculture was more reliable in producing food for a growing population.
B) It was easier for political leaders to control populations that stayed in one place.
C) Patriarchal leaders required settled villages in order to better control women.
D) There had been recent and massive extinction of almost all wild animal species.
4. Which of the following was the major effect of the Neolithic Revolution?
A) The establishment of sedentary village communities
B) The spread of a migratory way of life
C) A decline in total population
D) An increase in the use of bronze tools
5. Agricultural systems in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres were
A) based on the same grains – wheat and maize
B) based on a combination of domesticated plants and animals
C) based on different domesticated plants in each region
D) dependent on pastoral forms of social organization
6. The peoples in the Americas domesticated very few animals because
A) agriculture made domesticated animals unnecessary
B) there were few wild species available for domestication
C) they believed animals should not be domesticated
D) the vast deserts made raising animals difficult
7. Technological innovations between 6000 and 4000 BCE
A) ensured more consistent surpluses of food and necessary products
B) allowed the elimination of human labor in the production of food
C) removed the necessity of social stratification
D) increased the use of iron weapons at the beginning of the Bronze Age
8. Which of the following occurred as a result of the development of agriculture in societies that
previously relied on hunting and gathering?
A) Status of women declined.
B) Diseases from domesticated animals disappeared.
C) Population density decreased.
D) Degradation of the environment lessened.
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APWH, Unit 1 Test
CLASS SET #: ______
Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements is followed by four suggested answers or completions.
Select the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.
9. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, and Chinese early civilizations were all
A) located near fertile floodplains of large rivers.
B) plagued by large agricultural deficits.
C) independent of their natural environments.
D) opposed to increasing trade.
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A)
B)
C)
D)
Which of the following is true of civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt?
Both were organized into city-states.
They had completely different domesticated animals and plants.
Writing systems were used in both.
Both viewed the world as completely unpredictable.
11. Which of the following correctly matches the river with the civilization that developed
around it?
A) Nile – India
B) Yellow – Egypt
C) Tigris and Euphrates – Mesopotamia
D) Indus -- China
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A)
B)
C)
D)
Which of the following was a key element of the earliest civilizations in the world?
political systems with co-equal male and female rulers
cities isolated from surrounding farming communities
agricultural and non-agricultural specialization of labor
absence of social class divisions
13.
A)
B)
C)
D)
What was the purpose of divination for rulers in ancient China and Mesopotamia?
to understand the will of the gods or ancestors and to foresee the future
to control the forces of nature
to pose questions to their goddess about illnesses
to predict the dates for their religious celebrations
14.
A)
B)
C)
D)
Evidence of possible interactions between the Olmec and the Chavin peoples is
Use of llamas in Mesoamerica
Metallurgy introduced to the Andean region
Maize introduced to the Andean region
Giant heads sculpted from basalt in Mesoamerica
15.
A)
B)
C)
D)
Why is it so challenging for historians to explain the decline of Indus Valley civilization?
They cannot get data from trees cut for houses.
The sand dunes were always stable.
Satellite photos show shifts or changes in the course of the Indus River.
The writing on the Indus Valley seals remains undeciphered.
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APWH, Unit 1 Test
CLASS SET #: ______
Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements is followed by four suggested answers or completions.
Select the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.
16. Which of the following statements concerning the relationship of civilization and writing is
correct?
A) Writing helped rulers and their bureaucrats keep records.
B) Writing was more important to the development of civilization than sedentary agriculture.
C) Most civilizations developed without writing systems.
D) No sophisticated civilization developed without a system of writing.
17. How were the roles of the Pharaoh in Egypt and that of the Emperor of China during the
Zhou dynasty different?
A) The Pharaoh was elected by the people while the emperor rose to power by force
B) The Egyptians believed the Pharaoh was a god on earth while the Chinese believed their
Emperor was selected by the Jade Emperor
C) The Egyptians believed their Pharaohs were incarnations of past rulers while the Chinese
believed their emperors were living deities
D) The Egyptians believed the Pharaohs was infallible while the Zhou held their emperor to
very high ethical standards
18. “If a noble man puts out the eye of another noble man, his eye shall be put out.
If he breaks another noble man’s bone, his bone shall be broken.
If he puts out the eye of a commoner or breaks the bone of a commoner, he shall pay one
[silver] mina.
If he puts out the eye of a man’s slave or breaks the bone of a man’s slave, he shall pay
one-half of its value.”
The excerpt above from the Code of Hammurabi illustrates which of the following about
Babylonian society?
A)
B)
C)
D)
It made provision for the economic well-being of all classes.
It moved away from reliance on corporal punishment.
It was marked by social inequalities.
The king was regarded as blessed by divine forces.
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A)
B)
C)
D)
Which of the following best describes the role of Nubia from 3,000 BCE to 500BCE?
Nubians ruled Egypt.
Nubia invented its own unique form of government that diffused all over Africa
Nubia replaced trans-Saharan trade caravans with sea trade.
Nubia transferred Sub-Saharan cultural traditions to Mesoamerica
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A)
B)
C)
D)
The Phoenicians developed a system of writing based on
pictograms, which were similar to Chinese writing
later Egyptian hieroglyphics
an alphabet, where each symbol represented a sound
Indus Valley script
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