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1) This philosophy established the idea of filial
piety as a metaphor for society.
a. Daoism
b. Legalism
c. Confucianism
d. Buddhism
2) The spread of Greek culture throughout the
eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia is
known as:
a. Grecophilia
b. Golden Age
c. Pax Romana
d. Hellenism
3) The start of sedentary agriculture started in
______ first but developed independently in
other areas
a. China
b. Americas
c. Indus River Valley
d. Mesopotamia
4) Bureaucrats from non-aristocratic groups who
were trained in Confucianism would have most
likely have been in which dynasty?
a. Han
b. Zhou
c. Qin
d. Shang
5) Over time, this structure intensified in its
rigidity and began to differ from region to
region.
a. Hinduism
b. Buddhism
c. Hellenism
d. Caste System
6) Who begins the Pax Romana, a period of
Roman power and prosperity?
a. Pericles
b. Julius Caesar
c. Augustus Caesar
d. Marcus Aurelius
7) In early China, cultural integration and unity
were provided by which development?
a. a common system of writing and
speech
b. a rigid social structure
c. written guidelines of behavior
d. a bureaucracy
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8) Buddhism is DIFFERENT from Hinduism in all of
the following ways EXCEPT:
a. The belief that all people are unequal
b. Attitudes towards conversion
c. Number of branches and divisions
d. Belief in reincarnation
9) Greek philosophers, like Socrates, Plato, and
Aristotle, placed an emphasis on what concept
in order to understand human nature?
a. narcissism
b. hedonism
c. rationality
d. aesthetics
10) Which of the following is an accurate
statement about the writing system in Zhou
China?
a. The earliest form of Chinese writing was
the pictograph
b. Chinese writing contrasted with other
early writing systems in that it originally
included an alphabet
c. The Chinese writing system was less
complex than other early writing
systems
d. Chinese writing was closely associated
with merchants and long-distance trade
11) Which of the following is an accurate
comparison of Indus River Valley civilization
and civilization in Ancient Egypt?
a. The Egyptian economy was more
complex than that in the Indus River
Valley
b. Egyptians worshipped mother
goddesses but the people of the Indus
River Valley did not
c. Scholars have had more difficulty in
deciphering the writing system of the
people of the Indus River Valley
d. Cities in Egypt were larger than cities in
the Indus River Valley
12) Which of the following civilizations was
politically organized into city-states?
a. Greece
b. Rome
c. Han China
d. Persia
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13) An important difference between civilization in
early China and early Mesoamerica is that in
China
a. Civilization centered on river valleys but
civilization in Mesoamerica did not
b. Social hierarchies were more
authoritarian than in Mesoamerica
c. Priests had more political power than in
Mesoamerica
d. The economy was more dependent on
agriculture than in Mesoamerica
14) The Roman Empire, Han China, and Gupta
India differed from the earliest civilizations
that emerged before 600 BCE in that they had:
a. More contact with nomads
b. Access to trade with the Americas
c. Writing systems
d. Authoritarian government structures
15) Which of the following pairs of ancient
civilizations put the most emphasis on
secularism?
a. Greece and Gupta India
b. Persia and Rome
c. Mauryan India and Rome
d. Greece and Han China
16) The Roman Empire contrasts with most other
ancient civilizations in its:
a. Degree of social inequality
b. Emphasis on the role of the gods in
shaping human affairs
c. Dependence on slave labor for many
types of economic activities
d. Problems with defending borders from
nomadic invasions
17) Which of the following is NOT an accurate
statement about the rule of Shi Huangdi?
a. The first fortifications of the Great Wall
were built
b. Laws and currencies were standardized
to apply across regional states
c. He mandated that one version of
Chinese script be used all over the
empire
d. He was one of the most popular leaders
in Chinese history
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18) What two things provided cultural continuity
for India throughout their political turmoil in
the classical period?
a. Hinduism and the caste system
b. Caste system and Buddhism
c. Hinduism and agriculture
d. Caste system and agriculture
19) This was a key political tenet of Shi Huangdi
and Qin rulers.
a. centralization of power
b. trade
c. Confucianism
d. bureaucratic power
20) Unlike this group in Classical China and India,
in Greece and Rome this group was
considerably freer in that they could control
property and be active in small family
businesses.
a. Women
b. Farmers
c. Slaves
d. Traders
21) Throughout – and largely a result of – the
decline of the classical civilizations, an increase
is visible in all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Christianity
b. Greco-Roman paganism
c. Buddhism
d. Islam
22) Unlike Mesopotamia, Egypt retained this
throughout most of its history.
a. an effective method of irrigation
b. a coherent system of writing
c. metal tools
d. a unified political state
23) This war/series of wars proved that Rome had
organized and powerful rivals that could – and
did – oppose Roman expansion in the area.
a. Persian War
b. Peloponnesian War
c. Periclesian War
d. Punic War
24) All of the following played a major role in
disrupting classical civilizations EXCEPT:
a. Nomadic invasions, like those by the
Xiongnu and the White Huns
b. Epidemics
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d.
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Weak leadership
Increasing dependency on central
governments
In Chinese tradition, the Mandate of Heaven
refers to:
a. Chinese hatred of merchants
b. Belief in many gods
c. Eternal authority of a ruling dynasty
d. Divine blessings of the rule of an
emperor
The Zhou Dynasty ended after:
a. The Era of the Warring States.
b. Three Kingdoms Era
c. The Yellow Turban Rebellion.
d. Shandong Peninsula Flood
During the classical era in India, all of the
following occurred EXCEPT:
a. The ox-drawn plow was invented.
b. The concept of zero was invented.
c. Indians developed a university.
d. Spherical shrines to Buddha, called
stupas, were erected
In comparison to the Hindus, Jews, and
Chinese, in terms of religion the Greeks:
a. developed a compassionate system
similar to Buddhism
b. avoided portraying gods with human
characteristics
c. never developed a major long-lasting
religion
d. most resembled Hinduism’s polytheism
with its caste system
All of the following led to Rome’s collapse
EXCEPT:
a. Unstable leadership from weak rulers
b. High taxes and inflation
c. Droughts, famines, and plagues
d. Invasions from the Carthaginians
Roman culture:
a. Owed a great deal of its diversity to
trade with China.
b. Borrowed heavily, especially from
Greek culture.
c. Influenced heavily the culture of Africa
and Southwest Asia.
d. Developed in relative isolation.
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31) Which of the following had the highest social
status in Han China?
a. Priests
b. Merchants
c. Skilled artisans
d. Scholar-gentry
32) The Roman Empire and Han China were similar
in that both had:
a. Huge landholdings with long borders to
defend
b. Large numbers of slaves to build roads
and public buildings
c. Harmonious relations between
peasants and landowners
d. Weak central control over the diverse
people they ruled
33) A significant challenge in creating strong
empires in Ancient India was the
subcontinent’s
a. Lack of strong religious traditions
b. Political fragmentation based on
different kinship groups
c. Long-lasting ties to Persia
d. Lack of navigable waterways
34) In contrast to early travel on the
Mediterranean sea, travel on the Indian Ocean
required:
a. Larger and more numerous oars
b. Square sails
c. Lateen sails
d. Routes that followed shorelines
35) Which of the following pairs were (are)
universalizing religions?
a. Hinduism and Buddhism
b. Christianity and Buddhism
c. Christianity and Judaism
d. Daoism and Confucianism
36) In China, Confucianism emphasized the idea
that:
a. equality should exist among all
members of society
b. salvation could be attained by prayer,
meditation, and good deeds
c. individual goals should be placed ahead
of the needs of the group
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d.
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societal harmony could be achieved by
the proper behavior of each member of
the family/society
How might settlements in the Neolithic Age
affect birth rates?
a. There was no effect.
b. There was no effect on birth rates but a
decrease in death rates.
c. There was an increase in birth rates
due to security and food supply.
d. There was more disease, so birth rates
stayed very low.
What statement defines the dynastic cycle?
a. Chinese governments ruled based on
the power of a single family.
b. While at first militarily powerful, as a
dynasty came to depend more on
Confucian scholars than generals, it
became weaker militarily and would
eventually fall to foreign invasion.
c. Chinese government depended upon
economic growth to sustain power, and
as the economy declined, based on
cycles, so too did the dynasties.
d. Initially a Chinese government enjoyed
prosperity and economic growth, but
over time corruption, internal disasters,
and external invasions all eroded a
dynasty’s power.
Identify the important original contribution of
the Jewish culture to the civilizations in the
Middle East and Mediterranean during the
Classical Period
a. Monotheism
b. Written legal code
c. Phonetic alphabet
d. Priest caste
Buddhism spreading to China is an example of:
a. A Golden Age
b. Hellenism
c. Cultural Diffusion
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d. Syncretism
Which of the following led to a more reliable
food supply, specialization of occupation, and
the development of a formal social hierarchy?
a. Complex governments
b. Adoption of agriculture
c. Development of metal tools
d. Growth of complex, organized religion
What did the River Valley civilizations have in
common?
a. All were connected by a strong trade
network by 2500 BCE
b. All centered economic life on navigable
rivers
c. All raised rice as the main staple crop
d. All had highly centralized governments
Early hunter and gatherer societies differed
from early agricultural societies in that hunter
and gatherer societies were:
a. Less likely to be characterized by
gender inequality
b. More likely to require more hours of
work per person
c. More likely to practice polytheism
d. Less likely to base division of labor on
gender
Early agriculturalists differed from early
pastoralists in that agriculturalists:
a. Were able to domesticate animals
b. Had plows whereas pastoralists only
had digging sticks
c. Relied less heavily on hunting and
gathering
d. Usually settled in one place
Which of the following was a major innovation
of the Babylonians?
a. The first known phonetic alphabet
b. The first known democracy
c. The first known written law code
d. The first known monotheistic religion