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Chapter 1 Quiz
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Review for AP World History
1) What are the three Stone Age eras in order?
A)Neolithic, Paleolithic, Mesolithic
B)Mesolithic, Neolithic, Paleolithic
C)Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
C
2) The transformation that was most
responsible for moving humans toward
civilization was the
A) use of fire
B) growth of towns and cities
C) rise of agriculture
D) rise of specialized classes
C
3) Who developed a writing system with an
alphabet?
A) Sumerians
B) Chinese
C) Harappans
D) Phoenicians
D
4) Who were the first group to sustain a
monotheistic religion?
A) Sumerians
B) Egyptians
C) Harappans
D) Jews
D
5) Metalworking was important to agricultural
and herding societies for each of the following
reasons EXCEPT:
A) Farmers could use more efficient metal
hoes to work the ground
B) Metal weapons were superior to those
made of stone or wood
C) Woodworkers and other manufacturing
artisans could improve their craft
D) Large metal boats could be constructed,
improving trade
D
6) Where did hominids emerge?
A) Eastern Africa
B) The Middle East
C) Madagascar
D) West Africa
A
7) Genders are equal in what system?
A) Bartering
B) Agriculture
C) Hunting-gathering
D) Pastoral nomadism
C
8) The start of sedentary agriculture
A) occurred simultaneously in various places and
spread around the world
B) began after the abandonment of hunting and
gathering
C) started in the Middle East first but developed
independently in other areas
D) arose in the river valleys of the Huang-He and
Yangtze
C
9) This civilization’s language has yet to be
deciphered.
A) Babylonia
B) Harappa
C) Yellow River
D) Mohenjo-Daro
B
10) Cuneiform and other types of writing are
important in part because they
A) help organize elaborate political
structures
B) lead directly to social stratification
C) can compel leaders to follow written
guidelines of behavior
D) limit bureaucratic inefficiencies
A
11) Where do civilizations during this
period tend to develop?
A) River valleys
B) Beaches
C) Surrounded by mountains
D) Large, open plains
A
12) What is the most significant development in
the Neolithic Era?
A) Writing Systems
B) Mesopotamia
C) Migration
D) Agriculture
D
13) The Egyptians developed all of the
following EXCEPT
A) Fractions
B) a 24 hour day
C) Addition, subtraction, division, multiplication
D) The concept of zero
D
14) Which of the following is NOT a feature of
Sumerian civilization?
A) a simplified alphabet of 22 letters
B) ziggurats
C) cuneiform
D) city-states
A
15) King Menes in Egypt accomplished
A) the development of rigid social classes
B) unification of Egypt
C) construction of the Pyramids of Giza
D) conquering neighboring nomads
B
16) When the Yellow River Civilization began,
they had not yet discovered which of the
following?
A) Writing
B) Farms
C) Pottery
D) Silk
A
17) Huang He houses are made out of mud
because:
A) The Chinese lacked the mathematical
knowledge to build with stone
B) They lacked elaborate building
materials
C) Mud was easy to use
D) Mud walls helped to heat and cool the
homes in the humid river valley
B
18) Where did farming develop?
A) Mesopotamia
B) Indus River Valley
C) Egypt
D) China
A
19) Stone tools, hunting and gathering, and an
increasing number of Homo sapiens sapiens are
features of the
A) Neolithic Age
B) Late Paleolithic Age
C) Bronze Age
D) River valley civilizations
B
20) All of the following River Valleys had
evidence of social stratification EXCEPT:
A) Nile River Valley
B) Tigris and Euphrates River Valley
C) Huang He River Valley
D) Indus River Valley
D
21) The decline of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
is thought to have occurred when:
A) They fought each other in a war over territory
B) The Aryans migrated to the region
C) The Indus River Valley flooded
D) A massive plague swept through the area
B
22) Compared to river valley cultures in Egypt
and Mesopotamia, Chinese civilization
A) probably developed after civilizations
in the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia
B) predates the rise of civilization in both
Egypt and Mesopotamia
C) developed simultaneously with Egypt
and Mesopotamia
D) has no verifiable historic origins and left
no written records
A
23) A civilization includes which of the
following components?
I – social classes
II – writing systems
III –institutions
IV - trade
A) I, III, IV
B) I, II, IV
C) I, II, III
D) All of the above
D
24) Pyramids indicate:
A) a lack of mathematical expertise
B) cultural exchange with the Mesopotamians
C) social stratification
D) palatial desires
C
25) Unlike Sumer and Egypt, Harappan
civilization
A) became a geographic center for a
unified, continuous culture lasting
millennia
B) is particularly difficult to study
because its writing has not been
deciphered
C) was secure from nomadic incursions
and invasions
D) never developed a military social class
B
26) The Paleolithic Age did NOT include
A) agriculturally based economies
B) small family units
C) stone tools
D) cave art
A
27) River valley civilizations begin to develop
around
A) 3,000 BCE
B) 6,000 BCE
C) 1200 BCE
D) 2,000 BCE
A
28) Who invented this kind of writing?
A) Sumerians
B) Babylonians
C) Harappans
D) Egyptians
A
29) Hammurabi’s Law Codes
A) did not apply to the nobles
B) were mild in comparison to other law
codes from this period
C) decreed death for nearly every offense
D) differed by social status and gender of
the offender
D
30) Where is the Fertile Crescent?
A) Egypt
B) Indus River Valley
C) Mesopotamia
D) Yellow River
C
31) The Sumerians used all of the following
EXCEPT
A) canals and levees
B) cuneiform
C) bartering
D) granite
D
32) Huang He means
A) Dynasty
B) social classes
C) Yellow River
D) Flooding Valley
C
33) What is the difference between Harappa
and Mohenjo-Daro?
A) Harappa had a military while
Mohenjo-Daro did not
B) Mohenjo-Daro had a king while
Harappa had local rulers
C) Harappa’s language has not been
deciphered, while Mohenjo-Daro’s has
D) Harappa’s farms do not flood, while
Mohenjo-Daro’s do
C
34) The Book of the Dead is a text that details:
A) monotheism
B) mummification
C) military battles
D) political ages
B
35) This Chinese dynasty left no written
records
A) Tang
B) Xia
C) Cixi
D) Shang
B
36) This River Valley civilization’s cities were
organized into square grids with roads and
walls surrounding the outside.
A) Egypt
B) Mesopotamia
C) Yellow River
D) Indus River
D
37) Akhenaten’s monotheism changed all of the
following EXCEPT
A) Egypt’s religion and religious practices
B) Egypt’s art, particularly the human
body
C) Egyptian priests and temples
D) Egypt’s calendar
D
38) The Nile not only flooded predictably, but
also gave the Egyptians natural resources.
Those include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) reeds
B) granite
C) stone
D) clay
B
39) This site is an important example of an
early city in “The Land Between the Rivers”
A) Babylon
B) Yangtze
C) Catal Huyuk
D) Mohenjo-Daro
C
40) Mummification provided the following
benefits:
I – provided a way for priests to learn about the
human body
II – provided a way for bodies to be prepared
for the afterlife
III – provided a way for certain Egyptians to
illustrate their wealth and status
A) I and II
B) I and III
C) II and III
D) I, II, and III
D