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Test Description: Ermis - 2016
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The Agricultural revolutions occurred in which era?
A
Paleolithic
B
Era of Man
C
Megalithic
D
Neolithic
2) The earliest transition to agriculture was
A
Africa
B
Middle East
C
Americas
D
Asia
3) The term city-state refers to
A
An urban center and the agricultural lands it controlled
B
An association of mutually dependent cities
C
A large city surrounded by a protective wall
D
The political institution that ruled over ancient kingdoms
4) Women in Mesopotamian society had a lower status than in a hunter-gatherer society because of
A
Their role as primary agricultural producers
B
Their role in the military
C
The requirement to serve as temple prostitutes
D
The shift of the major role in food provision from women to men
5) The first metal that the Mesopotamians used was:
A
Copper
B
Steel
C
Bronze
D
Iron
6) Crucial to Egypt’s agriculture was
A
Proximity to the Nile river
B
The desert
C
Favor of the gods
D
Proximity to Rivendell
7) Women in Egypt seemed to have
A
More status than in Mesopotamia
B
Subordinate status to men
C
All of the these
D
Rights to property
8) Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley civilization were all
A
Made possible by large agricultural surpluses
B
Based on beer brewing and female labor
C
Derived from an earlier, as yet undiscovered, “watershed” civilization
D
Based on fertile floodplains and river valleys
9) What does the practice of Feng shui accomplish
A
It is part of the process of silk production
B
It scares away ghosts
C
It orients buildings in harmony with the heavens
D
It is a treatment in tradition Chinese medicine
10) To Confucius, the fundamental element of society was the
A
Maintenance of tradition
B
King
C
One ring
D
Family
11) The Chinese political system that relied primarily on strict laws and punishments to compel people to behave is called
A
Confucianism
B
Legalism
C
Judaism
D
Daoism
12) The concept of Yin and Yang represented the complementary nature of
A
Male and female roles in the natural order
B
Good and evil in Chinese morality
C
Religion and the state in Chinese society
D
The wisdom of age and the strength of youth
13) How did Nubia become a “corridor” for long-distance trade before 3000 BCE?
A
Egypt built a river highway for the passage of goods
B
Government policies carefully regulated and promoted trade
C
It connected sub-Saharan Africa with Egypt
D
Nubia had no natural resources of its own and so need to import them
14) The earliest political and economic influence on Nubia was
A
Kush
B
The Sudan
C
Mali
D
Egypt
15) By 300 BCE, Celtic people were NOT found in which of the following regions?
A
Japan and China
B
Hungary and Turkey
C
Spain and Ireland
D
Britain and France
16) ___________________ refers to the period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans.
A
Neolithic
B
Australopithecine
C
Agricultural revolution
D
Paleolithic
17) The foremost power in Anatolia from 1700 to 1200 BCE who are credited with inventing iron are the
A
Kassite
B
Hittites
C
Babylonians
D
Assyrians
18) The Hyksos were able to conquer Egypt because they had
A
Horse-drawn chariots carrying archers with composite bows
B
Iron weapons
C
Control of the Nile Delta regions, so they could restrict irrigation to Egyptian agriculture
D
Massive armed forces from a consolidated army of the Near East
19) Transportation in western Asia was revolutionized in the Later Bronze Age by the introduction of
A
Ox
B
Zebra
C
Elephant
D
Horse
20) The Minoan civilization was established on
A
The island of Crete
B
The southern tip of Greece
C
Southwestern Macedonia
D
The island of Malta
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