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In India’s caste system, the Kshatriyas class contained which people?
a) common people
b) Priests
c) Untouchables
d) warriors and rulers

What are the four major kinds of resources?
a) farmers, merchants, sellers, and buyers
b) land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship
c) supply, demand, recession, and inflation
d) traditional, command, market, and mixed

Which of the following did not lead to isolation of China, giving it the unique culture that was developed?
a) Gobi Desert
b) Change Jiang River
c) Himalayan Mountains
d) Huang He River

Great tomb built for their pharaoh
a) Caste
b) Ziggurat
c) irrigation
d) pyramid

A line of rulers that passes power from father to son is a
a) Delta
b) Dynasty
c) reign
d) Scimitar

Which of the following is an example of a barrier to trade?
a) a country bans trade that hurts its own producers
b) a country both buys from and sells to other countries
c) a country is easy to reach due to its geography
d) a country trades goods and services for other goods and services

Which was an Indian invention that had a great impact on the study of mathematics and science?
a) Algebra
b) Algorithms
c) Geometry
d) the symbol zero

What new technology was developed during the Zhou Dynasty?
a) melted bronze to make works of art
b) channels to block flood waters
c) new systems to irrigate the land
d) silk worms to make clothing

How did the Egyptians take advantage of the Nile’s yearly spring flooding?
a) They became successful farmers.
b) They created hieroglyphics.
c) They grew papyrus.
d) They irrigated during the dry season.

Which of the following was a result of Zhang Qian’s exploration of the West?
a) Allies were found to help China fight its enemies.
b) China’s trade increased.
c) Chinese medicine advanced.
d) Literature and the arts blossomed.

The calendar developed by the Sumerians was based on
a) the number 60
b) the cycles of the moon
c) the Roman calendar
d) the geometry of the wheel.

Geographers often group places into regions. What is a region?
a) an awareness of the world
b) a physical characteristic, such as a landform
c) a physical system, such as a hurricane
d) a place that is united by one or more common characteristics

The Mauryan dynasty set up which type of government?
a) city-state
b) democratic
c) Theocratic
d) well-run

Which best describes the type of government in Egypt after 3100 B.C.?
a) a democracy
b) a dynasty
c) an independent city-state
d) constitutional monarchy

Which answer gives the best explanation of why the Chang Jiang was so important to the people of ancient China?
a) It was a key waterway for trade and transportation.
b) It is the third longest river in the world.
c) It flows west to east across central China.
d) It flows through canyons and plains to the East China Sea.

Which of the following is one of India’s three most important major rivers?
a) Arabian
b) Bengal
c) Ganges
d) Indian

Where did the first civilizations arise because of farming conditions?
a) in the mountains
b) near the sea
c) in river valleys
d) in the desert

What natural disasters possibly caused the people of the Indus Valley to begin to abandon their cities and villages?
a) disease and famine
b) earthquakes and floods
c) hurricanes and wildfires
d) volcanoes and monsoons

Which of the following is an accomplishment of the pharaoh Hatshepsut?
a) Used trade to expand the empire
b) Started a new religion
c) Used war to expand the empire
d) Became pharaoh at age 9

Which of the following was not an accomplishment of the pharaoh Ramses?
a) He signed peach treaties between Egypt and the Hittites
b) He took back land that was lost by earlier pharaohs
c) He restored the old religion
d) He built the temple in Karnak

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