Which of the following is not true of the Olmec culture?
It developed in the high, mountainous areas of central Mexico.
The famous Mesoamerican ball games
resulted in sacrificing the losing team to the gods.
The civilization of the Inka
constructed an impressive system of roads and bridges throughout its extensive domain.
Most of the Aztec population belonged to large kinship groups called
calpulli.
In which areas were the Mayan and Aztec civilizations similar?
They both practiced human sacrifice.
Which civilization lived in terraces cut out of a mountainside located in the central Mexican highlands?
Zapotec
Moche culture
may have been ended by environmental changes.
What was the language of the ancient Maya called?
Quiche
Aztec society
did not possess a writing system, although it did develop hieroglyphs.
The two commodities that enabled the Maya to develop trade relations with other civilizations in its region were
obsidian and cacao trees.
Mayan civilization
declined in the eighth or ninth centuries C.E.
Currently available evidence has shown the first humans in the Americas
arrived at least 15,000 years ago.
Mayan pyramids
contained the bodies of rulers.
What was the purpose of the human sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs?
To appease Huitzilopochtli, and thus delay the ultimate destruction of their world.
Who was the Inka king who began the conquests that led to the creation of their empire?
Pachakuti
Women in imperial Rome had more freedom than women in democratic Athens.
True
To save money for military purposes, Roman roads were built to follow the contours of the land rather than to connect the shortest distances.
False
In comparison to Greece, Italy had fewer rugged mountains and possessed more productive agricultural lands
True
During the Han dynasty, paper was put to many uses such as toilet tissue and military armor.
True
The civil service examination reflected the Confucius philosophy of the Han dynasty.
True
In general, Romans demonstrated extensive tolerance for the religions of other peoples living in their empire
True
In reaction to the overwhelming influence of Greek philosophy, the Romans turned to Etruscan and Egyptian models for inspiration in artistic matters.
False
The Edict of Milan (313 C.E.) was an attempt to outlaw Christianity and bring back the worship of the old Roman gods.
False
In the early Roman Empire, upper-class Roman women were excluded from public life and lost privileges and responsibilities
False
Both the Qin and the Han dynasties had problems with the nomadic Xiongnu from Central Asia.
True
The Bantu languages features a "click" sound.
False
From 8000 to 4000 B.C.E. the Sahara featured lakes and ponds and vast grasslands.
True
In the fourth century, the rulers of Axum adopted the Roman Catholic form of Christianity
False
The Roman called East Africa "Azania" and the Greeks called the area "Zanj.
False
Slavery in Africa began only with the arrival of the Europeans in the late fifteenth century.
False
Swahili comes from the Arabic sahel, which means "forest" or "jungle.
False
North-African peoples ranging from Nubia westward into the central Sahara region, were among the world's earliest agriculturalists.
True
Today, Swahili is the national language of Kenya and Tanzania.
True
The king of Mali who went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in the fourteenth century was Mansa Musa.
True
By and large, Africa has had no impact on global history until modern times.
False
Swahili civilization was based on a mixture of native African and ____ cultures.
Arab
A unique aspect of the ancient Ethiopian civilization was the fact that
it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.
The ancient civilization that was located in the highlands of what is known today as Ethiopia was
Axum.
The people of North Africa, who served as trade intermediaries for the great trans-Saharan commerce, were the
Berbers.
In addition to woodcarvings, other major African artistic contributions have been
bronze and iron statuary produced at today's southern Nigeria.
All of the following are correct about the Garamantes except they
survived for only a century.
All of the following was true about the southern African state of Zimbabwe except
it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.
Which of the following states developed in the southern half of Africa?
Luba
The wealth of Zanj was primarily derived from
trade.
Slavery in Africa
went back to ancient times, long before the arrival of the Europeans.
Of the following, the southernmost river system in Africa is the ____ river system.
Congo
The great river that dominates the western region of Africa, the so-called "hump of Africa," is the
Niger.
Which of the following peoples are associated with the Congo region of central Africa?
Twa
Recent archeological and anthropological discoveries have shown that
African societies were much more involved in worldwide developments of human history than had previously been believed.
East African trade
provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
The Ka'aba
was the shrine in Mecca containing a large black meteorite.
A primary contribution of Arab scholarship was the
preservation and dissemination of the science and philosophies of ancient civilizations.
Which of the following had the most impact on the Islamic world? The
Christian Crusades
The caliphate that is often described as the Abbasid "Golden Age" was the reign of
Harun al-Rashid.
Which of the following was not a major trade route during the 1st millennium CE?
trans-Atlantic Route
Manifestations of the Islamic principle of equality were seen in
all were equal in the eyes of Allah.
Following conquests by Muslim armies, populations in Spain could expect
any of the above
In addition to being Islam's sacred book, the Koran
also provides the ethical foundation for life.
The council of elders of the Arabian Bedouin tribes was called the
majlis.
The poet who wrote the Rubaiyat was
Omar Khayyam.
Regarding women's modesty the Qur'an stipulates
None of the above.
The Koran or Qur'an
was derived from the revelations of Muhammad.
Under the Abbasid Dynasty
internal decay, over time, caused Islamic division.
The city to which Muhammad went to in 622, a journey known as the Hijrah, was
Medina.
The major Muslim outpost in Europe was
Andalusia.
The major stages of Roman imperial expansion before 100 B.C.E. included
the involvement and seizures of the Hellenistic kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean.
Traditional Roman religion
was based on the proper implementation of rituals by state priests.
Which of the following was NOT a similarity between the Han and Roman empires? In both empires
merchants were highly regarded
During the centuries of Roman history, from Republic to Empire, the paterfamilias' authority
decreased.
The basic message of Jesus of Nazareth was that
people should love God and each other.
The invention of paper is properly associated with the
Han dynasty
A development during the period of Julio-Claudian rule was that emperors
acted more openly as real rulers than as "first citizens of the state.
Which of the following is not associated with the Han dynasty?
Women ceased to play a secondary role.
As it prospered, the early Roman Empire
saw the development of a large gap between rich and poor.
Roman literature
reached it high point in the age of Augustus.
The founder of the Han dynasty was
Liu Bang.
Julius Caesar
was assassinated by a group of leading senators.
The Han dynasty
greatly increased Chinese territorial control to the south and west.
Roman emperors and their high officials during the 2nd century
tended to be ambivalent in their reaction to Christians.
The greatest epic poet of the Late Republic was
Virgil.
The umma was the religious leader of Islam
False
The Seljuk Turks were originally a nomadic people from southern Mesopotamia.
False
The Ka'aba is a shrine that contains a black meteorite in the Arabian city of Mecca.
True
Many philosophical works of the ancient Greeks were preserved by Muslim scholars in the library of Alexandria for many centuries and thus came to be preserved for later translation into modern European languages.
True
One of the failures of Islam was its refusal to preserve and spread the science and philosophy of Greece and other ancient civilizations.
False
Saladin was the Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187.
True
Veiling and seclusion of women were ancient Arabian customs that preceded the spread of Islam.
False
In spite of the Islamic principle of human equality, in practice the male was dominant in Muslim society.
True
Medieval Muslim map making inverted North and South from modern-day practice.
True
Interregional trade curtailed the developments of societies during the 1st millennium CE, while more isolated societies flourished.
False
The Inka tradition of temple virgins is similar to Roman traditions of the Vestal Virgins.
True
The Inka had no writing system, but kept records using a system of knotted strings called quipu.
True
The famous story about the Aztecs believing Hernan Cortes was the returned representative of a favorite Central American deity is now considered false by historians.
False
At Cahokia, near East Saint Louis, archeologists have discovered a burial mount more than 98 feet high with a base larger than Egypt's Great Pyramid.
True
Recent evidence suggests that the Mayan decline was due to over-cultivation and overpopulation, possibly combined with drought.
True
The Maya is considered to be the "mother civilization" of Mesoamerica.
False
Classical Mayan civilization was centered on modern-day Mexico.
False
Because the soil lacked sufficient nutrients, agriculture never developed in the Amazon region.
False
The Pyramid of the Sun was built by the people of Teotihuacan in the fifth century C.E.
True
The Aztecs erected rest-shelters along their highways so that travelers could relieve themselves in private and their waste could be collected.
True