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Assignment:
1. Why did historians focus more attention on Eurasia than on other regions?
a. The extensive development of writing in Mesoamerica
b. The unevenness of population distribution
c. The large number of pastoral societies that developed in the Western Hemisphere
d. The meager development of metallurgy in Africa
2. How did the absence of most animals capable of domestication affect developments in the Americas?
a. Metallurgy was more highly developed.
b. Agriculture did not develop independently.
c. A plow-based farming system developed.
d. Few pastoral societies developed.
3. Which environmental factor limited the agricultural productivity of most regions in Africa?
a. Heavy but sometimes erratic rainfall followed by long dry seasons
b. The scarcity of raw materials and the absence of iron tools
c. The network of rivers running throughout the continent
d. Lack of state control and coordination of the irrigation system
4. The decline of Meroë and the rise of Axum were both connected to
a. the spread of Christianity across much of Africa.
b. extended ecological changes associated with El Niño episodes.
c. the military expeditions of the Roman Empire into North Africa.
d. the shift of long-distance trade from the Nile Valley to the Red Sea.
5. Which statement describes the relationship between the civilizations in Mesoamerica and those in the Andes?
a. They frequently fought with each other.
b. They had little if any direct contact with each other.
c. They enjoyed equal diplomatic relations.
d. They gradually merged to create a hybrid culture.
6. Vertical integration, or the effort to control a variety of ecological zones where different crops and animals could flourish, characterized the civilizations of
a. Mesoamerica.
b. Bantu Africa.
c. Pacific Oceania.
d. Mesopotamia.
7. The political organization of the Maya was most like that of the
a. imperial state of Rome.
b. kingdom of Axum.
c. city-states of classical Greece.
d. civilization of the Niger Valley.
8. Archeological evidence suggests that the village located at Chavín was the center for
a. a slave-based economy that became the prototype for the plantation system.
b. political experiments with democracy that predated classical Greece.
c. the study of science and medicine that sparked the Scientific Revolution.
d. a religious movement that spread throughout much of the Andes.
9. Which of the following describes a feature of Bantu religion?
a. It viewed God as remote and largely uninvolved in ordinary life.
b. It was concerned with explaining, predicting, and controlling local affairs.
c. It incorporated many Christian elements imported from the Roman Empire.
d. It claimed to be a universal religion and had a strong missionary impulse.
10. Outside the Mesoamerican and Andean regions, most people living in the Americas in the pre-Columbian era
a. obtained their food supply by gathering and hunting.
b. lived in densely populated urban centers.
c. practiced an intensive form of agriculture.
d. engaged in long-distance trade with one another.
11. Which of the following did not develop in the human communities that emerged in Bantu Africa, North America, and Pacific Oceania?
a. Culture
b. Inequalities
c. Agriculture
d. Empires
12. Which of the following explains why the island societies of Pacific Oceania constitute a single cultural region despite the vast distances separating them?
a. Their common origin in Island Southeast Asia
b. Their practice of corn-based agriculture
c. Their mastery of ironworking technology
d. Their worship of the same pantheon of gods