Chpts. 6 Ap history

Which of the following is one of the reasons that historians focus more attention on Eurasia than on other regions?

The unevenness of population distribution.

Which of the following has been identified as a factor contributing to the collapse of the Maya civilization in the ninth century C.E?

Long term Drought

How did the absence of most animals capable of domestication affect developments in the Americas?

Few pastoral societies developed

Which of the following limited the agricultural productivity of most regions in Africa?

Heavy but sometimes erratic rainfall followed by long dry seasons

What languages was spoken by the groups of people who had spread throughout most of southern and eastern Africa by the classical era?

Bantu

Which of the following cultures produced a written language?

Maya

In contrast to cities in other civilizations, cities in the Niger Valley civilization?

operated without the coercive authority of a state

Which of the following was an advantage that Bantu-speaking farmers had their encounters with gathering and hunting groups?

Iron working technology

The Maya and Axum were similar because

both possessed written scripts

During the classical era, metallurgy was least developed in

the Americas

The political organization of the Maya was most like that of the

city-state of classical Greece

Vertical integration, or the effort to control a variety of ecological zones where different crops and animals could flourish, characterized the civilization of

Mesoamerica

Which of the following explains why the island societies of pacific Oceania constitute a signal cultural region despite the vast distances separating them ?

Their common origin in island Southeast Asia

According to one historian, the greatest maritime expansion known to history occurred in

Pacific Oceania

In contrast to Maya art, the artwork of Teotihuacan

revealed few images of self glorying rulers

Which of the following foods from Southeast Asia greatly enhanced the African diet?

Bannas

The culture of Meroe showed a shift away from the influence of

Egypt

The decline of Meroe and the rise of Axum were both connected to

the shift of long distance trade from the Nile Valley to the Red Sea

Christianity in Axum most closely identified wit which church?

The Coptic Church in Egypt

Which statement describes the relationships between the civilizations in Mesoamerica and those in the Andes?

They had little if any direct contact with each other

Archaeological evidence suggest that the village located at Chavin was the center for

A religious movement that spread throughout much of the Andes

What do the remains of the Moche civilizations suggest was important to its rulers?

War and ceremony

Which of teh following describes a feature of Bantu religion?

It was concerned with explaining predicting, and controlling local affairs

The southeast Ceremonial Complex refers to the loose networks that connected the societies of the

eastern woodlands of North America

How did sharing a common border affect relations between the inland empires of Wari and Tiwanaku?

They appeared to get along because there was little over conflict or warfare between them

Which of the following did not developed in the human communities that emerged in Bantu Africa, North America, and Pacific Oceania?

Empires

Outside the Mesoamerican and Andean regions, most people living in the Americas in the pre-Columbian era

Obtained their food supply by gathering and hunting

The society of which groups of people is considered to be less patriarchal because of its system of gender parallelism, which associated female roles with village life and male roles with hunting and forest life?

bantu

A distributive feature of the Hopewell culture on the eastern woodlands of North America was the

creation of geometric earthworks