WHAP Chapter 4

B) Lower-level officials drawn from local authorities

Persian political organization included which of the following features?

A) An emperor who was little more than a figurehead

B) Lower-level officials drawn from local authorities

C) A civil service examination system

D) A written constitution

C) The idea of free male citizens running the affair of state

Which of the following was a unique feature of political life in classical Greece?

A) The granting of limited political rights to slaves

B) Representative democracy

C) The idea of free male citizens running the affair of state

D) The universal right to vote for all men and women above the age of sixteen

B) Both were expansive civilizations

What did the Persian Empire share in common with classical Greece in 500 B.C.E.?

A) Both had a centralized political system

B) Both were expansive civilizations

C) Both possessed a strong sense of citizenship

D) Both were ethnically homogeneous

C) featured popular participation in politics

In contrast to The Persian empire, the political culture of classical Greek civilization

A) Emphasized the absolute power of the monarch

B) allowed for the limited participation of women in public assemblies

C) featured popular participation in politics

D) relied heavily on satraps to administer their states.

B) The spread of Greek culture throughout most of the ancient world.

A major development that occurred during the Hellenistic era was?

A) Sparta's defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War

B) The spread of Greek culture throughout most of the ancient world.

C) The Mongol conquest of Europe

D) The expansion of the Roman Empire to its greatest height.

B) A state formed through conquest and maintained through the extraction of resources from conquered states and peoples.

Which of the following represents a defining characteristic of an empire?

A) A state that forms as a democratic republic but is eventually seized and ruled over by a single ruler

B) A state formed through conquest and maintained through the extraction of resources from conquered states and peoples.

C)A single ethnic group with a single language, religion, and identity.

D) A conglomeration of independent states that form temporary alliances

B) They invoked supernatural sanctions to support their rule

Which of the following was true of both the Roman and the Chinese Empires?

A) They exhausted themselves through frequent indecisive wars with India

B) They invoked supernatural sanctions to support their rule

C) They evolved from republican traditions into empires ruled by single rulers.

D) Their economies relied heavily on slave labor

C) relied on imperial spies to keep tabs on distant provinces.

The Persian Empire and the Mauryan dynasty were similar in that both did because?

A) defined the right of the emperor to rule through the Mandate of Heaven

B) controlled parts of eastern China

C) relied on imperial spies to keep tabs on distant provinces.

D) ultimately evolved into republican governments

A)The wealth of the Mediterranean societies.

Which of the following was a motivation for the expansion of the Roman Empire?

A)The wealth of the Mediterranean societies.

B) The spread of Roman religion

C) Rejection of Greek culture and philosophy

D) The threat of Persia

D) They were powerful states capable of coercing resources from subjects.

Which of the following was a characteristic of all classical empire?

A) There was equality under the law for all subjects

B) Emperors were constrained by the Mandate of Heaven

C)They all imposed a single religion and language for the empire

D) They were powerful states capable of coercing resources from subjects.

C) Buddhism

Which religious tradition was absorbed into China during the classical period?

A) Hinduism

B) The Isis cult

C) Buddhism

D) Christianity

D) Produced a hybrid culture that drew on both Germanic and Roman elements.

When Germanic tribes entered into the western part of the Roman Empire, they...?

A) were rapidly assimilated into Roman culture

B) ensured that slaves continued to make up a large portion of society

C) regected all of Roman culture, instead imposing their own culture.

D) Produced a hybrid culture that drew on both Germanic and Roman elements.

A) India's unparalleled cultural diversity.

Which of the following has been put forward to explain why empires were much less prominent in India than in China?

A) India's unparalleled cultural diversity.

B) The lack of invasions from Central Asia into the Indian subcontinent

C) India's lack of well-defined social structure

D) The absense of any tradition of large states in India

B) Had precedents to follow.

In contrast to the Roman Empire, the process of empire formation in China ...?

A) was less dependent on military force

B) Had precedents to follow.

C) involved the absorption of foreign religious tradition

D) took centuries to complete.

C) Respect and tolerance for non-Persian traditions.

Which of the following describes the Persian policy towards people with different cultural traditions who lived within the empire?

A) Taxation of those who continued to practice non-Persian ways

B) Suppression and elimination of non-Persian traditions

C) Respect and tolerance for non-Persian traditions.

D) Forced assimilation to the Persian way of life

D) The notion of an East/West divide.

Which of the following was a consequence of the Greco-Persian Wars?

A) The decline of Athenian democracy

B) The end of the Golden Age of Greek Culture

C) The Greek settlement of Ionia

D) The notion of an East/West divide.

C) Standardization of weights, measures, and currency.

Which of the following is an example of the centralization of the Chinese state under Qin Shihuangdi?

A) Establishment of the Senate, consuls, and public assemblies

B) Participation of the lower classes in shaping public policy

C) Standardization of weights, measures, and currency.

D) Elimination of the office of tribune

D) The Roman Empire emphasized good laws while the Han dynasty emphasized on good men.

Which of the following expresses the basic difference between what the Roman Empire and the Han dynasty believed was the key to good government?

A) The roman Empire empowered the bureaucracy while the Han dynasty empowered the people.

B) The Roman Empire depended on merit-based system of political recruitment while the Han dynasty limited political office to the aristocracy

C) The Roman Empire believed in the separation of church and state while the Han dynasty limited political office to the aristocracy

D) The Roman Empire emphasized good laws while the Han dynasty emphasized on good men.

A) Led to the emergence of highly decentralized political systems.

In contrast to what followed after the collapse of the Han dynasty in China, the collapse of the Roman Empire..?

A) Led to the emergence of highly decentralized political systems.

B) caused an increase in population growth

C) ushered in a new phase of stability

D) produced a culturally homogeneous civilization

B) Both created enduring civilizations in the absence of a consistent, encompassing imperial state.

In what respect did India's political history resemble that of Western Europe?

A) Both enjoyed long periods of peace and stability under republican forms of government

B) Both created enduring civilizations in the absence of a consistent, encompassing imperial state.

C) Both successfully resisted foreign rule and domination

D) Both possessed a high degree of ethnic and cultural homogeneity that found expression in a centralized state.