World History 1111

Final Exam

The prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux include

vibrantly painted scenes showing humans hunting a variety of animals

Which of the following sites supports the possibility of colonization of the Americas by humans before the year 10,000 BCE?

Meadowcraft near Pittsburgh, Monte Verde in Chile, Page-Ladson in Florida

The Lascaux cave paintings included all of the following except:

Written texts an a language that scholars have yet to translate

The term Neolithic Revolution refers to

The move from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture

What is the historical significance of Jericho and Catalhuyuk for the study of early human civilization?

They are examples of the earliest village-like settlements.

The rise of agriculture contributed to the rise of

social stratification, permanent settlements, religion and trade

The term Beringia refers to

a landmass that once connected North America and Asia

The earliest hominids to use stone tools were

Homo habilis

The term Oldowan industry refers to

chopping tools made of flaked and smashed quartz pebbles

Which group of hoinds became stockier and more powerful in build in order to deal with the harsh glacial climate of the Pleistocene apoch?

homo neandarthalensis

How did desiccation in Northeast Africa contribute to the rise of civilization in Egypt and Nubia?

Desiccation encouraged people to move closer to the Nile River

Sumerian city-states shared all of the following characteristics except:

Kings dominate the Sumerian city-states and created large empires by 5000 BCE

The Old Kingdom is associated with

a period when the pharaohs harnessed their immense influence to builds pyramids

What main environmental change between 6000 BCE and 4000 BCE prompted people in Northeast Africa to move closer to the flood plain of the Nile River?

Surrounding areas began drying out

The pharaohs and the Egyptian elites used the Valley of Kings as their preferred burial site during the

New Kingdom

All of the following statements are true about Nubia except

Nubian kingdoms were slave colonies of the ancient Egyptians

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were significant for ancient Mesopotamians for all of the following reasons except

The rivers acted as a barrier that protected ancient Mesopotamians from foreign invasions

The Great Pyramid of Egypt:

Took twenty years to uld and was the tallest tructure in the world until the twentieth century

All of the following were continuities in dynastic Egypt except

the pharaohs built huge pyramids as their burial sites during the dynastic period

Which of the following statements was not true regarding Egyptian early writing systems?

The ancient Egyptians developed writing to make the building plans for pyramids

In early India, people belonged to the untouchable caste since

their occupation was considered highly impure and others saw them as polluting

Which of the following was NOT proclaimed by King Ashoka proclaimed to his subjects?

In preparation for possible invasions from the northwest, young men should train in mounted warfare

Which one most accurately describes the meaning of dharma for Brahmins?

A society founded on Vedic principles and the varna and caste system.

Which of the following is in the correct chronological order?

1. Chandragupta Maurya

2. King Kanishka

3. Delhi Sultanate

Based on linguistic and archaeological evidence, experts trace the early origins of the Indo-Aryans to

nomadic pastoralists who lived on the steppe lands of southern Russia

Sanskrit was the language of:

The Indo-Ayrans

Which of the following was NOT true of a person’s caste in early India?

It had no impact on how a person, in a public setting, related to peoples of other castes

Which of the following was NOT an important component of Hinduism?

Forgoing final enlightenment for the purpose of working for the deliverance of others

The Gupta Empire can be considered as a classical age in India’s history since

a number of important literary and art works were produced that established a new standard for artistic excellence

Which of the following is NOT discussed in the Upanishads?

There is no point in doing good works, because doing so will not change the future

In addition to India itself, ancient and medieval India included all of the following present-day countries except:

Thailand

Which one of the following is NOT a geographical feature of the Indian subcontinent?

The plains located to the south of the Himalaya lack rivers

Which of the following regions was not closely linked to South Asia by the Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade routes?

Scandinavia

During India’s early medieval period, the majority of the population belonged to which major religious tradition?

Hinduism

The rules pertaining to the caste system are known as

dharma

According to the teachings of the Buddha,

life is fundamentally characterized by suffering, suffering is caused by a kind of unquenchable thirst, but there is a cure for this, and it is referred to as nirvana.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Mahyaana Buddhism?

The ideal path to salvation by living as monk or nun in a monastic setting and seeking perfection in enlightenment.

Excavations of Harappan Civilization have revealed

thousands of villages as small as 2-3 acres each, but also several major cities reaching over one hundred acres each.

Which of the following statements is correct about Theravada Buddhim?

Theravada Buddhism is the oldest branch of Buddhism and is known for highly valuing the monastic life

Among the Hindu gods and goddesses, which deity is known as “the destroyer”?

Shiva

During the Three Kingdoms and Northern and Southern Dynasties periods, all of the following occurred in China except

the emperors of the Northern Dynasty briefly unified china from their capital in Beijing.

The Yuan Dynasty:

were Mongols

Which of the following traditions had the greatest impact on social relationships in East Asia?

Confucianism

In East Asia, which of the following was not true during the first millennium CE?

China repeatedly invaded Korea and Japan

Buddhism became a major religious tradition in China due to all of the following except

the Chinese imperial monarchy, seeing that Buddhism fostered peace among the population, offered tax relief for those who converted

This individual completed the Mongol conquest of China that his grandfather had begun

Kublai Khan

Assuming that Erlitou was the capital of the Xia Dynasty, which one of the following is not correct based on the archaeological evidence?

Burial sites indicate an egalitarian social structure, where farmers and ruling elites interacted as equals.

During China’s Han Dynast,

China established four military outposts in Korea that established control over part of the peninsula, even as independent kingdoms and tribal confederations remained to the east and south

The worldview of the scholar-official class that dominated China from the Song Dynasty until the twentieth century was

Confucianism

How did the relationship between China and Korea differ from the relationship between China and Japan?

Korean states were more directly impacted by Chinese military aggression than was the Japanese state.

Regarding the impact of the Yuan Dynasty on Chinese history,

while earlier studies of this topic have generally highlighted the destructive impact of the conquests, more recent work has demonstrated that in fact the dynasty also made positive contributions

Which of the following was not a teaching of Confucius?

Only individuals from noble backgrounds have the conditions necessary to become noble men (persons of virtue).

Shang rulers and elites believed that the principal factor determining whether or not future events would be favorable to them was

the spirits of their deceased ancestors.

Which one of the following is not true of Confucius?

During this lifetime, he realized his political aspirations by serving in high office as the advisor to a feudal lord.

Daoism

suggested that people can return to a natural way of being that is spontaneous and effortless.

Which of the following are in the correct chronological order?

1. The shang Dynasty

2. The Qin Dynasty

3. The Yuan Dynasty

Early Zhou rulers justified overthrowing the Shang Dynasty by claiming that

a higher power had deemed that the Shang no longer had the right to rule and designated the Zhou rulers as the ones now responsible for that task

Which of the following was not a Legalist influence on Qin policies?

Construction of a giant underground mausoleum for the rulers, so that his power would extend into the spirt world

Which of the following is not a part of East Asia?

India

Which one of the following is not true of the Korean Peninsula?

Its northern boundary is defined by the Yellow river

Hellenistic scientists and thinkers were fascinated with

studying the order of the universe and how it worked

Which of the following is a common value that the Greek poleis expected of their citizens?

Each citizen should place his city’s interests above his own, in order to ensure his city’s survival

While each Greek Polis had its own dating system, what system did the Greeks adopt as a common method of dating events?

Dating events by Olympiads in four-year Olympic cycles.

What was the historical significance of the Battle of Marathon?

The Athenians victory over King Darius’ Persians army marked the end of the First Persian invasion of Greece.

Which two states fought the Battle of Leuctra?

Sparta and Thebes

Alexander the Great attempted to conquer all of the following except

China

The Homeric epics reflect the historical values of this period of Greek history

All of the periods

Althena, the patron goddess of the city of Athens, was the goddess of

war, wisdom, and women’s crafts

Why was Socrates condemned to death?

Socrates’ connections to the oligarchs who had previously overthrown the democracy in Athens.

Rome’s last pagan emperor was

Julian the Apostate

The two main periods into which historians divide Roman history are

Republic and Empire

What was the most important measure implemented by Diocletian to end the Third Century Crisis?

The Tetrarchy

All of the following statements about early Christianity are correct except

It was predominately a rural religion

The term Pax Romana refers to

the period from the Age of Augustus to the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Cincinnatus was seen as the ideal Roman in the Roman republic because

All of these statements are true

According to Plutarch, what was the first instance of political violence in Republican Rome?

the assassination of Tiberius Gracchus

During the Roman Republic, Rome fought three Punic Wars against:

Carthage

Augustus held all of the following titles except

Dictator

What is the historical significance of the marydom story of Perpetua and Felicity?

All of these statements are true

Which of the following was not a consequence of the Plague of Athens?

Athenians mistrusted public water supply in the city since they believed that was how the plague had spead

Which of the following was not an action connected with Pericles?

Going to war with Sparta

Which of the following is not an example of material culture?

The Homeric epics

Which of the following was not a result of the Persian Wars?

Despite the loss in Greece proper, the wars resulted in a growth in territory for the Persians in Asia Minor

What is Linear B?

A syllabic script that the Mycenaean civilization used to keep palace records.

Which Hellenistic thinker created the discipline of geometry?

Euclid

What was the main subject of Athenian tragedies and comedies?

The horrors of war and the successful resistance to war by enterprising civilians.

What was the original purpose of the Delian League?

To protect the Greeks living in Ionia from subsequent attacks from Persia.

The primary purpose of the Olympic Games was originally to

celebrate and worship the gods Zeus

According to Thucydides, what was the cause of the Peloponnesian War?

The growing power of Athens, and the fear that that growth inspired in Sparta

Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople for all of the following reasons except

Constantine received a vision from God advising him to build a new capital

Which of the following are in the correct chronological order?

1. The First Triumvirate

2. The assassination of Julius Caesar

3. The Second Triumvirate

Which key Christian doctrine did the First Council of Nicaea ratify?

The doctrine of the Trinity

Which event is considered to be the end of the Roman Empire in the West?

The deposition of the Emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476 CE.

Which two former allies fought against each other in the final civil war of the Roman Republic?

Caesar and Pompey

What percentage of the Roman Empire’s population was Christian before the conversion of Constantine?

1%

Which politician changed the Roman constitution in order to weaken the plebeian tribunate?

Sulla

The two most powerful neighbors of early Rome were the

Etruscans in the north and Greeks in the south