What is the name given to Paleolithic figurines that depict the female form, often with exaggerated sexual features?
Venus figurines
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Which of the following statements is true of paleolithic societies' relationship with the environment?
paleolithic societies had a significant impact on the environment
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In what region did the spread of Bantu languages accompany the development of agricultural societies?
Southern Africa
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According to the cosmic calendar, the entire history of the US has occurred:
In just the last second of the cosmic year
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Which of the following was a characteristic of paleolithic societies
men most often specialized in hunting larger animals and women most often gathered foods and trapped smaller prey
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Why did the transition away from hunting and gathering take so much longer in Mesoamerica than it did in other early agricultural societies?
There was a lack of domestic animals, and the process needed to make maize productive was long and selective
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Which factor contributed to the Agricultural revolution?
a need for additional food
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In humankind's first settling of the earth, which is the only region where the migrants were already agriculturalists?
The Pacific Islands
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What is a pastoralist?
A person who relies on domesticated animals as a main source of food
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What did migrants to Australia and the Pacific Islands use to get to their destinations?
Boats
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Many scholars believe that we are in the midst of...
a sixth extinction driven by climate change, which scientists agree is human caused
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Which of the following statements about big history is false?
All historians argue that human history can be fully understood only if contextualized in the changing patterns of the cosmos
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Which of the following offers evidence that Paleolithic peoples were shifting from a nomadic way of life to a more settled lifestyle?
Elaborate burial sites
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where did homo sapiens first appear?
africa
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what role did women play in agricultural village societies?
women particpated in farming and textile work
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which of the following was not part of human history prior to the rise of civilizations?
large scale warfare
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which of the following was a result of the agricultural revolution?
higher risk of disease and famine
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what was a feature of society during the paleolithic era?
relative egalitarianism
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Which of the following statements about the agricultural revolution is true?
it occurred independently in many widely scattered parts of the world
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Which form of society during the age of agriculture is considered to have a distinct element of inequality?
chiefdoms
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The last Ice Age may have helped early gatherer-hunters in which of the following ways?
the lower sea levels associated with the ice age created land bridges, allowing human beings to travel to many regions of the earth
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which of the following statements about human history prior to the rise of civilization is false?
human history prior to the rise of civilizations is not really all that important
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about how long ago did homo sapiens appear?
250000 years ago
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which region that experienced the agricultural revolution did not have a comparable process of animal domestication?
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what was the neolithic revolution?
A turning point in human history when Homo sapiens started the deliberate cultivation of plants and domestication of animals
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which of the following was an important development during the paleolithic period?
humankind spread to inhabit all parts of the globe
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The spread of agriculture through diffusion and migration resulted in
the spread of language groups
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which hunting and gathering society developed the complex worldview known as the dreamtime, which holds that everything in the natural world is simply a vibration of ancient happenings?
the Australian Aboriginals
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Which is the last region of the world to which humans migrated?
the pacific islands
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which of the following regions maintained a hunting and gathering economy into the modern era?
the west coast of north america
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How were agricultural village societies usually ruled?
they had a lineage system that ran things by kinship groups rather than formal government
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in what part of the world did clovis culture flourish about 13,000 years ago?
north america
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What term if used to describe the gradual spread of agricultural techniques from the places they originated?
diffusion
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Which of the following developments occurred first?
some nomadic societies began to settle down
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what was the secondary products revolution
the finding of new uses for domesticated animals, such as milking or riding them
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the paleolithic era has become the focus in recent years of all of the following except:
looking for ways to appreciate paleolithic peoples for their own sakes and not for ours
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which of the following explains why some regions did not make the transition to an agricultural way of life?
environmental conditions were not suitable for farming
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which of the following, according to your text, best describes paleolithic societies?
they were small, consisting of bands of 25-50 people
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which of the following was one reason that some paleolithic societies were able to settle in permanent villages?
the end of the ice age, which improved conditions for hunting and gathering
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when did humans begin working with metals?
At the time of the Agricultural Revolution
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the extraordinary human ability to accumulate knowledge and skill apparently beyond that of other species has resulted in all of the following except:
the population that has expanded at about the same rate as other large animal species
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Where was the Fertile Crescent?
Southwest Asia
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which of the following statements best describes human life in early farming communities?
people were more vulnerable to famine as they relied on a small number of plants or animals for food
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what was the period of human development where the smelting of copper was combined with zinc, tin, arsenic to create spear points and axes?
the bronze age
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which of the following is an example of a way that the rulers in the first civilizations displayed their power?
constructing temples
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Which people first domesticated the horse?
Indo-Europeans
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which of the following has been suggested as a possible explanation for the origins of the first civilizations?
the need to organize large-scale irrigation projects
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which class made up a large majority of the population in ALL of the first civilizations
free commoners
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which of the following has not been proposed as a possible reason that some societies became civilizations?
stable population size
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which first civlization was the gift of the nile
egypt
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why did civilizations first emerge so late in human history
only agricultural societies can support large populations and sustain specialized or elite minorities
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which of the following observations about early civilizations is false
the increase of patriarchy occurred to the same degree in all of the first civilizations
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which of the following represents a way that class distinctions were displayed in the first civilizations
manner of a person's burial
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what modern state occupies the territory that was once Sumer
iraq
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which civilization produced the worlds earliest written language
sumerian
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which of the following was a system of writing that was probably the least developed way of expressing all human thought in the first civilizations, and consisted of a complex system of knotted cords that recorded mostly numerical data but may have used to record words and ideas
quipu
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which early civilization may have housed a sophisticated civilization without developing a political hierarchy or centralized state
indus valley
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The rulers of which First Civilization based their authority on the Mandate of Heaven?
china
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which of the following statements about ancient Mesopotamia is TRUE
it was much more vulnerable to invasion than Egypt
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what is the mandate of heaven
A Chinese ideology that the monarch is an intermediary between heaven and earth and has divine favor as long as he rules benevolently
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which of the following ruled mesopotamia at some point in ancient history
babylonians
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this early civlization of the Americas made a number of lasting contributions to later Mesoamerican civilizations, including ritual sacrifice, socrificial bloodletting by rulers, and a game played with a rubber ball
olmec
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what is the old kingdom
the period of egyptian history between 2663 and 2195 bce
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which of the following statements about the first civilizations is true
the increase in patriarchy meant that female sexuality was strictly regulated in most first civilizations
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which of the following statements about the emergence of civilizations is true
civilization developed independently in seven major locations around the world
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which of the following was a city in the indus valley civilization
harappa
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which of the following means of authority was available to the states of the first civilizations that was not available to earlier chiefdoms
large scale violence
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the three earliest civilizations, all developing between 3500 and 3000 bce, were sumer, egypt and
norte chico
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which was the latest, most recent, of the seven first civilizations
olmec
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which of the following is not a reason that the concept of civilization has been highly controversial
because it is a purely descriptive term for most world historians, without implying any judgement or assessment
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in which state were kings known as the son of heaven
china
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which of the following is necessary for a society to be defined as a civilization in the tradtional scholarly sense
cities
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which of the following human accomplishments emerged with the first civilizations
writing
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which of the following provides evidence of interaction and exchange among the first civilizations and surrounding regions in the ancient world
horse drawn chariots
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which civiliation produced the worlds earliest written language
sumerian
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which of the following is a feature found in some cities of the first civilizations
sewage system
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which of the following statements about literacy in the first civilization is true
it gave enormous prestige to those who could read and write
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which of the following statements about long distance trade in both egypt and mesopotamia is true
it dealt mostly in luxury goods for the elite
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what is a ziggurat
A stepped pyramid topped with a temple
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which of the following contributed to the declining power of the Egyptian phaorohs by 2400 bce
local officials and nobles assumed greater authority
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which of the following statements about ancient Egypt is true
the state was ruled by pharaohs who were believed to be gods in human form
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which of the following have scholars advanced as a possible explanation for the emergence of patriarchy in the First Civilizations
emergence of large-scale warfare with professionally led armies
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which of the following civilizations developed earliest
norte chico
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which of the first civilizations provided the most opportunities to women
egypt
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which of the following is an example of how social class affected gender roles
women from the upper class were expected to stay at home while women from the lower classes had to go out in public to work
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scholars have found evidence for which of the following as an important factor in the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization
salinization caused by repeated irrigation
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which of the following best describes the mesopotamian outlook on life and death
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which early civilization invented alphabetic writing, developing it from sumerian cuneiform
the phoenicians
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The Mesopotamian epic hero who went on a quest for eternal life was
gilgamesh
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which early collection of laws lays down punishment for crimes based on the social rank of the offender and of the victim?
the code of hammurabi
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which of the following statements about the neolithic revolution is true
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which of the following statements about the first civlizations is true
as states increasingly monopolized the legitimate right to use violence , rates of death from interpersonal violence declined in comparison to earlier, nonstate communities
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