WH - Unit 2 Exam Review -B

Study the List.  Which description below applies best?

-surplus of food

-record keeping

-job specialization

-New technology

• Effects of Neolithic Revolution
• End of the New Dynasty of Egypt
• Sparta's victory over Athens
• Destruction of Babylon

How did Judaism differ from many other religions prior to the classical period?

• It imposed strict restrictions on Hebrews' diets
• The emphasis in worship of a single god
• Reliance on teaching of religious scholars
• encouragement of missionaries to convert others

Which situation would describe a theocracy.

• leadership passes from father to son
• the king is worshiped as a god
• wealthy elites control most parts of government
• the government has a representative legislature

Which situation would cause a people to go from nomadic hunter-gatherers to becoming farmers?

• changing sea levels forced hunter-gatherers into the interior of continents
• climate change led to longer growing seasons for farming
• spread of disease led to physical attacks on cities
• natural disasters led to a period of migration & movement

Which of these statements about Hinduism & Buddhism are TRUE?

• Both were founded at the same time
• Both began in the same modern-day country
• Both implemented the caste system for social classes
• Both considered Siddhartha Gautama as the founder of the religion

Which WAS an effect of moving from a hunting & gathering society to farming/herding one?

• no more social classes
• organized religion was discouraged
• written languages developed in order to keep records
• most men were hunters

Which civilization developed cuneiform--the first known writing system?

• The Sumerians
• The Phoenicians
• The Minoans
• The Egyptians

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of a civilization?

• Record Keeping
• Specialized Workers
• Institutions (such as Government or Religion)
• Slash & Burn Agriculture

This was an early writing system using a wedge tool to make marks on a wet clay tablets.

• Heiroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Oracle Bones
• Sanskrit

The growth of trade and commerce within early settlements contributed to the

emergence of...

• governments

• feudalism

• use of tools

• religious sacrifices