World History Fall Semester

"Parents, when alive, should be served according to ritual; when dead, they should be buried according to ritual, and they should be sacrificed to according to ritual."  This text summarizes which religious concept?

• filial piety
• ethical religion
• Mandate of Heaven
• polytheism

"Great is the virtue of our Emperor, who punishes traitors, roots out evil men, and without profitable measures bring prosperity.  For our Emperor, in accordance with the time, has regulated local customs....he defines the laws, leaving nothing in doubt, making known what is forbidden" is related to which concept?

• Legalism
• Daoism
•  monotheism

The world's oldest piece of fictional literature about a hero and a flood is called 

• Code of Hammurabi
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Mandate to Heaven
• Book of the Dead

Hinduism is linked to which ancient civilization?

• China
• India
• Hebrew
• Egypt

Ziggurats and cuneiform are linked to which ancient civilization?

• Sumerians
• Indians
• Egyptians
• Hebrews

Legalism and filial piety is linked with which ancient civilization?

• China
• Egypt
• India
• Sumeria

Which of the following is the best summary of the idea of the Mandate of Heaven. 

• It tied the success of a dynasty to the actions of the ruling family.
• It allowed nobles to use peasants as personal slaves.
• It justified the immoral behavior of nobles and officers.

In the Paleolithic Era, people

• lived in cities featuring monumental architecture
• used systems of writing to record religious ideas
• hunted and foraged for their food and were nomadic
• raised herds of domesticated animals

cuneiform: _________________ :: hieroglyphic: ___________

• China, India
• Mesopotamia, Judea
• Egypt, Mesopotamia
• Mesopotamia, Egypt

What was the most important result of the Neolithic Revolution?

• the change from hunting & gathering to farming
• migration of people to North America via the Bering Strait
• discovery of cave paintings at Ajanta, India