WH TEST Topic 1, 2, & 3 Review

Why are the roots of the Neolithic Revolution traced to the development of farming?

• Farming provided more wealth than hunting and gathering.

• Farming taught people new skills necessary for planning cities.

• Farming allowed people to live in permanent villages year-round.

• Farming helped people to develop techniques for making stone tools.

What would be different about modern society if the Neolithic Revolution had not occurred?

• The human population would be much more numerous.

• All societies would be ruled by monarchs.

• People would not live in large towns and cities.

• People would not use tools to do work.

The most likely reason Neolithic peoples formed governments was because they needed to

• organize large public works projects.

• fight strategic wars with global allies.

• promote new farming techniques.

• develop the new social class system.

Which advance best completes the list?

• The use of the chariot

• The invention of the waterwheel

• The rise of permanent settlements

• The development of sanitation systems

One of the basic features of civilization is

• equal rights for women.

• fewer social divisions and classes.

• increased job specialization.

• simpler religious beliefs.

As villages grew into cities, social organization became more complex. People were ranked according to

• their religious beliefs.

• their jobs.

• their political affiliations.

• their family lineage.

As methods of cultural diffusion, what do migration, trade, and warfare have in common?

• They each cause interaction between people from different cultures.

• They each cause one culture to be taken over by another culture.

• They each lead to the destruction of weaker cultures.

• They each cause people to have to adapt to new cultures.

One factor essential to the development of early civilizations was —

• the ability to produce surplus food

• the taking of an annual census

• the use of a standard medium of exchange

• the emergence of a distinct caste system

How did Sumerians use cuneiform to strengthen their religious practice?

• They wrote down prayers.

• Priests wrote letters to their gods.

• Common people wrote letters to priests.

• They wrote down their religious experiences.

How do you know the Sumerian government was both a monarchy and a theocracy?

• The king was an absolute ruler as well as a leading religious official.

• Traders and merchants, along with the king, were the richest members of society.

• Kings were worshipped as gods.

• Priests were the absolute rulers of the city-states.