WHAP 1st Semester Final

When cities were developed, most of the world's population was:

• hunter-gatherers or famers

• raiders or hunters-gathers

• farmers or raiders

• farmers or merchants

First recorded empire:

• West Africa

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

• Indus River Valley

Use of ceramics means...

• relatively skilled

• traders

• village dwellers

• nomadic

Where did urbanization began latest?

• along the Nile River

• in Mesopotamia

• along the Niger River

• along the Indus River

First system of writing started where...

• Indus

• Sumer

• Khmer

• SE Asia

Who did the Greeks successful resist?

• Rome

• China

• Persia

• Egypt

The Bhagavad Gita is the revered text of which religious group?

• Hindus

• Christians

• Muslims

• Buddhists

Which of the following empires began as city-states?

• Egypt and Persia

• Macedonia and Greek

• Mesopotamia and Egypt

• Mesopotamia and Greek

Rome borrowed most from this culture

• Persian

• Greek

• Celtic

• Egyptian

The mandate of Heaven

• showed it was pleased by creating natural disasters

• blessed moral rulers

• was a personal god worshipped by emperors

• could allow a dynasty to rule forever