AP World History Unit 1

One of the main outcomes of the Neolithic Revolution was

• a new vulnerability to disease

• a rise in local population rates

• new monarchies being formed

• a greater ability to hunt game

What is the correct chronology for the following eras in prehistory?

• Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age

• Iron Age, Bronze Age, Stone Age

• Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age

• Bronze Age, Stone Age, Tin Age

Which people migrated south into ancient India and replaced the older Harappan civilization around 1500 B.C.E.?

• The Mughals

• The Persians

• The Aryans

• The Mongols

Which of the following statements about the Shang, c. 1500 B.C.E., is true?

• It was the classical dynasty praised by Confucius.

• It was an early Chinese dynasty that was based on bronze technology.

• The emperor ruled by proclamation and the military dispensed justice.

• It conquered all of Southeast Asia.

Paleolithic society can be characterized by which of the following traits?

• Its members worshiped a single creator God.

• Tools made of iron were used by settled communities.

• The division of labor was based on gender in a hunter-gatherer system.

• Large urban communities evolved.

The earliest urban settlements are believed to have been established

• by Germanic tribes in northern Europe

• in North America by the Hopewell peoples

• in the Balkans by Slavic tribes

• by the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia

The Olmec, c. 1400 B.C.E., were known as

• an early Mesoamerican society with a central authority.

• successors to the Aztecs.

• a trading people who ranged across North America.

• militarily aggressive and brutal.

Early written evidence of China's first dynasties has been found

• inscribed on sandstone cliffs in Mongolia.

• on oracle bones used for divination.

• in buried parchments in Nanjing.

• in toms in Xian.

For many centuries, ancient Egypt was protected from its enemies by

• a mummy army.

• a series of walls built near the Nile delta.

• the surrounding geography.

• the walls of Alexandria.

Cuneiform writing was first used in

• Babylonia, c. 1300 B.C.E.

• East China, c. 2100 B.C.E.

• Egypt, c. 2400 B.C.E.

• Mesopotamia, c. 3500 B.C.E.