Unit 7 Review

What is the best title for this diagram?

• Elements of Belief Systems

• Characteristics of Classical Civilizations

• Benefits of the Counter Reformation

• Changes during the Neolithic Revolution

Which geographic feature was common to the development of civilizations in ancient Egypt, China, India, and Mesopotamia?

• river valleys

• deserts

• rain forests

• mountains

Which belief system is considered monotheistic?

• Jainism

• Daoism

• Judaism

• Shinto

• If a man has destroyed the eye of a free man, his own eye shall be destroyed.
• If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

These rules are based on the

• Analects of Confucius

• Code of Hammurabi

• Ten Commandments

• Koran (Qur’an)

Which belief system was the basis for the civil service exams given during the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties?

• legalism

• Daoism

• Buddhism

• Confucianism

What was one cause of the development of many small independent city-states in ancient Greece?

• Greece and Rome were often at war.

• The mountainous terrain of Greece resulted in widely scattered settlements.

• Military leaders found small Greek settlements easy to control.

• The Greek people had many different languages and religions.

What is the best title for this chart?

• Role of the Church

• Feudal Obligations

• Knights’ Code of Chivalry

• Rules for Guild Membership

• Asoka incorporated Buddhist ideas into the laws he had carved on rocks and pillars placed throughout the Mauryan Empire.
• Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
• Prince Vladimir required all Russians to become Eastern Orthodox Christians.

Which generalization can be made based on these statements?

• Leaders often use religion to unify an empire.

• Many political leaders encourage religious toleration.

• Leaders sometimes use religion as a reason to wage war.

• Political leaders usually become the head of the church in their country.

• Indian scholars contributed to mathematics by developing the decimal system and the concept of zero.
• Arab mathematicians transmitted the decimal system and the concept of zero to the Western world.

Based on these statements, which conclusion is valid?

• Indians and Arabs developed the first civilizations.

• Through contact, ideas were exchanged and then spread.

• Trade is an inefficient way to spread ideas.

• Western civilization had few ideas to share with Indians and Arabs.

Which factor contributed to the fall of the Han dynasty, the fall of the Roman Empire, and the fall of the Abbasid Empire?

• invasions by nomadic peoples from Central Asia

• demands for religious freedom by Christians

• long periods of drought that led to isolation

• dependence on slaves to produce manufactured goods