1.1-1.4 commonly missed questions

• Planting wheat and barley
• Domesticating animals
• Establishing permanent homes and villages

At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution, the most direct impact of these developments was on

• religion and government

• transportation and trade

• diet and shelter

• climate and topography

Which was true of food-gathering societies in prehistoric times?

• Society was highly industrialized.

• The population tended to be small.

• The concept of private property was important.

• There was a system of mass production.

One result of the Neolithic Revolution was

• an increase in the number of nomadic tribes

• a reliance on hunting and gathering for food

• the establishment of villages and the rise of governments

• a decrease in trade between cultural groups

Which environmental issue faced the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China?

• extensive destruction of rain forests for lumber to build large structures

• soil erosion resulting from annual rainfall of over 100 inches per year

• catastrophic floods that destroyed crops and villages

• waterways that were unnavigable most of the year

Discovery of streets arranged in a grid-like pattern and a system of pipes for moving water in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro suggest that these ancient river valley cities in South Asia had

• organized governments

• subsistence-based economies

• polytheistic beliefs

• rigid social classes

Which of the following best describes the religious beliefs of the Mesopotamians?

• monotheistic

• Jewish

• Christian

• polytheistic

What is the name of the wedge-shaped writing developed in Mesopotamia and pictured above?

• hieroglyphics

• cuneiform

• Sanskrit

• English

The Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra were important to ancient India because they were

• high mountain ranges that protected India from invasion

• great rivers that flowed through India’s fertile northern plain

• Aryan gods to whom the priests prayed for rain

• ruling dynasties that united the people of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

Oracle bones, Daoism, and the Mandate of Heaven are all associated with early civilizations in

• Egypt

• Russia

• India

• China

The ancient Sumerians modified their environment to increase food production by

• building terraces

• removing rain forests

• digging irrigation canals

• developing chinampas