2022-2023 Global 1 Midterm

Base your answer to the question on the diagram and on your knowledge of social studies.

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

Base your answer to the question on the diagram and on your knowledge of social studies.

Which of the following was an effect of the turning point identified in this diagram?

• Paleolithic gatherers gained more power

• Establishment of the first civilizations

• Food supplies became insecure

• Livestock became wild

Base your answer to the question on the text and on your knowledge of social studies.

"...The Neolithic Revolution also changed the way people lived. In place of scattered hunting communities, the farmers lived in villages. Near groups of villages, small towns grew up, and later cities too. Thus the Neolithic Revolution made civilization itself possible. (The Ancient Near East) within the villages, towns and cities, it was possible for people to specialize in the sort of work they could do best. Many stopped producing food at all, making instead tools and other goods that farmers needed, and for which they gave them food in exchange. This process of exchange led to trade and traders, and the growth of trade made it possible for people to specialize even more..."

Identify a central cause of the changes described in the excerpt above.

• War between city-states increas

• Disease in neighboring regions prevented people in the Near East from migrating

• Religious beliefs inspired nomads to herd

• Hunting and gathering was an unreliable way of attaining food compared to farming

Base your answer to the question on the diagram and on your knowledge of social studies.

"...The Neolithic Revolution also changed the way people lived. In place of scattered hunting communities, the farmers lived in villages. Near groups of villages, small towns grew up, and later cities too. Thus the Neolithic Revolution made civilization itself possible. (The Ancient Near East) within the villages, towns and cities, it was possible for people to specialize in the sort of work they could do best. Many stopped producing food at all, making instead tools and other goods that farmers needed, and for which they gave them food in exchange. This process of exchange led to trade and traders, and the growth of trade made it possible for people to specialize even more..."

Identify a long-term effect of the changes described in the excerpt above.

• People around the world came more interconnected through trade

• Competition and conflict between civilizations decreased

• More people moved from cities to rural areas

• Inequality was eliminated in most societies.

Base your answer to the question on the text and on your knowledge of social studies.

“If a seignior (noble) has knocked out the tooth of a seignior of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth. But if he has knocked out a commoner's tooth, he shall pay one-third mina of silver.”

– Code of Hammurabi excerpt from the NYS Global History and Geography Regents Exam

What type of source does this quote come from?

• Letter

• Legal code

• Newspaper Article

• Oral History

Base your answer to the question on the text and on your knowledge of social studies.

“If a seignior (noble) has knocked out the tooth of a seignior of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth. But if he has knocked out a commoner's tooth, he shall pay one-third mina of silver.”

– Code of Hammurabi excerpt from the NYS Global History and Geography Regents Exam

Which idea of Babylonian society does this portion of the Hammurabi code of law reflect?

• All men were created equal under the law

• Fines were preferable to corporal punishment

• Divisions existed between social classes

• Violence was always punished with violence

Base your answer to the question on the diagram and on your knowledge of social studies.

Which area was most affected by the spread of both Islam and Buddhism in the period from 200 B.C. to A.D. 1450

• Indian subcontinent

• Japanese Islands

• Arabian Peninsula

• Coastal China

Base your answer to the question on the diagram and on your knowledge of social studies.

Identify the best use of this map for a historian

• to explore the orgins of religious practices in East Africa

• to find what paths Islamic traders and military campaigns might have taken to get to india

• to identify which goods were traded from China to Europe during the Classical Era

• to determine why Canton was a popular trading city in China

Base your answer to the question on the text and on your knowledge of social studies.

Document 1

"Hebrew text: "Honor your father and mother...you shall not murder...You shall not steal."

Document 2

The Analects: "In his (the leader) personal conduct, he was respectful. In his serving his superiors, he was reverent. In his nourishing the people, he was kind. In governing the people, he was righeous." - Confucius

Document 1 was most likely produced in....

• India

• China

• Rome

• The Middle East

Base your answer to the question on the text and on your knowledge of social studies.

Document 1

"Hebrew text: "Honor your father and mother...you shall not murder...You shall not steal."

Document 2

The Analects: "In his (the leader) personal conduct, he was respectful. In his serving his superiors, he was reverent. In his nourishing the people, he was kind. In governing the people, he was righeous." - Confucius

Identify a similarity between Documents 1 and 2

• Both texts provided guidance for how followers of belief systems should live their lives.

• Both texts refer to polytheistic religions.

• Both texts provided Chinese civilizations with structure to their society

• Trade spread the beliefs in these texts to Europe and Asia