Ultimate Mid-Term Multiple Choice Review

Based on this passage, the Samburu people would be classified as

• commercial farmers

• urban dwellers

• nomads

• serfs

Identify the audience for The Samburu by Paul Spencer

• The Samburu, a modern-day tribe in Kenya

• Researchers interested in comparing the lives of the Samburu with how Paleolithic people lived

• Researchers who want to learn about city life in modern-day Africa

• Neolithic farmers

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 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

Based on the passage above, identify one advantage of living the way “Neolithic man” lived.

• More leisure time

• More reliable food sources

• More travel

• Greater knowledge of wild plants

Identify one effect of the change discussed in the excerpt above.

• Most humans became nomads.

• People had more equal rights in their societies.

• Life expectancy shortened.

• The first civilizations developed.

The images depicted in this frieze reflect the effects of which of the following turning points?

• Founding of Islam

• Neolithic Revolution

• Voyages of Christopher Columbus

• Scientific Revolution

What is the best use of this source for a historian?

• To estimate the number of people who worshipped Ninhursag

• To depict warfare in ancient Mesopotamia

• To understand ancient Mesopotamians agriculture

• To make a timeline of Mesopotamian rulers

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

• War between city-states increased

• 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

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