CLEP WH Practice Questions

Societies in which people travel to find food are called:

• farmers

• indians

• nomads

• gypsies

Much of which scholars know today about early Babylonian civilization is from which document?

• Magna Carta

• The Prince

• Code of Hammurabi

• None of these answers

The first set of laws recorded:

• Code of Urnamu

• Code of Hammurabi

• Laws of Ushnuna

• Mosaic Laws

Civilizations can progress when not all members of the society are forced to use all of their time to hunt, find or cultivate food. This is called:

• hunting and gathering

• irrigation

• agricultural surplus

• fiefdoms

When was Gutenburg's printing press invented

• 1050

• 1215

• 1440

• 1520

Which is the first civilization to have a written language?

• Mesoamerican

• French

• Mesopotamia

• Sumeria

Who became famous for saying "The ends justify the means?"

• Erasmus

• Machiavelli

• Louis XIV

• None of these are correct

Which of the following means: to worship multiple gods?

• monotheistic

• polytheistic

• surplus

• none of these

Which is the first civilization to construct arches?

• Etruscans

• Greeks

• Romans

• Europeans

Which of the following civilizations developed the alphabet?

• Egyptians

• Jews

• Phoenicians

• Greeks