Review for Final Exam Multiple Choice #2

... Man survived the fierce test of the Ice Ages because he had the flexibility of mind to recognize inventions and turn them into community property.  Evidently the Ice Ages worked a profound change in the way man could live.  They forced him to depend less on plants and more on animals.  The rigors of hunting on the edge of ice also changed the strategy of hunting.  It became less attractive to stalk single animals, however large.  The better alternative was to follow the herds and not to lose them- to learn to anticipate and in the end to adopt their habits, including their wandering migrations.

The time period of the document below is the:

• Paleolithic Age

•  Start of the Indus River Valley civilization

• End of the Neolithic Revolution

• Start of Mesopotamia

The purpose of the Illustration is:

• During the Neolithic revolution fire was important

• During the Paleolithic age, fire could be used for warmth, cooking food, and encouraged spoken language

• .

  Life revolved around animals during the Neolithic Revolution

• .

  Life revolved around animals during the Neolithic Revolution

Shi Huangdi, first emperor of the Qin dynasty, used warfare to weaken six of the seven warring states. His efforts to unify China led to the consolidation of his power.

.... The Qin [under Shi Huangdi] made many changes that were meant to unify China and aid in administrative tasks. First, the Qin implemented a Legalist form of government, which was how the former Qin territory had been governed. The area was divided up in 36 commanderies which were then subdivided into counties. These commanderies had a civil governor, a military commander, and an imperial inspector. The leaders of the commanderies had to report to the Emperor in writing. The Legalist form of government involved rewards and punishments to keep order. Also, the state had absolute control over the people, and the former nobility lost all of their power. The nobility were also transplanted from their homes to the capital. Groups were formed of units of five to ten families, which then had a group responsibility for the wrong doings of any individual within the group....
Source: “Qin Dynasty,” EMuseum, Minnesota State University at Mankato



According to the source above and your knowledge of Global Studies, what philosophy of government did emperor Shi Huangdi believe in?

• Providing checks and balances to keep order

• Allowing a male citizen to help implement his government

• Treating men and women as equals under the government

• Utilizing Absolutism through control

Which claim below best fits the provided evidence:

"Early on, the wall didn’t really keep the invaders themselves out of China...Historical records suggest that the wall wasn’t enough of an obstacle for some groups like the Xiongnu and the Mongols, because the Han Dynasty bribed them with free silk to prevent attacks."

• The Great Wall of China was the ultimate protection from invasion.

• 
  The Great Wall of China was not the unbreachable fortress people think it was.

• The Great Wall of China was the most incredible feat of human achievement.

• The Great Wall of China was the best thing to ever happen to China.

A historian would find this document most useful for explaining Europe's attempt to:

• Continue trade along the Silk Trade Route & the Trans-Saharan Trade Route

• Isolate from the East to expand on Europe’s own technological advancements

• Discover an alternative trade route around Constantinople now fallen into Muslim hands

• Continue advancements in math and medicine

What is the best intended purpose of this document?

• To demonstrate the economic benefits of the colonies

• To demonstrate the importance of gold and silver to the colonies

• To demonstrate the importance of gold, silver, and cheap raw materials to the mother country

•  To demonstrate the importance of the mother country trading food stuffs to the colonies

The actions illustrated in this map above are most directly associated with:

• Columbian Exchange

• Colonization

• Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade

• Triangular Trade

In the 1700s, the triangular trade led directly to the

• Middle colonies' role as the chief importers of agricultural products

• Rapid industrialization of the southern colonies

• Decline of the New England economy

• increased importation of enslaved Africans to the Western Hemisphere

The belief that colonies exist to benefit the economy of the mother country is known as

• Triangular trade

• Mercantilism

• Free trade

• Nativism

Which achievements are most closely associated with the Golden Age of Islamic culture?

• Gunpowder, silk, and porcelain

• Aqueducts, roads, and polytheistic temples

• Mosques, medical books, and algebra

• Democracy, columns, theater