POP Quiz 09/09/2024

Based on the map, what is likely true of the Bantu Migrations?

• They avoided major civilizations such as Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili City-States.

• They traveled throughout the Sahara Desert to participate in the trade networks found throughout Northern Africa.

• As they traveled, they likely spread their culture and adopted others as a form of cultural diffusion.

• The Bantu followed herds of animals which they relied heavily upon for both sustenance and tradable goods.

Based on the map, it can be infered that many African states...

• Avoided contact with one another and instead maintained isolated, xenophobic beliefs concerning foriegnors.

• Interacted often with one another through a series of trade networks and communication lines.

• Fought against one another often as feudal kingdoms vied for resources and land to maintain their strength.

• protected one another from foriegn nomadic invaders from the north.

Similar to the Bantu, this Mesoamerican tribe is celebrated for their widespread contributions throughout Central America, having helped other civilizations significantly transform over time even though they themselves were prayed upon from time to time?

• The Maya

• Aztecs

• Inca

• Mississippian

This article supports which of the following claims regarding the inaccuracy of early European historians? (Hint: look at the final paragraph on the right hand side)

• These historians supported the belief that African civilization were in the midst of state-building and were far more advanced than previously suggested.

• Early historians dismissed the notion that Africans built Great Zimbabwe and instead suggested it was built by the Greeks or the Romans.

• These individuals were able to correctly determine that this site was originally part of the biblical city of Sheba and later where King Solomon kept his wealth.

• Historians still do not know who built Great Zimbabwe or why, only that it could not have been any indigenous tribes.

The existence of Great Zimbabwe best demonstrates which of the following aspects of life in southern Africa?

• Small colonies of Roman craftsmen first settled in souther Africa before any other population.

• Nomadic groups built these buildings to markettheir religion to other travelers and traders.

• Some tribal states had become agrarian and were building large-scale civilizations meant to promote trade and cultural exchange.

• These civilizations maintained a strict caste society based on age and place of birth, which could only be changed through marriage.

By 1500, which of the following changes occurred in Great Zimbabwe?

• It began to dominate the exportation of slaves in the Indian Ocean.

• It sent Christian soldiers north to Ethiopia to reclaim any lost territories holy to their faith.

• It became a world famous center for Islamic learning.

• It declined due to various environmental causes and was eventually abandoned.

The Great Zimbabwe ruins include impressive walls nearly 33 ft. high. Which of the following is the least likely reason these walls were built?

• To deter potential attacks on the center of their political power.

• As a monument to their Gods and to support religious activities.

• To legitimize their rule and highlight the city as an administrative center for trading.

• To impress later Europeans imperialists and support future colonization.

The images of the "Quipu" likely show that the Incas...

• established contacts with ancient Egyptians.

• had a fully formed writing system.

• wore decorative necklaces for ritual human sacrifices.

• had developed a method of recording important information using knots.

Which of the following might explain why the Inca developed the Quipu system depicted in the images?

• Their complex and growing civilization needed a system for individual record keeping.

• They migrated often and needed a means of determining how to best map out distances between two places.

• They adapted this system from the Chinese as a means of calculating large numbers.

• As a form of identifying important representatives of nearby kingdoms.

In addition to being elaborate record keepers, we know that many Mesoamerican tribes were also...

• principled mathematicians who relied on ritual calendars systems that permitted the measurement of time over impressive large scale differences.

• blood thirsty savages whose majority of time was spent daily at war or collecting innocent people to brutally sacrifice on their alters to their Sun Gods.

• poor argiculturalists who were often unable to grow crops even in the most supportive environments.

• skilled warriors whose steel armor and extensive weaponry often rivaled European conquerors, especially the Incas.