World History Semester 2 Test

_____is the human record of people and their relationships with other humans or the environment

• Anthropology
• History
• Archaeology
• Geography

A historian is compiling primary sources revealing how Indian citizens felt about and reacted to British colonization. Which reason for studying history does this most clearly illustrate?

• to recognize patterns that will help predict future events
• to reveal the decisions of previous peoples and cultures
• to explore diverse perspectives and narratives

When historians collect, classify, analyze, interpret, synthesize, and report data, they are using the _____

• Research Method
• Historical Method
• Chronological Method
• Scientific Method

An author studies diary entries and letters written by a working-class woman living during the French Revolution. The author writes a book interpreting the woman’s writings and discussing their relationship to the Revolution. The book would be considered what type of data?

• a classified source
• a secondary source
• a primary source
• a synthesized source

Which are the best responses to the following sentence? There can be multiple interpretations of a single historic event by different

• Historians with different perspectives.
• Historians with different points of view.
• Students of history with different sources.
• Historians with varying personal biases.
• Historians with different interests of cause and effect.

A historian uses the comparative method to _____

• examine how different cultures formed
• record relationships between people and the environment
• determine the meaning of an artifact
• look at similarities and differences across cultures

"My mentor has been showing me how to shape soft copper into tools for our group’s use. But the tools break easily. We are starting to mix the copper with other metals to see if we can make a stronger material.”

• Hellenistic (Greece)
• Medieval (Europe)
• Iron (B.C)
• Bronze (B.C)
• Stone (B.C)

______ was a writer in ancient Greece

• Homer
• Herodotus
• Plato

This is an example of

• Petroglyphs (image created by removing/chipping away part of the rock)
• Hieroglyphics (picture representing a word/s)
• Cuneiform (words made up of lines)

The development of humans was directly dependent on

• development of the wheel.
• development of tools.
• development of a written language.
• development of communication between people