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WorksheetsWOTW Ch. 5 & 6
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins
How did one become a state bureaucrat in China’s Han Empire and later?
The candidate had to be the son of a state bureaucrat.
The candidate had to be trained as a scholar and then pass a series of written examinations.
The candidate had to purchase office.
The candidate was chosen directly by the ruler from among the state slaves.
Which of the following statements is true of the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the late second century C.E.?
It was a slave revolt.
It was a rebellion of several classes of society against government mismanagement.
It was a desperate rebellion against religious persecution.
It was a peasant uprising.
What was the attitude of the Chinese ruling elite toward merchants?
They were regarded as an unproductive threat to society.
They were regarded as the most useful sector of society, since the wealth they generated funded the state.
They were regarded as a pool from which to draw state bureaucrats.
They were encouraged because merchants provided important luxury goods for the elite.
What is an “untouchable”?
A member of an alien religion in India, considered as ritually polluting.
A Hindu priest, regarded as so holy that commoners should not even touch them
An elite warrior who had proven himself by defeating three enemies without suffering a single wound
A very low caste category, whose members did unclean and polluting work
What is a jati?
One of the four great class divisions of Indian civilization
One of the thousands of occupationally based groups in Indian civilization
An Indian of such low caste that other Indians cannot even touch him or her
The distinctive cord worn by members of the twice-born castes in Indian society
Which civilization is distinctive for its emphasis on ritual purity and pollution compared to other ancient civilizations?
China
Greece
India
Rome
Which of the following statements is true of slavery in the ancient world?
Only a few ancient civilizations practiced slavery.
All the First Civilizations practiced slavery, as did almost all later civilizations.
Most ancient civilizations formally granted particular rights to slaves.
Early slavery was usually restricted to men, who worked in mines and on farms.
Which of the following ancient civilizations practiced slavery to such a great extent that their society can be said to have been based on slavery?
Greco-Roman civilization
Chinese civilization
Persian civilization
Indian civilization
Which of the following statements accurately describes India’s caste system?
As it developed, it became impossible for an individual to rise in caste, but entire jatis could raise their standing in a variety of ways.
Castes were fluid, and people could move to a lower or higher caste based on their wealth and moral behavior.
Members of most castes could interact together freely, including eating together; the only major retraction was on marrying together.
The caste system was eradicated with the political reforms of the twentieth century.
Which of the following was an effect that the caste system had on India’s civilization?
It encouraged unification, because caste membership went far beyond the confines of particular villages or regions.
Since so many people were excluded from the caste system, it created a massive class of the unprotected and destitute.
It encouraged rebellion, since the lowest ranks of society felt they had no hope of winning a better position by peaceful means.
It made it easy to accommodate new peoples who arrived on the subcontinent.
Which ancient philosopher developed the idea that some people are “slaves by nature” and should be enslaved for their own good and that of society?
Confucius
Plato
Aristotle
Laozi
What effect did Spartacus’s rebellion have on Rome?
It led to a new philosophical questioning of the morality of slavery.
It created fear in the minds of slave owners but did not affect the institution of slavery.
It led to free men rather than slaves fighting as gladiators, as Roman slave owners came to fear giving military training to slaves.
It led to strict regulations limiting the number of slaves a single master could own.
Which civilization practiced very strong patriarchy, believing that the yang or male principle denotes strength, rationality, and light, while the yin or female principle was associated with weakness, emotion, and darkness?
India
Persia
Greece
China
Which of the following factors helped improve the position of Chinese women?
At least elite women brought dowries with them to marriage, which gave them some leverage in the family.
They formed political action groups and even engaged in rebellions against male dominance
Confucius taught that men should love their wives and treat them well.
Several woman rulers led men to appreciate female intelligence and ability to act.
At what period in Chinese history did patriarchy weaken, giving females some property rights and giving women a growing role in both Daoism and Buddhism?
Han dynasty
Tang dynasty
Song dynasty
Qin dynasty
Which of the following statements best describes the position of women in ancient Athens?
Men played such an active role in warfare that women undertook important tasks to run families and businesses.
Women were subordinate to men, but had the right to own property and conduct legal matters.
Women suffered great limitations, and were not allowed to take part in legal matters or the city’s political life.
Women were the legal equals of men.
Which ancient Greek philosopher described woman as an inadequate and infertile male who plays only a passive role in reproduction and is incapable of rational thought?
a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Aeschylus
d. Demosthenes
Aristotle
Plato
Aeschylus
Demosthenes
This state created a highly militaristic regime in which boys were removed from their families at the age of seven and raised in military camps, where they remained until age thirty.
Athens
Rome
Assyria
Sparta
What did the rest of the Greek world think about Spartan women?
They regarded Spartan women as the model of feminine beauty.
They were shocked by how much work Spartan men made their women do.
They were shocked that women controlled land, lived luxuriously, and wore immodest clothing.
They were impressed at the accomplishments of Spartan women and soon began to allow their own women similar opportunities.
What was a helot?
A conquered, semi-enslaved subject of Sparta
A member of the Spartan military class
A lover of Greek culture
A Greek courtesan
In classical Athens,
the growth of democracy was accompanied by the simultaneous growth of slavery on a massive scale.
a slave who was freed by his or her master became a citizen of the city-state.
slaves made up no more than 3 percent of the total population.
slavery was criticized by the greatest of the Greek philosophers including Aristotle, and was ultimately outlawed in society as a whole.
Which of the following statements best describes African contact with Eurasia in the period 500 B.C.E.– 1200 C.E.?
Thanks to the Mediterranean Sea, at least northern Africa had frequent contact with Europe, but Africans had little contact with Asia.
Africa had frequent interaction with both Europe and Asia.
Africa had frequent contact with Asia via the Indian Ocean, but rarely interacted with Europe.
Africa rarely interacted with Eurasia before the early modern period.
Which of the following statements best describes the sense of common African culture in pre-modern times?
East Africa had a sense of common identity, thanks to its common culture of Indian Ocean trade, but it did not include other parts of Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa had a sense of common identity created by sharing a common Bantu language, but it did not include North Africa.
There was no common identity among the people of the continent as Africans.
North Africans had a sense of common culture, united by Islam and their Berber heritage.
Which of the following statements is generally true of African climate and agriculture, compared to Eurasia?
Africa’s climate is mostly temperate, creating growing conditions similar to those in Eurasia.
Africa’s climate is mostly tropical, making the soil poorer and less fertile.
Africa’s climate is mostly tropical, making soil richer.
Africa’s climate is tropical, but its richer soils compensated agriculturally until the modern era.
Unlike most civilizations, this kingdom had a substantial number of female rulers who appear to have held equal power and prominence to their male counterparts.
Chavin
Pueblo
Maya
Meroe
Christianity was firmly established in this African state in the fourth century.
Meröe
Axum
Niger Valley
Benin
Which of the following statements best describes the civilization of the middle Niger River?
Cities formed in the region, but without corresponding state structures.
A complex society formed, but without significant urbanization.
A number of independent city-states developed, each ruled by a king.
The peoples of the Niger Valley were gathered together over time into a single unified state.
Which of the following was an important reason for the decline of Meröe?
The kingdom suffered a massive drought that led to large-scale famine.
Meröe was conquered by Egypt.
The kingdom suffered severe deforestation because so much wood was used to smelt iron.
Meröe failed to adopt the iron culture of its neighbors and thus could not compete economically.
Which of the following statements accurately describes the Mayan civilization?
Mayan civilization developed over a long period in Mesoamerica.
Mayan civilization only reached a limited area in what is now Guatemala.
Mayan civilization remained rather simple, without significant urbanization.
The Mayan people of the classical era were preliterate.
What do scholars regard as the leading reason for the collapse of much of Maya civilization in the ninth century C.E.?
Invasion by their northern neighbors, the Aztecs
Catastrophic flooding
Soil exhaustion after centuries of extensive agriculture
A long-term drought
Which of the following statements best describes Teotihuacán?
Teotihuacán was the most important urban center of the Mayan civilization.
Teotihuacán was a major center of the Hopewell Culture.
Teotihuacán was a Mesoamerican city but not part of Maya civilization.
Teotihuacán was the center of a major Andean urban network.
Which statement best describes the Chavín Phenomenon?
It was an imperial system.
It was a federation of Andean cities.
It was a religious movement that was spread forcibly by conquest.
It was a religious movement that did not include political control.
Which of the following American states was governed by warrior-priests?
Chavín
Pueblo
Moche
Maya
Which of the following was a feature of the Wari state?
Elaborately fitted stone walls and buildings
A network of roads linking cities to the capital
Agriculture using the raised field system
A common culture with the state of Tiwanaku
Which of the following statements best describes the movement of Bantu-speaking peoples in sub- Saharan Africa?
People moved over the period of about one century.
It involved the movement mostly of traders, who gradually had a cultural impact on the regions they reached.
The Bantu-speaking peoples expanded by conquering new territories and establishing states.
People moved gradually to new regions over many centuries.
What impact did the Bantu peoples have on the gathering and hunting societies of Africa?
The Bantu were gatherers and hunters who only gradually converted to farming.
The Bantu had little significant impact on gatherers and hunters, because the two lifestyles operated in different geographical regions.
The Bantu gradually displaced gathering and hunting societies or converted them to an agricultural way of life.
The Bantu in their migrations attacked and defeated the gatherer-hunter societies they found.
What were Batwa?
Bantu-speaking peoples who settled in East Africa
Foraging people who lived in the rain forest region of Central Africa
Ritual ball courts in Mesoamerica
Raised beds for agriculture in the Andes
What is “gender parallelism”?
a. A “separate but equal” definition of gender roles
b. A system in which men and women live separately, married couples only coming together
occasionally
c. A gender system in which women carry on trades for women, and men for men d. A gender system that strictly subordinates women to men
A “separate but equal” definition of gender roles
A system in which men and women live separately, married couples only coming together occasionally
A gender system in which women carry on trades for women, and men for men
A gender system that strictly subordinates women to men
Which of the following statements best describes the peoples who inhabited the eastern woodlands of what is now the United States?
They were semi-sedentary, practicing light agriculture and building mounds that served as ritual centers.
They were gatherers and hunters.
They practiced intensive agriculture, especially of corn and squash.
They formed a significant urban civilization.
This society only gradually created permanent village life as agriculture was adapted to their desert environment and lived at first in pit houses that gradually grew into larger settlements.
Mound Builders
Niger Valley Civilization
Ancestral Pueblo
Batwa
