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WorksheetsBook 1 Review (Sapiens origins, Greek Thought, Religion)
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
(1.1) What event forced the first primates to walk upright?
The Big Bang
Dinosaurs went extinct, in part because an asteroid hit the earth 65 million years ago
Pokemon Go was invented, finally giving primates something important to do with their hands
Grass replaced many trees as the world cooled down 10 million years ago
(1.2) What ability makes Homo Sapiens unique among hominids?
Incredible physical strength
The ability to believe in and talk about things we have never seen
The ability to hunt in groups, and to distinguish edible plants from poisonous plants
The Cupid Shuffle
(1.3) According to this source, how long did the global population of Homo Sapiens live in band-level societies?
10,000 years
250,000 years
1 million years
240,000 years
(1.4) Why might white, male, upper-class European archaeologists who interpreted cave paintings conclude that hunting was the most important activity for paleolithic societies?
Because the sticks and lines in the painting could only be weapons
Because modern day hunter-gatherers get almost 100% of their food from hunting
Because hunting was a very important activity for white, male, upper-class Europeans at the time the paintings were discovered.
Because they found writing near the paintings explaining that they showed a scene of hunting
(1.5) According to this source, agriculture and the domestication of animals were first an effect, and then a cause of:
Ancient aliens
Pandemic diseases
Massive population growth
A sharing ethos
(1.6) Besides Ancient Greece, where else in history can we find humans coming up with democratic ideas without outside influence? (THERE ARE TWO CORRECT ANSWERS - CHOOSE BOTH!)
The Igbo of the Niger River valley
The Iroquois Confederacy of North America
The Ancient Romans of the Mediterranean
The Maya of Mesoamerica
(1.7) Hinduism is similar to other major religions because...
...it is inclusive of almost any god
...its most popular gods are Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu
...it is several thousands of years old
...it teaches that there is only one supreme divine energy, and that we all have a piece of that energy inside us
(1.8) In which of the following regions today will you find the largest concentrations of Buddhists?
China
Russia
India
Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, etc.)
(1.9) Between 300 and 600 C.E., European societies began to pass laws that targeted and discriminated against Jews. Between 1700 and 1965 in the United States, state laws separated and discriminated against Black Americans and other Americans of color. These are BOTH clear examples of:
Institutionalized discrimination
Social justice
Animism
Antisemitism
(1.9) Jesus wanted his religion (Judaism) and his society (Rome) to focus more on:
Rituals
Sin
Polytheism
Social justice
(1.10) Women in early Islam (about 600 C.E.) had a different status than Christian women at the time because:
The Qur'an explicitly stated that all women are inferior to men
The Qur'an preached that Satan lived in the hearts of women
The Qur'an preached that women were the spiritual equals of men
The Qur'an required all women to be completely covered from head to toe
(1.10) Together, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are sometimes called the _ faiths
Abrahamic
Telepathic
Arabian
Awesome
(1.11) Which of the following are reasons that European warriors joined The First Crusade? (THERE ARE THREE CORRECT ANSWERS, CHOOSE THEM ALL!)
A Muslim army was marching toward Western Europe from Constantinople
They sought to learn from Muslim knowledge of science and mathematics
To recapture Jerusalem and establish Christian rule of Palestine
Europeans were generally paranoid about Muslim expansion after Spain fell to the Islamic Empire
The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church promised them forgiveness for all past sins - an "indulgence"
(1.11) The primary reason Islam spread so rapidly was:
Social - women admired the freedom that Islam offered women, and they pressured their husbands to join
Technological - Islamic armies had gunpowder weapons
Economics - new converts received financial rewards for converting others in a pyramid scheme
Spiritual - most people that encountered Islam decided it was spiritually superior to their old religion
