A library's holdings include the following titles: A Forgotten Kingdom, Being a Record of the results obtained from the excavation of two mounds, Atchana and Al Mina, in the Turkish Hatay.

Which field of study would have been most responsible for conducting the excavation?

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?

I. __________________________________

A. Development of a stable food supply

B. Establishment of permanent settlements

C. Development of writing systems and religions

Which geographic feature did the earliest civilizations in Egypt, India, and China have in common?

Historians follow rules to help them analyze primary sources. Some of the rules they use are:

• Every piece of evidence and every source must be read or viewed skeptically and critically.

• Each piece of evidence and source must be cross-checked and compared with related sources and pieces of evidence.

-Library of Congress

These rules are designed to help historians determine the

Which pair of countries is most affected by monsoons?

The Middle Kingdom of Assyria was located in an area also known as the

Based on the information in this illustration, which statement about the society of ancient Egypt is accurate?

What is the main reason the Neolithic Revolution is considered a turning point in world history?

Hebrew text: "Honor your father and mother. . .

You shall not murder.

You shall not steal,"

The Analects:

"In his [the leader] personal conduct,

he was respectful.

In his serving his superiors, he was reverent.

In his nourishing the people, he was kind.

In governing the people, he was righteous."

— Confucius

These selections show that the ancient civilizations who developed these concepts placed emphasis on

• Roman women could own property.

• Roman women could make wills leaving their property to whomever they chose.

A valid conclusion drawn from these facts is that Roman women

. . A separate consequence of a settled existence is that it permits one to store food surpluses, since storage would be pointless if one didn't remain nearby to guard the stored food. While some nomadic hunter-gatherers may occasionally bag more food than they can consume in a few days, such a bonanza is of little use to them because they cannot protect it. But stored food is essential for feeding non-food-producing specialists, and certainly for supporting whole towns of them. Hence nomadic hunter-gatherer societies have few or no such full-time specialists, who instead first appear in sedentary [settled] societies ....

Source: Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

Which major change in history is most closely associated with the information presented in this passage?

"Just as a man, having cast off old garments, puts on others, even so does the embodied one, having cast off old bodies, take on other, new ones."

Which belief or practice is expressed in this quotation?

On which continent did humans first appear?

Which river system is found in Mesopotamia?

... "If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out. If he has knocked out the teeth of a plebeian (commoner), he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver."...

— Code of Hammurabi

Which statement is supported by this excerpt from Hammurabi's code of laws?

Some several thousand years ago there once thrived a civilization in the Indus Valley. Located in what's now Pakistan and western India, it was the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. The Indus Valley Civilization, as it is called, covered an area the size of western Europe. It was the largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. However, of all these civilizations the least is known about the Indus Valley people. This is because the Indus script has not yet been deciphered. There are many remnants of the script on pottery vessels, seals, and amulets, but without a "Rosetta Stone" linguists and archaeologists have been unable to decipher it. ...

- Tarini J. Carr, "The Harappan Civilization" (adapted)

Based on this passage, what is a valid conclusion about civilization in the Indus Valley?

What geographical feature most contributed to the growth of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia?

The main purpose of this map is to illustrate the location of

The diagram illustrates the key concepts of which religion?

Which statement about the Neolithic Revolution is an opinion rather than a fact?

The religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share a common belief in

Which religion or belief system is most closely associated with the social class system illustrated in the diagram?

Which statement most likely represents the view of a male citizen of ancient Athens visiting Sparta?

Which title best completes the partial outline below?

I. ______________________

A. City-states depended on goods exchanged directly with Mediterranean peoples

B. Political loyalty centered on the city-state

C. A common enemy, Persia, threatened city-states' autonomy

Why did the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta develop different political systems?

Based on the information provided by this map, which body of water was most likely the center of Roman trade?

Trade along the Silk Roads and the trans-Saharan trade routes resulted in

Which group of people ruled much of Asia during the period shown on this map?

Which geographic feature would have most likely hindered the expansion of the Guptas into what is modern-day China?

Which individual developed an Asian philosophy associated with the five relationships, filial piety, and the Analects?

Which civilization best completes the title of this outline?

• Block printing, gunpowder, and the abacus were developed.

• Porcelain making and black-ink painting on silk paper were perfected.

• The compass was discovered and used to improve the determination of direction when sailing.

These advances are associated with the

In both Europe and Japan, the major reason for the development of the political system shown in the illustration was to

"The pope is the only person whose feet are kissed by all princes. His title is unique in the world. He may depose [remove] emperors."

— Pope Gregory VII (llth century)

"An emperor is subject to no one but to God and justice."

— Frederick Barbarossa,

Holy Roman Emperor (12th century)

The ideas expressed in these quotations show that during the Middle Ages in Europe

Based on this map, what is a valid conclusion about the Black Death?

Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, and the Renaissance were all periods of

• Classical Greco-Roman ideas were revived.

• Wealthy patrons supported the arts and education.

• Humanism spread throughout western Europe.

Which period in European history is most closely associated with these statements?

". . . Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who say that by the pope's indulgences a man is freed from every penalty, and saved.."

— Martin Luther

Which period in European history is most directly related to this statement?

Inca terrace farming and Aztec floating gardens are examples of

"Kings sit upon God's throne and rule according to God's law." This statement would most likely have been made by a person who believed in

What was one of the main reasons Louis XIV built the Palace at Versailles?

Which economic system is shown in this diagram?

The heliocentric model of the universe developed by Copernicus and Galileo was considered heresy during their lives because it

Enlightenment thinkers contributed to changes in relationships between citizens and governments through their belief that