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WH QUIZ PREP

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the European's advantages?

a)

Better weapons

b)

They knew how to use horses as weapons of war.

c)

ships and other methods of navigation

d)

political organization

e)

infectious diseases

2.

Were all civilizations at a level playing field in prehistoric times?

(a)  

3.

What were humans able to do once they grew food?

(a)  

4.

where did agriculture develop earlier?

(a)  

5.

Why did agriculture develop earlier in the Middle East?

(a)  

6.

What was there a mass extinction of in the Americas and Australia?

(a)  

7.

What was the only large animal the Americas could put to work?

(a)  

8.

Why did agriculture spread East and West?

(a)  

9.

Who gave germs and diseases to humans?

(a)  

10.

These diseases either caused you to die quickly or recover completely. What is this kind of disease called?

(a)  

11.

Those who recovered from acute diseases had what?

(a)  

12.

Did people on continents other than Eurasia develop immunity to the diseases spread by domesticated animals?

(a)  

13.

As Europe remained undeveloped what were most people?

(a)  

14.

Ideas and domesticated animals from the Fertile Crescent reached Europe and took root where?

(a)  

15.

How did Europe's geography help?

(a)  

16.

The ability of a leader to achieve the consent of their people to accept them as their leader.

a)

Pastoralism

b)

transhumance

c)

Legitimacy

d)

usufruct

17.

How did African kingdoms achieve legitimacy?

a)

They had political and spiritual significance

b)

Their society had a series of checks and balances to keep their rulers in line

c)

They ruled solely by themselves and executed those who went against them

d)

They had a respect for tradition

18.

How was wealth produced and viewed in Sub-Saharan Africa?

(a)  

19.

Why did land not measure wealth in Africa?

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20.

What was cattle used as a tool for?

(a)  

21.

What is transhumance?

(a)  

22.

What was the relationship between the pastoralists and the farmers like?

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23.

to use and benefit from a property, but you don't own it

a)

pastoralism

b)

transhumance

c)

legitimacy

d)

usufruct

24.

Who were markets run by?

(a)  

25.

These markets helped with what?

(a)  

26.

Did these markets use currency or bartering?

(a)  

27.

evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture

(a)  

28.

What is the difference between farming/agriculture and pastoralism in the African economy?

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29.

Was private ownership of land a feature of the African economy? If so, why? If not, why not?

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30.

How was the relationship between the Fulani and settled farmers an example of symbiosis?

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31.

Were Africans politically organized into states? Describe those that were and/or those that were not(what was the alternative)?

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