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WorksheetsWays of the World
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
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1.
In the classical era, the continents had an unequal population distribution, with the vast majority of the world’s people living in
a)
North America.
b)
Central/South America.
c)
Africa.
d)
Eurasia.
2.
How did the absence of most animals capable of domestication affect developments in the Americas?
a)
No pastoral societies developed.
b)
Agriculture did not develop independently.
c)
Metallurgy was more highly developed.
d)
A plow-based farming system developed.
3.
What language was spoken by the groups of people who had spread throughout most of southern and eastern Africa by the classical era?
a)
Greek
b)
Latin
c)
Hebrew
d)
None of the above
4.
In contrast to cities in other civilizations, cities in the Niger Valley civilization
a)
had their own centralized political structure headed by a monarch.
b)
operated without the coercive authority of a state.
c)
were run by complex bureaucracies.
d)
were encompassed within a larger imperial system.
5.
During the classical era, metallurgy was least developed in
a)
Europe
b)
the Americas
c)
Africa
d)
Asia
6.
In their political organization, the Maya were most like
a)
the city-states of classical Greece.
b)
the imperial state of Rome.
c)
the civilization of the Niger Valley.
d)
the kingdom of Axum.
7.
Which of the following statements about the civilizations of the Andes region is true?
a)
The need for elaborate irrigation projects helped create strong states in the Andes region.
b)
Civilizations of the Andean region were politically weak.
c)
No regional religious traditions developed in the Andean region.
d)
In the Andean region, it was only possible for people to settle along the coast.
8.
Which of the following was a point of contact between Eurasia and Africa?
a)
India
b)
Arabia
c)
The Indian Ocean
d)
The Americas
9.
Christianity in Axum most closely identified with which church?
a)
The Coptic Church in Egypt
b)
The Catholic Church in Rome
c)
The Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople
d)
None of the above
10.
Which statement describes the relationship between the civilizations in Mesoamerica and those in the Andes?
a)
They gradually merged to create a hybrid culture that spread throughout the Americas.
b)
They enjoyed equal diplomatic relations.
c)
They frequently fought with each other for control of South America.
d)
They had little if any direct contact with each other.
11.
Archaeological evidence suggests that the village located at Chavín was the center for
a)
a religious movement that spread throughout much of the Andes.
b)
political experiments with democracy.
c)
he study of science and medicine.
d)
a slave-based economy.
12.
The mound-building cultures of the eastern woodlands are considered to be “semi-sedentary” because
a)
they lacked stratified societies with a clearly defined elite headed by a ruler capable of mobilizing the labor necessary for agricultural production.
b)
hey lacked a network of ceremonial, economic, and cultural exchange necessary for the emergence of complex societies.
c)
their belief in the supernatural and practice of human sacrifice kept them geographically confined.
d)
their less intensive and less productive agriculture supported smaller populations than those found in Mesoamerica and the Andes.
13.
How did sharing a common border affect relations between the inland empires of Wari and Tiwanaku?
a)
They exchanged knowledge as seen in the Tiwanaku adoption of the hillside terracing style of farming developed by the Wari.
b)
They appeared to get along as there was little overt conflict or warfare between them.
c)
People living along the border intermarried and created a hybrid culture that over time became the common culture of the entire Andean region.
d)
Caravans of llamas from each empire gathered at the border to trade goods.
14.
Outside of the Mesoamerican and Andean regions, most people living in the Americas in the pre-Columbian era
a)
obtained their food supply by gathering and hunting.
b)
practiced an intensive form of agriculture.
c)
lived in densely populated urban centers.
d)
spoke a common language.
15.
The society of which group of people is considered to be less patriarchal due to its system of “gender parallelism” which associated female roles with village life and male roles with hunting and forest life?
a)
Wari
b)
Bantu
c)
Hopewell
d)
None of the above
16.
A distinctive feature of the Hopewell culture in the eastern woodlands of North America was the
a)
construction of pit houses.
b)
development of plow-based agriculture.
c)
emergence of an empire that stretched to Mesoamerica.
d)
creation of large earthen mounds.
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