Deck 9: Classical Societies and Regional Networks in Africa, the Americas, and Oceania, 600 Bce-600 C.E

Question 1

Which of the following best describes Mayan society?

A) A single unified empire composed of numerous city-states
B) A collection of competing city-states often at war with one another
C) A single city-state administered by a singular supreme ruler

Answer 1

A collection of competing city-states often at war with one another

Question 2

In what part of South America did the Moche form?

A) Eastern Bolivia
B) Northern Peruvian coast
C) Southern Ecuador

Answer 2

Northern Peruvian coast

Question 3

Which of the following modern countries contained the powerful states of Kush and Aksum?

A) Egypt
B) Ethiopia
C) Eritrea

Answer 3

Ethiopia

Question 4

What happened to most of the Maya codices in the sixteenth century?

A) Spanish invaders destroyed them.
B) Spanish priests carried them back to Spain.
C) Spanish scribes translated them into Spanish.

Question 5

Which of the following years did the Meroë kingdom of Kush exist?

A) 1500 BCE-100 CE
B) 800 BCE-350 CE
C) 200 BCE-800 CE

Question 6

Which major Sudanic state emerged in the middle of the Niger Valley sometime between 500 and 700 CE?

A) Guinea
B) Senegal
C) Ghana

Question 7

What period witnessed the cultural height of the Maya?

A) 600 BCE-100 CE
B) 150 BCE-800 CE
C) 800 CE-1100 CE

Question 8

What is the significance of Rhapta in African history?

A) It served as the capital for the Garamante tribal confederation.
B) It functioned as the main port along the East African coast.
C) It provided a safe space for any and all religious groups.

Question 9

Trade along the East African coast connected markets located there with what?

A) Southwestern and southern Asia
B) South America and the Caribbean
C) Southern Europe

Question 10

Tiwanaku functioned as the capital city of what Andean society?

A) The Aymara
B) The Moche
C) The Manteno

Question 11

Ecological and political crises contributed to the collapse of the Moche ca. what years?

A) 100-150 BCE
B) 650-700 CE
C) 900-1050 CE

Question 12

Which of the following proved central to Mayan society?

A) The cultivation and consumption of maize
B) The capacity for peaceful relations with neighboring city-states
C) The belief that men and women were equal in all ways

Question 13

As Bantu people migrated across broad swaths of Africa, they carried with them what?

A) Advanced knowledge of ironworking
B) Oral histories of all the peoples they encountered along the way
C) Highly skilled glass artists

Question 14

What role did the griots perform among the Mande peoples?

A) They were in charge of trans-Saharan trade networks.
B) They were oral historians and musicians.
C) They were village heads.

Question 15

Based on their study of astronomy, the Maya conceived of time as what?

A) Linear
B) Endless
C) Cyclical

Question 16

What structures did the Maya begin erecting around 600 BCE?

A) Aqueducts
B) Pyramids
C) Catholic churches

Question 17

The Maya built the major city of Tikal in what modern country?

A) Mexico
B) Panama
C) Guatemala

Question 18

What is the Popul Vuh ?

A) The only surviving book of Maya religion
B) The name of the Maya calendar
C) The central deity in Maya religion

Question 19

Which city emerged by 200 BCE to become the largest city in the Americas?

A) Monte Albán
B) Tikal
C) Teotihuacan

Question 20

Evidence suggests that the Garamantes sold which of the following to the Carthaginians, Romans, and Greeks?

A) Chinese silk
B) Turkish cotton
C) African slaves

Question 21

Which of the following is not a factor in the demise of the Polynesian society on Rapa Nui?

A) Economic stagnation
B) Deforestation
C) Overpopulation

Question 22

The 800,000 square mile region of Polynesia is anchored by what three points?

A) Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Japan
B) Tonga, Fiji, and Tahiti
C) Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island

Question 23

Which of the following best describes Aboriginal societies?

A) Most remained in fixed locations bound to the land they farmed.
B) Most moved with the seasons to maximize food availability.
C) Most sailed along the coast in constant search of food.

Question 24

What factors led to Aksum's downfall?

Question 25

Describe the importance of Jenne-Jeno to ancient West Africa.

Question 26

Though Hohokam settlements were abandoned by the fifteenth century, their modern descendants include who?

A) The Pima and Papago Indians of Arizona
B) The Aymara peoples in modern Bolivia
C) The Manteno peoples of southern Ecuador

Question 27

What is the basis of the Aboriginal mythology of the dreamtime?

A) A realm where all decisions about the future are made
B) The past where spiritual ancestors gave order and form to the universe
C) The four days per week spent in pursuit of religious knowledge

Question 28

Describe the Kerman relationship with Egypt.

Question 29

How did Aksum's relationship with Kush affect Kush's relationship with Egypt?

Question 30

Which of the following premodern people migrated over the largest area in the shortest amount of time?

A) Aborigines
B) Australians
C) Austronesians

Question 31

How did Aksum govern itself?

Question 32

How did Aksum come to adopt Christianity?

Question 33

Describe Kush's relationship with Egypt.

Question 34

Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding the present conditions of the Aborigines?

A) European conquest badly damaged their lifeways, yet they remain in Australia albeit marginalized.
B) European conquest led to their decimation and eventual extinction as a population.
C) European conquest facilitated their growth and they are among the most powerful groups in Australia.

Question 35

When did the Aborigines settle Australia?

A) Around 1000 BCE
B) At least 50,000 years ago
C) During the last Ice Age

Question 36

Describe Aksum's role in regional trade networks.

Question 37

Which of the following did not directly contribute to Aksum's decline?

A) Ecological crises
B) Political problems
C) Rapid economic growth

Question 38

What role did cities play in Sudan societies?

Question 39

The Hohokam, Anasazi, and Mogollon peoples all called what region home?

A) The entire Peruvian coast
B) Central Mexico
C) The American Southwest

Question 40

Which of the following factors did not contribute to the environmental conditions related to the decline of the Kush?

A) Carbon emissions
B) Deforestation
C) Overgrazing

Question 41

Describe the migration of ancient Bantu-speaking peoples.

Question 42

The Amharic language spoken by the Aksumites absorbed influences from which two families of languages?

A) African and Semitic
B) Greek and Chinese
C) Turkish and Germanic

Question 43

What were the origins of the Maya?

Question 44

How did climate affect ancient Andean societies?

Question 45

What policies or practices led to Hopewell decline?

Question 46

What evidence exists to suggest Maya cities traded with one another?

Question 47

What was the result of Bantu-speaking peoples' interactions with Arabs in East Africa?

Question 48

Who dominated Maya society and why?

Question 49

What was the significance of the Maya calendar?

Question 50

What differences and similarities existed between Zapotec cities and Maya cities?

Question 51

How did Moche differ to Chavín?

Question 52

Describe Hohokam society.

Question 53

Describe the political organization of the Maya world.

Question 54

How did climate affect Nazca society?

Question 55

Describe the Moche capital city.

Question 56

Describe a typical Mayan city.

Question 57

When did Aksum reach the zenith of its power?

A) 50 CE
B) 400 CE
C) 800 CE

Question 58

What differences existed between Mogollon and Anasazi societies?

Question 59

Why was trade so important to ancient Sudanic states?

Question 60

What similarities and differences existed between Teotihuacan and Maya cities?

Question 61

What was the origin of Austronesians?

Question 62

Which was more important: Aksum's relations with Egypt or Aksum's relations with Arabia?

Question 63

To what extent did Aksum's location benefit it and to what extent did it present challenges?

Question 64

How did Kush's proximity to Egypt influence the Egyptian economy, society, and politics?

Question 65

Describe key features of Aboriginal mythology and worldviews.

Question 66

What evidence suggests to support the claim that Aboriginal societies were very diverse?

Question 67

How did food insecurity affect the foreign policies of ancient Andean societies?

Question 68

Describe how the Pacific Islands were settled.

Question 69

How did Maya religion affect Maya politics and daily life?

Question 70

To what extent was ancient Sudanic Africa connected to the rest of the world?

Question 71

Describe Aboriginal land management practices.

Question 72

The Aksum maintained trade connections and communications largely due to its proximity to what?

A) The Silk Road
B) The Panama Canal
C) The Red Sea

Question 73

Why is it significant that Teotihuacan had 200,000 inhabitants and what implications does this have for ancient American history in general?

Question 74

What evidence exists to support the claim that Aboriginal societies regularly traded with one another?

Question 75

What evidence exists to support the claim that Teotihuacan and the Maya world were closely linked?

Question 76

The geographic region of Sudan can best be described as what?

A) Tropical
B) Dry grassland
C) Unfarmable desert

Question 77

How did Tikal come to rule much of the Maya world and how did they govern?

Question 78

Why did most Nubian kingdoms adopt Coptic Christianity?

Question 79

What evidence exists to support the claim that Bantu-speaking peoples migrated into southern and eastern Africa?

Question 80

What role did war play in ensuring early Andean societies' survival and what role did it play in their demise?