Deck 2: Communal Equality to Slavery in the Middle East

Question 1

Whats defention of terms:
-C.E

Answer 1

before the Common Era

Question 2

Whats defention of terms:
-diffusion

Answer 2

the spread of knowledge by the movement of ideas from one village to another, as in the spread of early farming

Question 3

Whats defention of terms:
-Neolithic Revolution

Answer 3

period that saw the better tools, the invention of agriculture (farming and herding), and the invention of effective pottery

Question 4

Whats defention of terms:
-private property rights

Question 5

Whats defention of terms:
-propaganda

Question 6

Whats defention of terms:
-subsistence

Question 7

Whats defention of terms:
-surplus

Question 8

Comprehend the components and process of the Neolithic revolution.
-What are the three key discoveries comprising the Neolithic revolution?

Question 9

Comprehend the components and process of the Neolithic revolution.
-What and where is the earliest evidence of agriculture, better stone tools and pottery?

Question 10

Comprehend the components and process of the Neolithic revolution.
-Explain the role of geography in early farming.

Question 11

Comprehend the components and process of the Neolithic revolution.
-How did agriculture spread from where it originated?

Question 12

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-How is technology changing? How did the changing technology improve productivity?

Question 13

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-Explain how productivity aids specialization and how specialization improves productivity.

Question 14

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-What is the relationship of increasing productivity and the creation of surplus? Be sure to define the term surplus in your answer.

Question 15

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-Why is surplus so crucial in the further changes in society?

Question 16

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-How did increasing productivity enable towns to grow in size and population?

Question 17

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-What is wealth and why are some people able to accumulate wealth?

Question 18

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-Explain the significance of private property rights for accumulating wealth.

Question 19

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-Why was war not practical or profitable in communal society? Why does increasing productivity and surplus now make war profitable?

Question 20

Explain the role that increasing productivity played in changing social and economic institutions.
-How does widening differences in economic wealth translate into widening differences in political power?

Question 21

Understand the composition of a slave society.
-What main groups of people comprised the slave population?

Question 22

Understand the composition of a slave society.
-Who were the independent farmers and why did independent farms die out?

Question 23

Understand the composition of a slave society.
-Why did workers in the cities who were not slaves remain poor?

Question 24

Comprehend the changing ideologies.
-What is the sequence of events that led women's status to change from rough equality with men to being subordinate to men?

Question 25

Comprehend the changing ideologies.
-What is the explanation for the rise of the "double standard" for men and women?

Question 26

Comprehend the changing ideologies.
-What are examples of some racist myths or prejudice?

Question 27

Comprehend the changing ideologies.
-Why is the ideology of racial superiority so useful to the ruling class? Give examples to support your reasoning.

Question 28

Comprehend the changing ideologies.
-Explain the emergence of priests and religious leaders in the slave society. What role do they play in this society?

Question 29

Comprehend the changing ideologies.
-How does governing change in the slave society?

Question 30

Explain how the four institutions of society changed in the evolution from communal to slave-based society.
-Explain the common features of ancient slave-based societies for each of the four institutional structures in our framework: technology, economic institutions, social institutions, and ideology.

Question 31

Explain how the four institutions of society changed in the evolution from communal to slave-based society.
-How are the features of each institutional structure different from communal society?

Question 32

The dominant ideology in early communal societies viewed technology as

A) fixed and unalterable.
B) subject to rapid and beneficial changes.
C) unknown, since there was no technology in early communal societies.
D) consisting of complicated iron tools and machinery.

Question 33

The Neolithic revolution was characterized by 3 great discoveries which were

A) fire, hunting and gathering, and simple stone tools.
B) better stone tools, farming and herding, and pottery.
C) hunting and gathering, farming and herding, and the barter system.
D) farming and herding, iron tools, and the feudal system.

Question 34

The Neolithic Revolution began approximately

A) 1 million years BCE.
B) 6,000 years ago.
C) 10,000 years BCE.
D) in the 3^rd century.

Question 35

Increasing productivity in early societies allowed the production of a surplus. What is the definition of a surplus?

A) A surplus is the amount of food above the level needed for survival.
B) A surplus is the amount of food that no one wants.
C) A surplus is the amount of food remains after paying tribute to the kings.
D) A surplus is the amount of food that is not needed by the Army.

Question 36

The spread of knowledge of farming by the movement of ideas from one village to another is called

A) colonialism.
B) the barter system.
C) diffusion.
D) propaganda

Question 37

The term, "productivity," means

A) the level and sophistication of tools.
B) the amount of output produced by each worker.
C) the total amount of output produced in a given village.
D) the amount of food above the level needed for survival.

Question 38

What important changes occurred along with rising productivity and increase in the size of the surplus?

A) an increase in equality.
B) an decrease in the size of villages and towns.
C) an increase in the distinction between the rich and the poor.
D) an increase in the importance of hunting and gathering.

Question 39

The dominant ideology in ancient Greek and Roman society argued that slavery

A) was inconsistent with biblical teachings.
B) was cruel and unnecessary.
C) was "natural" and the only possible system.
D) was only a temporary evil which society would soon be rid of.

Question 40

In Greece and Rome, the number of independent farmers tended to decline over time. Which of the following was not a contributing factor to this decline?

A) Independent farmers were often drafted into the army for long periods of time.
B) Independent farmers found it difficult to compete with the larger plantations that used slave labor.
C) Independent farmers were not allowed to own land.
D) Independent farmers were sometimes unable to pay the high taxes levied on their farms.

Question 41

Why did workers in the cities who were not slaves remain poor?

A) Workers who charged high prices for their goods or services were imprisoned.
B) Workers who charged high prices for their goods were enslaved.
C) Workers lacked sufficient expertise to make high quality goods.
D) Workers could only charge low prices since most items were made with slave labor.

Question 42

Which of the following correctly describes the institutional features of ancient slave society?

A) economic institutions: common ownership by extended family
Social institutions: group consensus.
B) economic institutions: slaves work, masters take product
Ideology: community togetherness and equality
C) economic institutions: slaves work, masters take product
Technology: new stone tools to iron tools, farming and herding.
D) economic institutions: common ownership by extended family
Ideology: racism and sexism

Question 43

The earliest farming techniques and the earliest farmers were

A) men
B) women
C) slaves
D) children

Question 44

Wealth in the form of personal belonging, buildings, herds of animals or fertile land

A) did not exist in early communal societies.
B) existed in some form in very early communal societies.
C) began to accumulate the transitional period.
D) did not exist in ancient slave societies.