Deck 4: A Polycentric World

Question 1

Which of these was cultivated by China's first Neolithic cultures?

A) barley
B) maize
C) oats
D) millet

Answer 1

millet

Question 2

The last Shang capital was at ________.

A) Luoyang
B) Anyang
C) Huanbei
D) Zhengzhou

Answer 2

Anyang

Question 3

The Pyramid of the Sun lies in what city?

A) Tenochtitlán
B) Teotihuacán
C) Chan Chan
D) Monte Alban

Answer 3

Teotihuacán

Question 4

Which of these was an Andean culture that flourished from 200 B.C.E.to 600 C.E.?

A) Inca
B) Chavín
C) Maya
D) Moche

Question 5

Which of these dynasties came to power around 1122 B.C.E.?

A) Zhou
B) Xia
C) Shang
D) Win

Question 6

Which of these civilizations had its capital at Tula?

A) Maya
B) Olmec
C) Toltec
D) Inca

Question 7

The Longshan peoples domesticated what animals?

A) pigs and dogs
B) horses and goats
C) sheep and cattle
D) camels and chickens

Question 8

China's earliest Neolithic cultures developed in the ________ region.

A) Yangtze
B) Yellow River
C) Himalaya
D) Pacific coast

Question 9

Humans began to populate the Americas from about ________ years ago.

A) 5,000
B) 9,000
C) 12,000
D) 15,000

Question 10

The ________ dynasty followed the Xia dynasty.

A) Shang
B) Zhou
C) Tang
D) Qin

Question 11

Which of these created the Americas' first civilization?

A) Toltec
B) Maya
C) Inca
D) Olmec

Question 12

About when did farming begin in the Americas?

A) 7000 B.C.E.
B) 1000 C.E.
C) 5000 B.C.E.
D) 800 B.C.E.

Question 13

Which of these was commonly cultivated in the earliest American cultures?

A) barley
B) rice
C) maize
D) wheat

Question 14

Which of these is thought to have been represented by the site of Erlitou?

A) Longshan culture
B) the Shang dynasty
C) Yangshao culture
D) the Xia dynasty

Question 15

Oracle bones were used to ________.

A) record commercial transactions
B) predict the future
C) write epics
D) record prayers

Question 16

Several Andean states were brought together from 1476 by the ________.

A) Moche
B) Chavín
C) Inca
D) Aztecs

Question 17

Which of these was a major city located near modern Mexico City?

A) Teotihuacán
B) Tula
C) Guatemala
D) Moche

Question 18

Which of these was a major Mayan urban center?

A) Tula
B) Tenochtitlán
C) Cuzco
D) Tikal

Question 19

Traditionally,the first Chinese dynasty is considered the ________.

A) Xia
B) Zhou
C) Shang
D) Qin

Question 20

The Chinese Yangshao culture was from the ________ B.C.E.

A) 7000s
B) 5000s
C) 3000s
D) 9000s

Question 21

Which of these was an early African city along the Niger River?

A) Timbuktu
B) Ife
C) Cairo
D) Algiers

Question 22

Which of these is a large,apparently urban,settlement that flourished from about 400 to 900 C.E.?

A) Kanem-Borno
B) Jenne-jeno
C) Kumbi Saleh
D) Meroë

Question 23

The ________ people spread agriculture to a large region of Africa.

A) Nok
B) Funj
C) Bantu
D) Hausa

Question 24

The discovery of Shang artifacts in the Yangtze River valley indicates that Shang power ________.

A) did not extend as far as Shang cultural influences
B) covered most of modern China by 500 B.C.E.
C) was limited to the region of the Shang capital
D) was replaced by the Xia dynasty

Question 25

The notion of the "Mandate of Heaven" was particularly useful to a ruler that ________.

A) hoped to follow his father as monarch
B) wanted to expand his territory
C) was a usurper
D) had the support of Chinese priests

Question 26

Which of these played the same role in early American civilizations as barley did in Mesopotamian culture?

A) squash
B) potatoes
C) maize
D) millet

Question 27

Erlitou is important because it ________.

A) was China's first urban center
B) provided evidence that the Xia dynasty was historical
C) was the largest of the Shang capitals
D) saw the first emergence of farming in China

Question 28

Which of these best characterizes the Xia dynasty?

A) historical
B) mythical
C) the legendary basis of the Shang dynasty
D) semi-mythical

Question 29

The Xia,Shang,and Zhou dynasties are best characterized as having ________.

A) succeeded each other as the sole powers of China
B) ruled at the same time
C) successively conquered China as invaders
D) ruled roughly the same region

Question 30

Which of these best explains the choice of sites in all of the civilizations considered by the text so far?

A) defense
B) the influence of priests
C) proximity to major rivers
D) farming needs

Question 31

The division between ________ was clearly delineated at Zhengzhou.

A) classes
B) secular and religious
C) men and women
D) races

Question 32

The Inca capital was at ________.

A) Moche
B) Chan Chan
C) Tiwanaku
D) Cuzco

Question 33

Looking at the map "Classic cultures of the Americas," which of these cultures were dominant at the same time?

A) Inca and Huari
B) Zapotec and Olmec
C) Aztec and Toltec
D) Teotihuanaco and Zapotec

Question 34

Which of these patterns,followed by Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations,was broken by the earliest American civilizations?

A) capitals centered on massive monuments
B) development along rivers
C) the association of religious and political power
D) reliance on the development of agriculture

Question 35

The map "Shang China" shows that in ancient China urbanization ________.

A) centered on Henan province
B) began along the Yangtze River
C) developed first in coastal regions
D) was concentrated along the upper regions of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers

Question 36

Which of these problems of large states was experienced by the Zhou dynasty?

A) the difficulty of maintaining central power over a large territory
B) passing power from father to son
C) resisting a large invasion
D) establishing a capital from which to rule

Question 37

The Longshan culture is best characterized as ________ Yangshao culture.

A) a branch of
B) the basis for
C) sharing common roots with
D) a less developed form of

Question 38

The development of writing in China was closely tied to ________.

A) literature
B) government
C) religion
D) commerce

Question 39

Which of these was commonly cultivated by farmers at Jenne-jeno?

A) rice
B) millet
C) maize
D) barley

Question 40

Considering the development of the Neolithic cultures of Asia and the Americas,it is clear that the Neolithic ________.

A) followed urbanization in most cultures
B) took place around the world in the same millennium
C) occurred at different times in different places
D) in the Americas preceded the development of the Neolithic elsewhere

Question 41

Which of these patterns was followed by the Aztecs?

A) introduction of civilization by invaders
B) one dynasty being followed by another
C) newcomers to a region borrowing from earlier cultures' achievements
D) the merging of two peoples to form a new culture

Question 42

Was Jenne-jeno a city? Support your answer by comparison with other early urban centers.

Question 43

How did the dynasties of China differ from the dynasties of China?

Question 44

The central monuments of Teotihuacán most resemble ________.

A) Egypt's pyramids
B) African zimbabwes
C) Mesopotamian ziggurats
D) Mohenjo-Daro's citadel

Question 45

What do you consider the most important differences and similarities between the first civilizations of the Americas and the earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia?

Question 46

Like Egypt,Chinese history is divided into ________.

A) kingdoms
B) dynasties
C) pottery styles
D) millennia

Question 47

Jenne-jeno differs most from the usual patterns of urbanization because it is ________.

A) so dispersed
B) very small
C) not a commercial center
D) home to nomadic peoples

Question 48

Did the development of Neolithic culture follow the same steps in all world regions? Support your answer with specific examples.

Question 49

Jenne-jeno probably developed mainly as a ________.

A) royal capital
B) military encampment
C) religious center
D) commercial center

Question 50

The stele of Great-Jaguar-Paw indicates that the steles at Tikal were primarily intended to ________.

A) mark burials
B) memorialize great events
C) record epics previously only passed on by word of mouth
D) indicate political boundaries

Question 51

In the map "Teotihuacán," the central axis highlights the focus of this city on ________.

A) defense
B) irrigation
C) ceremony
D) warfare

Question 52

Considering urbanization in China,the Americas,and Africa,what do you consider the most important elements that would qualify a settlement as a town?

Question 53

Zimbabwes are examples of ________ urbanization in Africa.

A) villages leading to
B) foreign influences on
C) the sole example of indigenous
D) the late development of

Question 54

Historians agree that the people of Jenne-jeno ________.

A) were town-dwellers
B) were in the Paleolithic Age
C) farmed
D) were Bantu

Question 55

The Inca are best considered ________ of the Huari and Nazca peoples.

A) supplanters
B) descendants
C) the Neolithic forerunners
D) the neighbors