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Question 1 of 20
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The use of fire may have begun about:
A. 2,000,000 years
ago.
B. 500,000 years
ago.
C. 100,000 years
ago.
D. 25,000 years ago.

Question 2 of 20
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The central aspect of the Neolithic Revolution was the:
A. first development
of hunter gatherer cultures.
B. successful
invasion of northwestern Africa by Turkish nomads from central Asia.
C. emergence of
systematic food production through the domestication of plants and animals.
D. use of fire and
the cooking of food.

Question 3 of 20
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The people who created the first Mesopotamian civilization
were the:
A. Sumerians.
B. Akkadians.
C. Egyptians.
D. Babylonians.

Question 4 of 20
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Which of the following is UNTRUE about the Code of
Hammurabi?
A. Public officials
had numerous responsibilities.
B. It incorporated a
system of consumer protection.
C. The largest
category focused on marriage and the family.
D. Hammurabi’s code
did not mention women.

Question 5 of 20
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Which of the following is NOT correct about the pyramids?
A. They were tombs
for the pharaohs.
B. They were
constructed during the Middle Kingdom.
C. They were symbols
of royal power.
D. The most
magnificent of the pyramids was constructed about 2500 B.C.E.

Question 6 of 20
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Egyptian hieroglyphs:
A. used sacred
characters as picture signs.
B. employed the use
of an alphabet.
C. were written only
on a paper made from papyrus reed and oak bark.
D. were introduced
by the Amorites.

Question 7 of 20
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During the reign of Akhenaten:
A. monotheism
permanently replaced polytheism in ancient Egypt.
B. foreign affairs
were ignored and Syria and Palestine were lost.
C. Thebes was
replaced by Cairo as the capital.
D. the Hyksos
invaded the Nile Valley.

Question 8 of 20
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Which of the following correctly describes Harappan
civilization?
A. It showed no
similarity to the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
B. Its culture never
attained the status of a true civilization.
C. It was much more
agricultural than its contemporaries in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
D. It was a
collection of over fifteen hundred towns and cities, ruled by landlords and
rich merchants.

Question 9 of 20
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The Aryans:
A. were an Indo
European people who spoke the German language.
B. crushed Mohenjo
Daro when the Harappan Civilization was at its peak.
C. never controlled
any of the Deccan Plateau.
D. were led by
tribal chieftains who were called rajas.

Question 10 of 20
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Chandragupta Maurya:
A. may have been a
member of the army of Alexander the Great.
B. feared
assassination and had a secret police.
C. was the last
major Mauryan ruler.
D. worshiped the
god, Mithras.

Question 11 of 20
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A major religion that was founded by Mahavira in the sixth
century was:
A. Daoism.
B. Jainism.
C. Chandrism.
D. Zoroastrianism.

Question 12 of 20
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A key difference between Hinduism and Buddhism was that
Buddhism:
A. claimed that each
individual possessed an individual, reincarnatable soul.
B. believed in an
unyielding caste structure.
C. was simpler, as
it rejected the numerous Hindu gods.
D. required belief
in a different, two tier caste system.

Question 13 of 20
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The Mahabharata:
A. describes the
peaceful relations between Aryan cousins.
B. primarily details
the activities of Hindu rulers.
C. provides an
elaborate discussion of the ethics of the dharma.
D. contains Krishna’s
sermon in which he advocates the value of success or failure as the paramount
objective in all activities.

Question 14 of 20
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Which of these ancient civilizations survived, intact, until
the twentieth century?
A. Egyptian
B. Aztec
C. Hittite
D. Chinese

Question 15 of 20
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The beginnings of civilization in China were:
A. delayed by the
marauding raids of the Xia.
B. begun under the
political organization of the Qin.
C. the result of a
concentrated development of Kunming bureaucratic arrangements.
D. possibly first
experienced under the Xia dynasty.

Question 16 of 20
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The Shang dynasty:
A. came to power
immediately after the Han dynasty.
B. was the only one
in ancient China to master the widespread use of steel and the printing press.
C. equipped its army
with two horse chariots.
D. was the first to
employ over half of its people in various types of heavy manufacturing.

Question 17 of 20
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The idea of the Mandate of Heaven was:
A. introduced in the
Bhaghavadgita.
B. borrowed from
Tibetan nomads in the fifth century B.C.E.
C. introduced by the
Zhou dynasty and it served to legitimize its power.
D. contained in the
Rites of Mao.

Question 18 of 20
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During the Zhou dynasty, China:
A. abolished slavery
in order to increase agricultural production.
B. large-scale water
control programs were undertaken to regulate the flow of rivers and distribute
water to the fields.
C. continued to
consider merchants as the property of the Buddhist monasteries.
D. moved from a
largely agricultural to an industrial society.

Question 19 of 20
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The conversations between Confucius and his disciples are
found in the:
A. Book of Changes.
B. Book of
Histories.
C. Analects.
D. Book of Songs.

Question 20 of 20
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“If the government seeks to rule by decree, and to maintain order
by the use of punishment, the people will seek to evade punishment and have no
sense of shame. But if the government leads by virtue and governs through the
rules of propriety, the people will feel shame and seek to correct their
mistakes.” This statement reflects the ideas of:
A. Legalism.
B. Doaism.
C. Zhouism.
D. Confucianism.