Chapter 6 – Learning Curve – Flashcards
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The population of the world at the beginning of the Common Era was about
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250 million.
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What drove the rise in population along the middle stretches of the Niger River in West Africa in the five centuries after 500 B.C.E.?
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Prolonged dry period in the region
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Which of the following statements best describes the size of Teotihuacán in 550 B.C.E.?
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It was the largest city in the Americas, and in the top ten worldwide.
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Which of the following was a feature of the Wari state?
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Network of roads linking cities to the capital
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What is gender parallelism?
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A separate but equal definition of gender roles
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Which society produced an elaborate and mysterious road system consisting of hundreds of miles of roads radiating out from the center of their world that seemed unnecessary for trade or travel?
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Ancestral Pueblo
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Which of the following is true of Christianity in Africa during the second-wave era?
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Christianity spread widely along the North African coast and gained a permanent hold in what is now Ethiopia.
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Which of the following statements best describes the sense of common African culture in premodern times?
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There was no common identity among the people of the continent as Africans.
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Which of the following statements best describes Teotihuacán?
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Teotihuacán was a Mesoamerican city, but not part of Maya civilization.
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What was an important development for the Andean region of the ChavĂn cult?
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The ChavĂn cult provided, for the first time, a measure of economic and cultural integration of the Peruvian Andes.
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Which of the following statements best describes the movement of Bantu-speaking peoples in sub-Saharan Africa?
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People moved gradually to new regions over many centuries.
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Which of the following statements best describes the peoples who inhabited the eastern woodlands of what is now the United States?
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They were semi-sedentary, practicing light agriculture and building mounds that served as ritual centers.
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Which of the following best describes civilizations in Africa and the Americas as compared to those in Eurasia during the second-wave era?
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Civilizations in Africa and the Americas were fewer in number and generally smaller than their Eurasian counterparts.
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Which of the following best describes the history of Christianity in Axum?
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Supported by royal authority a Christian church took root in Axum and remained the majority faith in the region after the collapse of the state and the arrival of Islam.
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What was a factor that led to diversity in Mesoamerican civilizations?
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Mesoamerica was full of microclimates that encouraged linguistic and ethnic diversity.
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Which of the following statements best describes the ChavĂn phenomenon that emerged in the Andes around 900 B.C.E.?
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It was a religious movement that did not include political control.
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Which of the following statements best describes Bantu religious practice in the period before 1500 C.E.?
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Bantu believed there was a Creator God, but that he was remote and uninvolved in ordinary life.
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What distinguished the emergence of agriculture in the eastern woodlands of the United States from the Ancestral Pueblo region of the southwest?
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It emerged independently in the eastern woodlands, relying exclusively on locally domesticated crops.
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Which of the following was an important reason for the decline of Meroë?
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The kingdom suffered severe deforestation because so much wood was used to smelt iron.
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Which of the following statements accurately describes the Mayan civilization?
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Mayan civilization developed over a long period in Mesoamerica.
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Which of the following distinguished Tiwanaku's farming system from that of the Wari region?
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The Tiwanaku practiced raised field agriculture, while the Wari employed an elaborate system of hillside terracing and irrigation.
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The Mayan political system most closely resembles which other second-wave era civilization?
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Greece
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Which of the following statements best describes political relations between the Maya and Teotihuacán?
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Teotihuacán had a colony in the Mayan lands.
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Unlike most civilizations, this kingdom had a substantial number of female rulers who appear to have held equal power and prominence to their male counterparts.
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Meroë
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What drove long-distance trade in the Niger River Valley civilization in the first centuries C.E.?
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Lack of critical local resources including iron ore
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Which of the following statements best describes the civilization of the middle Niger River Valley?
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Cities formed in the region, but without corresponding state structures.
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Which of the following comparisons of the Maya and Teotihuacán is true?
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Teotihuacán's use of writing was comparatively limited when compared to the Maya.
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Which city had streets laid out in a grid pattern and a large ritual center where archaeologists have found evidence of human sacrifice?
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Teotihuacán
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What do scholars regard as the leading reason for the collapse of much of Maya civilization in the ninth century C.E.?
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Long-term drought
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Which of the following is true of Meroë civilization?
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It possessed an advanced ironworking industry.
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Which of the following best describes the history of the banana in Africa?
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Austronesian-speaking sailors brought the banana from Southeast Asia to Madagascar, from where it made its way to much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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The lack of archeological evidence for centralized authority in the Niger River Valley cities most closely resembles the archeological record of which other civilization?
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Indus River Valley
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What did the thousands of residential apartment compounds for commoners in Teotihuacán include?
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Shrines
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Which of the following Andean states was governed by warrior-priests?
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Moche
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What were Batwa?
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Foraging people who lived in the rain forest region of Central Africa
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What is a kiva in Ancestral Pueblo society?
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Large pit structure used for ceremonial purposes
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What impact did the Bantu peoples have on the gathering and hunting societies of Africa?
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Converted them to an agricultural way of life. Brought diseases
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In what way was Bantu religion different from Islam?
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Only the Bantu religion embraced the idea of continuous revelation.
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What characteristic distinguished the eastern woodland societies from their Chaco canyon counterparts?
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Cahokia was a much larger settlement.
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Jenne-jeno was a major center of which civilization?
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Niger Valley
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Where did the Bantu people originate?
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Southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon
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What did Cahokia and the Chaco Phenomenon share?
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Both were made possible by the arrival of maize-based agriculture.
