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Which of the following is not true of the Olmec culture?

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It developed in the high, mountainous areas of central Mexico.

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The famous Mesoamerican ball games

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resulted in sacrificing the losing team to the gods.

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The civilization of the Inka

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constructed an impressive system of roads and bridges throughout its extensive domain.

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Most of the Aztec population belonged to large kinship groups called

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calpulli.

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In which areas were the Mayan and Aztec civilizations similar?

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They both practiced human sacrifice.

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Which civilization lived in terraces cut out of a mountainside located in the central Mexican highlands?

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Zapotec

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Moche culture

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may have been ended by environmental changes.

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What was the language of the ancient Maya called?

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Quiche

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Aztec society

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did not possess a writing system, although it did develop hieroglyphs.

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The two commodities that enabled the Maya to develop trade relations with other civilizations in its region were

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obsidian and cacao trees.

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Mayan civilization

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declined in the eighth or ninth centuries C.E.

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Currently available evidence has shown the first humans in the Americas

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arrived at least 15,000 years ago.

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Mayan pyramids

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contained the bodies of rulers.

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What was the purpose of the human sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs?

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To appease Huitzilopochtli, and thus delay the ultimate destruction of their world.

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Who was the Inka king who began the conquests that led to the creation of their empire?

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Pachakuti

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Women in imperial Rome had more freedom than women in democratic Athens.

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True

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To save money for military purposes, Roman roads were built to follow the contours of the land rather than to connect the shortest distances.

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False

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In comparison to Greece, Italy had fewer rugged mountains and possessed more productive agricultural lands

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True

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During the Han dynasty, paper was put to many uses such as toilet tissue and military armor.

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True

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The civil service examination reflected the Confucius philosophy of the Han dynasty.

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True

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In general, Romans demonstrated extensive tolerance for the religions of other peoples living in their empire

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True

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In reaction to the overwhelming influence of Greek philosophy, the Romans turned to Etruscan and Egyptian models for inspiration in artistic matters.

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False

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The Edict of Milan (313 C.E.) was an attempt to outlaw Christianity and bring back the worship of the old Roman gods.

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False

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In the early Roman Empire, upper-class Roman women were excluded from public life and lost privileges and responsibilities

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False

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Both the Qin and the Han dynasties had problems with the nomadic Xiongnu from Central Asia.

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True

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The Bantu languages features a "click" sound.

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False

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From 8000 to 4000 B.C.E. the Sahara featured lakes and ponds and vast grasslands.

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True

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In the fourth century, the rulers of Axum adopted the Roman Catholic form of Christianity

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False

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The Roman called East Africa "Azania" and the Greeks called the area "Zanj."

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False

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Slavery in Africa began only with the arrival of the Europeans in the late fifteenth century.

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False

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Swahili comes from the Arabic sahel, which means "forest" or "jungle."

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False

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North-African peoples ranging from Nubia westward into the central Sahara region, were among the world's earliest agriculturalists.

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True

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Today, Swahili is the national language of Kenya and Tanzania.

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True

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The king of Mali who went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in the fourteenth century was Mansa Musa.

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True

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By and large, Africa has had no impact on global history until modern times.

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False

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Swahili civilization was based on a mixture of native African and ____ cultures.

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Arab

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A unique aspect of the ancient Ethiopian civilization was the fact that

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it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.

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The ancient civilization that was located in the highlands of what is known today as Ethiopia was

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Axum.

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The people of North Africa, who served as trade intermediaries for the great trans-Saharan commerce, were the

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Berbers.

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In addition to woodcarvings, other major African artistic contributions have been

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bronze and iron statuary produced at today's southern Nigeria.

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All of the following are correct about the Garamantes except they

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survived for only a century.

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All of the following was true about the southern African state of Zimbabwe except

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it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.

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Which of the following states developed in the southern half of Africa?

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Luba

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The wealth of Zanj was primarily derived from

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trade.

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Slavery in Africa

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went back to ancient times, long before the arrival of the Europeans.

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Of the following, the southernmost river system in Africa is the ____ river system.

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Congo

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The great river that dominates the western region of Africa, the so-called "hump of Africa," is the

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Niger.

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Which of the following peoples are associated with the Congo region of central Africa?

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Twa

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Recent archeological and anthropological discoveries have shown that

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African societies were much more involved in worldwide developments of human history than had previously been believed.

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East African trade

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provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.

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The Ka'aba

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was the shrine in Mecca containing a large black meteorite.

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A primary contribution of Arab scholarship was the

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preservation and dissemination of the science and philosophies of ancient civilizations.

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Which of the following had the most impact on the Islamic world? The

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Christian Crusades

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The caliphate that is often described as the Abbasid "Golden Age" was the reign of

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Harun al-Rashid.

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Which of the following was not a major trade route during the 1st millennium CE?

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trans-Atlantic Route

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Manifestations of the Islamic principle of equality were seen in

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all were equal in the eyes of Allah.

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Following conquests by Muslim armies, populations in Spain could expect

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any of the above

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In addition to being Islam's sacred book, the Koran

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also provides the ethical foundation for life.

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The council of elders of the Arabian Bedouin tribes was called the

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majlis.

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The poet who wrote the Rubaiyat was

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Omar Khayyam.

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Regarding women's modesty the Qur'an stipulates

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None of the above.

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The Koran or Qur'an

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was derived from the revelations of Muhammad.

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Under the Abbasid Dynasty

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internal decay, over time, caused Islamic division.

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The city to which Muhammad went to in 622, a journey known as the Hijrah, was

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Medina.

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The major Muslim outpost in Europe was

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Andalusia.

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The major stages of Roman imperial expansion before 100 B.C.E. included

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the involvement and seizures of the Hellenistic kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Traditional Roman religion

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was based on the proper implementation of rituals by state priests.

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Which of the following was NOT a similarity between the Han and Roman empires? In both empires

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merchants were highly regarded

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During the centuries of Roman history, from Republic to Empire, the paterfamilias' authority

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decreased.

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The basic message of Jesus of Nazareth was that

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people should love God and each other.

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The invention of paper is properly associated with the

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Han dynasty

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A development during the period of Julio-Claudian rule was that emperors

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acted more openly as real rulers than as "first citizens of the state."

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Which of the following is not associated with the Han dynasty?

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Women ceased to play a secondary role.

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As it prospered, the early Roman Empire

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saw the development of a large gap between rich and poor.

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Roman literature

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reached it high point in the age of Augustus.

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The founder of the Han dynasty was

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Liu Bang.

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Julius Caesar

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was assassinated by a group of leading senators.

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The Han dynasty

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greatly increased Chinese territorial control to the south and west.

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Roman emperors and their high officials during the 2nd century

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tended to be ambivalent in their reaction to Christians.

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The greatest epic poet of the Late Republic was

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Virgil.

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The umma was the religious leader of Islam

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False

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The Seljuk Turks were originally a nomadic people from southern Mesopotamia.

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False

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The Ka'aba is a shrine that contains a black meteorite in the Arabian city of Mecca.

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True

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Many philosophical works of the ancient Greeks were preserved by Muslim scholars in the library of Alexandria for many centuries and thus came to be preserved for later translation into modern European languages.

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True

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One of the failures of Islam was its refusal to preserve and spread the science and philosophy of Greece and other ancient civilizations.

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False

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Saladin was the Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187.

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True

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Veiling and seclusion of women were ancient Arabian customs that preceded the spread of Islam.

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False

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In spite of the Islamic principle of human equality, in practice the male was dominant in Muslim society.

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True

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Medieval Muslim map making inverted North and South from modern-day practice.

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True

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Interregional trade curtailed the developments of societies during the 1st millennium CE, while more isolated societies flourished.

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False

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The Inka tradition of temple virgins is similar to Roman traditions of the Vestal Virgins.

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True

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The Inka had no writing system, but kept records using a system of knotted strings called quipu.

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True

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The famous story about the Aztecs believing Hernan Cortes was the returned representative of a favorite Central American deity is now considered false by historians.

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False

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At Cahokia, near East Saint Louis, archeologists have discovered a burial mount more than 98 feet high with a base larger than Egypt's Great Pyramid.

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True

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Recent evidence suggests that the Mayan decline was due to over-cultivation and overpopulation, possibly combined with drought.

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True

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The Maya is considered to be the "mother civilization" of Mesoamerica.

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False

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Classical Mayan civilization was centered on modern-day Mexico.

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False

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Because the soil lacked sufficient nutrients, agriculture never developed in the Amazon region.

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False

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The Pyramid of the Sun was built by the people of Teotihuacan in the fifth century C.E.

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True

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The Aztecs erected rest-shelters along their highways so that travelers could relieve themselves in private and their waste could be collected.

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True

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