Chapter 6 Learning curve

Question 1

At its height during the fourth to sixth centuries C.E., the Axumite state included which of the following regions?

Answer 1

Parts of the Arabian Peninsula

Question 2

Which of the following describes how the communities of Pacific Oceania were organized politically before the thirteenth century?

Answer 2

Chiefdoms

Question 3

Where was metallurgy least developed during the second-wave era?

Answer 3

The Americas

Question 4

Which of the following was a feature of the Wari state?

Answer 4

Network of roads linking cities to the capital

Question 5

When historians refer to Africa in premodern times, they are speaking generally of

Answer 5

a geographic concept.

Question 6

Which of the following was a feature of Mayan agriculture?

Answer 6

A complex water management system

Question 7

What provided the impetus for long-distance trade in the Niger River Valley civilization?

Answer 7

A desire to acquire iron ore

Question 8

Which society lived at first in pit houses that gradually grew into larger settlements?

Answer 8

Ancestral Pueblo

Question 9

Which of the following was a feature of the Bantu religion in the period before 1500 C.E.?

Answer 9

The belief that ancestral spirits could be accessed through rituals of sacrifice

Question 10

During the second-wave era, which region continued to exclusively practice gathering and hunting?

Answer 10

Australia

Question 11

Which of the following statements describes the movement of Bantu-speaking peoples in sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 11

People moved gradually to new regions over many centuries.

Question 12

Which region of the world did the vast majority of the human population inhabit during the second-wave era?

Answer 12

Eurasia

Question 13

In which of the following civilizations did Christianity gain a permanent foothold after it was introduced in the fourth century?

Answer 13

Axum

Question 14

Which of the following describes a kiva in Ancestral Pueblo society?

Answer 14

Large pit structure used for ceremonial purposes

Question 15

When did the first substantial urban centers with concentrated populations and monumental architecture emerge in the Mayan world?

Answer 15

Between 1000 B.C.E. and the first century C.E.

Question 16

Which of the following describes the history of Christianity in Axum?

Answer 16

Supported by royal authority, a Christian church took root in Axum and remained the majority faith in the region.

Question 17

Which of the following contributed to the decline of MeroÎ?

Answer 17

Deforestation

Question 18

In Bantu religion, how were the spirits of the ancestors typically contacted?

Answer 18

They could be contacted through ritual sacrifices.

Question 19

What is gender parallelism?

Answer 19

A separate but equal definition of gender roles

Question 20

Which of the following contributed to the collapse of the Axum state?

Answer 20

Altered trade routes that bypassed Axum diminished the revenue of the state.

Question 21

What was the likely use of the San Pedro cactus at the ChavÌn site?

Answer 21

The cactus was ingested by the priestly class during rituals.

Question 22

Which of the following statements describes the relations between the Wari and Tiwanaku kingdoms, which existed side by side in the Andes between 400 and 1000 C.E.?

Answer 22

They neither went to war nor mingled much.

Question 23

Which of the following is true of Christianity in Africa during the second-wave era?

Answer 23

It spread along the North African coast and gained a permanent foothold in what is now Ethiopia.

Question 24

In which region of Africa was society organized without any formal political specialists at all?

Answer 24

Modern-day Kenya

Question 25

Which of the following crops did the Bantu domesticate themselves?

Answer 25

Yams

Question 26

What do some scholars believe was the reason that the Chaco people built their elaborate road system?

Answer 26

Religion

Question 27

Which of the following helped to define Mesoamerica as a distinct region with a common culture?

Answer 27

Agricultural technology

Question 28

What was a factor that contributed to the diversity of Mesoamerican civilizations?

Answer 28

Range of microclimates

Question 29

What caused the Chaco Phenomenon to collapse around the twelfth century?

Answer 29

Extended drought

Question 30

Which of the following was a feature of the Bantu religion in the period before 1500 C.E.?

Answer 30

The belief in a Creator God who was remote and uninvolved in ordinary life

Question 31

Which city had streets laid out in a grid-like pattern and a large ritual center where archaeologists have found evidence of human sacrifice?

Answer 31

Teotihuacan

Question 32

Which of the following distinguished Tiwanaku’s farming system from that of the Wari region?

Answer 32

The Tiwanaku practiced raised field agriculture, while the Wari employed an elaborate system of hillside terracing and irrigation.

Question 33

Which of the following statements is true of ironworking in sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 33

Ironworking technology was widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Niger Valley civilization.

Question 34

In what way were civilizations in Africa different from those in Eurasia during the second-wave era?

Answer 34

Civilizations in Africa were fewer in number and generally smaller than their Eurasian counterparts.

Question 35

Which of the following comparisons of the Maya and Teotihuac·n is true?

Answer 35

Teotihuac·n’s use of writing was comparatively limited when compared to that of the Maya.

Question 35

What characteristic distinguished the eastern woodland societies from their Chaco Canyon counterparts?

Answer 35

Cahokia was a much larger settlement.

Question 35

Where did the Bantu people originate?

Answer 35

Southeastern Nigeria and the Cameroons

Question 36

The Mayan political system most closely resembles which other second-wave-era civilization?

Answer 36

Greece

Question 37

Which of the following statements describes the movement of Bantu-speaking peoples in sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 37

People moved gradually to new regions over many centuries.

Question 38

What development made trans-Saharan commerce possible?

Answer 38

The arrival of the domesticated camel from Arabia in the first century C.E.

Question 39

What was the significance of the ChavÌn cult?

Answer 39

The ChavÌn cult provided for the first time a measure of economic and cultural integration to the Peruvian Andes.

Question 40

Where was metallurgy least developed during the second-wave era?

Answer 40

The Americas

Question 41

Which of the following statements describes the peoples who inhabited the eastern woodlands of what is now the United States?

Answer 41

They were semi-sedentary, practicing light agriculture and building mounds that served as ritual centers.

Question 42

What contributed to Axum’s highly productive agriculture during the second-wave era?

Answer 42

Use of the plow

Question 43

Which of the following was a cultural achievement of the Maya civilization during the period between 250 and 900 C.E.?

Answer 43

Writing system

Question 44

What provided the impetus for long-distance trade in the Niger River Valley civilization?

Answer 44

A desire to acquire iron ore

Question 45

In what way were civilizations in Africa different from those in Eurasia during the second-wave era?

Answer 45

Civilizations in Africa were fewer in number and generally smaller than their Eurasian counterparts.

Question 46

Which of the following statements describes political relations between the Maya and Teotihuac·n?

Answer 46

Teotihuac·n had a colony in the Maya lands.

Question 47

Which of the following was an advantage that allowed the Bantu to displace gathering and hunting peoples?

Answer 47

Deadly diseases