Class Tests - SPRING

Question 1

Select the correct chronological order for the Chinese dynasties below:

a) Han, Tang, Song, Yuan
b) Yuan, Han, Tang, Song
c) Tang, Han, Song, Yuan
d) Tang, Song, Han, Yuan

Answer 1

a) Han, Tang, Song, Yuan

Question 2

What was NOT a technological innovation from China?

a) gunpowder
b) porcedlain
c) movable type
d) concrete

Answer 2

d) concrete

Question 3

In ancient China, what method did people use to ask for advice from their ancestors

Answer 3

a) heating bones or turtle shells and reading the cracks

Question 4

What was NOT a key aspect of Daoism?

a) retreating to nature
b) finding a balance
c) reincarnation
d) mysticism

Answer 4

c) reincarnation

Question 5

The sucess of which civilization most questions Jared Diamond’s concept of geographic determinism?

a) China
b) Mongolia
c) Korea
d) Japan

Answer 5

b) Mongolia

Question 6

What was the name for Japan’s sun goddess?

a) Izanami
b) Yamata
c) Amaterasu
d) Ra

Answer 6

c) Amaterasu

Question 7

Which civilization was known for inventing metal movable type?

Answer 7

Korea

Question 8

What is the direct translation of kamikaze?

Answer 8

Divine wind

Question 9

What sport still practiced today traces its routes to samurai training?

a) karate
b) jiu-jitsu
c) kendo
d) fencing

Answer 9

c) kendo

Question 10

What was NOT a part of the world successfully conquered by the Mongols?

a) China
b) Persia
c) Russia
d) Egypt

Answer 10

d) Egypt

Question 11

Adobe pit houses were commonly built by which early people in the Americas?

1) Iroquois
b) Hohokam
c) Aztecs
d) all of the above

Answer 11

b) Hohokam

Question 12

What was the name for the largest city of the Mississippians, thought to have held 20,000 people?

a) Tenochtitlan
b) Teotihuacan
c) Cahokia
d) Machu Picchu

Answer 12

c) Cahokia

Question 13

What was the name for the group of united tribes who populated the eastern half of North America and included the Mohawk and Oneida?

a) Aztec Alliance
b) Inca Confederacy
c) Iroquois League
d) Anasazi Assembly

Answer 13

c) Iroquois League

Question 14

What animals were a central part of the Plains Indians’ way of life?

a) cows
b) llamas
c) chickens
d) buffalos

Answer 14

d) buffalos

Question 15

What best describes the largest political unit of the Aztecs?

a) empire
b) city-state
c) republic
d) village elder

Answer 15

a) empire

Question 16

What crop was NOT grown early on in Mesoamerican history?

a) maize
b) beans
c) wheat
d) squash

Answer 16

c) wheat

Question 17

What was NOT a good that the Olmec exported to their neighbors?

a) rubber
b) pottery
c) shells
d) furs

Answer 17

c) shells

Question 18

What people built large mounds in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys?

a) Chumash
b) Iroquois
c) Inuit
d) Hopewell

Answer 18

d) Hopewell

Question 19

What was the Toltec capital, known for its warlike artwork

a) Cahokia
b) Teotihuacan
c) Tula
d) Tenochtitlan

Answer 19

c) Tula

Question 20

What best describes the largest political unit of the Mayans?

a) empire
b) city-state
c) republic
d) village elder

Answer 20

b) city-state

Question 21

What did the Aztecs educate their children beyond age 15 to become?
a) government officials

b) farmers
c) priests
d) sailors

Answer 21

a) government officials

Question 22

What was the name of the underground rooms used by Anasazi?

a) kivas
b) pueblos
c) teepees
d) pit houses

Answer 22

a) kivas

Question 23

Chavin de Huantar was known primarily as what kind of site?

a) military-fort
b) religious center
c) port
d) hunting ground

Answer 23

b) religious center

Question 24

The Moche people were best known for what?

a) creating a vast empire with military conquest
b) metalworking with gold and silver
c) trading with the Aztecs
d) building giant pueblos

Answer 24

b) metalworking with gold and silver

Question 25

What climate did the Nazca master?

a) jungle
b) plains
c) desert
d) mountain tops

Answer 25

c) desert