Part 2

Question 0

Classical civilizations began with invasions and ended with

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Dislocations caused by invasions and internal decay

Question 1

Classical differed from river valley civilizations in all of these ways except

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Religiously, classic religions were largely monotheistic or atheistic

Question 2

Economically, classical empires and cultures

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Remained largely agricultural but had considerable commercial contacts

Question 3

During classical civilizations, cultures

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Integrated large regions and diverse cultures

Question 4

Classical cultures

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Survived the collapse of their supporting empires and continued to influence later generations

Question 5

Although the majority of people were sedentary agriculturalists during the classical period,

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Most of the earth was occupied by shifting cultivators, pastoral nomads, or hunter-gatherers

Question 6

Historically, pastoral nomads

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Lived on grassy plains of the continents, where sedentary agriculture was extremely difficult

Question 7

The single greatest influence on nomadic cultures was

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The migratory patterns of their flocks as determined by environment

Question 8

The social differentiation that occurred in past nomadic societies arose for all of the following reasons except

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Emphasis on individual skills

Question 9

Nomadic peoples

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Have been key agents of contact across great distances between sedentary peoples

Question 10

All of these actions and responses typified contacts between sedentary and nomadic peoples except

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Acceptance of each other and each other’s ways of life

Question 11

Based on historical evidence it seems likely that pastoral nomads such as the Indo-Europeans, the Aryans, Hittites, Hyksos, and Zhou and Qin peoples of China, overcame sedentary peoples through

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Superior technologies associated with horses, iron, and chariots

Question 12

The Chinese explained rebellions, civil wars, and invasions as

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The ruler’s loss of the Mandate of Heaven

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Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism

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Originated as responses to societal problems during times of disruption

Question 14

Confucian social relationships

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Taught its practitioners to seek inner harmony with the natural way

Question 15

The Qin Dynasty alienated all of these groups except

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Trained bureaucrats, who no longer administered government officials

Question 16

During the Han Dynasty, scholar officials

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Instituted a system of examination to prepare professional civil servants

Question 17

The major difference between the governments of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and later Chinese dynasties was the

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Increasing centralization and control within the state

Question 18

Although they varied greatly in wealth and social status in China,

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The commoners, especially the peasants remained the largest group

Question 19

Chinese women in the Classical Age

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At all class levels were legally subordinated to fathers and husbands

Question 20

Despite their material success and increased wealth,

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Merchants in China ranked below peasants and had little societal influence

Question 21

Chinese belief systems differ from Hinduism and polytheism most in

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Their secular outlooks on the world

Question 22

Geography influenced Greek development because

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Each valley and island developed its own political traditions and states

Question 23

While the types of government in the early Greek poleis (city-states) varied, they were least likely to have been

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Theocracies

Question 24

Athenian democracy was

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Limited to makes whose parents had both been born citizens

Question 25

The most important result of Greek colonization between 750 and 550 B.C.E. was that it

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Established Greeks and Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean and it’s adjacent seas

Question 26

The major impact of Alexander the Great’s conquests was

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The spread of Greek culture throughout the Eastern Mediterranean

Question 27

In comparison to the Hindus, Persians and Chinese, religiously the Greeks

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Never developed a major religion

Question 28

Greek philosophers attempted to understand human nature through

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Rational observation and deduction

Question 29

Greek art and culture emphasized all of these qualities except

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Atheism

Question 30

While Greek society and economics arose out of an agricultural warrior culture, it

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Tolerated trade and merchants but remained suspicious of them

Question 31

Mediterranean agriculture under the Greeks and Romans was

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Relied heavily on imported grain stuffs and the export if cash crops

Question 32

In the Greek classical world, gender norms

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Allowed women vital economic roles, but left the male in firm control of the family

Question 33

Roman classic culture

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Borrowed heavily, especially from the Greeks and Hellenistic states

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Under the Roman Republic

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Roman elites emphasized patron-client relationships, exchanging protection for loyalty and work

Question 35

Rome successfully expanded for all of these reasons except

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It had no organized and powerful rivals to oppose expansion in the area

Question 36

All of these were consequences of Roman expansion during the last two centuries B.C.E. except

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Depopulation of the countryside and cities

Question 37

The major weakness if Rome’s imperial government was

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The lack of a reliable process to determine who would be emperor

Question 38

Unlike Qin legalist philosophy, Roman imperial law

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Rested heavily on toleration and local autonomy

Question 39

What sentence best describes both Roman and Chinese gender relations?

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While subordinated to men, Roman women were considerably freer and less oppressed then were their Chinese counterparts

Question 40

Far more than classical Greece, India, or China, slavery in Rome

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Dominated the labor markets- Rome became dependent on slavery

Question 41

It is ironic that Rome persecuted the Christians because

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Roman law and governmental policies practiced religious toleration

Question 42

Christianity spread in the Roman Empire for all the following reasons except

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It was tolerant towards other religions and faiths