History 110a/ Chapter 6
What accounts for the cultural similarities in the human communities scattered across Pacific Oceania?
A common origin in Island Southeast Asia
What provided the impetus for long-distance trade in the Niger River Valley civilization?
A desire to acquire iron ore
Which of the following contributed to the wealth of the Meroë civilization?
Access to gold, ivory, tortoiseshells, and ostrich feathers
Which of the following contributed to the decline of Meroë?
Deforestation
Which region of North America in the pre-Columbian era was inhabited by semi-sedentary peoples who practiced agriculture?
Eastern woodlands of the United States
What caused the Chaco Phenomenon to collapse around the twelfth century?
Extended drought
The Mayan political system most closely resembles which other second-wave-era civilization?
Greece
Which of the following was an advantage that allowed the Bantu to displace gathering and hunting peoples?
Higher population, deadly diseases
The lack of archeological evidence of centralized authority in the Niger River Valley cities resembles the archeological record of which other civilization?
Indus River Valley
Which of the following statements is true of ironworking in sub-Saharan Africa?
Ironworking technology was widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Niger Valley civilization.
Which second-wave civilization in the Americas possessed the most highly developed writing system?
Maya
According to scholars, the people in Teotihuacán regarded the Pyramid of the Sun as
the original site of creation.
When historians refer to Africa in premodern times, they are speaking generally of
a geographic concept.
In what way were civilizations in Africa different from those in Eurasia during the second-wave era?
Civilizations in Africa were fewer in number and generally smaller than their Eurasian counterparts.
Which of the following is true of Christianity in Africa during the second-wave era?
It spread along the North African coast and gained a permanent foothold in what is now Ethiopia.
Which of the following offers evidence of widespread networks of exchange between the different island societies of Pacific Oceania between 1400 and 800 B.C.E.?
Lapita
Which of the following statements describes the Mayan civilization?
Mayan civilization developed over a long period in Mesoamerica.
Jenne-jeno was a major center of which civilization?
Niger Valley
Which civilization offers evidence of urbanization without a corresponding state structure?
Niger Valley
In what way was Bantu religion different from Islam?
Only the Bantu religion embraced the idea of continuous revelation.
Which of the following helped to define Mesoamerica as a distinct region with a common culture?
Pantheon of gods
Which of the following crops did the Bantu domesticate themselves?
Yams
What was a factor that contributed to the diversity of Mesoamerican civilizations?
Range of microclimates
What impact did the Bantu peoples have on the gathering and hunting societies of Africa?
The Bantu gradually displaced gathering and hunting societies.
What was the significance of the Chavín cult?
The Chavín cult provided for the first time a measure of economic and cultural integration to the Peruvian Andes.
Which of the following distinguished Tiwanaku's farming system from that of the Wari region?
The Tiwanaku practiced raised field agriculture, while the Wari employed an elaborate system of hillside terracing and irrigation.
Which of the following was a feature of the Bantu religion in the period before 1500 C.E.?
The belief in a Creator God who was remote and uninvolved in ordinary life
How were the Moche able to raise maize, beans, squash, and cotton in the inhospitable desert along the Peruvian Pacific coast?
They created a complex irrigation system.
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.?
They neither went to war nor mingled much.