ANTH CH. 9

Which of the following attributes distinguishes states from chiefdoms?

Distinct social stratification

What term refers to a society that lacks status distinctions except those based on age, gender, and individual qualities, talents, and achievements?

Egalitarian

Which of the following statements about egalitarian society is not true?

Everybody is of equal status

What is the name of the cultural period during which the first chiefdoms emerged in northern Syria?

Halafian

Which of the following statements about Jericho is not true?

It has a series of shrines decorated with bull motifs

Which of the following statements about Çatal Hüyük is not true?

It was first planned and built by the Jomon

What is the term for the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran?

Mesopotamia

Which of the following is not a characteristic of states?

They lack hereditary inequality

What is the name of the cultural period during which advanced chiefdoms and perhaps the earliest states emerged in Mesopotamia?

Ubaid

Knowledge of the properties of metals, including how to extract, process, and use them to make tools, is known as

metallurgy