HST 1101 Quiz

Which of the following claims does Prof. DeVore make in his videos on "Egypt Eastern Mediterranean" and "1180 Collapse"?

Mycenaean Greeks had a wide trading network in several directions around the Mediterranean, as we can tell from evidence such as pottery, as well as a writing system, Linear B, that we have deciphered so that we can learn about their economy.

Which of the following is not said in the assigned passages about the Persians and their Empire from the biblical books of Ezra (chapter 1) and Nehemiah (chapters 2, 6.1-7.4) and Herodotus (1.131-137, 3.80-83, 3.88-97, 8.98)?

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Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the Mayans and Teotihuacan on pp. 376-378?

Whereas the Mayans had to deal with drought, rainful was predictable in the Valley of Mexico where Teotihuacan was located, and the people of the region built aqueducts and reservoirs to use the water.

Which of the following does Herodotus say in the assigned passages about Sparta and Athens (1.65-1.68, 5.62-5.66, 5.74-5.78)?

Isagoras had a dispute in Athens for power with Cleisthenes (also spelled Kleisthenes), who was an Alcmaeonid (=Alkmaionid), and Cleisthenes brought the common people over to his side to win the dispute, and the Athenians, Herodotus says, became more powerful and more successful in war after they no longer had tyrants but rather equality.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the Geography of the Middle East and the Rise of Islam (pp. 299-304)?

Islamic teaching held that Jews and Christians--the People of the Book--worshiped the same God that Muhammad did and that Muhammad was part of a line of prophets including the Hebrew prophets and Jesus.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore not say in his video about ancient Israel?

Israelites only ever worshiped Yahweh and always worshiped him in Jerusalem; other worship sites have been found but they must have been for worshiping gods other than Yahweh.

In Part I of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which of the following points characterizes the earliest human farming societies, especially in the Middle East?

Cereal crops like wheat require much less work and provide more protein than New Guinea's main crops, tarot and bananas, which explains why societies based around cereal crops developed larger populations than New Guinea.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the "Transition to Empire" and the Maurya Empire in pp. 81-89?

Chandragupta Maurya formed the Maurya Empire after observing Alexander the Great, then becoming an ally of some kings in Magadha and overthrowing them with the help of Kautilya, a Brahmin who was an expert in the arts of governing.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the Frankish kingdom in the assigned pages (pp. 280-285)?

Charles Martel defeated both the Saxons and and an Islamic attack from Islamic al-Andalus (=Spain), and his son Pepin secured permission from Pope Zachary to depose the last Merovingian king and gave several Italian cities to the Pope in exchange.

Which of the following were part of the Neolithic Revolution, according to Berger and his coauthors (pp. 12-19)?

1. Characteristics of Neolithic society include not only largescale building projects, but also the production of clothing, gathering of plant products, and animal domestication by women. 2. The earliest permanent settlements included Jericho (in the 9000s BC), where residents built defensive walls and houses with mud brick and where hundreds of people resided, and Catalhuyuk (around 7000 BC), where presidents wove baskets, made daggers of bone, and buried their dead. 3.As they (generally) became sedentary, humans in different places began growing different crops, such as millet in China, maize (=corn) in Mesoamerica, potatoes in the Andes, and rye in such Southwest Asian settlements as Abu Hureyra.

Which of the following is were laws of Hammurabi (Part B) on the handout of Mesopotamian Laws and Court Cases)?

1. City councils are to investigate cases in which women hate their husbands and wish to have a divorce to see whether woman is at fault. 2. If a man's wife dies after giving birth to children, the wife's dowry belongs to the children. 3. Husbands must draw up a contract for their wives or the woman in question is not a wife.

Which of the following does happen in the assigned sections of the Epic of Gilgamesh?

1. Gilgamesh journeys to kill the giant Humbaba even though the town councilors and Enkidu advise him not to. 2. The gods create Enkidu to oppose Gilgamesh, but after a harlot sleeps with Enkidu he is weaker and runs more slowly. 3. Together Enkidu and Gilgamesh kill Humbaba, and they remove cedars from the forest where Humbaba had lived. 4. Enkidu enters Uruk and wrestles with Gilgamesh, and the two become friends after this.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on Alexander and Hellenistic Kings?

1. Hellenistic kings modeled themselves on Alexander and tried to reconquer Alexander's territory; they also founded poleis throughout the territory that Alexander conquered, as Alexander had. 2. In Egypt the dynasty founded by Ptolemy ruled the city of Alexandria, which had a very wide center, colonnaded buildings, the massive monumental lighthouse of Pharos, a huge bridge to the harbor of Alexandria, and a temple to the god Serapis, who was a combination of Egyptian and Greek gods. 3. The Ptolemies of Egypt sponsored both physical science, by e.g. letting Herophilus of Chalcedon cut open prisoners to learn about human anatomy, and the humanities, e.g. by sponsoring the library of Alexandria.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on Greek wars?

1. Philip used the long sarissa spear to make his military more powerful. 2. No one polis could remain in the position of top leadership over the Greek poleis until Philip of Macedon. 3. At the battle of Chaeroneia in 338 BC Philip's son Alexander led the decisive cavalry charge that broke the Athenian-Theban hoplite line, and the Sacred Band was killed.

Which of the following does the preface (i.e. the first three paragraphs, before the laws themselves) of Hammurabi's law code say?

1. That Hammurabi provided food, drink, wealth, and prosperity for cities such as Lagash and Girsu. 2. That Hammurabi conquered much of the world. 3. That Hammurabi offered prayers and sacrifices for various divinities, such as Adad and Ea.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about ancient China from the Eastern Zhou dynasty to the Qin dynasty on pp. 124-129, 130-134?

1. That kings in the Warring States period made their territories more productive to provide for their wars by creating counties and appointing magistrates from among the commoners to collect taxes, maintain war, and fill the ranks of the army. 2. That to Confucians humaneness--that is, unselfishness and empathy, and avoiding harming others as one does not want to be harmed--was a central virtue, and that rulers had to act virtuously and properly. 3. That under the Qin rulers Shang Yang introduced the philosophy of Legalism to create a disciplined farming and military population, presenting clear expectations, rewarding battlefield killing and grain produced, and punishing specific crimes.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video about the Phoenicians?

1. The Phoenicians were known across the Mediterranean as excellent craftsmen due to their excellent masks, belt buckles, bowls, and glassware. 2. The Phoenicians almost certainly performed human sacrifice in Carthage, and at several settlements on Sicily and Sardinia. 3. Phoenicians were known as excellent sailors and traders, and they settled all the way across the Mediterranean from their homeland in the eastern coast to Spain.

Which of the following does not happen in the pages of Sima Qian assigned about the First Emperor's rule (pp. 61-81)?

1. The king organizes the kingdom into 36 provinces and standardizes weights and measures after a debate between his subordinates about whether to set his sons in authority. 2. On the advice of Li Si books of the Songs and Documents are gathered and burnt, while books about medicine, pharmacy, divination, and plant-growing are spared. 3. The king claims inscriptions to have rescued the blackheaded people and made them prosperous, to have improved the laws and spread them everywhere under heaven, to have wiped out all violence, and to be a great sage. 4. The king builds a palace at Epang with the labor of over 700,000 castrated or convicted men and removes 30,000 families from one residence to another after consulting a tortoiseshell.

Which of the following does Einhard not say about Charlemagne in the assigned chapters of the Life of Charlemagne?

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Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about Islamic States in northern India (pp. 103-107)?

A. After Muhammad of Ghur overthrew the Ghaznavids and defeated the Rajputs, his commander Aybak created the Dehli sultanate following the template of Indian feudalism without forcing subjects to convert but requiring higher taxes from them, and adapting Indian customs gradually. B. During the Umayyad Caliphate an Islamic force seized the lower Indus valley after pirates attacked an Arab ship at the mouth of the Indus. C. Mahmud of Ghazna invaded Indian territory repeatedly and was represented as an exceptionally brutal conqueror but was more likely carrying on normal wars for the sake of custom and revenue, which he used to build monumental mosques and palaces. D. After the 'Abbasids used Turkic slave soldiers to govern Islamic territories in India, these governors took advantage of 'Abbasid failure to form the Ghaznavid dynasty in northwest India and eastern Iran.

Which of the following is taught in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4?

A. After splitting his body in two to create a wife, the man (Purusa) generated human beings, animals, fire, and Soma. B. In the self (atman) is the world and through the self the world is perceived, and the fivefold sacrifice involves completeness in oneself. C. Brahman is alone in the beginning, but then creates the ruling power [=Ksatriya], the Vaisya class, the Sudra class, and the law (dharma).

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the Rashidun Caliphs (pp. 307-313)?

A. After the Umayyad 'Uthman's caliphate and his nepotistic policies, commissioning of the Quran, and assassination, the fourth Caliph 'Ali had to fight off Muhammad's wife 'A'isha, but had to negotiate with 'Uthman's cousin Mu'awiya over power. B. After Abu Bakr, Muhammad's friend and father-in-law, sustained the monotheism of Islamic tribes, the second caliph 'Umar led Islamic forces in defeating the Byzantines and Sasanians (=Sassinids) and captured Egypt. C. During the Muslim conquests, the idea of jihad, or struggle, unified the Islamic forces; Islamic mobile light cavalry could attack quickly; garrison cities provided security; the jizya tax provided material rewards for conquests; and religion unified Muslims while religious debates divided Christians and Jews.

Which of the following is said about the Harappan civilization in Prof. DeVore's video on Harappan India?

A. At Harappan sites small statuettes suggest social stratification, the use of wheels and large animals, confident females, and writing which remains undeciphered. B. The Harappan city Mohenjo-Daro had something like town planning with roughly parallel and perpendicular streets and buildings. C. The Harappan city Mohenjo-Daro had excellent drainage systems, a large public pool whose purpose isn't known for certain, and separate public and private space.

Which of the following is part of the assigned selections from Ibn Ishaq's Life of Muhammad up to Muhammad's arrival in Medina?

A. In the Kaba Muhammad destroyed every image of a divinity, except for an image of the virgin Mary and an image of Christ, killed the son of his enemy Abu Jahl, and orders the slaughter of all Quraysh. B. The angel Gabriel shows Muhammad how to purify himself for prayer and his wife Khadija washes herself as Muhammad shows her and follows his example in praying. C. After narrowly escaping an attempted assassination in Mecca, Muhammad settles near Medina with a friendly chief, begins building the first mosque, and holds the first Friday prayers.

Which of the following does Jona Lendering say about the Sasanian Empire in his article about this empire?

A. Khusrau II (also called "Khusro") captured Syria, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and even Cyprus and Rhodes, but the Roman emperor Heraclius captured Ctesiphon, and after the ensuing instability the Sasanian Empire fell to the Arabs. B. The prophet Mani, who tried to combine Christianity, Buddhism, and Zoroastrian, was crucified under the Sasanians, and the proto-communist Mazdakism was suppressed, but for the most part followers of different religions lived together peacefully, though the kings favored Zoroastrianism and sponsored the creation of its religious canon. C. Shapur I raided many parts of the eastern Roman Empire, humiliated the Roman emperor Philip (=Philippus) the Arab and even captured the later emperor Valerian, and displayed both of these emperors' humiliation on the rock relief of Naqs-i Rustam, but also campaigned in the east and opened new lands for agricultural development. D. Ardashir I (= Ardašir I) was from the old Persian homeland became king after overthrowing the Parthian kings and capturing Ctesiphon; Ardashir gave the Zoroastrian Magians many privileges, such as serving as judges and tax collectors.

Which of the following is one of the Four Noble Truths in Buddha's Benares Speech as assigned in the reading?

A. Suffering comes from clinging to existence. B. Thirst for pleasure, existence, and prosperity leads to further suffering, and ceasing from this thirst leads to the end of suffering. C. The eightfold path, including Right Belief, Right Aspiration, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Means of Livelihood, Right Endeavor, Right Memory, Right Meditation, leads to the cessation of suffering.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on "Roman Empire Systems"?

A. Taxes in the Roman Empire, including the poll tax, the produce tax, and some other taxes, were relatively low and not terribly burdensome. B. The Roman Empire was a small state as a proportion of the entire Roman economy, which outsourced many of its functions onto cities, including minting many coins. C. Romans generally expected subject peoples to perform traditional animal sacrifices and allowed them to keep their laws, but also let them use Roman law.

Which of the following does Herodotus say in the assigned passages (proem, 2.5, 2.35-37, 2.58-2.60, 2.99-100, 2.164-168)?

A. That Egyptians have opposite customs to other humans, such as men staying home weaving while women go to the marketplace, women urinating while standing while men stoop down, priests shaving their heads, and people kneading dough with their feet. B. There were 330 Egyptian kings and one queen named Nitocris, who avenged her brother after Egyptians murdered him, and the first was named Min (or in some translations Menes), who dammed a stream near Memphis. C. Egypt was the gift of the river, i.e. the Nile. D. The Egyptians are divided into seven classes, including priests, two groups of warriors, cowherds, swineherds, merchants (or shopkeepers in some translations), interpreters, and pilots (or helmsmen), and the priests and warriors have several privileges; the Greeks learned to look down on craftspeople from the Egyptians. E. The Greeks learned religious rituals from the Egyptians, and the Egyptians have a festival to Isis in which women play rattles and flutes and rattles on a boat and when they arrive at Bubastis as many as 700,000 people drink wine there

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video lecture on Maurya India?

A. The state was divided into districts with Magadha as capital and also owned numerous lands and mines, but it could show favor to certain subjects through tax breaks and minted coins, which made commercial transactions easier. B. Archaeologists have found more than 40 of Ashoka's rock edicts throughout his territory and present them through both photographs and drawings. C. The Maurya Empire had an intrusive bureaucracy including state-controlled industry, state sponsorship of infrastructure, and army, and spies, and funded itself with high taxes on crops.

Which of the following does Christine de Pisan write in the excerpts from her Book of the City of Ladies (skip the second section, which begins, "The Story continues in the form of an allegory...")?

According to Lady Reason, the motivations for misogyny include readings from known authors, blame for men's own faults such as debauchery, promiscuity, and bodily failure, and it's inferior men or men who try to create scandals who speak that way about women.

Which of the following is said either in the assigned video about the Tang Dynasty or in the reading "The Chinese Imperial City of Chang'an (7th-8th Century)"?

According to the video, in the 600s academies were founded in China; Buddhism and Confucianism flourished; porcelain became a valued craft; Chinese learned much about medicine, mathematics, and geography; and books were sold widely.

Which of the following does the assigned portions of the Secret History of the Mongols say?

After Chingis Khan goes to war against the Tanghut and defeats them he puts all Tanghut men to death on the grounds that they broke a promise to him.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about Byzantium in the Age of Justinian (pp. 271-275)?

After Justinian, the Lombards took Italy back and the emperor Heraclius defeated the Sasanians after the Sasanians had conquered Egypt and the Levant.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say on pp. 256-260, 262-263, 269-271?

After the Third-Century Crisis, the emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire into four regions with four capitals so that more than one emperor could rule, increased the imperial bureaucracy, and tried to stop inflation with an Edict on Maximum Prices.

According to Part I of the Jared Diamond documentary Guns, Germs, and Steel, which of the following is true about hunter-gatherers and their societies?

Agricultural food production creates a larger food supply and can sustain a larger population than hunter-gathering.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about early Mesoamerica on pp. 371-376?

All of the other answers are accurate.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the Song dynasty (pp. 157-164)?

All of the other answers are accurate.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say on pp. 439-447, 453-455, and 457-459?

All of the other answers are accurate.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video about the Mayans?

All of the other answers are accurate.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video lecture about Mongol culture and Genghis Khan?

All of the other answers are accurate.

Which of the following does Part I of Guns, Germs, and Steel not say about animal domestication?

Animals provided humans with meat to eat, power to plow fields, dung to fertilize crops, and skins and hair to store liquids in and to wear, as well as man's best friend, the dog.

Which of the following does the Book of the Deeds of Ardashir say in the assigned sections?

Ardashir kills his enemy the Worm, brings the wealth from the Worm's forgress to Gobar, and grants Burjak and Burj-ataro leadership positions in the city of Guzaran.

Which of the following does Ashoka say in Rock Edicts 12 and 13?

Ashoka still has the authority to punish people if he must but desires that no harm come to anyone.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say on pp. 380-390?

Ayullus--networks of families who had rule-enforced trading relationships in labor, subsistence, and religious activities--served the Inca empire as administrative units and by using their sacred bundles as religious origin points.

Which of the following is part of the assigned pages of Ibn Battutah's Travels or the Pact of Umar?

B. Christians are not to build new churches, monasteries, or convents, nor to repair their convents, nor to display crosses. C. Christians are not to sell alcoholic drinks, speak disrespectfully to Muslims, to carry swords, or to give shelter to any spies. D. In Taibah (=Medina) everyone does spiritual exercises, and the narrator changes into a white garment. E. The people of Mecca are known for giving food to the poor and orphans, wearing perfume, and cooking delicious food, and Ibn Battutah stays in a college there and meets a sheik who tells him about a demon-possessed man.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video "Roman West Late"?

B. The Roman defeat at Adrianople against the Goths (specifically, Visigoths) in AD 378 marked the end of clear Roman military superiority. C. The population of the city of Rome plummeted from the hundreds of thousands in the 300s AD to perhaps around 50,000 by AD 500, and the only new monumental architecture consisted of churches. D. The most significant moment in the disintegration of the Roman Empire was likely the fall of Carthage in AD 439, which cut off the supply of tax revenue to Italy.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in the video on Teotihuacan?

Bones found near temples at Teotihuacan imply the practice of human sacrifice there.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the 'Abbasid caliphate (pp. 319-325)?

Caliph al-Mansur moved the caliphate to Baghdad, which became the largest city in the world with a population over 500,000, public works that employed over 100,000, large palaces and working sewers, and the early 'Abbasids built the House of Wisdom to support philosophers, linguists, historians, and astronomers.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on Islam & Christendom?

Cyril and Methodius, Greek missionaries who were brothers, brought Christianity to Slavic lands and created the Cyrillic alphabet from the Greek slphabet to translate Christianity to Slavic languages

Which of the following does Alexander do in the assigned pages of Arrian's Anabasis?

Deliver a speech recalling his father Philip's giving the Macedonians (among other things) laws, his and Philip's military victories, and his enriching of his military, showing his arrow- and catapult-wounds to demonstrate his efforts in their wars.

Which of the following does Berger not say in his section on "Dynastic Egypt" (pp. 45-53)?

Egyptian law made women especially subordinate to men, with no right to speak in court, own or inherit property, or serve as priestesses, but there was also no slavery in Egypt.

In the video on the geography of ancient Egypt which of the following does Prof. DeVore say?

Egyptians made writing materials from the papyrus plant and thanks to the dry climate of Egypt many pieces of writing on papyrus survive from Egypt.

Which of the following is not part of the assigned chapters of the Bible?

Every king in the assigned reading who obeys the Lord has a successful and prosperous reign, and every king who sins and is wicked has an unsuccessful reign.

Which of the following does the Inscription of Ezana, King of Axum, say?

Ezana claims to have attacked towns of both straw and masonry and to have set up a throne at the junction of two rivers.

Which of the following is one of the consequences of the emergence of farming in the Middle East, according to Guns, Germs, and Steel, Part I?

Food surpluses from productive agriculture gave some people the leisure to become specialists and thus to develop technologies such as metalworking.

According to the video, "Historical Evidence and Knowledge," which of the following is true of historians' use of evidence?

For historians, "literature" refers to written texts meant to persuade or entertain, while "documents" are texts intended simply to record factual information.

Which of the following does Berger say on pp. 253-256 about early Christianity, or does Prof. DeVore say in his video on "Rome Jesus Early Christianity"?

For their buildings Christians rejected the architecture of traditional Greek and Roman temples, worshiping in houses with courtyards and later in basilicas modified to look like crosses

Which of the following does the reading from Shaikh Hamadani say about the rights of Hindus in India?

Former Hindus may pursue their inclinations toward Islam and no one may propagate Hindu customs among Muslims.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on Greece Archaic?

From about 700 BC a number of Greeks buried with armor in their graves that could be used in the hoplite fighting formation.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about China's geography and history up through the beginning of the section on the Western Zhou dynasty (pp. 114-124)?

From the time of the Shang dynasty, oracle bones found at Anyang were written on turtle or cow bones, heated in a fire, and cracked in order to learn answers from the gods.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say in pp. 406-417?

Genghis Khan divided his realm among his four sons at his death and required each to cooperate with the others to obtain his territory, yet Ögedei became the ruler and went on to conquer Novorod and Kiev, though he died before the Mongols could take Vienna and after Ögedei died, Batu's Golden Horde becoming autonomous of Güyük's territory.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of civilization, as the concept of "civilization" is described in the video defining "civilization"?

Greater intelligence than "uncivilized" people possess

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about ancient Greece on pp. 175-178, 185-190?

Greek religion seems to have continued to worship many divinities from Mycenaean times, such as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hermes, Apollo, and Dionysus, while such events as the athletic competition for Zeus at Olympia and the oracle of Apollo at Delphi were Pan-Hellenic (=all-Greek) phenomena

Which of the following does Berger on pp. 33-35, say about Hammurabi and the old Babylonian empire (including in the quotations from Hammurabi's famous law code)?

Hammurabi had disciplined foot soldiers armed with bronze weapons, built infrastructure such as canals and roads, and had a postal service.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the Han dynasty on pp. 134-140?

Han Chinese territories were divided into 100 commanderies and 1,300 counties, with more than 100,000 people in the bureaucracy performing such tasks as tax collection, military conscription, public works, and registration of the population.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in the video on ancient Egyptian royal monuments?

Hatshepsut set up her obelisks in the temple of Amun at Karnak.

Which of the following does the web reading on "The Discovery and Settlement of Polynesia" say about Polynesians' exploration of the Pacific Ocean and settlement of Hawai'i?

Hawaiian has a number of words in common with the dialect of the Southern Marqesan islands, such as the words for "name," "shark," and "hunger," and another number of words are quite similar between the two Hawai'ian and Marqesan languages

According to pp. 1-11 of Berger et al., World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500, which of the following is true of the origins of humanity in Africa and the spread of humanity from there?

Homo sapiens used fishhooks, nets, stone grinding, and food sharing to forage effectively, and while they were hunter-gatherers they were mobile and used campsites rather than permanent settlements.

Which of the following is said in the assigned hymns of the Rig Veda (2.12, 6.75, 9.112, 10.90, 10.101)?

Horses and chariots, gauntlets, wagons, whips, and bows with poisoned iron arrows are all represented as being used to win cows.

Which of the following is described in the video on the "Sumerian States"?

How the Standard of Ur illustrates social stratification in the Sumerian states.

Which of the following does Ibn Battutah say about his travels in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 281-282, 284-289)?

Ibn Battutah travels along what he thinks is the Nile to Malli, where he meets the qadi (=legal expert), has to vomit out some disagreeable food, meets a parsimonious sultan, and receives as a gift a mere three loaves of bread and some other nourishment though the Sultan eventually gives him hospitality and gold.

Which of the following does Berger say on pp.196-202 or 203-208?

In 371 BC, after Sparta had suffered a population decline, Thebes defeated the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra thanks in large part to the Sacred Band.

Which of the following accurately characterizes the religious and political transformations after the Mauryan empire, according to Berger and his coauthors (pp. 89-97)?

In Hinduism men and women had gender-specific roles where men had to support their families and then renounce material desires, and women had to obey their fathers and serve husbands, whereas in Buddhism anyone, man or woman, could become a Buddha.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors not say about Fourteenth-Century Crises and wars around the same time (pp. 465-468)?

In the Hundred Years War France was often able to defeat England's larger population due to its more-disciplined armies and more successful use of archers.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the formations of Korean and Japanese society (pp. 149-156)?

In the Mounded Tomb Period Yamato chieftains created large keyhole-shaped tombs that displayed their power, granted officials titles and offices, and studied Chinese rulers' practices.

Which of the following does Mario Liverani, "The Phoenicians," not say about the Phoenicians?

In the eleventh century BC the Phoenicians founded colonies in Kition, Cadiz in southern Spain, and Utica and Carthage in north Africa, Syracuse on Sicily, Malta, and Nora on Sardinia, which fought a war of independence against their mother-cities, became independent city-states and competed against each other in trade.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about medieval intellectual activity in pp. 451-453 or pp. 460-462?

In the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance texts of Aristotle as well as medical texts were translated from Arabic into Latin, law was intensely studied, and the first universities in such cities as Bologna, Paris, and Oxford became self-governing

Which of the following does not happen in the assigned excerpt of the Tale of Genji?

Korematsu helps Genji dispose of Yugao's body by wrapping it in bamboo, and Koremitsu and Genji perform the last rites before Genji retires to a monastery to grieve.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say about Mongol rule in China in the video about the subject?

Kublai Khan protected Chinese farmers' land from nomads, clarified the taxation system, invested in public works, and promoted the arts so that Chinese artistic production flourished.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the Renaissance and about Iberia and new worlds (471-476)?

Lorenzo Valla proved that the Donation of Constantine, on which the papacy's legitimacy depended, was a forgery, and Niccolò Machiavelli argued that leaders could ignore morality and virtue to promote a state's interests

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about history in Africa and about the kingdoms of Ghana and Mali in central Africa (pp. 341-342, 351-357)?

Mansa Musa divided Mali into provinces and appointed governors over them, took 30,000 pounds of gold on his hajj to Mecca, and hosted Islamic scholars in such cities as Timbuktu.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video "Roman Republic to Monarchy"?

Many Roman farmers who sold their land joined the military, where they fought for more conquests and plunder from their generals.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in the video on "Mesopotamian Empires Akkad"?

Naram-Sin's victory stele represented him defeating his enemies in distant places and being declared a god by his people.

Which of the following does Muhammad do in his takeover of Mecca according to the selections from Ibn Ishaq (pp. 7-9)?

None are accurate

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on the Olmec?

Olmec colossal heads heads may represent gods or ballplayers; scholars don't really know.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on the Personnel of the Roman Empire?

On the Ara Pacis Augustae the emperor Augustus' family was featured prominently, illustrating how important the emperor's family was in ruling the Roman Empire

Which of the following principles does Confucius endorse in the selections of the Analects on the assigned pdf?

One should not do to others what one does not want done to oneself.

In the video on "Food production Abu Hureyra," which of the following inferences can we make from the archaeological evidence?

Over time, residents of Abu Hureyra domesticated more and more animals and hunted less and less, as shown by the changing numbers of sheep, goat, and gazelle bones, among other animals, found at Abu Hureyra.

Which of the following does Du Fu not say in the assigned excerpts of his poem "A Song of War Chariots"?

Parents feel grief as their children must go to war with bow and quiver

Which of the following is not part of Berger and his coauthors' account of ancient Israel (pp. 38-42)?

Prophets warned Israelites about God's ethical standards, including telling Solomon that his worship of other gods would cause his kingdom to break up.

Which of the following does Hatshepsut say on her obelisk inscriptions in the assigned pdf?

She was a Queen.

Which of the following happens in the assigned passages of Tacitus' Agricola (chapters 4, 6, 9, 18, 21, 29-34, 36, 38)?

Shortly after reaching Britain as governor Agricola attacks the Ordovices and the island of Mona, but he also provides an education to the sons of Briton chieftains and encourages them to build temples and courts, so that they come to like Roman practices such as baths and toga-wearing, which Tacitus calls part of their slavery.

Which of the following does the video "Charlemagne and the Carolingian Revival" say?

Since the clergy and bureaucracy needed to be able to read high Latin and the Bible, Charlemagne poured many resources into monasteries and scriptoria so that the 150-year Carolingian Era has bequeathed 7000 manuscripts, where only 500 survive from the 300 years before this.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say in their section on "Ancient Egypt" (pp. 42-45)?

Skilled artisans as well as administrators used hieroglyphics, and Egyptians wrote on broken pieces of pottery called ostraca as well as on papyrus.

Which of the following does Herodotus say about Phoenicians in the assigned chapters?

That Phoenicians claim that they sailed around Africa (which Herodotus calls Libya), but Herodotus does not believe that the Phoenician story that the sun was on their right side as the sailed around the tip of Africa.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about steppe peoples such as the Xiongnu on pp. 401-405?

Steppe peoples typically practiced pastoral nomadism, migrating season by season on horseback and keeping herds of animals with them.

Which of the following statements agrees with Berger's and his coauthors' discussions of Kerma and of Bronze-Age Greece (pp. 53-56, 183-185)?

Structures built by the people of Kerma include capital defenses, three deffufa (mud-brick structures with ritual spaces at the top), and tombs with cattle skulls all around, including one 300 feet in diameter with bronze weapons and lavish furniture inside.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about the Greek-led kingdoms of the Hellenistic period and about Hellenistic culture (pp. 208-214)?

Such philosophies as Cynicism (endorsing a life of simplicity and freedom), Stoicism (which stressed self-control and the elimination of emotions), and Epicureanism (which advocated eliminating pain and a universe run by chance) emerged in the Hellenistic period.

Which of the following does Ibn Battutah say about his journey to Constantinople (pp. 128-135)?

Sultan Jirgis (=Emperor George) sat in a palace that had five gateways leading up to the ruler's court, mosaic walls, a Jewish interpreter, and on his pavilian the ruler has an entourage of 14 men and asks Ibn Battutah about Jerusalem.

Which of the following happens in the assigned excerpts from the African epic the Sundiata?

Sundiata protected the weak from the strong justly by e.g. chopping off the right hand of bandits, and so his villages became prosperous, new settlements were built, traders grew in number, and the griots boasted of Niana's and Mali's caravans, gold, cloth, fishing, and hunting.

Which of the following does the Teaching of Ptah-Hotep (also spelled Ptahhotep) say in sections 1, 3-4, 6-8?

That Ptahhotep is an elite man, beloved of the god, and overseer of the city, hands down his words to teach wisdom and make the ignorant wise.

Which of the following is part of the advice in the Teachings of Ptah-Hotep in the sections 11, 16, 18, 20, 24-25, 34, and 47?

That one should not seize the house of one's neighbor or be known as a quarreler.

Which of the following does Berger say about the Aryan civilization on pp. 73-81?

The Aryans composed hymns such as the Rig Veda and three other vedas in Sanskrit, an Indo-European language closely related to the languages of Iran.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video about Athens?

The Athenians elected Ten Generals to be its leaders in war but had a system called ostracism for exiling any citizen whom Athenians feared might threaten to take too much power.

Which of the following does Watkins say in his webpage on Aztec history?

The Aztecs expanded their island city by driving stakes into part of the lake bed, lashing the stakes together, and filling the enclosed area with mud from the lake bed, which diverted the water into canals.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in the video on Post-Mongol China & the Plague?

The Black Death, yersinia pestis, traveled from China to Europe and came in three varieties, the Bubonic plague, the Pneumonic Plague, and the Septicaemic (also spelled Septicemic) plague.

Which of the following does Prof. Kamei-Dyche say about Heian Japan in the assigned video?

The Chinese realm was divided into provinces, where provincial governors enforced the laws, collected taxes, and could gain wealth.

Which of the following does Ibn Battutah say about medieval China on pp. 261-265 and 267-270?

The Chinese require all travelers to stay at a funduq and to carry a passport, confiscate merchants' money, and require Muslims to live in the same neighborhoods with Christians and with cannibals

Which of the following does Berger say on pp. 243-253?

The Flavian Dynasty came to power in AD 69, the Year of the Four Emperors, under the successful general Vespasian and his son Titus, who conquered Jerusalem for Rome.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video about Han China?

The Han dynasty had a large bureaucracy of recordkeepers, tax collectors, crimefighters, and religious and infrastructure specialists who were educated at the emperor Wu's academy in Confucian philosophy.

Which of the following appears in the assigned video on the "Peak of the Incan Empire"?

The Incas mummified members of influential families in the hope that the dead would maintain fertile land and the water supply, and consulted the dead regularly, caring particularly closely for deceased rulers whom they viewed as still living and whose estates they kept in the name of the deceased.

Which of the following does the assigned excerpt from the Domesday Book say?

The Instructions say that the inquiry is to learn the names of manors, their owners in the time of King Edward and new, the number of men, villains (=the wealthiest class of peasants), and serfs, and the different kinds of land, fishponds, and mills, among other information.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on Hellenistic culture and the Jews?

The Jews' biblical texts were translated into Greek in the Septuagint while Jews spread out of their homeland into other cities of the Mediterranean and spoke Greek in those cities.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say about the Persian Empire in his video on the subject?

The Persians minted gold coins called darics for easy economic exchange throughout their empire and used Aramaic as a shared language for administration.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore argue in his video on "Roman Conquests"?

The Romans conquered the Mediterranean primarily by extending different levels of Roman citizenship to conquered peoples, which brought these peoples into the Roman military and increased Roman manpower.

Which of the following does the Roman historian Livy say in the assigned exerpts?

The Romans offer some communities, such as Lanuvium, Aricium, and Pedum, full citizenship; other communities, such as Capua, Formiae, and Cumae, the private rights of Roman citizens (also called "citizenship without the vote"); and send colonists to Veliturae as a punishment for repeated revolts.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors not say about early Rome on pp. 221-224, 227-228, 230-233?

The Romans took over their religion from Greek religion, with Jupiter as the patron god of Rome being simply another name for Zeus, Juno being another name for Hera, Minerva being another name for Athena, Mars being another name for Ares, and Venus being another name for Aphrodite; every Roman divinity, even the goddess of the sewers, Cloacina, had a Greek source.

Which of the following does Berger say in pp. 25-31 about the early Sumerian city-states and their residents?

The Sumerians used cuneiform as their writing system and used it to record documents such as court proceedings, administrative decisions, and architectural plans, but also to write down literature, such as poetry, legends, and prayers.

Which of the following do either Berger and his coauthors or the assigned video "The Rise of the Gupta Empire" say about the Gupta Empire and early-medieval India (pp. 98-103)?

The Tamil-speaking Chola dynasty in south India adopted elements of Aryan culture, worked with local chieftains down to the village level, built impressive temples, and were represented as protectors of dharma.

Which of the following does Berger say about the Tang Dynasty (pp. 146-149, 156)?

The Tang dynasty ruled through a small number of well-educated elite families and through bureaucrats who passed civil-service exams, distributed equal plots of land to families and got tax revenue and labor in exchange, and drew its massive military in large part from military families.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in the video about the Han Chinese and the Xiongnu?

The Xiongnu created a confederacy covering a large territory in reaction to the Han dynasty.

Which of the following categories of information does not appear on the Mayan Monument 6 of Tortuguero?

The building and dedication of a temple to the god Nahnal in the plaza of B'aaku'l.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in the video "Roman East Late"?

The city of Constantinople had an excellent defense system consisting of three walls and a moat, which kept all invaders out of the city for centuries.

Which of the following is said either in the assigned readings from Anna Komnene or in the Three Summonses to Parliament?

The emperor addresses Gallic counts reminding them to fulfill their oath and sees other counts take an oath to him, but Tancred, Bohemund's nephew, demands a bribe to take the oath.

Which of the following does Ibn Battutah say about his travels in the central-Asian steppe in the assigned pages (pp. 121-126, 270-271)?

The khatun, held very dear by the sultan, has cherries heard on a golden tray, hears the Quran recited by a companion of Ibn Battutah in the Egyptian manner, serves Ibn Battutah qumizz, and asks Ibn Battutah many questions about his journey.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in the video "Egypt Monarchy"?

The king of Egypt was the leader of the Egyptians in war and in law as well as in religion.

Which of the following does Berger say about ancient India in pp. 62-64 and 66-67?

The landscape of India includes great mountain ranges, rivers that come from snow melt and monsoon rains, a great plateau, and over 4600 miles of coastline.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video on "China Zhou Qin"?

The over 7,000 Terracotta Warriors all look distinct and were actually stationed a fairly long distance from the main tomb of the Qin emperor.

Which of the following does Polybius not say about the Constitution of the Middle Roman Republic?

The people elect magistrates, while Senate has no legal authority except over religious matters, can only publish advice, not laws, and held power largely through members' personal authority and connections.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore not say in his video about Sparta's and Boeotia's political and social systems?

The polis of Thebes was formally the leading polis in Boeotia and appointed all Boeotarchs from among its own citizens, as well as the majority of Theban soldiers and the Sacred Band, to rule the Boeotian League.

Which of the following is part of one of the marriage contracts or legal proceedings (Parts A and C) in the handout on "Laws, Courts, and Contracts in Hammurabi's Empire"?

The purchase of a slave-woman by a married couple makes that woman into a wife of the male in the purchasing couple.

Which of the following does Ibn Battutah say about Muslim India on the assigned pages (pp. 155-160, 165-168, 175-176)?

The sultan Abu 'l-Mujahid Muhammad Shah lives in a palace with gilded tiles, a tank in which molden gold was poured, a vizier who built a platform overlooking the city, has three gates at his Dihli palace with musicians, porters, and scribes, and instigates gift-giving with guests.

Which of the following does Berger say about "The Fall of the Roman Republic" on pp. 237-243?

The wealthy Marcus Licinius Crassus, the general Gnaeus Pompey, and the newcomer Gaius Julius Caesar all worked together as part of an alliance that Cicero called the Triumvirate, and Caesar became commander of Roman forces in Gaul but eventually led his army treasonously toward Rome.

Which of the following do Berger and his coauthors say about Aksum and Ethiopia (pp. 345-351)?

Through both the Kingdom of Da'amat and the state of Aksum ivory, slaves, metals, and tools were part of trade outside of Da'amat's and Aksum's territories.

Which of the following do Berger and his co-authors say on pp. 430-434 and 463-464?

Towns began to grow again in the eleventh century due to the walls that towns offered for protection, knights' and bishops' demand for luxury good s that went through towns, the availability of Viking-founded markets,

Which of the following appears in the assigned sections ("Khubilai Khan's Palace," "Twelve Barons," "Great Yearly Revenue,") of the assigned primary source "Marco Polo in China"?

Twelve barons command all 34 provinces of the Great Khan's palace, and all live in a palace together; each has a judge and clerks assigned to each province and commands armed forces.

Which of the following does Prof. DeVore say in his video about the Umayyad caliphate?

Walid I built the Great Mosque of Damascus, invaded the Iberian peninsula, and captured important cities in central Asia such as Samarqand and Burkhara.

Which of the following happens in the assigned pages from Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian on The Story of the Rebel Ziang Yu (103, 114-119)?

While entertaining the Governor of Pei Xiang Yu tries to kill the Governor during a dance with his drawn sword but Xiang Bo counter-dances to protect the governor of Pei.