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What accounts for the cultural similarities in the human communities scattered across Pacific Oceania?

A common origin in Island Southeast Asia

Which of the following was a feature of Mayan agriculture?

A complex water management system

What provided the impetus for long-distance trade in the Niger River Valley civilization?

A desire to acquire iron ore

What is gender parallelism?

A separate but equal definition of gender roles

Which of the following statements describes African contact with Eurasia in the period from 500 B.C.E. to 1200 C.E.?

Africa had frequent contact with both Europe and Asia.

What distinguished the emergence of agriculture in the eastern woodlands of the United States from the Ancestral Pueblo region of the southwest?

Agriculture emerged independently in the eastern woodlands, relying exclusively on locally domesticated crops.

Which of the following describes a political similarity between Pacific Oceania and Bantu Africa before the thirteenth century?

An absence of large empires

Which society constructed an elaborate road system that does not appear to have been used for trade or travel?

Ancestral Pueblo

For what purpose did the Mound Builders of the eastern United States build these structures?

As burial places

During the second-wave era, which region continued to exclusively practice gathering and hunting?

Australia

Which of the following describes the history of the banana in Africa?

Austronesian-speaking sailors brought the banana from Southeast Asia to Madagascar, from where it made its way to much of sub-Saharan Africa.

In which of the following civilizations did Christianity gain a permanent foothold after it was introduced in the fourth century?

Axum

What distinguished agriculture in Axum from most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa during the second-wave era?

Axum practiced plow-based agriculture.

Which of the following was an advantage that allowed the Bantu to displace gathering and hunting peoples?

Deadly diseases

Which of the following contributed to the decline of Meroë?

Deforestation

Which of the following was a cultural achievement of the Maya civilization during the period between 250 and 900 C.E.?

Development of the concept of zero

Which of the following describes the original Chavín cult site?

Elaborate temple complex with galleries, hidden passages, and staircases

What caused the Chaco Phenomenon to collapse around the twelfth century?

Extended drought

Which of the following contributed to the wealth of the Meroë civilization?

Extensive long-distance trading connections

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

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 was an advantage that allowed the Bantu to displace gathering and hunting peoples?

Iron tools

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.

What role did women play in the political structure of the Luba people in Central Africa?

Male rulers operated in alliance with powerful women.

Which of the following statements describes the Bantu gender system as compared to the urban-based civilizations of Eurasia?

Many societies in the Bantu-speaking world developed systems that were markedly less patriarchal than those in urban-based Eurasian civilizations.

At its height during the fourth to sixth centuries C.E., the Axumite state included which of the following regions?

Parts of the Arabian Peninsula

Which of the following statements describes the sense of common African identity in premodern times?

The people of the continent did not share a sense of common African identity.

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.

Which of the following was a feature of the Niger Valley civilization?

Complex urban centers

When did the first substantial urban centers with concentrated populations and monumental architecture emerge in the Mayan world?

Between 1000 B.C.E. and the first century C.E.

What characteristic distinguished the eastern woodland societies from their Chaco Canyon counterparts?

Cahokia was a much larger settlemen

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.

Why did the Wari and Tiwanaku states establish colonies at lower elevations on both the eastern and western slopes of the Andes and throughout the highlands?

Colonies provided access to resources that could be grown or collected in these different environmental zones.

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 statements is true of the archeological evidence of the Moche civilization?

It tells us considerably more about the lives of the elite than the population as a whole.

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 describes a kiva in Ancestral Pueblo society?

Large pit structure used for ceremonial purposes

How did the Wari and Tiwanaku link the different parts of their empires?

Llama caravans

Which of the following contributed to the collapse of much of Maya civilization in the ninth century C.E.?

Long-term drought

Which of the following statements describes the Mayan civilization?

Mayan civilization developed over a long period in Mesoamerica.

Which kingdom had a number of female rulers?

Meroë

In what way was Bantu religion different from Islam?

Only the Bantu religion embraced the idea of continuous revelation.

Which of the following statements describes the movement of Bantu-speaking peoples in sub-Saharan Africa?

People moved gradually to new regions over many centuries.

What was a factor that contributed to the diversity of Mesoamerican civilizations?

Range of microclimates

Which city had streets laid out in a grid-like pattern and a large ritual center where archaeologists have found evidence of human sacrifice?

Teotihuacán

When historians refer to Africa in premodern times, they are speaking generally of

a continental landmass.

What impact did the Bantu peoples have on the gathering and hunting societies of Africa?

The Bantu gradually displaced gathering and hunting societies.

What distinguished the Bantu religion from Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam?

The Bantu religion possessed no missionary tradition.

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 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

Which of the following was a feature of the Bantu religion in the period before 1500 C.E.?

The belief that ancestral spirits could be accessed through rituals of sacrifice

Which of the following statements describes the relationship between climate and agriculture in central Africa?

The climate is mostly tropical, making the soil poorer and less fertile.

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.

What was sacrificed by the Moche in their religious ceremonies?

War captives

Which of the following was a cultural achievement of the Maya civilization during the period between 250 and 900 C.E.?

Writing system

Which of the following crops did the Bantu domesticate themselves?

Yams