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Western civilization developed most of its defining characteristics in isolation. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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During the Stone Age, the earliest hunters and gatherers used bronze tips for their spearheads, arrowheads, and other cutting tools. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Scientists believe that women, through trial and error, are probably responsible for developing agriculture sometime around 10,000 B.C.. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The complexity of Sumerian society was the result of a pessimistic religious pantheon made up of vengeful gods who required placation. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Sumerian law protected and promoted the family as the primary social and economic unit. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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When writing first emerged in Sumerian society, both men and women could study it, but later, women were excluded from the profession of scribe. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Indo-Europeans spread their Semitic language as they migrated south into modern-day Turkey and Iran and eastward toward India. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The agricultural and mineral wealth of the Nile Valley allowed Egyptians to trade for the goods that they lacked, such as wood and textiles. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Egyptian ideas about the afterlife were based upon their experiences in the Nile Valley. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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During the Middle Kingdom, the isolationist policies of many Egyptian kings meant that Egypt lagged behind African cultures technologically. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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Akhenaten’s absorption in religious matters led him to neglect the defense of the Egyptian empire, and as a result, the Egyptians were exposed to the dangers of invading tribes in the north. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Phoenicians, renowned for their sea-faring skills, ventured as far as Spain and the African coast, where they established trading colonies. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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After the change in leadership that the Hebrews experienced in the period 1200 — 1050 B.C., the first kings encouraged nomadic lifestyles to counter the threats of their neighbors. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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Solomon violated certain commandments by marrying foreign women and allowing them to worship their own deities even though they resided in Jerusalem. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Persians’ intolerance of the Jews resulted in the destruction of the second temple in 515 B.C.. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Once people discovered the techniques for forging iron, the use of iron for weapons, tools, and utensils spread rapidly throughout the Mediterranean world. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Assyrians forbade the use of a common language among their conquered peoples as part of their policy of ruling by terror. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Babylonians learned the effectiveness of terror from their predecessors, the Assyrians, and also continued the tradition of constructing an architecturally advanced urban center. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The astrological and mathematical innovations of the Babylonians are still with us today. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Cyrus the Great created an administration that promoted loyalty to his rule and limited the possibilities for corruption and abuses of power. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Assyrian Empire successfully ruled its diverse subjects by following a policy of tolerance. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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When the Akkadian ruler Sargon (2350 B.C.) conquered Sumer, he used religion as the key to uniting his Akkadian people with the vanquished Sumerians. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Phoenicians created a purely phonetic alphabet (letters which correspond to spoken sounds as opposed to characters which represent actual objects). _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The earliest cities in the Middle East had slaves. The slave culture of this era was not based on racial distinctions. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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