Western Civ: Chapter 1 Online Questions
1. Division of labor between men and women appears to have originated in
making clothing.
obtaining different foodstuffs.
making tools and weapons.
constructing monuments and canals.
2. Which of the following was probably not among the first known uses of writing?
Recording laws and acts of government.
Petitioning government officials for aid.
Listing the possessions of kings and temples.
Recording the behavior of rivers.
3. The Paleolithic Age is characterized by
domestication of animals.
the first religious organizations.
the beginning of agriculture.
a hunting and gathering existence.
4. The shift to agriculture in the Neolithic Age coincided with
advances in stone tool technology.
the arrival of civilization.
the first religious organizations.
a division of labor according to sex.
5. Civilization is best defined as
abstract thought and peaceful policies.
writing, literature, and cities.
ways of living passed on from one generation to another.
urban living, smelting metals, and writing.
6. What accounts for the shift to agriculture by late Paleolithic peoples?
Replacement of stone tools with metal ones.
Unprecedented population growth.
Decline of animal domestication.
Abandonment of pottery for food storage.
7. The Code of Hammurabi reveals a
"hands-off" approach to regulating business.
relaxed, flexible society that practiced mercy.
rigid unequal class structure favoring the elite.
deep concern for maintaining social equality.
8. Bronze is an alloy of
copper and gold.
tin and silver.
tin and copper.
silver and gold.
9. Egyptian hieroglyphic writings were
purely mathematical in scope and used only by the priesthood.
happier and simpler than the best Mesopotamian literature.
only carved as sacred inscriptions inside the pyramids.
used only to record harvests and trade agreements.
10. The most important cause of the collapse of the Old Kingdom was
rebellions by and civil wars among nomarchs (governors).
rebellions by slaves forced to build pyramids.
foreign invasion by the Hyksos and their superior military.
economic ruin due to exhaustive spending on the pyramids.
11. Which of the following statements about the Old Kingdom pharaohs of Egypt is not correct?
People obeyed the pharoah primarily because of his overwhelming military force.
The pharaoh had enormous material and labor resources available for his personal use.
Pharoahs and nobles often had their bodies preserved in order to achieve eternal life.
No law codes were necessary in Egypt because the pharoah was the direct source of justice.
12. The Jewish God
is a strict but fair judge of human behavior.
is conceived of as very much like a human.
rarely intervened in human affairs.
was pictured in a variety of artistic forms.
13. Ancient literature appears to suggest that the function of humanity is to
understand the gods.
control nature.
serve the gods.
develop personal capacities.
14. For the Greeks, laws
were made by men, not gods.
were important only for regulating the poor.
came directly from Mount Olympus.
were obeyed out of fear of powerful leaders.
15. The earliest Greek philosophers were concerned with questions involving
the differences between people and gods.
the behavior of the gods.
a rational explanation of phenomenon.
the ideal political system.
1. The agricultural revolution produced long-term population
increases.
TRUE
FALSE
6. The tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamon was among the first
ever discovered.
TRUE
FALSE
2. A centrally planned economy was a key factor of
Mesopotamian life.
TRUE
FALSE
7. The Phoenicians helped transmit culture from east to west
through trade.
TRUE
FALSE
3. Mesopotamian slaves were mainly people who owed
money and could not pay.
TRUE
FALSE
8. The Hyskos inadvertently taught the Egyptians how to
create a stronger military.
TRUE
FALSE
4. Mesopotamian wives could not seek a divorce.
TRUE
FALSE
9. The Hittites were a serious challenge to New Kingdom
Egypt for two centuries.
TRUE
FALSE
5. Throughout Egyptian history, Aton was the most important
god.
TRUE
FALSE
10. Hippocrates believed that some diseases had purely
supernatural or divine causes.
TRUE
FALSE
1. Culture may be defined as the ways of living built up by a group and passed on from one generation to another.
2. The Gauls and Romans called the region in the plains along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Mesopotamia.
3. The Akkadians are generally credited with having the first empire in history.
4. The Sumerians invented the system of writing now known as cuneiform.
5. The imposing towers built by the Mesopotamians that served as religious structures were called ziggurats.
6. Maat was the ancient Egyptian ideal of order, justice, and truth.
7. Upper and Lower Egypt were divided into districts called nomes.
8. Under the leadership of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonians and Medes attacked and eventually conquered the Assyrian empire.
9. Before the Israelites' arrival, the land of Palestine was inhabited by the Canaanites.
10. The Jews' status as a chosen people was based on God's covenant with Abraham.