HIWD 370 Quiz 2: Ancient China and the Americas
Covers the Textbook material from Module 2: Week 2.
- What was true of the Shang government?
- Most of the currently standing Great Wall of China – which appears in popular photos — was
- What is true of Daoism?
- The eastern frontier of China remained the great fault line of Asian conflict for over two thousand years.
- Which statement about the “five relationships” is FALSE?
- Iron making developed in China much later than in the Middle East.
- The terra-cotta figures near the Qin First Emperor’s burial mound demonstrate the
- In the Book of Mencius, human nature is portrayed as fundamentally
- What was the greatest factor leading to the fall of the Qin dynasty?
- The legendary “three sovereigns” of prehistoric China were
- How might a peasant come to own a small plot of farmland?
- The Shang Dynasty is especially useful for historians because it
- The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty ascended to the throne at age thirteen.
- What is the evidence that the social classes were becoming increasingly differentiated during the Shang Dynasty?
- What was one of the major preoccupations of Chinese philosophers of the late Zhou dynasty?
- Mayan civilization
- Aztec rulers claimed that they were descendents of the gods.
- Archeologists call the region in which the first New World civilizations began
- Classical Mayan civilization was centered on modern-day Mexico.
- Where did the Maya civilization develop?
- Cacao beans were used as currency by Maya people.
- Aztec writing
- An extensive urban community was created at Chaco Canyon by the
- The ancient Aztec capital
- What caused the disappearance of Chimor?
- Aztec religion
- In Aztec society, once a young man of noble status reached adulthood, he would
- The Inka king who began the conquests that led to the creation of their empire was
- The chinampas
- The Inka had no writing system, but kept records using a system of knotted strings called quipu.