APWH - Ch. 6 Location Guide Quiz
EVERY STUDENT MUST LOCATE THE CORRECT ANSWER IN THE TEXTBOOK
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____ 1. In the classical era, the continents had an unequal population distribution, with the vast majority of the world’s people living in
a. North America. c. Eurasia.
b. Central/South America. d. Africa.
____ 2. Which of the following has been identified as a factor contributing to the collapse of the Maya civilization in the ninth century C.E.?
a. Foreign invasion c. Long-term drought
b. Volcanic eruption d. Widespread rebellions
____ 3. How did the absence of most animals capable of domestication affect developments in the Americas?
a. Few pastoral societies developed.
b. Agriculture did not develop independently.
c. Metallurgy was more highly developed.
d. A plow-based farming system developed.
____ 4. Which of the following limited the agricultural productivity of most regions in Africa?
a. Lack of state control and coordination of the irrigation system
b. Heavy but sometimes erratic rainfall followed by long dry seasons
c. The network of rivers running throughout the continent
d. The scarcity of raw materials and absence of iron tools
____ 5. What language was spoken by the groups of people who had spread throughout most of southern and eastern Africa by the classical era?
a. Bantu c. Latin
b. Hebrew d. Greek
____ 6. Which of the following cultures produced a written language?
a. Maya c. Moche
b. Maori d. Bantu
____ 7. In contrast to cities in other civilizations, cities in the Niger Valley civilization
a. had their own centralized political structure headed by a monarch.
b. were run by complex bureaucracies.
c. were part of a larger imperial system.
d. operated without the coercive authority of a state.
____ 8. Which of the following was an advantage that Bantu-speaking farmers had in their encounters with gathering and hunting groups?
a. Horse-drawn chariots c. Gunpowder formula
b. Yam-based agriculture d. Ironworking technology
____ 9. The Maya and Axum were similar because both
a. did not practice agriculture. c. left behind few stone monuments.
b. possessed written scripts. d. did not engage in trade.
____ 10. During the classical era, metallurgy was least developed in
a. the Americas. c. North Africa.
b. East Asia. d. Western Europe.
____ 11. The political organization of the Maya was most like the
a. city-states of classical Greece. c. civilization of the Niger Valley.
b. imperial state of Rome. d. kingdom of Axum.
____ 12. Vertical integration—the effort to control a variety of ecological zones where different crops and animals could flourish—characterized the civilizations of
a. Bantu Africa. c. Mesoamerica.
b. Pacific Oceania. d. Mesopotamia.
____ 13. Which of the following explains why the island societies of Pacific Oceania constitute a single cultural region despite the vast distances separating them?
a. Their worship of the same pantheon of gods
b. Their common origin in Island Southeast Asia
c. Their practice of corn-based agriculture
d. Their mastery of ironworking technology
____ 14. According to one historian, “the greatest maritime expansion known to history” occurred in
a. the Caribbean. c. Pacific Oceania.
b. the Mediterranean. d. Mesoamerica.
____ 15. In contrast to Maya art, the artwork of Teotihuacán
a. depicted jaguar-human figures.
b. displayed realistic rather than stylized, abstract images.
c. revealed few images of self-glorifying rulers.
d. incorporated an elaborate written script.
____ 16. Which of the following was a point of contact between Asia and Africa?
a. Pacific Oceania c. Madagascar
b. Micronesia d. Arabia
____ 17. The culture of Meroë showed a shift away from the influence of
a. Egypt. c. China.
b. Greece. d. India.
____ 18. The decline of Meroë and the rise of Axum were both connected to
a. extended ecological changes associated with El Niño episodes.
b. the shift of long-distance trade from the Nile Valley to the Red Sea.
c. the spread of Christianity across much of Africa.
d. the military expeditions of the Roman Empire into North Africa.
____ 19. Christianity in Axum most closely identified with which church?
a. The Coptic Church in Egypt
b. The Catholic Church in Rome
c. The Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople
d. The Church of the East in Syria
____ 20. Which statement describes the relationship between the civilizations in Mesoamerica and those in the Andes?
a. They gradually merged to create a hybrid culture.
b. They frequently fought with each other.
c. They had little if any direct contact with each other.
____ 21. Archaeological evidence suggests that the village located at Chavín was the center for
a. political experiments with democracy that predated classical Greece.
b. the study of science and medicine that sparked the Scientific Revolution.
c. a slave-based economy that became the prototype for the plantation system.
d. a religious movement that spread throughout much of the Andes.
____ 22. What do the remains of the Moche civilization suggest was important to its rulers?
a. Peace and meditation c. Nature and farming
b. War and ceremony d. Education and democracy
____ 23. Which of the following describes a feature of Bantu religion?
a. It was concerned with explaining, predicting, and controlling local affairs.
b. It claimed to be a universal religion and had a strong missionary impulse.
c. It incorporated many Christian elements imported from the Roman Empire.
d. It viewed God as remote and largely uninvolved in ordinary life.
____ 24. The Southeast Ceremonial Complex refers to the loose networks that connected the societies of the
a. city-states of Southeast Asia.
b. urban complexes of Wari and Tiwanaku.
c. eastern woodlands of North America.
d. islands of Pacific Oceania.
____ 25. How did sharing a common border affect relations between the inland empires of Wari and Tiwanaku?
a. They exchanged knowledge, as seen in the Tiwanaku adoption of the hillside terracing style of farming developed by the Wari.
b. They appeared to get along because there was little overt conflict or warfare between them.
c. People living along the border intermarried and created a hybrid culture that became the common culture of the entire Andean region over time.
d. Caravans of llamas from each empire gathered at the border to trade goods.
____ 26. Which of the following did not develop in the human communities that emerged in Bantu Africa, North America, and Pacific Oceania?
a. Agriculture c. Culture
b. Inequalities d. Empires
____ 27. Outside the Mesoamerican and Andean regions, most people living in the Americas in the pre-Columbian era
a. obtained their food supply by gathering and hunting.
b. practiced an intensive form of agriculture.
c. lived in densely populated urban centers.
d. engaged in long-distance trade with one another.
____ 28. The society of which group of people is considered to be less patriarchal due to its system of gender parallelism, which associated female roles with village life and male roles with hunting and forest life?
a. Ancestral Pueblo c. Bantu
b. Hopewell d. Wari
____ 29. A distinctive feature of the Hopewell culture in the eastern woodlands of North America was the
a. construction of underground tunnels.
b. creation of geometric earthworks.
c. development of plow-based agriculture.
d. establishment of a maritime empire.
____ 30. Which of the following benefited the most from the coastal trade routes shown in Map 6.1 in the textbook?
a. Nubia c. Marrakesh
b. Axum d. San
____ 31. According to The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea in Source 6.1, Axum’s long-distance trade networks included
a. South America. c. India.
b. Australia. d. New Zealand.
____ 32. Which of the following statements from the inscription on the stone throne of an Axumite monarch in Source 6.2 indicates that the inscription was completed before Axum’s acceptance of Christianity?
a. “I came down to Adulis and offered sacrifice to Zeus . . . ”
b. “I proceeded next against the Tangaltae, who adjoin the borders of Egypt . . . ”
c. “The tribes of Rhausi I next brought to submission . . .”
d. “I first and alone of the kings of my race made these conquests.”
____ 33. What does the inscription on the stone throne of an Axumite monarch in Source 6.2 reveal about Axum’s relations with the people it conquered?
a. The Axum Empire used the people it conquered as human sacrifices.
b. The Axum Empire extended citizenship to those subjects who converted to Christianity.
c. The Axum Empire enslaved the people it conquered.
d. The Axum Empire demanded tribute from the people it conquered.
____ 34. In Source 6.3, the fourth-century writer Rufinus tells the story of Frumentius’s experiences in Axum and describes how “a countless number of barbarians were converted by him to the faith.” What is the faith to which Rufinus refers?
a. Judaism c. Zoroastrianism
b. Christianity d. Islam
____ 35. According to the account by the Greek merchant Cosmas in Source 6.4, Axum was a major source of what commodity for the Roman Empire?
a. Slaves c. Gold
b. Frankincense d. Salt
APWH - Ch. 6 Location Guide Quiz
1. ANS: C TOP: Continental Comparisons
2. ANS: C TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
3. ANS: A TOP: Continental Comparisons
4. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of Africa
5. ANS: A TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
6. ANS: A TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
7. ANS: D TOP: Civilizations of Africa
8. ANS: D TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
9. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of Africa | Civilizations of Mesoamerica
10. ANS: A TOP: Continental Comparisons
11. ANS: A TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
12. ANS: C TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
13. ANS: B TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
14. ANS: C TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
15. ANS: C TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
16. ANS: D TOP: Continental Comparisons
17. ANS: A TOP: Civilizations of Africa
18. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of Africa
19. ANS: A TOP: Civilizations in Africa
20. ANS: C TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
21. ANS: D TOP: Civilizations of the Andes
22. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of the Andes
23. ANS: A TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
24. ANS: C TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
25. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of the Andes
26. ANS: D TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
27. ANS: A TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
28. ANS: C TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
29. ANS: B TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
30. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of Africa
31. ANS: C
32. ANS: A
33. ANS: D
34. ANS: B
35. ANS: C
EVERY STUDENT MUST LOCATE THE CORRECT ANSWER IN THE TEXTBOOK
Write the Page #, the Paragraph #, and Direct QUOTE from TEXTBOOK
You may work in TEAMS, but every student MUST have all 35 Questions done!
____ 1. In the classical era, the continents had an unequal population distribution, with the vast majority of the world’s people living in
a. North America. c. Eurasia.
b. Central/South America. d. Africa.
____ 2. Which of the following has been identified as a factor contributing to the collapse of the Maya civilization in the ninth century C.E.?
a. Foreign invasion c. Long-term drought
b. Volcanic eruption d. Widespread rebellions
____ 3. How did the absence of most animals capable of domestication affect developments in the Americas?
a. Few pastoral societies developed.
b. Agriculture did not develop independently.
c. Metallurgy was more highly developed.
d. A plow-based farming system developed.
____ 4. Which of the following limited the agricultural productivity of most regions in Africa?
a. Lack of state control and coordination of the irrigation system
b. Heavy but sometimes erratic rainfall followed by long dry seasons
c. The network of rivers running throughout the continent
d. The scarcity of raw materials and absence of iron tools
____ 5. What language was spoken by the groups of people who had spread throughout most of southern and eastern Africa by the classical era?
a. Bantu c. Latin
b. Hebrew d. Greek
____ 6. Which of the following cultures produced a written language?
a. Maya c. Moche
b. Maori d. Bantu
____ 7. In contrast to cities in other civilizations, cities in the Niger Valley civilization
a. had their own centralized political structure headed by a monarch.
b. were run by complex bureaucracies.
c. were part of a larger imperial system.
d. operated without the coercive authority of a state.
____ 8. Which of the following was an advantage that Bantu-speaking farmers had in their encounters with gathering and hunting groups?
a. Horse-drawn chariots c. Gunpowder formula
b. Yam-based agriculture d. Ironworking technology
____ 9. The Maya and Axum were similar because both
a. did not practice agriculture. c. left behind few stone monuments.
b. possessed written scripts. d. did not engage in trade.
____ 10. During the classical era, metallurgy was least developed in
a. the Americas. c. North Africa.
b. East Asia. d. Western Europe.
____ 11. The political organization of the Maya was most like the
a. city-states of classical Greece. c. civilization of the Niger Valley.
b. imperial state of Rome. d. kingdom of Axum.
____ 12. Vertical integration—the effort to control a variety of ecological zones where different crops and animals could flourish—characterized the civilizations of
a. Bantu Africa. c. Mesoamerica.
b. Pacific Oceania. d. Mesopotamia.
____ 13. Which of the following explains why the island societies of Pacific Oceania constitute a single cultural region despite the vast distances separating them?
a. Their worship of the same pantheon of gods
b. Their common origin in Island Southeast Asia
c. Their practice of corn-based agriculture
d. Their mastery of ironworking technology
____ 14. According to one historian, “the greatest maritime expansion known to history” occurred in
a. the Caribbean. c. Pacific Oceania.
b. the Mediterranean. d. Mesoamerica.
____ 15. In contrast to Maya art, the artwork of Teotihuacán
a. depicted jaguar-human figures.
b. displayed realistic rather than stylized, abstract images.
c. revealed few images of self-glorifying rulers.
d. incorporated an elaborate written script.
____ 16. Which of the following was a point of contact between Asia and Africa?
a. Pacific Oceania c. Madagascar
b. Micronesia d. Arabia
____ 17. The culture of Meroë showed a shift away from the influence of
a. Egypt. c. China.
b. Greece. d. India.
____ 18. The decline of Meroë and the rise of Axum were both connected to
a. extended ecological changes associated with El Niño episodes.
b. the shift of long-distance trade from the Nile Valley to the Red Sea.
c. the spread of Christianity across much of Africa.
d. the military expeditions of the Roman Empire into North Africa.
____ 19. Christianity in Axum most closely identified with which church?
a. The Coptic Church in Egypt
b. The Catholic Church in Rome
c. The Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople
d. The Church of the East in Syria
____ 20. Which statement describes the relationship between the civilizations in Mesoamerica and those in the Andes?
a. They gradually merged to create a hybrid culture.
b. They frequently fought with each other.
c. They had little if any direct contact with each other.
____ 21. Archaeological evidence suggests that the village located at Chavín was the center for
a. political experiments with democracy that predated classical Greece.
b. the study of science and medicine that sparked the Scientific Revolution.
c. a slave-based economy that became the prototype for the plantation system.
d. a religious movement that spread throughout much of the Andes.
____ 22. What do the remains of the Moche civilization suggest was important to its rulers?
a. Peace and meditation c. Nature and farming
b. War and ceremony d. Education and democracy
____ 23. Which of the following describes a feature of Bantu religion?
a. It was concerned with explaining, predicting, and controlling local affairs.
b. It claimed to be a universal religion and had a strong missionary impulse.
c. It incorporated many Christian elements imported from the Roman Empire.
d. It viewed God as remote and largely uninvolved in ordinary life.
____ 24. The Southeast Ceremonial Complex refers to the loose networks that connected the societies of the
a. city-states of Southeast Asia.
b. urban complexes of Wari and Tiwanaku.
c. eastern woodlands of North America.
d. islands of Pacific Oceania.
____ 25. How did sharing a common border affect relations between the inland empires of Wari and Tiwanaku?
a. They exchanged knowledge, as seen in the Tiwanaku adoption of the hillside terracing style of farming developed by the Wari.
b. They appeared to get along because there was little overt conflict or warfare between them.
c. People living along the border intermarried and created a hybrid culture that became the common culture of the entire Andean region over time.
d. Caravans of llamas from each empire gathered at the border to trade goods.
____ 26. Which of the following did not develop in the human communities that emerged in Bantu Africa, North America, and Pacific Oceania?
a. Agriculture c. Culture
b. Inequalities d. Empires
____ 27. Outside the Mesoamerican and Andean regions, most people living in the Americas in the pre-Columbian era
a. obtained their food supply by gathering and hunting.
b. practiced an intensive form of agriculture.
c. lived in densely populated urban centers.
d. engaged in long-distance trade with one another.
____ 28. The society of which group of people is considered to be less patriarchal due to its system of gender parallelism, which associated female roles with village life and male roles with hunting and forest life?
a. Ancestral Pueblo c. Bantu
b. Hopewell d. Wari
____ 29. A distinctive feature of the Hopewell culture in the eastern woodlands of North America was the
a. construction of underground tunnels.
b. creation of geometric earthworks.
c. development of plow-based agriculture.
d. establishment of a maritime empire.
____ 30. Which of the following benefited the most from the coastal trade routes shown in Map 6.1 in the textbook?
a. Nubia c. Marrakesh
b. Axum d. San
____ 31. According to The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea in Source 6.1, Axum’s long-distance trade networks included
a. South America. c. India.
b. Australia. d. New Zealand.
____ 32. Which of the following statements from the inscription on the stone throne of an Axumite monarch in Source 6.2 indicates that the inscription was completed before Axum’s acceptance of Christianity?
a. “I came down to Adulis and offered sacrifice to Zeus . . . ”
b. “I proceeded next against the Tangaltae, who adjoin the borders of Egypt . . . ”
c. “The tribes of Rhausi I next brought to submission . . .”
d. “I first and alone of the kings of my race made these conquests.”
____ 33. What does the inscription on the stone throne of an Axumite monarch in Source 6.2 reveal about Axum’s relations with the people it conquered?
a. The Axum Empire used the people it conquered as human sacrifices.
b. The Axum Empire extended citizenship to those subjects who converted to Christianity.
c. The Axum Empire enslaved the people it conquered.
d. The Axum Empire demanded tribute from the people it conquered.
____ 34. In Source 6.3, the fourth-century writer Rufinus tells the story of Frumentius’s experiences in Axum and describes how “a countless number of barbarians were converted by him to the faith.” What is the faith to which Rufinus refers?
a. Judaism c. Zoroastrianism
b. Christianity d. Islam
____ 35. According to the account by the Greek merchant Cosmas in Source 6.4, Axum was a major source of what commodity for the Roman Empire?
a. Slaves c. Gold
b. Frankincense d. Salt
APWH - Ch. 6 Location Guide Quiz
1. ANS: C TOP: Continental Comparisons
2. ANS: C TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
3. ANS: A TOP: Continental Comparisons
4. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of Africa
5. ANS: A TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
6. ANS: A TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
7. ANS: D TOP: Civilizations of Africa
8. ANS: D TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
9. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of Africa | Civilizations of Mesoamerica
10. ANS: A TOP: Continental Comparisons
11. ANS: A TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
12. ANS: C TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
13. ANS: B TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
14. ANS: C TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
15. ANS: C TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
16. ANS: D TOP: Continental Comparisons
17. ANS: A TOP: Civilizations of Africa
18. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of Africa
19. ANS: A TOP: Civilizations in Africa
20. ANS: C TOP: Civilizations of Mesoamerica
21. ANS: D TOP: Civilizations of the Andes
22. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of the Andes
23. ANS: A TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
24. ANS: C TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
25. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of the Andes
26. ANS: D TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
27. ANS: A TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
28. ANS: C TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
29. ANS: B TOP: Alternatives to Civilization
30. ANS: B TOP: Civilizations of Africa
31. ANS: C
32. ANS: A
33. ANS: D
34. ANS: B
35. ANS: C