HIWD 370 Quiz Early Humans
HIWD 370 Quiz: Early Humans and Ancient India
Covers the Textbook material from Module 1: Week 1.
- What did Mesopotamians believe about the forces that controlled the world?
- Without ____, the emergence of Mesopotamian civilization might not have been possible.
- Among the early Indo-European peoples were the
- What happened during the reign of Akhenaten?
- What was one of the most significant contributions to history made by the ancient Phoenicians?
- Who did the Israelites believe were the true religious teachers, sent by God?
- Unlike Mesopotamia’s rivers, the flooding of Egypt’s Nile was gradual and usually predictable, and the river was seen as life-enhancing rather than life-threatening.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh was
- Which people created the first Mesopotamian civilization?
- King Solomon is associated with all of the following EXCEPT
- What did the Phoenicians do once they gained their political independence from the Hittites and Egyptians?
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Which statement about the pyramids is FALSE?
- Hammurabi took all of the following actions EXCEPT
- In addition to Mesopotamia and Egypt, other nearby areas in which significant human advances were made included
- In comparison to Hinduism, Buddhism was much less egalitarian.
- Why did the jati class system survive for so many centuries?
- According to the Arthasastra,
- What did Mahavira, founder of Jainism, preach to his followers?
- Which of the following was a set of commentaries on the Vedas that emphasized spiritual meditation?
- The Ramayana
- “The Rule of the Fishes” refers to the
- Which of these items was NOT exported by India?
- The two major cities of the Harappan civilization were
- People in India belonged to a class not as individuals but as members of a kinship group known as the
- Which statement about the relationship between the Indus River and Aryan cultures is correct?
- The transition the Aryans made from pastoral to primarily agricultural pursuits was aided by the introduction of which of the following?
- What was true of marriage in ancient India?
- How many social classes existed in India?
- The Indian priestly caste was known as the