Question 1
0 out of 1 points
What principle did the Code of Hammurabi emphasize?
Correct Answer: retribution
Question 2
0 out of 1 points
The earliest hominids
Correct Answer: lived in Africa.
Question 3
1 out of 1 points
The people who created the first Mesopotamian civilization were the
Correct Answer: Sumerians.
Question 4
1 out of 1 points
Successors to Cyrus were
Correct Answer: Cambyses and Darius.
Question 5
1 out of 1 points
All of the following are true about the ancient Sumerian city-states except that
Correct Answer: their political structure was democratic in nature.
Question 6
1 out of 1 points
Mesopotamian religion
Correct Answer: was reinforced by the intensity of the region's environment.
Question 7
0 out of 1 points
Which is not true about Neanderthals?
Correct Answer: They first evolved in Africa.
Question 8
1 out of 1 points
The Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylonia as the center of his empire was
Correct Answer: Nebuchadnezzar II.
Question 9
0 out of 1 points
Neanderthal remains have been found on which continent(s)?
Correct Answer: a and c
Question 10
0 out of 1 points
Homo sapiens first evolved in
Correct Answer: Africa.
Question 11
1 out of 1 points
The Phoenicians
Correct Answer: invented an alphabet.
Question 12
1 out of 1 points
What was the central aspect of the Neolithic Revolution?
Correct Answer: The emergence of systematic food production through the domestication of plants and animals.
Question 13
1 out of 1 points
The use of fire may have begun about
Correct Answer: 500,000 years ago.
Question 14
1 out of 1 points
The Assyrian Empire
Correct Answer: was skilled at waging both conventional and guerrilla warfare.
Question 15
1 out of 1 points
Which of the following is not correct about the pyramids?
Correct Answer: They were constructed during the Middle Kingdom.
Question 16
1 out of 1 points
Sumerian ziggurats performed the same function as Egypt's pyramids.
Correct Answer: False
Question 17
0 out of 1 points
In addition to the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China's Yellow River, archeologists have discovered two other centers of civilization in Peru and in Central Asia.
Correct Answer: True
Question 18
1 out of 1 points
The ancient Egyptians had no word for religion.
Correct Answer: True
Question 19
1 out of 1 points
First farmers still relied heavily on wild foods to supplement their diets.
Correct Answer: True
Question 20
0 out of 1 points
The principal economic basis of Assyrian life was manufacturing.
Correct Answer: False
Question 21
0 out of 1 points
Genetic evidence strongly supports the multiregional theory of human evolution.
Correct Answer: False
Question 22
1 out of 1 points
The Persians were an Indo-European-speaking people.
Correct Answer: True
Question 23
0 out of 1 points
Homo sapiens had evolved by about 250,000 years ago.
Correct Answer: True
Question 24
1 out of 1 points
The first civilizations lacked a system of written record keeping.
Correct Answer: False
Question 25
1 out of 1 points
Both Sanskrit and ancient Greek were Indo-European languages.
Correct Answer: True
Question 26
Needs Grading
Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Semitic
Correct Answer: Answer not provided.
Question 27
1 out of 1 points
What army of occupation was driven from India by Chandragupta Maurya?
Correct Answer: the Greek administrators who had remained after Alexander the Great
Question 28
1 out of 1 points
The members of the caste known as the untouchables, or pariahs, were
Correct Answer: given jobs such as handling dead bodies or collecting trash.
Question 29
1 out of 1 points