HISTORY MIDTERM

HISTORY MIDTERM QUIZ 1 1. Archaeologists only study prehistoric societies (ones that do not write). FALSE 2. The development of agriculture and animal farming was not one of the most important developments in human history. FALSE 3. Social inequalities characterize the development from hunter-gatherer to state-level societies. TRUE 4. Which one of the below is a subfield within archaeology? Paleoanthropology 5. What is the most distinctive quality of archaeology? Timescale with which it deals 6. Archaeologists aim to study, conserve, and interpret all aspects of our human past. TRUE 7. Archaeology helps people and societies to make informed decisions about which of the following topics? Climate change, diversity and equality, and sustainability 8. The world's first cities contained which of the following elements: They contained public buildings, their inhabitants produced works of art, they were divided into different zones and their people engaged in trade QUIZ 2 1. Which of the following were among the earliest domesticated animals in the Later Aceramic Neolithic? Sheep, goats, cattle and pigs (Scarre, pg. 214) 2. What are the earliest domesticated plants in the Later Aceramic Neolithic? [Choose 2] Wheat and barley (Scarre, pg. 214) 3. Çayönü Tepesi was... a Neolithic settlement (Scarre, especially pg. 215 but also see pg. 218) 4. Obsidian is a black volcanic glass that can be reworked like flint. It appears to have been an important good exchanged in Neolithic networks. (Scarre, pg. 223) 5. Settlement size remained about the same between the early and later Aceramic Neolithic. FALSE (Scarre, pg. 215) 6. Göbekli Tepe appears to have been a site devoted to ceremonial buildings rather than everyday domestic occupation. TRUE (Scarre, pg. 216) 7. Lumps of clay were used to seal containers and the clay was then stamped with a seal to denote the owner. These are called clay sealings and stamp seals. TRUE (Scarre, pgs. 226 and 227 (figure 7.35)) 8. The houses at Çatalhöyük were... entered from the flat rooftops (Scarre pg. 220, see also Senta Germain 2015) 9. What is the technical term used to describe artificial mounds? Tell (Scarre, pg. 226) 10. People typically entered the houses of the so-called Burnt Village at Tell Sabi Abiyad I from a dooway leading to a street or alleyway. FALSE (Scarre, pg. 226) QUIZ 3 1. Sumerian states depended upon wells to access water supplies. FALSE 2. The Scarre textbook argues that Uruk was the world's first true city. TRUE 3. Which site has an series of temples built on top of one another in chronological sequence and that show an increase in social and material complexity? Eridu (Scarre, pg. 433) 4. Which one the below items was part of the distinctive package of material culture associated with the Halafian culture (also known as the Halaf Period)? High-quality painted pottery (Scarre, pg. 432) 5. Artificial irrigation intensified during the Ubaid Period. True (Scarre, pg. 433) 6. Nineveh settlements are... mostly small, lacking monumental architecture and writing 7. Sometimes Assyrian kings had themselves crowned as kings of Babylon as well as of Assyria. TRUE (Scarre pg. 464) 8. Cylinder seals… are closely associated with early writing, were used for administrative control, were strongly associated with the rise of urban society 9. Ashurnasirpal II founded a new imperial capital at the site of Kalhu, modern Nimrud. Several subsequent kings then .... Founded new capital locations with significant architecture, public works, and irrigation as symbols of their reign (Scarre pg. 462) 10. A mass burial at Tell Brak provides evidence of conflict in the Uruk Period. TRUE QUIZ 4 1. Egypt began its attacks on Nubia as early as the Predynastic Era. TRUE (Baines reading, pg. 31.) 2. Who were the three ruling powers during the Second Intermediate Period? The Kerma rulers, the Theban 17 th Dynasty and the Hyksos (Baines & Malek pg. 42) 3. During the Middle Kingdom, where did Amenemhet I move the capital of Egypt? Memphis (Baines reading, pg. 40) 4. During which dynasty were the Great Pyramids built? 4 th (Baines reading, pg. 33) 5. What are the main changes that marked the beginning of the 1st Dynasty? Increase in the use of writing and the founding of Memphis (Baines reading, pg. 32) 6. People looked back on the time of which pharaoh as one of a golden age of achievement and wisdom? Djoser (Baines reading, pg. 32) 7. The material culture of North Africa was uniform until the end of the last Ice Age (ca. 10,000 BCE). Changes in climate after the Ice Age had a huge impact on separating Egyptian civilization from surrounding cultures. TRUE (See Baines reading pg. 30) 8. By the end of the Old Kingdom it seems that royal power loosened and wealth was distributed more equally. TRUE (Baines reading, pg. 34) 9. Which period formed the turning point in the development of Predynastic Egypt? Naqada II (Baines reading, pg. 30) 10. The true pyramid is not a solar symbol. False (Baines reading, pg. 33) QUIZ 5 1. What is the name of the pharaoh who created a religious revolution to focus on a single deity? Akhenaten (Baines & Malek, pg. 45) 2. A Nubian founded the 25th Dynasty in Egypt. TRUE (Baines & Malek, pg. 48) 3. The hieroglyphic script contained two basic types of signs called... ideograms/logograms and phonograms (van der Mieroop pgs 43-44) 4. The main priestly offices became hereditary during the 19th and 20th Dynasties, which meant that eventually the priests could rival the king TRUE (Baines & Malek pg. 47) 5. What is the name of the site with the first evidence of a coherent system of notation (i.e. precursors to writing)? Abydos (van der Mieroop pg. 43) 6. Tutankhamun perpetuated the religion his father established. FALSE (Baines & Malek, pg. 46) 7. Which pharaoh fought the Hittite army at the Battle of Qadesh? Ramses II (Baines & Malek, pg. 46) 8. Hatshepsut's reign as pharaoh caused a religious revolution in Egypt. FALSE (Baines & Malek, pg. 43-44) 9. The 21st Dynasty, which belonged to the Third Intermediate Period, ruled from Thebes. FALSE (Baines & Malek, pg. 47) 10. Thutmose I extended Egypt's territory its greatest size. TRUE (Baines & Malek pg. 42) QUIZ 6 1. South Asia contradicts standard archaeological patterns by presenting urbanized civilizations without palaces or royal tombs. TRUE (Scarre textbook, pg. 516) 2. The Indus script has offered one of the best opportunities to understand the Indus River Valley civilization. FALSE (Scarre textbook, pg. 517) 3. The Bronze Age site of Kalibangan consists of a citadel and a lower town. TRUE (Scarre textbook, pg. 526-527) 4. Mehrgarh consists of a series of tells, each of which is chronologically distinct. TRUE (Scarre textbook, pg. 522) 5. During the Early Harappan phase people buried their dead in formal cemeteries. TRUE (Scarre textbook, pg. 525) 6. Evidence from early sites such as Mehrgarh show that the Indus River Valley "Neolithic subsistance package" closely resembled that from Mesopotamia. This suggests that developments in Mesopotamia later spread to the Indus River Valley. FALSE (Scarre textbook, pg. 523) 7. Archaeologists have deciphered graffitti that documents routes of exchange and