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HST 275 Week 2 Week Two Knowledge Check
Complete the Week Two Knowledge Check
1.
The language map of present-day Africa has been affected by
the spread of literacy.
ancient developments in food production and migrations.
Indo-Aryan settlements.
All of these answers are correct.
Concept: CIVIL DEVELOPMENT
Mastery | 100% | Questions | · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 |
Materials on the concept
- Early Saharan Cultures
- The Delian League
- Sparta
- South Asia to 1000 C.E.
- Major City-States
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2.
The Spartans were compelled to make the army the primary focus of their society because
of the threat of conquest by Corinth.
of the danger of a Persian invasion.
they wanted to conquer the Peloponnesus.
of the threat of rebellion by their slaves.
3.
The Persian War battle that ultimately ensured Greek independence and instilled Athenians with confidence in their polis, their government, and themselves was
Marathon.
Salamis.
Thermopylae.
Plataea.
4.
Athens became the leader of the Delian League because
Sparta wanted to spend more time trading in the Mediterranean.
Corinth's navy had nearly been destroyed by the Persians.
Sparta was not willing to make a long-term commitment.
Athens had no outstanding leaders of its own at that time.
5.
The Mazdakite movement arose in response to the
Manichaean heresy.
unequal distribution of the Sasanid Empire’s bounty and social justice.
demand for improved trade relations with the East.
massacre of orthodox Zoroastrians by the Huns.
6.
Alexander the Great
made little impact on the Indian subcontinent except in the northwest.
determined the political boundaries of India for centuries to come.
consolidated his conquests in India by establishing a road system.
promoted the Hellenization of India by encouraging his soldiers to settle in India.
7.
After 2500 B.C.E., the Sahara region
underwent a rapid desiccation.
became a grazing region for cattle.
saw a general depopulation.
None of these answers are correct.
8.
The first millennium C.E. saw the rise of several sizable states in the western and central Sudan because of
settled agricultural populations and the expansion of trade.
the failure of smaller trading stations such as Timbuktu.
the decline of internal trade that promoted self-sufficiency.
both the failure of smaller trading stations such as Timbuktu, and the decline of internal trade that promoted self-sufficiency.
Concept: CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Mastery | 100% | Questions | · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 |
Materials on the concept
- Reason and the Scientific Spirit
- Agricultural Revolution of the Song: From Serfs to Free Farmers
- Confucianism
- Manichaeism
- Foreign Contacts and Chinese Culture
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9.
Homer’s epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, refer primarily to which period in Greek history?
Minoan
Mycenaean
“Middle Age” or Archaic
Classical
10.
A faith not spread along the silk route to central Asia was
Nestorian Christianity.
Zoroastrianism.
Manichaeism.
Mahayana Buddhism.
11.
Manichaeans advocated
a radical dualism between spirit and matter.
a universal “justice.”
restoring the original unity of Christian, Zoroastrian and Buddhist teachings.
All of these answers are correct.
12.
In the Greek world, a polis was a(n)
independent political unit.
small city.
community sharing common ancestors and religious rites.
All of these answers are correct.
13.
Zoroaster was similar to the Hebrew prophets, the Buddha, and Confucius because he preached a message of
moral reform.
ethical indifference.
materialism.
None of these answers are correct.
14.
The primary religion in the Aksumite Empire was
Islam.
nature worship.
Christianity.
a polytheism similar to that in Egypt.