A HISTORY OF WORLD SOCIETIES
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE FULL SOLUTION
●● Historia
Answer: What Greek word does the term history come from?
●● Inquiry
Answer: What word did Herodotus use history in place of?
●● Eyewitness accounts
Answer: What was Herodotus proud that he could rely on for his
histories?
●● Public gatherings
Answer: Where did Herodotus most likely read his histories?
●● 900 C.E.
Answer: When does the oldest known copy of Herodotus' histories date
back to?
,●● Inscription
Answer: What method did people use to save significant texts?
●● Stones
Answer: What had inscriptions and were often erected in the open in
public places for all to see?
●● Clay tablets
Answer: In ancient Mesopotamia, all writing was initially made up of
indentations on soft what?
●● Bones and turtle shells
Answer: In China, the oldest surviving writing is on what from about
1200 B.C.E.?
●● Silk and bamboo
Answer: It is clear that Chinese writing was done earlier on less
pemanate materials such as what?
●● 1200 B.C.E.
Answer: What time does the earliest Chinese writing come from?
●● Dead Sea Scrolls
, Answer: Documents that contain sections of the Hebrew Bible and were
first seen in 1948
●● Cities
Answer: The growth of what has often been a way that scholars mark the
increasing complexity of human societies?
●● Civilis
Answer: What Latin adjective does the word 'civilized' originate from?
●● Civilizations
Answer: What had cities, laws that governed human relationships, codes
of manners and social conduct that regulated how people were to
behave, and scientific, philosophical, and theological ideas that
explained the larger world?
●● Writing
Answer: Generally only societies that used what were judged to be
civilizations?
●● cradles of civilization
Answer: Until the middle of the twentieth century, historians often
referred to the earliest places where writing and cities developed as
what?
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE FULL SOLUTION
●● Historia
Answer: What Greek word does the term history come from?
●● Inquiry
Answer: What word did Herodotus use history in place of?
●● Eyewitness accounts
Answer: What was Herodotus proud that he could rely on for his
histories?
●● Public gatherings
Answer: Where did Herodotus most likely read his histories?
●● 900 C.E.
Answer: When does the oldest known copy of Herodotus' histories date
back to?
,●● Inscription
Answer: What method did people use to save significant texts?
●● Stones
Answer: What had inscriptions and were often erected in the open in
public places for all to see?
●● Clay tablets
Answer: In ancient Mesopotamia, all writing was initially made up of
indentations on soft what?
●● Bones and turtle shells
Answer: In China, the oldest surviving writing is on what from about
1200 B.C.E.?
●● Silk and bamboo
Answer: It is clear that Chinese writing was done earlier on less
pemanate materials such as what?
●● 1200 B.C.E.
Answer: What time does the earliest Chinese writing come from?
●● Dead Sea Scrolls
, Answer: Documents that contain sections of the Hebrew Bible and were
first seen in 1948
●● Cities
Answer: The growth of what has often been a way that scholars mark the
increasing complexity of human societies?
●● Civilis
Answer: What Latin adjective does the word 'civilized' originate from?
●● Civilizations
Answer: What had cities, laws that governed human relationships, codes
of manners and social conduct that regulated how people were to
behave, and scientific, philosophical, and theological ideas that
explained the larger world?
●● Writing
Answer: Generally only societies that used what were judged to be
civilizations?
●● cradles of civilization
Answer: Until the middle of the twentieth century, historians often
referred to the earliest places where writing and cities developed as
what?
