MILADYCIMA CHAPTER 2 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+recent version

MILADYCIMA CHAPTER 2 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+recent version 1. This is a belief in many gods - answer Polytheism 2. This part of the area between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea differs from the surrounding territory in the richness of its land - answer Fertile Crescent 3. Creator of the world's first empire - answer Sargon 4. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers - answer Mesopatamia 5. This is a political unit that operates similarly to an independent kingdom, although it shares a culture with other areas - answer city-state 6. This is a series of rulers, all from the same family - answer Dynasty 7. This is the result of uniting several peoples, nations, or formerly independent states under one ruler - answer Empire 8. This is the process by which the ideas, beliefs, and products of one people are shared with and accepted by another people - answer Cultural Diffusion 9. This region, about the size of Massachusetts, was the site of the first civilization - answer Sumer 10. This is a legendary king of Mesopotamia whose adventures are detailed in one of the world's earliest works of literature - answer Gilgamesh 11. The main purpose of the pyramids of Egypt was to function as - answer Tombs 12. The cataracts along the Nile are most similar to - answer Rapids 13. Ancient Egypt was protected by natural barriers formed by - answer Deserts 14. The theocracy of ancient Egypt was a belief in the divinity of - answer the pharaoh 15. The process of mummification was connected to the Egyptian belief in - answer An afterlife 16. Papyrus was used as a surface for the Egyptian writing system called - answer Hieroglyphics 17. The legendary figure Narmer is famous for being - answer the first ruler of a united Egypt 18. China's heartland or center of civilization - answer NOrth China Plain 19. China's first cities rose along the ______ where yellow silt, called ______, made the valley fertile - answer Huang He River, loess 20. Chinese civilization was shaped largely by the - answer Shang Dynasty 21. The supreme god during China's first several hundred years as a civilization was ________, who (along with other gods) was consulted through the use of _______ - answer Shang Di, oracle bones 22. Around 1027 B.C., the _______ overthrew the _______ dynasty, claiming that their actions were justified by heavenly powers. - answer Chang Jiang River, Shang 23. The rise, decline, and replacement of families of rulers is called the - answer dynastic cycle 24. The hugeness of China's territory prompted its rulers to establish a system known as _______ in which all land is owned by the king, but nobles are granted rights to use it in exchange for their loyalty. - answer feudalism 25. After an invasion of nomads from the north, the _____ dynasty fell from power although it pretended to rule from the city of Luoyang for another 500 years. - answer Zhou 26. What do horizontal lines most suggest? - answer Rest 27. What do diagonal lines imply? - answer Action 28. What is an achromatic value scale based upon? - answer The continuum of light to dark, without concern for color 29. Which group of fifteenth-century painters first used chiaroscuro to give the illusion of rounded forms on a flat surface? - answer Italian 30. What is another name for the atmospheric perspective technique of making some objects seem far away? - answer Aerial perspective 31. What are the main properties of color? - answer Hue, value, and intensity 32. Which work deploys geometric perspective? - answer The Chilkat Blanket 33. Brightness or dullness refer to which attribute of color? - answer Intensity 34. How are analogous colors related to each other on the color wheel? - answer Adjacent 35. What demonstrates rhythm in the visual arts? - answer Repetition