HISTORY OF WORLD SOCIETIES 11TH EDITION
COMPREHENSIVE SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE ANSWERS
◉ 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.
COMPREHENSIVE SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE ANSWERS
◉ 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.
