History of World Societies 11th Edition 1/2 Wiesner
Hanks Test Bank ( BUNDLES )
Beginning about 5000 years ago, people in some parts of the world developed what new technology? -
ANSWER:Writing
What Greek word does the term history come from? - ANSWER:Historia
What word did Herodotus use history in place of? - ANSWER:Inquiry
What was Herodotus proud that he could rely on for his histories? - ANSWER:Eyewitness accounts
Where did Herodotus most likely read his histories? - ANSWER:Public gatherings
When does the oldest known copy of Herodotus' histories date back to? - ANSWER:900 C.E.
What method did people use to save significant texts? - ANSWER:Inscription
What had inscriptions and were often erected in the open in public places for all to see? -
ANSWER:Stones
,In ancient Mesopotamia, all writing was initially made up of indentations on soft what? - ANSWER:Clay
tablets
In China, the oldest surviving writing is on what from about 1200 B.C.E.? - ANSWER:Bones and turtle
shells
It is clear that Chinese writing was done earlier on less pemanate materials such as what? - ANSWER:Silk
and bamboo
What time does the earliest Chinese writing come from? - ANSWER:1200 B.C.E.
Documents that contain sections of the Hebrew Bible and were first seen in 1948 - ANSWER:Dead Sea
Scrolls
The growth of what has often been a way that scholars mark the increasing complexity of human
societies? - ANSWER:Cities
What Latin adjective does the word 'civilized' originate from? - ANSWER:Civilis
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? - ANSWER:Civilizations
Generally only societies that used what were judged to be civilizations? - ANSWER:Writing
Until the middle of the twentieth century, historians often referred to the earliest places where writing
and cities developed as what? - ANSWER:cradles of civilization
About 5,000 years ago, a new form of what appeared? - ANSWER:Human society
, An organization distinct from a tribe or kinship group in which a small share of the population is able to
coerce resources out of everyone else in order to gain and then maintain power - ANSWER:The state
Systems coerce people through or through the threat of what? - ANSWER:Violence
States established bureaucracies and systems of what? - ANSWER:Taxation
In the Inca Empire of the Andes, information about money, goods, and people was recorded on
collections of colored knotted strings called what? - ANSWER:Khipus
Written laws and traditions generally create more what social hierarchies? - ANSWER:Elaborate
Those who gain power in state were most often who? - ANSWER:Men
The process in which Neolithic agricultural villages expanded into cities that depended largely on food
produced by surrounding countryside while people living in cities carried out other tasks - ANSWER:The
birth of civilization or the growth of the state
Social and gender hierarchies became more what? - ANSWER:Complex and rigid
The birth of civilization, and complexity of hierarchies first began where? - ANSWER:Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia had sustained agriculture reliant on irrigation from what two rivers? - ANSWER:Tigris and
the Euphrates
How did the Mesopotamian culture spread over a large area? - ANSWER:Conquerors
Hanks Test Bank ( BUNDLES )
Beginning about 5000 years ago, people in some parts of the world developed what new technology? -
ANSWER:Writing
What Greek word does the term history come from? - ANSWER:Historia
What word did Herodotus use history in place of? - ANSWER:Inquiry
What was Herodotus proud that he could rely on for his histories? - ANSWER:Eyewitness accounts
Where did Herodotus most likely read his histories? - ANSWER:Public gatherings
When does the oldest known copy of Herodotus' histories date back to? - ANSWER:900 C.E.
What method did people use to save significant texts? - ANSWER:Inscription
What had inscriptions and were often erected in the open in public places for all to see? -
ANSWER:Stones
,In ancient Mesopotamia, all writing was initially made up of indentations on soft what? - ANSWER:Clay
tablets
In China, the oldest surviving writing is on what from about 1200 B.C.E.? - ANSWER:Bones and turtle
shells
It is clear that Chinese writing was done earlier on less pemanate materials such as what? - ANSWER:Silk
and bamboo
What time does the earliest Chinese writing come from? - ANSWER:1200 B.C.E.
Documents that contain sections of the Hebrew Bible and were first seen in 1948 - ANSWER:Dead Sea
Scrolls
The growth of what has often been a way that scholars mark the increasing complexity of human
societies? - ANSWER:Cities
What Latin adjective does the word 'civilized' originate from? - ANSWER:Civilis
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? - ANSWER:Civilizations
Generally only societies that used what were judged to be civilizations? - ANSWER:Writing
Until the middle of the twentieth century, historians often referred to the earliest places where writing
and cities developed as what? - ANSWER:cradles of civilization
About 5,000 years ago, a new form of what appeared? - ANSWER:Human society
, An organization distinct from a tribe or kinship group in which a small share of the population is able to
coerce resources out of everyone else in order to gain and then maintain power - ANSWER:The state
Systems coerce people through or through the threat of what? - ANSWER:Violence
States established bureaucracies and systems of what? - ANSWER:Taxation
In the Inca Empire of the Andes, information about money, goods, and people was recorded on
collections of colored knotted strings called what? - ANSWER:Khipus
Written laws and traditions generally create more what social hierarchies? - ANSWER:Elaborate
Those who gain power in state were most often who? - ANSWER:Men
The process in which Neolithic agricultural villages expanded into cities that depended largely on food
produced by surrounding countryside while people living in cities carried out other tasks - ANSWER:The
birth of civilization or the growth of the state
Social and gender hierarchies became more what? - ANSWER:Complex and rigid
The birth of civilization, and complexity of hierarchies first began where? - ANSWER:Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia had sustained agriculture reliant on irrigation from what two rivers? - ANSWER:Tigris and
the Euphrates
How did the Mesopotamian culture spread over a large area? - ANSWER:Conquerors
