Test 2

Question 1

Major river way that floods caused famine, but also brought fertile land

Answer 1

Yellow River

Question 2

Question carved into the bone and bones placed in a fire until they crack

Answer 2

Scapulimancy

Question 3

Agriculture was indigenous invention, pig domestication, millet grown in Huang he Valley

Answer 3

Neolithic

Question 4

Early evidence for well established villages with domestication; used slash and burn technique

Answer 4

Yangshao

Question 5

Period of population consolidation and growth; rice became more widespread, metallurgy

Answer 5

Longshan

Question 6

Transitional period, shift to cultural complexity, use of bronze

Answer 6

Erlitou

Question 7

Second Chinese dynasty; extensive use of oracle bones, agricultural based, hunting, war and human sacrifice were present

Answer 7

Shang

Question 8

Feudal system of leadership, dukes ruled the land

Answer 8

Zhou

Question 9

Uprising of dukes who were making grabs for land, main period of conflict

Answer 9

Warring States

Question 10

Philosopher born during the warring states, concerned with relationships

Answer 10

Confucius

Question 11

If everyone follows their role, people will live harmoniously

Answer 11

Confucianism

Question 12

How long did the Qin Dynasty last?

Answer 12

15 years

Question 13

What type of ruling did the Qin dynasty have?

Answer 13

Legalism

Question 14

People are evil, the only way to make them behave is strict punishment

Answer 14

Legalism

Question 15

Why did Shihuangdi burn all of Confucius’ books?

Answer 15

To purge earlier records and to re-write history

Question 16

Archaic site with mound building, increased sedentism, and fired clay

Answer 16

Poverty Point

Question 17

What was the purpose of mounds during the Adeana/Hopewell period?

Answer 17

Bury dead in small buildings, burn, cover with earth

Question 18

What was the purpose of mounds during the Mississippian period?

Answer 18

Bury the dead, used the mounds as a platform for houses

Question 19

What kind of social organization did the Hopwell people have?

Answer 19

Bigman

Question 20

What kind of social organization did the Mississipian people have?

Answer 20

Chiefdom

Question 21

What kind of social organization did Cahokia have?

Answer 21

Had many characteristics of a state but not all of them. Generally classified as a chiefdom

Question 22

What evidence did Cahokia have, making it a state?

Answer 22

No writing system

Question 23

What is the social organization in the Pacific Northwest?

Answer 23

Chiefdom

Question 24

What kind of subsistence did the Pacific Northwest depend on?

Answer 24

Marine animals

Question 25

What is the purpose of the Potlach?

Answer 25

Show the power of the chief of bigman

Question 26

Chiefs or Bigman groups would give away all their goods, ending up being poor with material wealth, but with rich prestige

Answer 26

Potlach

Question 27

Had pithouses based on Hohokam culture, transitioned to Kivas, intense irrigation systems

Answer 27

Pueblo/Anasazi

Question 28

Why was maize domesticated before sedentism?

Answer 28

Took a long time for cobs to grow large enough to support sedentism

Question 29

What types of food did Mesoamerica depend on?

Answer 29

Beans, maize, squash

Question 30

Introduction to counting, ball game, pyramids

Answer 30

Olmec

Question 31

What do basalt heads represent?

Answer 31

Kings, warriors, or gods

Question 32

Time of the Maya apex, several other cultures too, all with similarities

Answer 32

Classic period

Question 33

First true city in Mesoamerica, based on obsidian trade, later revered by the Aztecs as the city of the Gods

Answer 33

Teotihuacan

Question 34

Height of Maya civilization; trade with teotihuacan was large political element

Answer 34

Classic Maya

Question 35

Showed writing system based on syllables; recorded king's lives

Answer 35

Steale

Question 36

What was the importance of mathematics in Mesoamerica?

Answer 36

using 0 as a placeholder

Question 37

Capital of Aztec culture

Answer 37

Tenochititlan

Question 38

How was Tenochititlan ruled?

Answer 38

By force

Question 39

Why was there an emphasis on gold in Andean culture?

Answer 39

Not because of wealth, but because of the color

Question 40

What was important about the burials in Sipan?

Answer 40

Showed vast difference in wealth and human sacrifice

Question 41

Large empires in South America, based on potato rather than corn, Split inheritance with the new king gaining right to rule, but not receiving the wealth of the previous king

Answer 41

Inca Empire