In the classical era, the continents had an unequal population distribution, with the vast majority of the world's people living in
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Eurasia
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Which of the following has been identified as a factor contributing to the collapse of the Maya civilization in the ninth century C.E.
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A long term drought
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How did the absence of most animals capable of domestication affect development in the Americas?
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No pastoral societies developed
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How did the environmental features of Africa affect the continent?
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Persistent warm temperatures accelerated the decomposition of humus, resulting in a less productive agriculture
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What language was spoken by the groups of people who had spread throughout most of southern and Eastern Africa by the classical era?
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Bantu
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Which of the following cultures produced a written language?
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Maya
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In contrast in other civilizations, cities in the Niger Valley civilization
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Operated without the coercive authority of a state
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Which of the following was an advantage Bantu-speaking farmers had in their encounters with gathering and hunting groups?
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Iron-working technology
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Both the Maya and Axum were similar in that both
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Possessed written scripts
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During the classical era, metallurgy was least developed in
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The Americas
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In their political organization, The Maya were most like
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The city states of classical Greece
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Mesoamerican and Andean cultures were similar in that both
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Were dominated by cities or regional states rather than a single empire
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Both the cultures that took shape in the Chaco canyon region and those took shape in the Mississippi River valley
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Were rooted in corn-based agriculture introduced from Mesoamerica
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Which of the following statements about how the civilizations of the Andes region is true?
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The need for elaborate irrigation projects helped create strong states in the Andes region
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In contrast to Maya art, the art work of Teotihuacán
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Revealed few images of selfish-glorifying rulers
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Which of the following was a point of contact between Eurasia and Africa
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Arabia
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The culture of Meroë showed a shift away from the influence of
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Egypt
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The decline of Meroë and rise of Axum were both connected to
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The shift of long-distance trade from the Nile Valley to the Red Sea
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Christianity in Axum most closely identified with which church?
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The Coptic Church in Rome
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Which statement describes the relationship between the civilizations in Mesoamerican and those in the Andes?
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They had little if any direct contact with each other
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Archaeological evidence suggests that the village located at Chauvin was the center for
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A religious movement that spread throughout much of the Andes
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What do the remains of the Moche Civilization suggest was important to its rulers?
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War and ceremony
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Which of the following describes a feature of Bantu religion?
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It was concerned with explaining, predicting, and controlling local affairs
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The mound-building cultures of the eastern woodlands are considered to be "semi-sedentary" because
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Their less intensive and less productive agriculture supported smaller populations than those found in Mesoamerican and the Andes
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How did sharing a common border affect relations between the inland empires of War and Tiwanaku?
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They appeared to get along as there was little overt conflict or warfare between them
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What did the Bantu settlements in Africa have that the communities in North America east of the Mississippi lacked?
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A common language
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Outside of the Mesoamerican and Andean regions, most people living in the Americas in the pre-Columbian era
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Obtained their supply by gathering and hunting
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The society of which group of people is considered to be less patriarchal due to its system of "gender parallelism" which associated female roles with village life and male roles with hunting and forest life?
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Bantu
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A distinctive feature of the Hopewell cultures in the eastern woodlands of North America was the
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Creation of large earthen mounds
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How did the history of Meroë and Axum reflect integration with neighboring civilizations?
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Both traded with neighboring countries and interactions made. Both civilizations have long distance trading connections, centralized states, urban centers, complex societies, and written languages. Also both identified Individual civilizations shaped who they are.
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