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27 Cards in this Set
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Africa was called the dark continent
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but was actually often in contact with other civilizations and cultures
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The progressive desiccation ofthe African climate resulted in
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The creation of the Sahara Desert in northern America
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Where did the domesticated plants and technology associated with sedentary agriculture in Africa come from?
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western Asia and the Middle East
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Why were the lowlands of central and western Africa ubanle to support pastoralism?
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The tserse fly
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What was the primary form of metallurgy in Africa?
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Iron
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Which of the fllowing statemsnts concerning the original social and economic organization ofthe early Bantu is not correnct?
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They lived in large temple complexes featuring monumental architecture with ceremonial purposes.
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The thirteenth century CE the Bantu Migration
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had eached the southern end of Africa
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Which of the following kingdoms was converted to Christianity?
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Axum
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What region exerted the greatest influence on the development of the kingdom of Axum
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Arabia
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The growth of th Ghana was based on
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its control of th gold trade between the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa
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Which of the following regions was converted to Islam
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Ghana
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Which of the following was not a feature of Celtic social and economic organization?
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writing system based on early ind-European languages
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the Roman historian Tacitus wrote about which of the following cultures?
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Germans
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After 200 CE som Germanic tribes
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coalesced into larger tribal confederations
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Hod di the Slavs differ from the germans?
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they were in some ways less well organized politically
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The transmission of Chisnes culture to Japan was mediated by what people?
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Koreans
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5000 BCE
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The first migrations to the Japanese islands from the mainland had begun
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Wet-rice agriculture, iron working, and wheel-turned pottery were intreoduced inot Japan during what epoch?
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Yayoi
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Prior to the fifth century CE Japan was
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divided into hundred of clans dominated by a small wrrior aristocracy.
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In Japan Shinto was
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the chief religion of early Japan
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What was the significant cultural adaptation that permitted the fromation of a more centralized Japanese governemnt based on a true bureaucracy
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The adoption of Chinese script
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After the fall of what dynasty did Buddhism spread?
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Han
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Under what Japanese dynasty was Buddhism accepted as the official state religion
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Yamato
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What was the status of shuntoism after the official adoption of Buddhism
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Buddhism and Shintoism developed side y side as the twin pillars of the state and society
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Which of the collowing cultural adaptations in Japan generally failed?
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The creation of a peasant conscript army
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Which of the following was the hierachic of the Polynesian societies?
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Hawaii
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Who were the people who settled New Zealand
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Maori
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