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- Which of the following best describes patriarchal
relationships?
(A) They involve abuse of female family members.
(B) They prevent women from engaging in
commercial activity in public.
(C) Women are secluded behind veils.
(D) Women’s inferior status places them under
the protection of male family members.- The altar pictured above is found in
(A) India
(B) Latin America
(C) Southeast Asia
(D) Russia- A historian describes China as a country in
which the northern region had always surpassed
the southern region in education, social struc-
ture, and political power. About 600, however,
the southern region had begun to overtake
northern China.
All of the following were causes of this exchange
EXCEPT
(A) the introduction of Champa rice
(B) the construction of the Grand Canal
(C) provements in navigation
(D) long-distance trade
- Which territories were most actively a part of
world trade patterns in the first five centuries
c.e.?
(A) Islamic empires
(B) Australia
(C) Japan
(D) The Italian peninsula
45. The oldest permanent communities of African
Christians are found in present-day
(A) Nigeria
(B) South Africa
(C) Congo
(D) Ethiopia
46. The Chinese halted exploration in the 1430s for
all of the following reasons EXCEPT
(A) the expense of the voyages
(B) pressure from the scholar-gentry
(C) disinterest in trade
(D) fear of additional Mongol invasions
47. Which of the following Indo-European lan-
guages was spread to India through migration
about 1500 b.c.e.?
(A) Hindi
(B) Sanskrit
(C) Arabic
(D) Mandarin- Which of the following is NOT true of the
Mongols?
(A) Their government was organized around
kinship groups.
(B) They improved Persian infrastructure by
constructingqanat irrigation systems.
(C) They tended to use local administrators to
rule conquered lands.
(D) They were driven back from Japan by
kamikaze winds.- Conquest united all of the following cultures
EXCEPT
(A) Mongols and Ottoman Turks
(B) nomadic Berbers from North Africa and
the people of Spain
(C) Ottoman Turks and Byzantines
(D) Aryans and Indus valley peoples- Which of the following is NOT true regarding
new crops in the period 1000 to 1450?
(A) Muslims introduced rice to West Africa.
(B) Europeans introduced Muslims to refined
sugar.
(C) Cotton became the main textile in sub-
Saharan Africa.
(D) Knowledge acquired during the Crusades
affected the economy of the Western
Hemisphere.