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1. The earliest cities of the Near East served primarily as:
a. trading centres.
b. defensive locations.
c. ceremonial centres.
d. manufacturing centres.
e. mining centres.
2. The earliest cities of Meso America served primarily as:
a. trading centres.
b. defensive locations.
c. ceremonial centres.
d. manufacturing centres.
e. mining centres.
3. Robert Adam's theory of urban origins focuses on the central importance of:
a. technological changes to agriculture.
b. population pressure.
c. social stratification.
d. trade.
e. all of the above.
4. The oldest fully developed urban tradition appeared in:
a. China.
b. MesoAmerica.
c. The Tigris Euphrates valley.
d. Northern Europe.
e. the Mediterranean.
5. The earliest Old World civilization was that of the:
a. Hebrews.
b. Sumerians.
c. Akkadians.
d. Babylonians.
e. Natufians.
6. Which important Mayan innovation predated its appearance in the Old World?
a. the calendar
b. the wheel
c. the use of metals
d. the use of zero in mathematical expressions
e. all of the above
7. New World urban traditions differ from those of the Old World in that:
a. New World peoples did not develop writing systems.
b. New World peoples did not develop mathematical/scientific traditions.
c. New World peoples did not develop centralized states.
d. New World peoples did not develop monumental architecture.
e. none of the above, similar developments occurred in both regions
8. Plant domestication provided the subsistence base for:
a. sedentarism.
b. metallurgy.
c. writing.
d. the first appearance of ritual and burials.
e. all of the above
9. The earliest signs of plant domestication and cultivation appear in:
a. the Tigris-Euphrates valley.
b. Northwest Europe.
c. the hilly flanks of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.
d. Central Mexico.
e. Southwest Europe.
10. The appearance of domestication in several different parts of the world was due to:
a. independent invention.
b. gene flow.
c. the migration of agricultural populations into new areas.
d. the diffusion of the knowledge of cultivation over established trade routes.
e. None of the above, agriculture was restricted to Europe until modern times.
11. Which feature of the Old World Neolithic does NOT appear in the New World to the same extent?
a. plant domestication
b. animal domestication
c. pottery
d. ground stone tools
e. None of the above; the New World did not reach the Neolithic until Europeans arrived.
