history 3

• Iron-working spread south from Meroe.

  False
• Ghana comes from a Nubian word, meaning "war chief"


  False
• Africa is a continent, not a country.


  True
• Today, over 70 million people speak a form of Bantu.


  True
• The Sahara Desert and the Namib Desert are to the north.

  False
• Zimbabwe means great house of stone.


  True
• We know that original Bantu-speakers didn't raise cattle, because they had no words for it.


  True
• Some common elements of African religions include dancing, drumming, and divination.


  True
• Meroe was a Nubian city from which iron-working probably first developed.


  True
• Kilwa became the most powerful east African coastal town.

  True
• During the Han Dynasty, China developed a/an _________ system to regulate contact with foreign powers.

  tributary
• The period after the fall of the Han Dynasty is known as the


  Age of Division.
• In 221 BC, who unified China?

  The Qin
• Shinto means "way of the Gods."


  True
• Nara was


  Japan's first major city.
• Central Asia is dominated by

  arid grasslands.
• In Mongol social relationships


  tribes would steal men to use as slaves.
• The first Inner-Asian people to leave a written record in their own language are the

  Turks.
• The Mongols milked


  All of these
• The yurt was


  the tent in which Mongol families lived.
• Historians' belief that the Mohenjo-daro had a centralized government is based on


  the evidence of extensive urban planning.
• Like early Egyptian civilization, the Harappan civilization


  depended on annual floods of a major river and irrigation to sustain agriculture.
• The decline of the Harappan civilization was the result of

  a combination of internal events.
• The difficult task of clearing the jungle was made easier for the Aryans with the use of


  iron tools.
• The earliest Indian civilization centered on a great river, the

  Indus.
• The city of Tenochtitlán was founded in 1325 by the:

  Aztecs
• Which civiliation had the creator god, Itzamna


  the Maya
• Central America is dominated by

  jungle and heavy rainfall
• Traditionally, scholars have believed that Paleo-Indians migrated from Asia into North America:


  in pursuit of large game animals
• The Aztec believed that human sacrifice


  kept the cycle of the sun
• Nahautl is


  a language of the Aztec
• From A.D. 300 to 900, which group in Middle America (Mesoamerica) developed large cities, including gigantic pyramids?


  Mayas
• Moundbuilding is found


  in the Ohio Valley
• The earliest American civilization was the

  Olmec
• The great statue and temple in the center of Tenochtitlan was to

  Huitzilopochtli
• Most medical treatment in Merovingian and Carolingian times involved

  drug prescriptions.
• Charlemagne left his empire to

  Louis the Pious.
• The foundation of a medical school at _________ gave a tremendous impetus to medical study by laypeople.

  Salerno
• Besides Charlemagne, the individual most responsible for the success of the Carolingian Renaissance was

  Alcuin
• A _______ was an estate in land or money granted by a superior on condition of service.

  fief