History Answers

According to Mazarire, what are the problems with analysing pre-colonial Zimbabwe history as the history of the Shona people?

Colonists initially identified themselves according to _____.

Select the best answer from the choices provided.

A.

race and religion

B.

nationality and race

C.

nationality and religion

D.

race and gender

5. The notion that people are primarily evil and require moral education and authoritarian

control is characteristic of which branch of Chinese thought?

(a) Confucianism;

(b) Daoism;

(c) Mohism;

(d) Legalism;

(e) None of the above.

B. True/False:

1. During the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, China experienced levels

of anarchic violence unseen for generations. ___________________

2. Socrates was the student of Plato, who was the student of Aristotle. ___________________

3. Alexander the Great was the founder of the Seleucid Dynasty. __________________

4. In Zhou China, a tradition developed of scholar-officials participating in debate over how to

create a stable government. _____________

Which of the following about most city-states in the Mediterranean basin is correct?

(a) Women were allowed to hold property;

(b) The family was the most important social unit;

(c) The social equality was the family was the model for social equality in public life;

(d) Adult women were recognized as important citizens of the city;

(e) Slavery was banned in all the Greek city-states.

4. What happened during the Warring States period of the Eastern Zhou dynasty?

(a) The territorial states sought to maintain a balance of power and would form new

alliances if one of the states became too powerful;

(b) The Zhou king maintained centralized and unified control over the territorial states;

(c) The Zhou king relied on the philosophers to control the regional lords;

(d) The philosophers successfully ended the warfare between the large states;

(e) All of the above.

Multiple Choice:

1. Who were the Assyrians?

(a) Conquerors of Baghdad; (b) A Germanic tribe; (c) Semitic tribe of Assur and

Nineveh; (d) A Hebrew tribe; (e) None of the above.

2. Which of the following was an important contribution by the Phoenicians?

(a) Cave art; (b) Invention of Compass; (c) Alphabetic writing system; (d) Demotic

writing system; (3) All of the above.

3. Which were the three primary cities of the Olmec people of Mesoamerica?

(a) San Lorenzo, La Venta, Tres Zapotes; (b) Panama, San Jose, Granada; (c) Bogota,

Salvador, Belem; (d) Machu Pichu, Texcoco, Tepexpan; (e) None of the above.

4. Who was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire?

(a) King Djoser; (b) Darius the Great; (c) King David; (c) Cyrus the Great; (d) None of

the above.

1. How did Confucian ideas shape Han political structures?
2. Explain the imperial policies used by the Neo-Assyrian Empire conquer and rule over the conquered people.
3. How does philosophy encourage public thinking in Greece? Mention some famous Greek Philosophers
4. What makes the Zhou dynasty the golden age of China?

5. Which of the following accurately describes the Yellow Turbans in China?

(a) They were Buddhist clerics who came to China from northern India;

(b) They called for a strengthening of the powers of the emperor over those of the local

nobility;

(c) They proclaimed a Daoist belief in a “Great Peace” and demanded equal distribution of

all farmland;

(d) They embraced a more tolerant version of Confucianism that emphasized conformity to

rituals.

6. What was one of the most important factors that led to establishment of one-man rule of the

Roman Republic?

(a) lands seized from poor Roman citizens by Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus;

(b) the sudden deurbanization of Rome, as city dwellers migrated into the countryside;

(c) ambitious generals whose rivalry led to a series of civil wars;

(d) the massive number of deaths inflicted upon Romans by the Gauls;

(e) the approval of the Roman Senate to establish imperial rule in Roman territories.

True/False:

1. The Han and the Romans were not content merely to exercise influence over their neighbors:

they wanted to fully incorporate them into their realms. _____________________

2. Wang Mang built legitimacy with the people through effective response to the flooding of the

Yellow River in 11 CE. _________________________

3. Christians were systematically persecuted during the first century BCE in Rome. __________

4. People from beyond the frontiers of the empire frequently served in “ethnic units” in the

Roman military. ______________________

In contrast to the Qin dynasty, the Han Empire was distinguished by what?

(a) the alliance between the imperial family and the scholar-gentry class;

(b) the alliance between the imperial family and the nobility;

(c) the alliance between the imperial family and Buddhist religious officials;

(d) the alliance between the imperial family and Daoist religious officials;

(e) the alliance between the imperial family and Legalist philosophers.

4. Which of the following is the primary cause of the collapse of the Qin Empire?

(a) The Xiongnu invaded the center of Qin Empire and released the Qin’s imprisoned rivals;

(b) Qin rule weighted heavily on taxpayers and constant warfare consumed massive tax

revenues;

(c) Shi Huangdi’s son and eldest grandson joined to stage a mutiny against the emperor;

(d) Peasants refused to allow their sons to be conscripted into the army, which became too

small to keep order;

(e) All of the above.

Which of the following cultural characteristics was common to the Romans and the Han?

(a) Both were strongly traditional and idealized their ancestors;

(b) Both believed that imperial art and architecture should not detract from the glorification

of the common citizen;

(c) Both valued minimalism in art;

(d) Both sought to eliminate the role of religious rituals and ceremonies in civic life;

(e) All of the above.

2. Which of the following is an accurate comparison between the Han and Roman empires?

(a) The Han economy was based on agriculture, while Rome’s was based on trade;

(b) The Han and the Romans both used large amounts of slave labor;

(c) The Han and the Romans both based governance of their provinces on state-trained

scholar elites;

(d) The Han Empire covered a large contiguous landmass, while the Roman Empire was

spread around the Mediterranean.

(e) None of the above.