Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Question

1.Southernization wasthe movement of material and nonmaterialproducts from Africa and India into northern Eurasia.
2. The bulk of overlandSilk Roads trade was carried on Mongolian horses.
3.Early in the Era of Agrarian Civilizations, coercive power was in the process of evolving into full-scale consensual power.
4.Egyptian women, in second-millenium BCE Egypt, were able, at various times, to rule the state aspharaohs.
5.In general, ruling elites in agrarian civilizationswere greatly in favor of commercial andagricultural innovation.

Answer 1

1.True
Explanation: As a product of what world historian Lynda Shaffer callssouthernization (the movement of material and nonmaterialproducts from Africa and India into northern Eurasia),Arab merchants replaced Roman numerals with the more flexible Indian numbering system they encountered there.
2.False
Explanation: The bulk of overlandSilk Roads trade was literally carried on the backs of the two-humped Bactrian camels.The two-humped Bactrian camel is a supreme example of superb evolutionary adaptation.
3.False
Explanation: Hammurabiclaims that his laws are intended to “cause righteousnessto prevail in the land” and “prevent the strong from plunderingthe weak,” but the laws are ambiguous.The ambiguitymight be partly resolved if it is remembered that this was stillearly in the Era of Agrarian Civilizations, when consensualpower was in the process of evolving into full-scale coercivepower.
4.True
Explanation: Not only didEgyptian women enjoy this unusual array of legal rights,they were also able, at various times, to rule the state aspharaohs. The best known female rulers are Hatshepsut(r. 1473–1458 BCE) and Cleopatra (69–30 BCE), who ruledas queen during the period of Roman control of Egypt.
5.False
Explanation: All theevidence suggests that, with some exceptions,ruling elites in agrarian civilizationswere generally opposed to commercial andagricultural innovation because investingresources in raising productivity was generallyseen as unreliable, unrewarding, and,as the returns would become apparent onlysometime in the future, politically useless.