What is the name of the cultural period during which the first chiefdoms and elites emerged in northern Syria?
A. Natufian
B. Halafian
C. Jomon
D. Ubaid
E. Uruk
Answer: B
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David Parkin has reconstructed Clifford Geertz's definition of religion to bring attention to which of the following?
A. the emotional processes involved in religious learning B. the symbolic elements upon which religions are based C. the ritual actions central to religious practice D. the way religions help people make sense of suffering
The Zapotec of Mexico engage in __________ at social gatherings when non-Zapotec persons are present in order to reinforce their ethnic identity
a. Zapotec language singing b. traditional Zapotec riddles and joking c. body painting d. traditional Zapotec dancing
The model of ethnicity in which boundary markers such as language, clothing, or other traits are not based on deeply-rooted, enduring connections to an ethnic identity is called the:
A. circumstantialist model B. ethnogenesis mode C. primordialist model D. biological assimilation mode
During which epoch did rifting begin to occur to the African landmass eventually resulting in the creation of the Great Rift Valley system?
a. Paleocene b. Eocene c. Oligocene d. Miocene e. Pliocene