Describe the Bronze age. What led to its decline?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers can vary, but students should be able to identify the civilizations of Ebbla, which was a thriving commercial center, and the site of intersection of many cultures, Caanan cities, who traded and developed an early alphabet, and the Minoans, who developed a complex society on Crete soon after 3000 BCE. These societies were destroyed by the Sea Peoples, who destroyed much of the Mediterranean and caused disruption of trade routes.
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One of the earliest works of literature was the epic story of what Sumerian king?
A) Gilgamesh B) Enmerbaragesi C) Sargon D) Menes E) Enlil
Which of the following is not one of the theories about how America was originally settled?
A) ? Europeans sailed across the Atlantic in leather boats during the pre-Christian era. B) ? Siberian hunters crossed from Asia to North American during the last ice age. C) ? Humans arrived by boat and followed the coast southward from Alaska. D) ? Humans arrived in multiple migrations E) ? Hunters from Asia dispersed themselves over much of North America.
Which of these families dominated the Japanese government by about 850?
A) Minamoto B) Hojo C) Tokigawa D) Fujiwara
Why do historians think there was an increased sense of privacy, comfort, and familial demonstration during this period?
A. A growing sense of individualism as promoted in the Enlightenment B. Increased wealth made luxury goods more standardized C. Effects of greater awareness of other cultures in the world D. Demands for privacy were increased by a greater population E. The end of the wars of religion of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries