Why do Egypt, the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, and China stand out as regions that engaged in increased diversification?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Change and Exploitation
1. between 5000 and 2000 B.C.E., people in these regions exploited more land and changed at a faster pace than did people in other regions
2. change was measured in terms of intensified agriculture, technological innovation, development of state power, and construction of cities
B. Ecology of civilization
1. a civilization is defined as a society that, for good or ill, engages ambitiously with its environment, seeking to remodel the rest of nature to suit human purposes
2. the four river valleys housed societies more civilized than earlier cases we know of
3. modified the landscape with fields and irrigation works
4. built monumental buildings on a scale that no people before had conceived orattained
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What will be an ideal response?
In France, Calvinism was particularly popular among the __________
A) peasantry B) nobility C) guilds D) poor
For urban artisans in colonial America,
A) New England paid the highest wages. B) work patterns proved regular and constant. C) a major goal was economic independence. D) urban growth and economic expansion guaranteed success.
The British Navigation Acts were designed to protect England from foreign competition in the colonies
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.