What natural feature in Sumer helped settled agriculture develop there first?
A) Naturally occurring irrigation ditches that helped water the crops
B) Rivers that brought new soil with annual floods
C) Constant annual rainfall that irrigated the fields
D) An abundance of labor to work the fields
Answer: B) Rivers that brought new soil with annual floods
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a. candidates from southern China always received the highest positions. b. the system entirely eliminated aristocratic influence in the government bureaucracy. c. the Song severely restricted the eligibility for taking the exams. d. many candidates who passed the first examination did not go on to a higher level. e. very few of the successful candidates came from the landed gentry.
The Pueblo Indians encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century:
a. had engaged in settled village life only briefly before the Spanish arrived. b. had been almost completely isolated from any other people before the Spanish arrived. c. used irrigation systems to aid their agricultural production. d. were called mound builders for the burial mounds they created. e. created a vast empire that included control of the Incas.
The example of which world leader most influenced Mao Zedong?
A) Franklin Roosevelt B) Nikita Khrushchev C) Joseph Stalin D) Winston Churchill E) Konrad Adenauer
What area of India was crucial to European interests?
A) Awadh B) Bengal C) Punjab D) Sind E) Bombay