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| In most of the early agricultural societies, people had an average life expectancy of 25 years at birth but would live until 50 on average if they managed to reach age 20. These facts primarily reflect |
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| high rates of infant mortality |
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| Which of the following is an important legacy of the Phoenicians? |
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| Their development of an alphabetic writing system adapted by the Greeks. |
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| Which of the following was an important factor that helped the eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) survive while the western Roman Empire collapsed? |
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| It had a loyal army, a skilled bureaucracy, and great reserves of wealth based on agriculture. |
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| The Code of Hammurabi illustrates which of the following about Babylonian society? |
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| It was marked by social inequalities. |
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| Which of the following correctly lists the countries to which Buddhism spread from India, in chronological order from earliest to latest? |
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| Which of the following contributed significantly to the fall of both western Roman and Han empires? |
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| Invasions by borderland peoples |
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| Which of the following most accurately describes the political strucxture of the Maya from 600 CE to 900 CE? |
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| Numerous independent warring city states. |
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| Which of the following describes a major effect of Bantu migrations? |
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| Cultural commmonalities in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| The adoption of Neoconfucianism in the Ming dynasty during the fourteenth century was priomarily motivated by the |
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| need for competent government adminstrators |
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| Which of the following contributed most to the intial formation of politcal staes by the Muscovite Russians and the Ottoman Turks? |
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| The rise and fall of the Mongolian khanates |
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| The Byzantine Empire achieved which of the following? |
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| the conversion of many Salvic peoples to Christianity |
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| The rise of the Mongol Empire contributed to all EXCEPT |
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| the spread of Christianity |
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| Islamic and Chinese empires in the postclassical period (700 CE-1200 CE) shared which of the following characteristics? |
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| Extensive urbanization and maritime trade |
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| Whcih of the following is the most important effect of Islamic expansion on the civilization of medieval Europe? |
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| The transmittal of Greek and Arab learning |
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| After the sixth century CE Byzantine emperrs mantained political unity primarily by |
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| making dynastic marriages and diplomatic alliances |
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