Author Question: Nearly all the peoples of the Americas traded with neighbors for commodities they could not produce. ... (Read 24 times)

faduma · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Until about 2 million years ago, Homo erectus, the distant ancestors of modern humans, lived only in

A) Asia.
B) Australia.
C) Europe.
D) Africa.
E) Antarctica.

Question 2

According to the biblical account, Solomon's most revered contribution to the Hebrew society was to

A) centralize royal power along the lines of Mesopotamian despotism.
B) divide the Hebrew tribes into two separate political kingdoms.
C) decentralize royal power and spread it among the 12 Hebrew tribes.
D) construct the Temple, the symbolic center of the Hebrew religion and society.
E) receive the Ten Commandments from God.

Question 3

Which of the following best explains the differences in the means of subsistence and lifestyles that emerged among Indian groups in the New World?

A) Different Indian groups developed diverse cultures as they adapted their means of subsistence to their needs, desires, and the environment in which they settled.
B) Native groups did not develop agriculture until after European contact in the fifteenth century.
C) The various tribes migrated to the Americas separately and came from widely divergent cultures.
D) Geographic barriers in the New world made interaction between different Indian tribes impossible.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 4

The Hebrew Bible describes the conquest of the Philistines, the Moabites, and Jerusalem as the achievements of

A) Ezra.
B) Joshua.
C) Solomon.
D) David.
E) Saul.

Question 5

Nearly all the peoples of the Americas traded with neighbors for commodities they could not produce.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false