Author Question: Like Mesopotamia and China, many early civilizations came to rely on metallurgy. Aside from ... (Read 30 times)

bobbysung · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Like Mesopotamia and China, many early civilizations came to rely on metallurgy. Aside from metallurgy, a skill that set the early civilizations of Peru's Andes apart was

A. their pottery manufacture techniques.
B. the ability to achieve similar metallurgical results without ever discovering smelting, the high-temperature process by which pure metal is produced from ore.
C. writing, which originated in this part of the world and not in Sumer as was previously believed.
D. trigonometry and advanced astronomy.
E. corpse embalming.

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the first Chinese state?

A. bronze metallurgy
B. human sacrifice
C. a subsistence economy dominated by rice
D. wealthy, royal tombs
E. social stratification