Exam: 007679RR – THE AXIAL AGES AND FITFUL TRANSITIONS

Exam: 007679RR – THE AXIAL AGES AND FITFUL TRANSITIONSWhen you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers, click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until youhit Submit Exam. If you need to exit before completing the exam, click Cancel Exam.Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a pagebreak, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.1. Which of the following were major items of trade in the West African states of Ghana and Gao?A. Bananas and copperB. Coffee and sugarC. Gold and saltD. Cacao beans and slaves2. The Chinese philosopher Xunzi wrote that if a person attempted to cure rheumatism by beating a drumand sacrificing a pig to the gods, then theA. drum would be worn out, and the pig would be gone.B. rheumatism wouldn’t get better because proper therapy required playing a flute and sacrificing a chicken.C. rheumatism would be cured.D. rheumatism would get better, but the person wouldn’t be happy.3. After its conquest by Alexander the Great, the government of the Persian EmpireA. was ruled by a traditional Macedonian monarchy.B. became a democracy.C. was maintained more or less intact.D. was transformed into a democratic monarchy.4. In the Rome of Marcus Aurelius, a recurrent formula for saving the state from crisis involvedA. enlisting the aid of Persian allies.B. politicizing the military.C. paying tributes to Germanic peoples in Europe.D. dividing the government and delegating authority.5. The Emperor Charlemagne spread Christianity among the Saxons byA. giving pagans a choice of conversion or death.B. imposing taxes on those who didn’t convert.C. excluding pagans from trade and commerce.D. by way of exemplary faith that set an example.6. In the development of the Roman Empire, the Romans treated citizenship asA. something to be shared with conquered people.B. a benefit worthy only of peoples who had freely joined them.C. meaningless because the Roman Empire was tyrannical.D. belonging only to native Romans.7. Confucius believed that human beings are essentiallyA. evil.B. gods.C. good.D. sinful.8. What geographic feature at times made life difficult for the Moche of South America?A. DesertB. Unpredictable riversC. MountainsD. Lack of access to the sea9. Which of the following was a Chinese school of thought during the fourth century B.C.E. thatdenounced ethics in favor of obedience?A. BuddhismB. ConfucianismC. DaoismD. Legalism10. The animating principles of Benedict’s rules for monks are the quest for salvation andA. the subordination of willfulness.B. knowledge obtained solely through communion with God.C. the application of personal resistance to God’s work.D. extremes of self-mortification.11. What group colonized many small islands in the Pacific Ocean?A. PolynesiansB. ChineseC. KoreansD. Japanese12. _______ was the first thinker to postulate that numbers are real, not abstractions.A. ParmenidesB. AristotleC. PythagorasD. Hui Shih13. What did Islamists spread throughout the Old World starting in the eighth century?A. DemocracyB. DiseaseC. Metals used to make new weaponsD. New crops14. Which of the following did the Mayans consider to be worthy of recording?A. Trade recordsB. Ceremonial ritualsC. The laws of their societyD. Information about everyday life15. With the adoption of Christianity by Constantine, the emperorA. stopped using images of pagan gods.B. was no longer worshipped as a god.C. ended pagan rituals and ceremonies.D. was called God’s deputy on Earth.16. A staple food transplanted from Southeast Asia to the Mediterranean world as a result of the IslamicEmpire wasA. wheat.B. potatoes.C. yams.D. rice.17. In the sixth century, kingdoms in India wereA. adopting Buddhism as their official religion.B. developing traditions that would become Hinduism.C. adopting Islam as their official religion.D. undergoing successive waves of conversions to Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam.18. What strategy did Buddhist and Christian missionaries employ to spread their faith that Muslims didn’t?A. Conversion of kings and other elite figuresB. Conversion of merchantsC. Forceful conversion of othersD. Use of artifacts19. How did Alfred the Great secure his modern reputation as a state-builder?A. He encouraged trade through tax incentives to merchants and businessmen.B. He gave free land and tax breaks to peasants.C. He was lavishly generous to monks.D. He forced people to live in militarized colonies.End of exam20. Which of the following is not one of the new thoughts of or about God that were formulated in theAxial Age?A. Many GodsB. Involved GodC. Divine GodD. Single God