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20 True/False questions

1. ancient Greek colonization → Concentration of government power in a capital or administrative hubs that exert contol over broad geographic areas

True False

2. Constantinople → North African city, founded by Phoenician traders, became a significant economic power at the center of a large Mediterranean trading empire

True False

3. polytheism → This South American civilization flourished between the 1st and 8th centuries C.E. along the northern coast of modern-day Peru.

True False

4. Alexandria → Allows individuals, often from a dominant group, to own other individuals.

True False

5. Maurya Empire → Flourished between about 320 C.E. and 550 C.E., united many of India's regional kingdoms under on eleader who controlled most of the Indian subcontinent. Was highly patriarchal and women had few legal or religious rights.

True False

6. Persian empires → Centered at the capital city of Persepolis in Iran, encompass three seperate incarnations between about 550 B.C.E. and 640 C.E. The earliest was the Achaemenian Empire, which fell to Alexander the Great. It was weakened by Roman attacks and fell to Arab invaders in 651 C.E.

True False

7. Chang'an → Flourished between 206 B.C.E. and 220 C.E., which emphasized filial piety, or respect for one's parents, as part of a Confucian belief system. Most important leader was Wu Di, who built roads and canals, established a Confucian imperial universtiy, and introduced civil service exams.

True False

8. Phoenicia → Located on the Mediterranean in northern Egypt, center of government, commerce, and culture during Egypt's Hellenistic Period. Became renowned as a center of learning and was home to the ancient world's largest library.

True False

9. Gupta Empire → Flourished between about 321 and 185 B.C.E. in ancient india. Founded by Changdragupta Maurya after Alexander the Great's death. Its most famous emperor was Ashoka, whose missionaries contributed greatly to the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia.

True False

10. Carthage → This South American civilization flourished between the 1st and 8th centuries C.E. along the northern coast of modern-day Peru.

True False

11. centralized government → Concentration of government power in a capital or administrative hubs that exert contol over broad geographic areas

True False

12. Mayan city-states → Flourished between 206 B.C.E. and 220 C.E., which emphasized filial piety, or respect for one's parents, as part of a Confucian belief system. Most important leader was Wu Di, who built roads and canals, established a Confucian imperial universtiy, and introduced civil service exams.