Exam 5: Worlds Turned Inside Out 1000-350 Bce

Which of the following accurately compares Greek philosophers,such as Socrates,and other Axial Age thinkers,such as Confucius and the Buddha?

Sporting events,such as the Olympic Games,demonstrated the peaceful spirit of cooperation among Greek city-states.

Which of the following was true of the social structure in most city-states in the Mediterranean basin?

Which of the following Axial Age thinkers expressed ideas most similar to: "A fool who recognizes his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man,but a fool who considers himself wise-that is what one really calls a fool," attributed to Siddhartha Gautama in the Dhammapada?

Compare how the societies in Mesoamerica,South America,and sub-Saharan Africa were affected by the connections that they had or failed to have with other societies.How did these societies structure their broad social relations?

In contrast to most other societies in Afro-Eurasia,the second-generation societies on the borderlands of the eastern Mediterranean developed which of the following political organizations?

Which of the following was an innovation in Greek art that derived from the ways Axial Age thinkers perceived the place of humans in the cosmos?

Scholars,merchants,peasants,and artisans in China all prospered during the first millennium BCE because of an expanding agrarian economy and interregional trade.

Which of the following characterizes Laozi's beliefs about government?

What led philosopher Karl Jaspers to coin the term "Axial Age," and how did he describe it as a distinct period in history? In what ways have other historians and philosophers challenged Jaspers's statements?

Historians see the isolation of Axial Age thinkers in their own societies as evidence of geographical barriers to trade and travel in the first millennium BCE.

What was the physical and social center of a Mediterranean city-state?