Exam 4: A Polycentric World

Which of these was a major Mayan urban center?

The ________ people spread agriculture to a large region of Africa.

The discovery of Shang artifacts in the Yangtze River valley indicates that Shang power ________.

Looking at the map "Classic cultures of the Americas," which of these cultures were dominant at the same time?

The Chinese Yangshao culture was from the ________ B.C.E.

Considering the development of the Neolithic cultures of Asia and the Americas,it is clear that the Neolithic ________.

Historians agree that the people of Jenne-jeno ________.

What do you consider the most important differences and similarities between the first civilizations of the Americas and the earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia?

Which of these patterns,followed by Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations,was broken by the earliest American civilizations?

The Inca are best considered ________ of the Huari and Nazca peoples.

Was Jenne-jeno a city? Support your answer by comparison with other early urban centers.

Which of these best characterizes the Xia dynasty?

Which of these is a large,apparently urban,settlement that flourished from about 400 to 900 C.E.?

China's earliest Neolithic cultures developed in the ________ region.

Which of these was commonly cultivated in the earliest American cultures?

The ________ dynasty followed the Xia dynasty.

Jenne-jeno probably developed mainly as a ________.

Which of these problems of large states was experienced by the Zhou dynasty?

Several Andean states were brought together from 1476 by the ________.

The Xia,Shang,and Zhou dynasties are best characterized as having ________.