1) The backbone of Roman agriculture in the Augustan Age was
a. slave labor
b. imported foods from the empire
c. captured barbarian labor
d. small free farmers.
2) Which of the following statements about farm and village life during the turmoil of the third century A.D. is true?
a. Crime decreased
b. Corruption and lawlessness increased.
c. The villas (large, self-sufficient estates) disintegrated.
d. Small landholdings increased.
3)A necessary forerunner of the first civilizations was:
a. solar technology to provide water in the desert.
b. nomadic sheep and cattle-raising.
c. learning to plant seed in the land and grow food.
d. an iron-tipped plow to break the heavy moist soil of a temperate forested environment.
4) Human progress and achievement has been the result of all of the following EXCEPT:
a. the internal development and spread of the centers of civilization.
b. the unique contributions of people migrating to or on the periphery of the centers of civilization.
c. the diffusion of culture and the creative stimulus of the intermingling of different peoples with each other.
d. the rule of powerful empires.
5) Which of the following empires of the ancient Near East was the largest and most tolerant of diversity?
a. The Hebrew
b. The Hittite
c. The Egyptian
d. The Persian
e. The Assyrian
You don’t have to answer all, just 1 or 2 would be fine as well. Thanks.
