PACT Social Studies 7-12 Questions and
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Most early civilizations of Afro-Eurasia arose in physical environments that featured:
✔✔proximity to a reliable freshwater source that could be used for crop irrigation.
If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death. If the robber is not
caught, then shall he who was robbed claim under oath the amount of his loss; then shall the
community . . . on whose ground and
territory and in whose domain [the robbery took place] compensate him for the goods stolen.
The excerpt above from the Code of Hammurabi suggests that: ✔✔Babylonian law applied both
the concept of individual responsibility and the concept of collective responsibility in assigning
penalties for crimes.
In which of the following ways did the migrations of Bantu-speaking peoples into many regions
of sub-Saharan Africa in the period 1000 B.C. to 500 A.D. most fundamentally affect the
continent? ✔✔The migrations led to the spread of settled agriculture.
, Which of the following was an effect of the Crusades on western Europe? ✔✔The Crusades led
to an increased trade between western Europe, Byzantium and the Muslim states of the eastern
Mediterranean, thereby promoting European economic expansion.
Which of the following statements best describes a major impact of the Columbian Exchange on
Europe? ✔✔New food crops from the Western Hemisphere promoted better health and longer
life spans in Europe.
Which of the following was the most significant effect on Europe of the Ottoman conquest of
Constantinople (1453) and the eastern Mediterranean (1516-1517)? ✔✔The Ottoman Empire
took control of most of the major trade routes connecting Europe to India and China.
In contrast to the First Industrial Revolution, the Second Industrial Revolution was characterized
mostly by ✔✔innovations in mass production and electrification.
The Chinese government responded to the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square by ✔✔forcibly
dispersing the demonstrations with tanks and troops.
Which of the following groups of people constituted the main source of labor for the Chesapeake
colonies before 1660? ✔✔Indentured servants
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Most early civilizations of Afro-Eurasia arose in physical environments that featured:
✔✔proximity to a reliable freshwater source that could be used for crop irrigation.
If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death. If the robber is not
caught, then shall he who was robbed claim under oath the amount of his loss; then shall the
community . . . on whose ground and
territory and in whose domain [the robbery took place] compensate him for the goods stolen.
The excerpt above from the Code of Hammurabi suggests that: ✔✔Babylonian law applied both
the concept of individual responsibility and the concept of collective responsibility in assigning
penalties for crimes.
In which of the following ways did the migrations of Bantu-speaking peoples into many regions
of sub-Saharan Africa in the period 1000 B.C. to 500 A.D. most fundamentally affect the
continent? ✔✔The migrations led to the spread of settled agriculture.
, Which of the following was an effect of the Crusades on western Europe? ✔✔The Crusades led
to an increased trade between western Europe, Byzantium and the Muslim states of the eastern
Mediterranean, thereby promoting European economic expansion.
Which of the following statements best describes a major impact of the Columbian Exchange on
Europe? ✔✔New food crops from the Western Hemisphere promoted better health and longer
life spans in Europe.
Which of the following was the most significant effect on Europe of the Ottoman conquest of
Constantinople (1453) and the eastern Mediterranean (1516-1517)? ✔✔The Ottoman Empire
took control of most of the major trade routes connecting Europe to India and China.
In contrast to the First Industrial Revolution, the Second Industrial Revolution was characterized
mostly by ✔✔innovations in mass production and electrification.
The Chinese government responded to the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square by ✔✔forcibly
dispersing the demonstrations with tanks and troops.
Which of the following groups of people constituted the main source of labor for the Chesapeake
colonies before 1660? ✔✔Indentured servants
