Chapters 1-6 (MWH EXAM 2) Correctly
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There is little reason to think of "science" as a uniquely European trait because: - correct answer
✔✔the economic, social, and environmental conditions of one's life
A _____________ is a geographically large political unit ruled and controlled by a single ruling
elite in which the subject population offered up their agricultural surplus to the ruler and the
land-owning elite, usually in the form of taxes and rents. - correct answer ✔✔Empire
The conditions into which a person is born include the following: - correct answer ✔✔access to
resources,
relations with other people,
the environment
Increases in food supplies in the 1400s could occur as a result of each of the following reasons
EXCEPT: - correct answer ✔✔flooding the fields to wet down the soil.
Earth's population increased between the years 1400 and 1800 from 380 million people to: -
correct answer ✔✔950 Million
How would you describe the relationship between early civilizations and nomadic pastoralists? -
correct answer ✔✔It was Symbiotic
The 14th century world was ___________, meaning it contained several regional systems, each
with its own densely populated and wealthy "core" surrounded by a periphery of agriculture
and raw materials. - correct answer ✔✔Polycentric
, In the year 1400, which of the following was NOT one of the world's top three largest cities: -
correct answer ✔✔Paris, France
The Black Death: - correct answer ✔✔was the result of a historical conjuncture
was a plague caused by a bacillus
affected Asia, Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa
Which location had more plant and animal species and more total biomass per unit of area than
anywhere else in the world as of 1400: - correct answer ✔✔Africa
The "biological old regime" set limits on: - correct answer ✔✔Resources and Religion
Energy flows in the biological old regime depended on: - correct answer ✔✔The sun and the
Nitrogen Cycle
Between 80 and 90 percent of the world's population in 1400 lived in rural areas because most
people lived on subsistence and most agricultural surpluses went to pay taxes - correct answer
✔✔True
The "trading world" of the 1400s can best be described as: - correct answer ✔✔connected by
eight interlinked trading zones
The "Agricultural Revolution" did NOT lead to which of the following: - correct answer
✔✔exceeding the limits of the biological old regime
Mali and _______________ were Africa's most important exporters of gold in the fifteenth
century. - correct answer ✔✔Ghana
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There is little reason to think of "science" as a uniquely European trait because: - correct answer
✔✔the economic, social, and environmental conditions of one's life
A _____________ is a geographically large political unit ruled and controlled by a single ruling
elite in which the subject population offered up their agricultural surplus to the ruler and the
land-owning elite, usually in the form of taxes and rents. - correct answer ✔✔Empire
The conditions into which a person is born include the following: - correct answer ✔✔access to
resources,
relations with other people,
the environment
Increases in food supplies in the 1400s could occur as a result of each of the following reasons
EXCEPT: - correct answer ✔✔flooding the fields to wet down the soil.
Earth's population increased between the years 1400 and 1800 from 380 million people to: -
correct answer ✔✔950 Million
How would you describe the relationship between early civilizations and nomadic pastoralists? -
correct answer ✔✔It was Symbiotic
The 14th century world was ___________, meaning it contained several regional systems, each
with its own densely populated and wealthy "core" surrounded by a periphery of agriculture
and raw materials. - correct answer ✔✔Polycentric
, In the year 1400, which of the following was NOT one of the world's top three largest cities: -
correct answer ✔✔Paris, France
The Black Death: - correct answer ✔✔was the result of a historical conjuncture
was a plague caused by a bacillus
affected Asia, Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa
Which location had more plant and animal species and more total biomass per unit of area than
anywhere else in the world as of 1400: - correct answer ✔✔Africa
The "biological old regime" set limits on: - correct answer ✔✔Resources and Religion
Energy flows in the biological old regime depended on: - correct answer ✔✔The sun and the
Nitrogen Cycle
Between 80 and 90 percent of the world's population in 1400 lived in rural areas because most
people lived on subsistence and most agricultural surpluses went to pay taxes - correct answer
✔✔True
The "trading world" of the 1400s can best be described as: - correct answer ✔✔connected by
eight interlinked trading zones
The "Agricultural Revolution" did NOT lead to which of the following: - correct answer
✔✔exceeding the limits of the biological old regime
Mali and _______________ were Africa's most important exporters of gold in the fifteenth
century. - correct answer ✔✔Ghana
