Traditions & Encounters A Global Perspective on the Past 5th Edition by Jerry Bentley – Test Bank
Chapter 3Â
Early African Societies and the Bantu MigrationsÂ
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following societies began the custom of embalming to preserve the body for its life after death?
a. Egypt
b. Mesopotamia
c. India
d. China
e. Persia
Answer: a
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2. Around ________ B.C.E., peoples of the eastern Sudan started to domesticate cattle and became nomadic herders.
a. 25,000
b. 18,000
c. 9000Â
d. 4000
e. 1500
Answer: c
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3. The early Sudanic societies recognized a single divine force as the source of good and evil, and they associated it with
a. fire.
b. the ocean.
c. the sun.
d. rain.Â
e. the moon.
Answer: d
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4. The Greek historian Herodotus used the phrase “the gift of the ________” to describe Egypt.
a. Indus
b. Huang He
c. NileÂ
d. Tigris
e. Issus
Answer: c
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5. The earliest Egyptian and Nubian states were
a. city-states.
b. small kingdoms.Â
c. centralized empires.
d. trading networks.
e. unified early because of the unique nature of the Tigris.
Answer: b
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6. Egypt was united around 3100 B.C.E. by the conqueror
a. Menes.Â
b. Khufu.
c. Sargon of Akkad.
d. Hatshepsut.
e. Hammurabi.
Answer: a
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7. The largest Egyptian pyramids were built during the
a. Middle Kingdom.
b. Old Kingdom.Â
c. New Kingdom.
d. Archaic Period.
e. Second Intermediary Period.
Answer: b
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8. ________’s is the largest of all the pyramids.
a. Sargon of Akkad
b. KhufuÂ
c. Hyksos
d. Menes
e. Giza
Answer: b
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9. The capital of the kingdom of Kush was
a. Kerma.Â
b. Axum.
c. Memphis.
d. Harappa.
e. Harkhuf.
Answer: a
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10. Harkhuf was
a. the capital of Kush.
b. the most powerful pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
c. an Egyptian explorer who visited Nubia.Â
d. the largest Middle Kingdom pyramid.
e. the first woman pharaoh.
Answer: c
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