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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What played an important functional role in facilitating large-scale collective action?
(a) Religion.
(b) Charisma.
(c) Military power.
(d) Economic.

2. What are bBand-level societies built around?
(a) Nuclear society.
(b) Poly nuclear society.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Familian society.

3. How much did grain prices in Anatolia in constant silver units rose by between 1489 to 1616?
(a) 600%.
(b) 400%.
(c) 500%.
(d) 200%.

4. Who helped the Emperor stage a coup against Empress Liang's house according to Chapter 9?
(a) Eunuchs.
(b) Mercenary troops.
(c) His brothers.
(d) Loyal peasants.

5. When was Empress Xu murdered?
(a) 69 B.C.
(b) 80 B.C.
(c) 71 B.C.
(d) 56 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the agnatic descent groups described by Fustel de Coulanges known as in Rome?

2. What was the highly sophisticated compilation of Roman law produced in Constantinople under at the beginning of the sixth century named?

3. Who was the first civilization to invent the modern state?

4. What did Gregory VII do to the Roman Emperor Henry IV?

5. How many of the Meiji Emperor's 15 children reached adulthood?

(see the answer key)

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