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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would never have occurred to a western slave owner to do in contrast to Eastern slave owners?
(a) Nominated a slave to a high government officials.
(b) Freed a slave.
(c) Married a slave.
(d) Killed a slave.

2. When did Caliph al-Mahdi rise to power?
(a) 742.
(b) 775.
(c) 756.
(d) 845.

3. When did the Zhou dynasty split?
(a) 570 B.C.
(b) 770 B.C.
(c) 870 B.C.
(d) 970 B.C.

4. How did Brihadratha die?
(a) He died during an accident.
(b) He died of cancer.
(c) He died of old age.
(d) He was assassinated.

5. How may countries were considered free by the Freedom House in 1973, according to Chapter 1?
(a) 43.
(b) 41.
(c) 45.
(d) 46.

6. At what age were young boys or men starting their training for public service under Emperor Wu?
(a) 18.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

7. How many commanderies were created by the Win?
(a) 15.
(b) 63.
(c) 25.
(d) 36.

8. What did the Greeks and Romans poor on the tomb of a dead man?
(a) Water.
(b) Honey.
(c) Wine.
(d) Mud.

9. When did Ajatashatru die?
(a) 461 BC.
(b) 451 BC.
(c) 471 BC.
(d) 481 BC.

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

11. How long did the sultanate last in India?
(a) 310 years.
(b) 320 years.
(c) 350 years.
(d) 340 years.

12. Who argued that a just city had to exist in conformity with man's permanent nature and not what was ephemeral and changing according to Chapter 2?
(a) Plato and Aristotle.
(b) Engles and Rousseau.
(c) Plato and Engles.
(d) Rousseau and Plato.

13. What happened in 173, 179 and 182 in China?
(a) Epidemics.
(b) Wars.
(c) Innovation.
(d) Floods.

14. How many countries of the third wave of democratization reverted to authoritarianism or saw a significant erosion of democratic institutions?
(a) 1 in 3.
(b) 1 in 5.
(c) 2 in 7.
(d) 1 in 10.

15. What is a particularly well-developed and pure example of segmentary lineage organization?
(a) The Glo.
(b) The Grum.
(c) The Nuer.
(d) The Mari.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Mauryas empire rule India?

2. Who killed the grand councilor Li Si?

3. When did the State of Chu perform a cadastral survey?

4. Who formulated an ideology of state building that explicitly laid out the logic of the new centralized state?

5. When was the Byzantine army defeated at Baphaeon?

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