APWH Chapter 5: Rome and Han China Empires (753 b.c.e. to 600 c.e.)

(A) Rome required all citizens to learn about all world religions.

(B) Rome had a strong monotheistic tradition.

(C) Christians could not worship the emperor as a deity.

(D) Christian theology demanded that all people live in a Christian utopia.

(A) tradition of peaceful regime change.

(B) suppression of many barbarian groups.

(C) persistence of the Roman system of mathematics.

(D) Romanization of the western Mediterranean.

(A) Roman military might

(B) the growth of commerce

(C) the leadership of rulers like Augustus

(D) thousands of miles of well-built roads

(A) military leaders with armies loyal to them rather than the state.

(B) an impoverished population.

(C) political decentralization.

(D) ongoing wars in trying to expand to an empire.

(A) did not impose taxes.

(B) extended citizenship in degrees to most conquered populations.

(C) did not have a standardized language.

(D) conquered only to obtain slaves.

(A) the spread of Roman religion

(B) the wealth of the Eastern Mediterranean societies

(C) rejection of Greek culture and philosophy

(D) slave revolts

(A) sparked a rapid economic recovery by encouraging the resumption of long-distance trade.

(B) founded a hybrid culture drew both on Germanic and Roman elements.

(C) rejected all of Roman culture, instead imposing their own culture.

(D) were rapidly assimilated into Roman culture, largely abandoning their own.

(A) applied primarily to the business sector

(B) defined a state of reciprocity between the weak and the strong

(C) allowed for an approximate equality between people of different classes

(D) led to the end of the role of the paterfamilias

(A) disinterested and suspicious.

(B) moderate and ambivalent.

(C) distrustful and repressive.

(D) tolerant and open-minded.

(A) practicing medicine.

(B) serving in the military.

(C) working in government.

(D) conducting business.

(A) alcohol, the wheel, and glass.

(B) the horse collar, the watermill, and the crossbow.

(C) the canal, the three-field system, and concrete.

(D) the saddle, penicillin, and bronze.

(A) Attacks by non-Chinese from across the frontiers

(B) The frustration of hungry peasants

(C) Corruption within the government

(D) The subversive ideas of Buddhism

(A) Te provincial aristocracy was complacent.

(B) Shi Huangdi's son was a weak ruler.

(C) Incorporation in the empire of different ethnicities.

(D) Unification of the nomads under Maodun.

(A) the escalation of violence against the upper classes.

(B) the creation of the first empire under the Qin state.

(C) peasant rebellions.

(D) an enormous tax increase.

(A) a continuation of Qin policies with a return to Confucian values.

(B) the high point of legalism.

(C) dependent upon the constant and unrelenting use of terror.

(D) dependent upon the social and political activism of Daoist ministers of state.

(A) building protective walls.

(B) support of traditional learning.

(C) huge public works projects.

(D) strong centralized rule.

(A) The civil service examination system was based on Confucian texts.

(B) Confucianism was adopted as the state religion of China.

(C) Confucianism encouraged individualistic values.

(D) Confucianism challenged social and gender hierarchies.

(A) They consistently failed to invest in public works.

(B) They invoked supernatural sanctions to support their rule.

(C) Their economies relied heavily on slave labor.

(D) They exhausted themselves through frequent indecisive wars with India.

(A) nonexistent

(B) more generally based on race

(C) more simplistic and mobile

(D) simple but more rigidly defined