Which of the following types of technology was most important in enabling the creation of preindustrial cities?
a. housing
b. sanitation
c. communication
d. agriculture
e. transportation
Question 2The systematic effort to kill or destroy an entire population is known as ____.
a. manslaughter
b. homicide
c. infanticide
d. murder
e. genocide
Question 3The most important reason why cities did not develop before 3,500 BC was that
a. plant cultivation was not sufficiently advanced to create a food surplus.
b. wall-building technology was not yet capable of repelling invaders.
c. buildings erected on riverbanks prior to that time sank into the soil.
d. sanitation technology was not sufficiently advanced to keep densely packed urban dwellers from spreading plague to each other.
e. urban technology was impossible prior to the invention of the steam engine.
Question 4All of the following are patterns of assimilation except ____.
a. Anglo-conformity
b. melting pot
c. ethnocentrism
d. genocide
e. cultural pluralism
Question 5In order for the earliest cities to emerge, the society needed to have
a. a strong manufacturing center.
b. an agricultural surplus.
c. enough work to keep its population busy.
d. a good system of roads and waterways.
e. medical technology sufficient to control disease.
Question 6According to your text, Cubans in Miami provide an example of ____.
a. Anglo-conformity
b. accommodation
c. cultural relativism
d. subjugation
e. genocide
Question 7According to anthropologists, the earliest urban settlements were located in ____.
a. Egypt
b. Indochina
c. Mesopotamia
d. Parthia
e. Greece
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