Introduction to World Civilization

Yanıt Açıklaması: To this day, the Egyptian, Syrian, Ethiopian, and Armenian Christians continue their religious practices as Monophysites, not the African Americans. Doğru cevap E’dir.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Yellow River [5,464 km (3,395 miles)] is known as the mother river by all the Chinese people. It is the second longest river in China after the Yangtze River. The headwaters of this mighty river lie in Kunlun Mountains in northwestern Qinghai Province. It runs through nine provinces and autonomous regions on its way to the Bohai Sea. It is not exaggerating to say that this river is a melting pot, because there are more than 30 branches and countless streams feeding it through its course.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Latin went on to become mother to dozens of Romance languages spoken to this day (such as Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Rhaeto-Romansch, Romanian, and Ladino); it is also related, if distantly, to other Indo-European languages such as Russian and other Slavic languages, and such as Sanskrit and its offshoots across South Asia.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Those who lived in lands that allied with Rome often received grants of citizenship. Gradually, most who lived in Northern or Southern Italy were named Roman citizens and over the centuries many migrated to Rome to live, generating a cosmopolitan atmosphere there as well as across many parts of the empire. Later, during the empire period, the Senate continued simultaneously to appoint Romans to high positions while extending Roman citizenship to yet additional subjects. Finally, in 212 CE all free subjects of the empire obtained Roman citizenship.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Chinese infrastructure is characterized by easily recognizable architecture, villages and towns, transportation solutions on land, rivers, and seas. Particularly significant are four great technological inventions; paper making, print, dynamite, magnetic compass which have been applied by the remaining world civilizations ever since. It is claimed that the invention of the writing was by the Sumerians.

Yanıt Açıklaması: More important was the work of Hippocrates in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. He is regarded as the Father of Medicine.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The religion of ancient Greece was polytheistic, that is, having many gods and goddesses, who reflected life as it was lived in the land.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Humans probably reached East Asia between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago. Recently, pieces of clay pottery have been discovered in a Chinese hunter-gatherer cave that dates to 18,000 years ago—this is the oldest pottery ever discovered. Historians believe farming began in China about 7,000 BCE. The first crop grown was a grain called millet. Rice was farmed around the same time, and may have come before millet. Farming created more food, which increased population and allowed people to follow different vocations other than constantly looking for food. Eventually, people needed leaders to organize irrigation and to store food. Families that controlled land and irrigation became powerful. So, civilization developed in China the same way it developed in other parts of the world.

Yanıt Açıklaması: China was home to one of the five early civilizations found around the world (Sumerian-Mesopotamian 5000-4000 BCE, Egyptian-3000 BCE, African- 2500 BCE, Indus Valley-2500 BCE, Chinese-2000 BCE). Therefore, the correct option is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The city-states had no standing armies but relied the citizenry to provide the manpower for what was a militia force. These citizen-soldiers, or Hoplites, (the word derived from hoplon for shield, or item of armor) were the able bodied men of the polis, whose “day jobs” were as farmers and artisans.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Today, China is the third largest country in the world after Russia and Canada. Therefore, the correct option is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Most merchants, lacking sufficient cash assets, resorted to borrowing to finance all or part of their expeditions. A typical loan for a large venture in 4th century BCE Athens, was generally a large sum of cash (usually less than 2,000 drachmas), lent for a short time (the length of the voyage, a matter of several weeks or months), at a high rate of interest (often 12% but reaching levels as high as 100%). The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: yanıt hepsini kapsamaktadır. Agora is a i.center of the athletic life of the city ii. center of artistic, spiritual life of the city . iii. Center of political life of the city . iv. It is a gathering place

Yanıt Açıklaması: Doğru seçenek A The emperor, although absolute in his powers, could not impose new religious dogma without church support, however.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Certainly, the Punic Wars were the most important institution underlying Rome’s expansion to include societies east and west. Of all the wars involving Rome, none were more important than the three on-and-off outbursts of fighting known collectively as the Punic Wars. This series of battles began in 264 BCE and ended almost a century later, in 146 BCE.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Other notable fields emanating from the Classic Age were philosophy (Socrates, Plato and Aristotle), recorded history (Thucydides, Herodotus), theater (Sophocles, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and Euripides), medicine (Hippocrates), and statecraft (Pericles). Being from Roman civilization Augustus is not one of these people. The correct answer is D.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In  pharaonic governmental structure of Ancient Egypt Paharos gave orders as spokespersons of their divine creator,  they were the ultimate ruler of the country, They did not deal with the task of technical administration but they gave directives for the head of the government and attendant institutions.

Yanıt Açıklaması: There is evidence that the people worshipped a supreme god who was king of many other lesser divinities. By the time of the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE) these religious beliefs had developed so that now there was a definite “king of the gods” named Shang Ti and many lesser gods of other names. Therefore, the correct option is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Phrygian language was developed from the Phoenician alphabet, and it later played an influential role in the Greek alphabet. However, it has not been yet deciphered. Approximately 300 epitaphs written in Phrygian have been found in Anatolia. The word ‘Mater’ in these epitaphs has been decoded; it was used by the Phrygians to refer to their mother goddess, which is none other than Kubaba - the mother goddess of Anatolia. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: An American anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960), the father of American anthropology, was (among other topics) interested in historical synthesis at the world scope level, particularly in the history of civilized societies, both ancient and modern. The basis of Kroeber’s point of view is about the natural history of culture, with strong emphasis on; • Humanistic factors, particularly silent ones, • Classification of cultures, • Cultural phenomenon