Metalworking was important to agricultural and herding societies for each of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(A) Farmers could use more efficient metalhoes to work the ground.
(B) Metal weapons were superior to thosemade of stone or wood.
(C) Toolmakers could focus on their craft fulltime and trade with farmers for food.
(D) Woodworkers and other manufacturingartisans could improve their craft.
(E) Large metal boats could be constructed,improving trade.
Answer: E
AP World History
- Stone tools, hunting and gathering, and an increasing number of Homo sapiens sapiens are features of the
- In early China, unity and cultural identity were provided by
- Compared to river valley cultures in Egypt and Mesopotamia, Chinese civilization
- Unlike Sumer and Egypt, the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization
- Unlike Sumer and the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization, Egypt
- Which of the following is NOT a feature of Sumerian civilization?
- Cuneiform and other types of writing are important in part because they
- The start of sedentary agriculture
- The transformation that was most responsible for moving humans toward civilization was the
- Once developed, metal tools were preferred over stone tools for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
- Why did the original inhabitants of Australia not develop agriculture?
- The characteristic political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates civilization was
- The development of writing
- The earliest known writing in a civilization first developed in
- The development of agriculture caused important changes in all of the following EXCEPT
- Which of the following areas was NOT one of the earliest civilizations to develop?
- Egypt differed from Mesopotamian civilization by stressing
- Hunting and gathering societies
- Jewish monotheism
- Sumerian civilization produced the first
- The Paleolithic Age refers to
- A society is almost certainly a civilization if
- A characteristic of the human species before the advent of civilization was
- Which river valley civilization was most completely destroyed by natural disasters such as climate change?