Quiz Corrections

1. In the classical era, 127 million people resided in Eurasia, which was 83% of the world’s population. (pg. 264)
3. Since there were no animals in America, no pastoral societies formed, so they worked on agriculture, growing crops like maize, chili peppers, and squash. (pg. 272)
4. Africa’s environmental features were very tropical; making it have persistent warm temperatures, resulting in poorer and less fertile soils and a less productive agriculture (pg. 265)
6. The Maya had created the most elaborate writing system in the Americas, using pictographs and phonetic elements. (pg. 274)
8. The Bantu-speaking people had numerous advantages over the hunter and gatherer societies, such as a more productive economy, the bringing of disease, and also the use/creation of iron-working technology. (pg. 283)
12. Andes had dozens of rivers which influenced irrigation technology, which also somewhat unified its separating states to perform the irrigation projects. (pg. 277-278)
13. Teotihuacan’s artwork revealed pictures of self-glorifying rulers, in contrast to Maya. However, Teotihuacan people lacked things such as a writing system, which the Mayans had. (pg. 267)
17. Slaves and free people had no distinctions for jobs, except for slaves not being allowed to serve the military. (pg. 232)
18. In the Spartacus rebellion, slaves gave an example of the “weapons of the weak” or “every slave we own is an enemy we harbor” because of the slaves’ violent sabotaging of the state
19. Both the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Spartacus Rebellion were derived from a large group of revolting slaves who reacted violently toward the government/state, ending in failure (pg. 223, 233)