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1. Fossils found in the ______ were called Homo neanderthalensis.
Barun Valley
Hunza Valley
Neander Valley
Lidder Valley
2. What is the base of the classification of fossils of early humans?
Bone Structure
DNA
Muscle Structure
None of the above
3. An archaeological site, which was used for quarrying limestone was:
Chesowanja, Kenya
Schoningen, Germany
Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic
Neander Valley, Germany
4. The term pathological idiot has been used with reference to
Australopithecus
Homo Habilis
Homo Erectus
Neanderthal
5. Long forelimbs, Curved hand and foot bones, and mobile ankle joints helped ______ to live on trees.
Hominidae
Neanderthal
Hominoids
Australopithecus
6. Zagros mountains, which form one limit of the Fertile Crescent, is situated in:
Egypt
Lebanon
Iran
Syria
7. The last Ice Age ended around:
15,000 years ago
14, 000 years ago
13,000 years ago
12,000 years ago
8. The main reason that led to a change from foraging to farming occupation was:
Domestication
End of Ice Age
Making of iron tools
Warmer and wetter conditions
9. The Hominids survived for about:
1 Million years
2 Million years
3 Million years
4 Million years
10. Dexterity of the hands refers to:
Roughness of the hands
Shape of the hands
Hardness of the hands
Flexibility of the hands
11. Fossils of Hominid found in Asia were not older as compared to fossils found in ______
Europe
Africa
Australia
America
12. Fossils of Hominid found in Asia were not older as compared to fossils found in ______
Europe
Africa
Australia
America
13. Population pressure in some areas increased due to the
end of the ice age
change in climate
increase in food availability
domestication
14. In the Eastern Hadza community, the lands belonged to
Women
Headmen
Clan
No one
15. Genus is the branch of the:
Hominids
Hominoids
Neanderthalensis
Australopithecus
16. From which organism group the hominids were evolved?
Neanderthal
Hominoids
Neanderthalensis
Australopithecus
17. The Hominids belong to a family which is known as _____
Hominidae
Neanderthal
Clan
Australopithecus
18. From which word Cuneiform is derived?
Latin
Greek
Chinese
Mayan
19. Which language replaced the Sumerian language after 2400 BCE?
Mesopotamian language
Akkadian language
Chinese language
Middle Eastern language
20. In the 2000 BCE, the city that flourished as the royal capital of Mesopotamia was
Ur
Mari
Mohenjodaro
Kalibangan
21. With which person, the first event of Sumerian trade is associated?
The ancient ruler of Uruk City, Enmerkar
The ancient ruler of Lebanon City, Enmerkar
The ancient ruler of Nile City, Enmerkar
The ancient ruler of Aral City, Enmerkar
22. Inanna was the Goddess of
the Moon
love and War
wind
fire
23. The earliest temples in Southern Mesopotamia were built-in
c.4000 BCE
c.5000 BCE
c.6000 BCE
c.7000 BCE
24. From which wordCuneiform is derived?
Latin
Greek
Chinese
Mayan
25. The best kind of wine came to Rome from _______
Fayum
Byzantium
Galilee
Campania
26. The Roman emperor who consolidated the rise of provincial upper classes so as to exclude the senators from military command was
Augustus
Constantine
Gallienus
Tiberius
27. What were Amphorae?
A type of army
A type of container
A type of district administrator
None of the above
28. Augustus, the first Roman Emperor was called the leading citizen whose Latin term is
Basileus
Dominus
Princeps
Res gestae
29. Saint Augustine was bishop of the North African city of
Annaba
Algeria
Hippo
Numidia
30. The emperor who made Christianity the official religion in the Roman Empire was
Alexander
Augustus
Constantine
Nero
31. Roman ruler _____ was considered as the leading citizen only to show that he was not the absolute ruler.
Augustus
Constantine
Gallienus
Tiberius
32. In Roman urban life, the entertainment shows called spectacular happened for at least
150 days
160 days
167 days
176 days
33. The religion of Islam arose during the
5th century CE
8th century CE
6th century CE
7th century CE
34. The Roman Empire got the best kind of wine from the city of
Byzaciuma
Campania
Naples
Sicily
35. Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire in the
1st century CE
2nd century CE
3rd century CE
4th century CE
36. The Roman silver coin, known as the denarius, weighed _________ gm of pure silver.
2
3
4
5
37. ______ and Greek languages were used in the administration of the Roman Empire.
Chinese
Mayan
Latin
Turkish
38. Which one of the following is a rive that forms the boundary of the Roman Empire?
Mekong River
Rhine River
Amur River
Yangtze River
39. By whom Ali assassinated?
Muawiya
Kharji
Bedouins
None of the above
40. Zakat was an/a
agriculture tax
alms tax
religious tax
trade tax
41. The Caliph during whose reign the Hijri was established was:
Abu Bakr
Muhammad
Uthman
Umar
42. What was the name given to nomadic Arab tribes?
Sanam
Qabila
Bedouins
Umma
43. The semi-historical works sira in Islamic history are
biographies
chronicles
eyewitness reports
inscriptions
44. The Umayyad Emperor who introduced Arabic as the language of administration was
Abd al-Malik
Ali
Abbas
Muawiya
45. Who introduced an Islamic coinage?
Abu Bakr
Abd-al-Malik
Uthman
Umar
46. The woman-saint Sufi who, in her poems, preached intense love for God by uniting with God was
Rabia
Aisha
Fatima
Khadija
47. After the Arabs and Iranians, the group that was rising to power on the Islamic scene was the
Buyids
Iranians
Samanid
Turks
48. Prophet Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina with his followers in 622 CE is called hijra:
Hijra
Kaba
Mecca
Calipha
49. Caliph Muawiya shifted his capital to
Rome
Medina
Mecca
Damascus
50. The followers and non-followers of Ali were called
Arabs and Iranians
Shias and Sunnis
Umayyads and Abbasids
Byzantines and Sasanids
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