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True or false
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True or false: Although the Mediterranean connected communities, travel across it depended in part on ships, weather, seasons, and political conditions.
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02
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Which description best explains how geography shaped travel and community life in ancient Greece?
- A
Its broad plains made inland travel the main connection between communities.
- B
Its many islands and harbors encouraged seafaring, while mountains and peninsulas divided some areas into small communities.
- C
Its desert routes connected most communities to the Nile Valley.
- D
Its rivers created a single, unified agricultural region.
03
Fill in the blank
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In Egypt, the Valley supported concentrated agriculture and connected inland settlements to the Mediterranean.
04
Written response
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What category of evidence includes material remains such as buildings, graves, pottery, tools, and shipwrecks?
05
Choose one
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Why do archaeologists consider the location and layers in which an object is found, rather than studying the object alone?
- A
It shows that the object was made by a ruler.
- B
It identifies the language spoken by everyone who used the object.
- C
It provides context that helps researchers interpret the object and its use.
- D
It proves that the object was traded across the Mediterranean.
06
True or false
1 point
True or false: The period names historians use for ancient history mark sharp boundaries at which all regions changed at once.
- A
True
- B
False
07
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Select all ways an ancient written account could reflect its author's point of view.
- A
An account of a war may praise one side.
- B
A text may justify a ruler's actions.
- C
Every written source gives a complete and neutral account.
- D
A source may leave out people with less political power.
08
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What does the example of Naukratis show about the relationship between port connections and cultural identity?
- A
Ports necessarily made all communities that used them culturally identical.
- B
A port could connect communities without making them culturally identical.
- C
Greek and Egyptian communities had no contact at ports.
- D
Harbors replaced inland routes as the only means of exchange.
09
Fill in the blank
1 point
The is conventionally dated from 323 to 30 BCE.
10
Written response
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Whose rise in 27 BCE is commonly used to mark the beginning of the Roman Empire?
11
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What can a coin help historians investigate beyond the exchange of goods?
- A
The exact route taken by every traveler who carried it.
- B
The full history of the community that issued it.
- C
Political claims associated with a ruler or community.
- D
The complete sequence of events in a war.
12
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Which of the following were forms of connection across the ancient Mediterranean? Select all that apply.
- A
Trade and migration
- B
Diplomacy and warfare
- C
The elimination of local differences
- D
The movement of craftspeople and ideas
13
Open ended
1 point
How can historians combine written sources and archaeological evidence to investigate an ancient community? Explain one limitation of each type of evidence and why comparing them can help.
14
True or false
1 point
The Mediterranean’s sea lanes encouraged connections among communities, but they did not erase local differences. Is this statement true or false?
- A
True
- B
False
15
Written response
1 point
Which river valley supported concentrated agriculture in Egypt and connected inland settlements to the Mediterranean?
16
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Which combination best explains how Greece’s geography could foster both local political diversity and connections by sea?
- A
Its broad, open plains made overland travel the main means of connection.
- B
Its mountains and peninsulas divided communities, while islands and harbors encouraged seafaring.
- C
Its deserts isolated settlements from the Aegean and prevented maritime contact.
- D
Its lack of natural harbors encouraged communities to rely on river transport.
17
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A historian maps a coastal port in the Levant and nearby routes leading inland. What role would this location most likely have played?
- A
They linked the Nile Valley’s inland farms directly to the Adriatic.
- B
They made the Apennines the main route for traffic into western Asia.
- C
They connected sea traffic with routes into western Asia.
- D
They separated Mediterranean shipping from overland trade.
18
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An excavated tool is dated and interpreted using the layers around it as well as the tool itself. Which archaeological principle is being applied?
- A
The object’s find location and archaeological layers can help establish how and when it was used.
- B
The object’s material alone always identifies its original owner and purpose.
- C
Only written sources can establish when an archaeological object was used.
- D
An object found without its original setting provides more reliable dating evidence.
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Written response
1 point
Which island occupied a strategic position between the eastern and western Mediterranean?
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Which description best avoids oversimplifying the transition from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age?
- A
Every eastern Mediterranean society collapsed at the same time and in the same way.
- B
Palace systems remained unchanged across the eastern Mediterranean.
- C
The period began only after Rome became an empire.
- D
Many palace systems declined or changed, while developments differed across regions.