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The Metal Ages (Normal Quiz)

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1. In some regions, the archaeological record shows a period in which copper is worked into tools but bronze is not yet made. This period is called the
proto-Bronze Age 
Chalcolithic 
Upper Paleolithic 
Golden Age 
No Answer
2. Both iron and copper ores had been known long before the Bronze Age, but were
treated like other stones, i.e., chipped or abraded 
too hard to be worked 
too soft in their natural state to be usable as stone tools 
discovered only in Cyprus and regarded as simple novelties of no utilitarian value 
No Answer
3. According to the essay, hammered iron artifacts first appeared in Turkey about 1800 BC and the technique of their production was regarded as a (Hittite) state secret. According to the essay, the technique was learned by outsiders (Select two.)
when Assyria invaded Turkey 
when Egyptian industrial spies infiltrated the iron factory in Turkey 
about 1100 BC 
when it was separately discovered in Africa, where very hard woods can produce extremely hot kiln fires 
as soon as the bellows was invented by copper workers in what is today Israel, allowing hot enough kilns to process iron as well as copper 
about 750 BC 
4. The Greek writer Hesiod is the most famous of the ancient writers who saw civilization as divisible into a series of “metallic” periods, with iron representing a time
of great progress 
when civilization grew rusty 
when human hearts were especially hard 
in the future when the world would end 
of widespread war and disorder because gods would desert the vulgar earth 
No Answer
5. The essay points out that metal mattered more in some places than others. For example, in northern Europe bronze, once known,
transformed agriculture 
transformed hunting 
transformed warfare 
was used largely for small items of little practical use 
was made into coins, quickly transforming commerce 
No Answer
6. The essay argues that mastery of iron was usually more important than mastery of copper because
its greater strength facilitated more practical uses, especially nails 
it required huge (and ultimately very useful) trade networks to distribute the ore 
once the technique was known, pretty much anybody could make iron artifacts, whereas working bronze required far more training 
iron continued to be important up to the present, whereas bronze played an ever smaller role in human life 
No Answer
7. The Bronze Age was characterized in many parts of the world by the emergence of kingdoms, as opposed to chiefdoms. The principal difference is
a matter of scale 
the presence of metal 
the use of writing 
the prevalence of agriculture 
No Answer
8. A footnote in the text clarifies that the term “elites” is used by archaeologists to refer to classes of people
with life-and death power over others 
able to monopolize resources 
constituting the top 20% of the population, as measured by the simple weight of goods found in their graves 
living in cities supported by a rural hinterland of “peasants” 
who know calculus 
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9. The strong association between access to bronze artifacts and elite status, the essay argues, shows that
bronze was indeed perceived as extremely useful, but that only rich people could afford it 
bronze items were usually just for show 
ordinary people usually were prohibited from owning bronze objects 
No Answer
10. A conspicuous feature of Bronze Age kingdoms is huge inequality, with most states being ruled by monarchs (Select two.)
who would strike us as “corrupt” 
determined to raise the lot of the people at the bottom, but unable to do so because of insufficient resources 
who were usually killed in peasant revolts very soon after taking power 
able to stay in power only by the constant public beheadings and similar violent displays of power 
supported by ideological systems (usually religious) that dramatized the cosmic approval or inevitability of the power system 

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