:

a. large cities that dominate the countryside around them b. public building projects

c. increasing equality among all citizens d. written language

e. long distance trade

11.Confucianism encourages its followers to

(A) learn from foreigners better ways to excel

(B) experiment with new food crops
(C) believe that their rulers were not in any way divine
(D) seek principles of science
(E) follow ethical rules that promote harmony and order

14.The continuing importance of written language in Chinese culture may be traced to its
earliest use for

(A) issuing mandates from the emperor to subject warlords

(B) divination; communication with the ancestors
(C) trade with nomads to the west of the river valley settlements
(D) astronomical calculations that determine the planting and harvest seasons
(E) organizing the political bureaucracy

15.The spread of Greek culture all over the eastern Mediterranean and the former Persian
Empire is known as
(A) hellenization
(B) classicazation
(C) Athenization
(D) Olympization
(E) Delianism

16. Shifting cultivation was generally practiced