PEGS Quiz

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1 Which social scientists primarily study the scarcity of resources and the distribution of goods and services?

	anthropologists
	political scientists
	economists
	historians

2 One way in which Hammurabi and Justinian are similar is that they successfully

	established public education systems
	codified the laws of their empire
	instituted democratic governments
	separated church and state

3 The Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall were both intended to

	halt the spread of communism
	isolate unpopular governments
	limit the movement of peoples
	keep people from smuggling illegal goods

4 The Columbian exchange is most closely associated with the beginnings of

	mercantilism
	humanism
	mass production
	scientific socialism

5 The Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra were important to ancient India because they were

	high mountain ranges that protected India from invasion
	great rivers that flowed through India's fertile northern plain
	Aryan gods to whom the priests prayed for rain
	ruling dynasties that united the people of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro