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NAME: _______________________________________________DATE:_________________PERIOD:_____
World History Ch. 1-2 Exam Review
Directions: Answer all of the following questions using the internet, Cornell notes and textbook.
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The study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them is called
_______________________.
2.
The study of the ways of life of early peoples through the examination of their physical
remains is called ________________________________.
3.
Object made by people are _________________________.
4.
A complex, highly organized social order is called a _________________________________.
5.
Person who moves from place to place in search of food is called a
________________________.
6.
A huge sheet of ice is called a _______________________.
7.
A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding land is called
__________________________.
8.
The spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another is called
____________________________.
9.
__________________________ is the belief in only one god.
10.
The skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs are known as ____.
11.
The ____________________ is the earliest period of human history.
12.
The scientific name for human is ______________________.
13.
The ________________________ began when people gave up the nomadic life and
settled down to farm.
14.
Ancient people are called _________________ because they believed in many gods.
15.
_________________________, or skilled craft workers, made pottery or finely carved or
woven goods.
16.
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies is called __________________.
17.
Geography important to history because it shows us the connections between people,
places, and _____________.
18.
Archaeologists find out about early peoples by ____________________ up artifacts.
19.
Studying written evidence about the past is the job of a ___________________________.
20.
________________________is a characteristic of the Old Stone Age.
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The Stone Age people believe that there was life after _________________.
22.
The ____________________revolution was the change from hunting and food-gathering
to farming.
23.
A key feature of early civilizations was the development of __________________.
24.
Contact with other people through trade, warfare, and _________________caused
ancient civilizations to change.
25.
A new discovery about Stone Age life would most likely be made by an
___________________________.
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Historians help us learn about the past by collecting, evaluating and interpreting
___________________ evidence.
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Early people first begin to use stone tools in the _______________ Stone Age.
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The evidence we have that early people believed in life after death is that they
________________their dead with care.
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The change that characterized the New Stone Age is that people established
______________________ villages.
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The development of cities marked the beginning of ______________________.
31.
The first cities emerged in _____________________valleys.
32.
______________________ aided cultural diffusion among ancient peoples.
33.
Ancient Egyptians view their pharaohs as _______________.
34.
The Pyramid Age is another name for the __________ Kingdom.
35.
The Egyptians believed in life after ____________.
36.
The need to keep records led to the development of _____________________, a form of
writing in Egypt.
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Sumer was made up of independent _______________________.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is a poem recounting the adventures of a hero from
______________.
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The Code of Hammurabi was a major achievement because it was the first major
collection of _________________.
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According to the Torah, _____________________ united the Hebrew tribes into a single
nation.
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Egyptian art often features people from Nubia because after centuries of trade and
warfare between ____________ and Nubia, the Nubians were a part of
__________________culture.
42.
The __________________River is a geographic feature that had the greatest influence on
ancient Egypt.
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Most Egyptians were members of the ________________, which were at the bottom of
their social class.
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The movement of people across the Fertile Crescent resulted in the exchange of
____________________.
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The Sumerians differed from the Egyptians in the way they viewed their rulers because
they saw their rulers as the gods’ ___________________servants.
46.
Middle Eastern civilization was spread throughout the Mediterranean by the
___________________________, who also invented the alphabet.
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