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Chapter 1: Before History
Questions:
1. Define Paleolithic
2. What are “Venus figurines?”
3. What does the term Neolithic mean?
4. Where did the earliest agricultural activity take place?
5. How did the gradual transformation from hunting and gathering to agriculture probably
occur? How did it spread?
6. As farming evolved, what new animals were domesticated?
7. What were the most significant positive and negative effects of the agricultural
transition on human society?
8. What Neolithic city developed in southern Turkey about 7000BCE.
Chapter 2: Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the IndoEuropean Migrations
Terms to know – Make sure to put dates of that people lived or empires
ruled
Ziggurats
Cuniform
Epic of Gilgamesh
Lex talionis
Yahweh
Sumerians
Babylonians
Assyrians
Phoenicians
Torah
Hittites
Hebrews
Israelites
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Jews
Monotheism
Polytheism
Questions:
1. The word Mesopotamia means what? Mesopotamia refers to the fertile valleys
between what two rivers?
2. Where was the first complex society developed in southern Mesopotamia?
3. What were the technological innovations of the early Mesopotamians?
4. How did these innovations contribute to the development of the culture and to its
overall economic prosperity?
5. What was the significance of the need for irrigation to the political development of
Mesopotamia?
6. Who was the creator of the first empire in Mesopotamia?
7. What code did Hammurabi use to help maintain his empire?
8. The Babylonians fell to the __________ in 1595 BCE.
9. What Mesopotamian society built the largest empire?
10. What metal did the Mesopotamians make when they alloyed copper and tin?
11. Was Mesopotamia a strict patriarchal society?
12. What are the basic features of the Jewish religion?
13. What form of writing did the Phoenicians use?
Where was the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans?
14. Where and how did the Indo-European cultures spread through Eurasia?
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Chapter 3: Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations
Terms to know – Make sure to put dates of that people lived or empires
ruled
Mummification
Pyramids
Hieroglyphics
Archaic Period
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Amon-Re
Osiris
Hyksos
Menes
Ahmosis
Tuthmosis III
Hatshepsut
Akhenaton
Questions:
1. Agriculture in the Nile Valley helped develop _________, the most powerful of the
early agricultural societies in Africa.
2. The phrase “the gift of the Nile” to describe what country?
3. By around 9000BCE people in Eastern Sudan began to domesticate _______ and
became ________ herders.
4. How did climatic change influence the early development of African cultures?
5. The largest Egyptian pyramids were built during the _________ Kingdom.
6. Were the Pharaohs in the Middle Kingdom more or less powerful than in the Old
Kingdom?
7. In the mid-seventh century BCE Egypt became a part of the _________ Empire.
8. Did women enjoy much freedom in Egyptian society?
9. Were Egyptian and Nubian societies patriarchal?
10. Writing appeared in Egypt by 3200BCE, these writings were called __________,
from two Greek words meaning __________.
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11. The Egyptian God of the underworld was how?
12. How did Egyptian religious beliefs reflect their society?
13. What tribe beginning around 3000BCE, began to spread their language and
agricultural techniques throughout Africa?
14. Agriculture spread through sub-Saharan Africa considerably later than it did through
other parts of the world. Why do you think this is so?
15. The Bantu originally came from what area?
16. How did the Bantu migrations influence the development of the societies of subSaharan Africa?
17. By the middle of the first millennium BCE, the Bantu had begun to produce what
metal?
Chapter 4: Early Societies in South Asia
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dynasties ruled
Samsara
Karma
Moksha
Sati
Lawbook of Manu
Rig Veda
Upanishads
Dravidian
Indo-European
Aryans
Caste
Varna
Jati
Brahmins
Kshatriyas
Vaishyas
Shudras
Indra
Varuna
Brahman
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Questions:
1. The earliest known civilization in India was?
2. What river made agricultural society possible in northern India?
3. Harappa depended strongly on agriculture, but it also engaged in _________? (Pg. 92)
4. Why is so little known about the Harappan society?
5. What were the two main cities (capitals) of the first Indian society?
6. Harappan religion reflected a strong concern for ________.
7. The Indo-Europeans that migrated into India were ________. (Pg. 96)
8. Describe Aryan society and their social and religious institutions.
9. What was the big military advantage of the Indo-Europeans?
10. Most of our information about the early Aryans comes from the _______.
11. What are the origins of the caste system? Make sure to include a discussion of varna
and jati.
12. What types of rules governed the caste system?
13. What is the order of the early varna hierarchy from the highest to the lowest.
14. The Dravidians were usually from what rank of the varna hierarchy?
15. What were the advantages of the caste system to the development of Indian societies
during this time period?
16. Was the Vedic society strongly patriarchal?
17. The most important aspect of the Aryan religion during the early Vedic times was the
proper performance of _________.
18. In Hinduism the highest goal of the individual soul was what?
19. What did the Upanishads stress?
20. Who are Vishnu and Shiva?
21. __________ is still the most prevalent religion of the Indian subcontinent.
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22. What aspects of this belief system make it so appealing to people?
23. How id Hinduism different from all other world religions?
Chapter 5: Early Society in East Asia
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dynasties ruled
Mandate of heaven
Tian
Book of Songs
Book of History
Book of Changes
Book of Rites
Yangshao society
Xia dynasty
Shang dynasty
Zhou dynasty
Qin dynasty
Oracle bones
King Yu
Confucius
Questions:
1. Human being first made their appearance in East Asia as early as __________ years
ago.
2. Chinese society began on the banks of the __________ River.
3. How did China’s isolation affect it?
4. What is the world’s largest classical empire?
5. Name the three dynasties from classical China.
6. Who was the legendary founder of the Xia dynasty?
7. The Shang rulers were able to strengthen their control because of what two
technological advantages? (Pg. 112)
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8. An important early capital of the Shang dynasty was ______, and the last capital of the
Shang dynasty was _________.
9. Which dynasty laid the foundation for a set of principles about government and
political legitimacy?
10. What does the term mandate of heaven mean?
11. Was the Zhou form of government centralized or decentralized?
12. One of the reasons for the eventual collapse of the Zhou dynasty was the inability of
its emperors to control the production of what?
13. When does the Period of the Warring States refer to?
14. Did the extended family have much influence on the family structure in China when
compared to other societies? Was Chinese society patriarchal?
15. During what dynasty did the Chinese begin to make extensive use of writing?
16. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a form of writing that is pictographic
and ideographic (like Chinese) versus one that is alphabetic?
17. What was the purpose of oracle bones during the Shang dynasty?
18. What hindered the establishment direct long-distance trade relations between China
and other lands?
19. Most nomadic families did little farming, what did they do for food?
20. What knowledge did the nomads bring back from southwest Asia?
21. What type of relationship did the nomads and Chinese have?
22. Where did the Chinese influence spread to in the South? How did this area differ
from the Yellow River?
23. How did the indigenous people of southern China respond to the increasing
prominence of agriculture in their area?
24. What did the agricultural surpluses & growing populations lead to in China?