FALL SEMESTER REVIEW
Rise of Early Civilizations
1. Neolithic Revolution-characteristics, other names
2. Basic characteristics of a civilization.
3. Prehistory-define.
4. Use of fire is an example of what?
5. Results of farming in Neolithic Revolution.
6. Who was Hammurabi?
7. Importance of Menes?
8. Who were the Hebrews (Jews)?
9. Leaders of the Persian Empire-accomplishments
10. Accomplishments of the Persians.
11. Define theocracy.
12. 1st writing system invented by:
13. 3 periods of Egyptian History:
14. Impact of the Phoenician alphabet.
15. Compare Judaism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism.
16. Who created the caste system?
17. The importance of Siddhartha Gautama.
18. What was the Silk Road?
19. Practice reading and understanding maps and charts. Look at the ones in your chapters and make sure
you can understand them and the questions asked.
20. Understand primary sources and excerpts from them.
China/India Questions
1. What was the likely cause of the decline of civilization in the Indus Valley?
21. Why was the Huang He River nicknamed the “River of Sorrows”?
22. How did the caste system in India function as a political institution?
23. What was the result of the Aryan invasion of India?
24. Who was the first ruler of the Maurya dynasty? What effect did changes in his governing style bring to
the dynasty?
25. What was the Mandate of Heaven?
26. Describe Confucianism – the philosophy, principles, beliefs
27. Describe Daoism – philosophy, beliefs
28. Describe Buddhism- founder, beliefs (including Four Noble Truths)
29. What is Nirvana?
30. What happened to Buddhism in India?
31. Describe the Gupta Empire of India – rulers, government structure, social structure, etc.
32. How were the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro organized?
33. Describe the government under the Shang dynasty.
34. Describe the contributions of Gupta India mathematicians.
35. Why was the Ganges River important to India?
36. What common geographical feature isolated both India and China from the rest of the world?
37. What was a result of this geographic isolation?
Greece
38. On a map, be able to locate Minoan Civilization (Crete).
39. On a map, be able to locate Sparta
40. On a map, be able to Mycenae
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41. On a map, be able to locate the location of the Trojan War
42. How did the Geography of Greece help form city-states?
43. Peloponnesian War – Who was fighting?
44. What was Alexander the Greats’ most lasting achievement?
45. What city was the center of the Hellenistic world?
46. What geographic features of Greece would help to connect it to the outside world?
47. Sparta – what did Spartans emphasize?
48. Which leader of Athens led it to its “Golden Age”?
49. Who established an empire from Greece, to Egypt, to India?
50. What was Greek politics known for creating?
51. What was the Trojan War most likely caused by?
52. What did Homer’s Epics the Iliad and the Odyssey reveal about Greece?
53. Why was the Delian League formed?
54. What is the Socratic Method?
55. Hellenistic Culture – What cultures did it blend?
Ch. 6 Rome
56. Who greatly influenced Rome in the fields of art and literature?
57. What did the Roman legal system do to the empire?
58. What was Rome’s attitude towards the Jews living in Palestine?
59. What was Jesus’ mission?
60. To what city did Constantine move his center of power to?
61. What contributed to Rome’s fall?
62. When was a dictator chosen to rule the Roman Republic?
63. Who did the Senate of Republic of Rome mainly represent?
Muslim World
64. Explain why Islam is considered a way of life.
65. What are the five Pillars of Faith?
66. How did Muhammad learn that Allah had chosen him as a prophet?
67. What does the word “Muslim” mean?
68. What does the word “Islam” mean?
69. How did nomadic traders in the Arabian Peninsula live?
70. What are the geographic features of the Arabian Peninsula?
71. What is the Kaa’ba? How was it used before Muhammad’s time?
72. Who were the Quraysh?
73. What was their response to Muhammad’s new faith?
74. What best describes Makkah (Mecca) in the 700’s?
75. What was Muhammad’s teaching on other monotheistic faiths?
76. After Muhammad’s death, what was the title of religious successor called?
77. Name the two sects of Islam that resulted from the division of the Muslim community?
78. Why did a division of the Muslim community occur? Be sure to know the key people.
79. Why is mathematics and science considered a major contribution of the Golden Age of Islam?
80. Create a list of contributions from the Muslim world to our society that we still use today.
81. What is “cultural diffusion”?
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Middle Ages
82. Who conquered the former Roman province of Gaul?
83. Under feudalism, lords granted land to vassals in exchange for what?
84. The manor economy was based on what?
85. Why did some religious people want to reform the Church during medieval times?
86. New agricultural technologies in the Middle Ages led to what?
87. How did the code chivalry affect medieval ideas about women?
88. What group made up the largest part of the population in feudal society?
89. The Church had great power over people during the Middle Ages because
90. How did the three-field system contribute to the agricultural revolution that took place during the
Middle Ages?
91. What responsibilities did the peasants have toward the lord of a manor? What about the Lord toward the
peasant?
92. Name three ways in which the Church shaped medieval life?
93. Why was the pope a powerful figure in medieval Europe?
94. How did Pope Innocent III assert the power of the Church?
95. What were the characteristics of Gothic architecture?
96. What was the chief goal of the Crusades?
97. How did Spain achieve political and religious unity?
98. What were three effects of the bubonic plague on medieval Europe?
99. What are the key characters of feudalism?
100.
Why is Joan of Arc remembered?
101.
Why did the Europeans join the Crusades? What were three results of the Crusades?
102.
What were three key results of the signing of the Magna Carta?
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