AP World Exam Review Packet #1: Foundations Era
1) Neolithic Age
2) Pastoralism
3) Sedentary
4) Patriarchal
5) Animism
6) Polytheism
7) Monotheism
8) Ziggurat
9) Kush
10) Olmecs
11) Huns
12) Syncretism
13) Monasticism
14) Zoroastrianism
15) Polis
16) Aristocracy
17) Tyranny
18) Karma
19) Nirvana
20) Brahma
21) Aryans
22) Brahmin
23) Dharma
24) Four Noble Truths
25) Jatis
Chap 1:
1) What was the Neolithic Revolution? Why was it important?
2) What are the requirements for Civilization?
Chap 2:
3) Describe the teachings/institutions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism
4) Describe the influence of merchants and the importance of commerce to China
Chap 3:
5) How did geography and environment influence Indian civilization
6) Describe Aryan society and their social and religious institutions
7) Describe the Hindu social hierarchy
8) What did Buddha teach and how did Buddhism challenge Hinduism
Chap 4:
9) How did geography influence the Greek & Roman civilizations?
10) What political institutions were common in the classical Mediterranean?
11) Explain the religious and philosophical ideas of classical Greece and Rome.
12) Describe the social divisions and gender relationships in the Greco-Roman world.
Chap 5:
13) What influences did civilizations have on peoples living near their borders?
14) What roles did pastoral nomads play in world history and commerce?
15) How was the collapse of classical empires similar and different?
16) How and why did new religions develop and spread?
Directions:
Locate and highlight
the centers of early
human civilization.
By using a different
shade, indicate the
growth that takes
place in each
civilization during
the Classical age.
Indicate the location
and direction of
nomadic threats to
classical civilizations.
Indicate the spread
of the major world
religions by the end
of the Foundations
era.