Study Guide
November 2015
Name: ___________________________
From Paleolithic to Neolithic; Beginning of Civilization; Mesopotamia
What materials will I need?
1.
Reading Notes (From Hunter Gatherers to Farmers) also, on the back you should
have a timeline review (in class activity on 11/12 and 11/17)
2.
“Birth of Civilization” movie notes (in class activity on 11/13 and 11/16)
3.
“Mesopotamia: Problems and Solutions” (in class activity on 11/18)
4.
“Mesopotamia: Then and Now” (homework on 11/18)
5.
“Agriculture and Settlements” map/atlas activity (in class activity on 11/19)
What questions will I need to be able to answer?
1.
What development separated the Neolithic Age from the Paleolithic Age?
2.
What was the greatest (immediate) benefit of farming?
3.
Why did many Neolithic homes have their doorways high up in the walls?
4.
Why did people live in larger communities during the Neolithic age than in earlier
times?
5.
What happened to Neolithic traders as they travelled?
6.
What were the results of the development of specialized skills?
7.
What was true of both the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages?
8.
What was more difficult about living in Sumer than living in the Zagros foothills?
9.
Be able to recognize the differences in how hunter gatherers live as opposed to
how settled people live.
10.
Hunter-gatherers used fire for what purposes?
11.
What animal did hunter gatherers domesticate?
12.
What was the first part of the world to have agriculture?
(over)
13.
Ten square miles of land can support how many hunter gatherers? …agricultural
people?
14.
What did specialization of jobs mean to settled people?
15.
What is a surplus?
16.
Where was early Mesopotamia located?
17.
On any map, what has to be present to show absolute location?
18.
In what modern country would you find the ancient city of Jericho? Catal
Hoyuk?
19.
Why did people start building rectangular, rather than circular, houses?
20.
What did the ancient Egyptians domesticate, that made it possible for food to
taste sweeter?
21.
What early form of brain surgery did early humans practice?
22.
The council of elders that ancient people developed in early cities, was the first
form of what?
23.
Be able to recognize characteristics of early cities
24.
How did the people of ancient Sumer react to the problems they faced?
25.
Be able to label a timeline correctly with AD, BC, BCE, CE, Neolithic, Paleolithic.
26.
Be able to recognize what AD, BC, BCE, CE mean.
27.
Understand what the Ancient Romans had to do with the creation of the current
calendar.
Stone Age
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)
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New Stone Age (Neolithic)
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BC = _______________________
BCE = ___________________________
AD= _______________________
CE = ____________________________