AP Global Studies: Guided Reading
As you read, answer:
Aegean Civilizations
The Middle East
12. What civilization was named for King Minos on Crete?
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13. What was the major palace of the Minoan civilization?
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What metal replaced bronze in manufacturing tools and
weapons starting in the first millennium BCE?
a. Iron
b. Copper
c. Steel
What is late Bronze Age in the Middle East referred to as
due to its widely shared cultures and lifestyles?
a. Cultural
b. Cosmopolitan
c. Persia
What were the two political zones of Mesopotamia by
1500BCE?
What group ruled in Anatolia from 1700-1200BCE?
a. Ashur
b. Kassites
c. Hittites
What military advantage did the Hittites have?
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14. What was found in shaft graves at Mycenae during an
excavation in 1876?
15. What was the writing system of Mycenae?
a. Cuneiform
b. Hieroglyphics
c. Linear B
16. With what other civilizations did Mycenaeans trade?
Fall of Late Bronze Age Civilizations
17. Around what year did Late Bronze Age civilizations fall?
New Kingdom Egypt
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7.
What was the first foreign group to rule Egypt, beginning
c. 1640BCE?
a. Hittites
b. Assyrians
c. Hyksos
What were some military advantages the Hyksos had
over the Egyptians?
18. What were the factors causing the fall of Late Bronze Age
civilizations?
19. What Age did the world enter after the fall?
Assyrian Empire
8.
What leaders expelled the Hyksos from Egypt and began
the New Kingdom around 1532BCE?
What pharaoh tried to install religious reform that put
Aten as the supreme deity?
a. Akhenaten
b. Hatshepsut
c. Ramsses II
10. What pharaoh is renowned for his building projects?
a. Ramessides
b. Ramesses II
c. Tutankhamen
11. With what groups did New Kingdom Egyptians trade?
20. Describe the importance of religion in the Neo-Assyrian
Empire.
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21. How did the Assyrians build their empire militarily?
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22. How did the Assyrians maintain control over conquered
territories?
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Phoenicia VS Carthage
27. What was the dominant Phoenician state?
a. Tyre
b. Carthage
c. Byblos
28. What was the Phoenician Triangle?
Israel
23. Where did Israelites settle?
24. Why did the loosely organized Israelite tribes unite under
a monarchy?
29. Describe the military prowess or composition of
Carthage.
25. What caused divisions among Israelite society?
30. Why did neighboring Greeks dislike Carthaginian
religion?
26. What was the Diaspora?
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Big Questions
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1. What environmental, technological, political, and cultural factors that led societies in the Mediterranean and Middle
East to develop their distinctive institutions and values?
2. Identify the geographical locations and the fundamental characteristics and historical development of these
societies and understand the role of migrations in their development.
3. Compare the structure and the goals and analyze the wider influence of the Assyrian and the Carthaginian empires.
4. Explain why some of these societies were destroyed or assimilated, while others survived.