Pre-AP World History
Miss McDonald
Name: _______________________
Date: _____________ Block: _____
Unit One Review Guide:
Early Man and River Valley Civilizations
Directions: Be sure to be familiar with the following terms, concepts, ideas, etc. You should be able to provide
background information (who, what, when, where), but also state the significance (yeah, so what?) and find
connections. Everything is listed in alphabetical order, not by order on test or order in textbook.
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Advantages of Egypt
Agriculture in Egypt
Agriculture in Mesopotamia
Aleppo and Jericho
Ancestor worship
Babylonian Empire
BCE
Carbon dating
Catalhoyuk
CE
Centuries
city-state
Civil service examinations
Comparing Paleolithic Era and Neolithic Era
Comparing political structure of River Valleys
Comparing religion of River Valleys
Crops during the Neolithic era
Cuneiform
development of agriculture
Domestication of plants and animals
Dynasty
Early Man’s capabilities
Effect of agriculture
Egypt
Egyptian afterlife
Egyptian hieroglyphics
Fertile Crescent
Foraging lifestyle
Fossils
Geography of river valleys
Hammurabi’s code
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
Harappa social classes
Hieroglyphics
hunting and gathering
Hyksos ability to conquer
Indus River Valley
Indus River Valley central government
Indus Valley system of writing
Irrigation
Location of Egypt
Location of Harappa
Location of Huang He River Valley
Location of Sumer
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Mandate of Heaven
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian afterlife
Migration of early man
Monarchy
mummification
natural resources
Neolithic Revolution
Oracle bones
Paleolithic
Paleolithic movements
Paleolithic vs. Neolithic
Prehistory
pyramids
region of East Asia
region of South Asia
region of the Indian Subcontinent
region of the Middle East
Regions
Respect for elders
Results of agriculture
Role of women in agricultural societies
Rosetta Stone
Sargon of Akkad
Silt
Stability of river valleys
staple crops in agricultural societies
Stonehenge
Sumer’s contacts with other peoples
The Code of Hammurabi
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Theocracy
Tomb
Types of crop cultivation
Women in Egypt
Yellow River Valley
Zhou Dynasty
Ziggurats