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World History
Unit I Review Worksheet
Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Civilization
The First People
What methods
are used to study
the distant past?
Anthropologists
Archeologists
What does
evidence suggest
about human
origins?
Key discoveries
Later Hominids
Modern Humans
How did early
people spread
around the
world?
The Ice Ages
Out of Africa
Adapting to New Environments
How did early
people adapt to
life in the Stone
Age?
People
Technology
Art and Religion
The Beginning of Agriculture
What new tools
and technologies
did early humans
develop during
the Neolithic (or
New Stone) Age?
Tools
Technology
Plants
How did early
agriculture
develop and
spread?
Animals
Growth of Agriculture
Early farming societies
In what ways did
the development
of agriculture
change Stone Age
society?
New technologies
Çatal Hüyük
Ötzi the Iceman
Foundations of Civilization
Advances in Farming
Why did some
early villages
develop into
cities?
Changing Economies
Characteristics of Cities
Developed Cities
Organized Government
Formalized Religion
What
characterized the
world’s first
civilizations, and
where did they
develop?
Specialization of Labor
Social Classes
Record Keeping and Writing
The Arts
Environmental Influences
What factors
cause civilizations
to change over
time?
Spread of People and Ideas
Expansion and Warfare
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East
Mesopotamia and Sumer
How did
geography
promote
civilization in
Mesopotamia?
The Cities of Sumer
What features
defined the
civilization of
Religion and Government
Sumer?
Writing
Math and Science
What were
Sumer’s main
cultural
achievements?
The Arts
Trade and Society
Sargon’s Empire
What events led
to later empires
in Mesopotamia?
The Babylonian Empire
Fertile Crescent Empires
Indo-Europeans
What military
advantages
helped the
Hittites establish
an empire in Asia
Minor?
Hittite Military Might
Hittite Culture
The Assyrians
The Assyrian War Machine
What events led
to the rise and fall
of the Assyrian
Assyrian Rule
and Chaldean
empires?
The Chaldeans
Growth of a Trading Society
What were the
main
achievements of
the Phoenicians?
The Phoenician Alphabet
The Persian Empire
Persia under the Medes
Who shaped the
growth and
organization of
the Persian
Empire?
Cyrus the Great
Darius I
Persia in Decline
Teachings
What were the
main teachings of
Zoroastrianism?
Spread
Communication
What were the
most significant
Persian
achievements?
Art and Architecture
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Chapter 3: Nile Civilizations
The Kingdom of Egypt
The Geography of Egypt
How did
geography
influence Egypt’s
early history?
Two Kingdoms
Unification
Pyramids
What
achievements
were made in the
Old Kingdom?
The Pharaohs
Egyptian Bureaucracy
What happened
during the Middle
Kingdom?
Securing Egypt
The Reign of Hatshepsut
What was Egypt
like during the
New Kingdom?
Monotheism in Egypt
Ramses the Great
Egypt’s Decline
Egyptian Culture
Chief Gods and Goddesses
What were the
main principles of
Temples and Religious Practices
Egyptian
religion?
Teachings of the Afterlife
Why did
Egyptians
practice
mummification
and burial?
Mummification
Burial
Social Structure
What was daily
life like in ancient
Egypt?
Home and Family Life
Women and Children
Appearance and Customs
Egyptian Art
What advances
did Egyptians
make in art,
writing, and
science?
Egyptian Writing
Egyptian Math and Science
The Nubian Kingdoms
A Wealth of Resources
What were the
lands and people
of Nubia like?
Nubia’s People
Early History
The Beginnings of Kushite Power
How did Kush
grow into a major
civilization?
The Kushites in Egypt
Kushite Culture
The City of Meroë
Iron Industry
How did Kushite
society change in
its later period?
Later Kushite Culture & The Decline of Meroë