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UNIT 1 TEST
Study Guide
Directions: This study guide is based off of the information on the test. All the questions on the test come from the
lectures, readings, or homework. Use your notes and the book to help you study.
Paleolithic/Neolithic:
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Hunters and Gathers
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Difference in early economic systems
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Gender Equality issues
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Geographic location of start of Neolithic Revolution
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Effects of early agriculture on social structures
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Pastoralism and the Americas
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How did early man communicate
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Forging lifestyle
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Early agriculture was based on what crops
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Population and agriculture
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How did early man get to the Americas
Early Belief Systems:
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Confucianism
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Mandate of Heaven
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Daoism
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Anthropomorphic
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Ma’at
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Importance of Pharaoh to Egyptian religion
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Legalism
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Yin and Yang
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Importance of the Hebrew Bible
People:
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Akhenaten
Sargon
Hammurabi
Hatshepshut
Heinrich Schliemann
Monotheism versus Polytheism
King David
Other:
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Scholar-Gentry
Swidden
Feng shui
Importance of the introduction of horses
City State
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Early Civilizations:
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Compare and Contrast early Greeks with Phoenicians
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Shang
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Zhou
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Differences between early Chinese civilizations and other
early civilizations
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Early trade networks
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Olmecs
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Similarities and differences between Mesopotamia and Egypt
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Indus River Valley
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Each early civilizations writing systems
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Differences in the American civilizations compared to the rest
of the early civilizations
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Sumerians
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Mesopotamian Social Structure
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Status of Women in Mesopotamia compared to Egypt
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Cuneiform versus Hieroglyphics
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Two main cities of the Indus River Valley
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Indus River Valley writing system
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First Chinese writing systems
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Characteristics of the later Eastern Zhou period
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Importance of Nubia to Egyptian trade
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Nubia versus the Assyrians
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What food made up the staple craps of the Americas
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Examples of animals the Americas domesticated
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Hyksos
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Minoans
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Mycenaeans
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Assyrians
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How did the Assyrians control conquered people
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Israel
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Chavin
Geography:
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Importance of river valleys
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Geography of early Greek civilizations
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The importance of geographic features in Early Mesopotamia
development
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Importance of Geography in Egypt
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Lands of Mesoamerica
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Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
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Nile River
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Huang He River
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Yellow River
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Indus River
Possible short essay questions (I might change the questions for to fit the test but if you know the information in these
examples essay questions you should be fine):
1. Characteristics of pastorialism/nomadic societies.
2. How long ago did hominids begin to evolve?
3. What period did people begin developing the arts?
4. Effects of pastorialism on history and society?
5. Characteristics and benefits of early agricultural societies?
6. Importance of bronze? Iron?
7. Reasons why cities are important to civilization?
8. How was Sumeria politically organized?
9. What event/happening do most historians begin the history of Egypt?
10. On what did Egyptian civilization depend?
11. How did ancient Egypt civilization and the Mesopotamian civilization resemble each other? How did they
differ?
12. What major similarities did the four great river systems have in common? Where are they? What
differences do they have?
13. Major characteristics of the Shang dynasty?
14. What was the longest Chinese dynasty and what were the factors for its longevity?
15. Major results for the fall of the Zhou Dynasty? What major philosophies came out of this time period?
Explain basic tenets of each.
16. What were the major roles of the scholar-gentry?
17. What are the “Five Relationships”?
18. What were the major civilizations in early Mesoamerica? Major reasons why pastorialism did not develop in
the Americas?
19. Most significant contribution of Judaism?
20. Contributions of the Phoenicians?