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Ancient Civilizations Review Guide
Directions: Please label your papers according to civilization and use the numbers and letters given.
1. For terms and names- define and explain significance to the civilization it is connected to.
2. Questions- write in complete sentences that incorporate the question into the answer.
Mesopotamia Chapter 2 Section 1
1. Polytheistic
5. cuneiform
9. Sumerians
2. city-state
6. empire
10. Hammurabi
3. ziggurat
7. patriarchal
11. Fertile Crescent
4. theocracy
8. Mesopotamia
A. Why was the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers able to sustain an early civilization? pg. 26
B. What principle was a fundamental part of the Code of Hammurabi? pg. 33
C. Why was writing so important in ancient civilizations? pg. 30
D. Around 3000 BC what was invented that greatly affected the transport of goods in Sumeria? pg. 31
Egypt Chapter 2 Section 2
1. Dynasty
5. hieratic script
2. Pharaoh
6. Great Pyramid
3. mummification
4. hieroglyphics
A. Finish labeling the social class pyramid for the social classes of Ancient Egypt. Draw and label the pyramid
on your paper please. Pg. 41
Ancient India Chapter 3 Section 1
1. Sanskrit
5. Mohenjo Daro
2. caste
3. Aryans
A. Describe the buildings of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. pg. 68
B. What did the development of writing allow the Aryans to do? pg. 70
C. Describe the caste system. pg. 71
4. Harappa
China Chapter 3 Section 3
1. Aristocracy
5. Dao
2. Mandate of Heaven
3. pictographs
4. ideographs
A. How did the Shang rulers communicate with the Gods? pg. 87
B. Describe what the dynastic cycle is. pg. 88
Mesoamerica Chapter 11 Sections 2 and 3
1. Heiroglyph
5. Teotihuacan
2. Mesoamerica
6. Mayan
3. Olmec
7. Yucatan Peninsula
4. Cahvin
A. Describe the unique stone carvings of the Olmec. pg. 373
B. Where in South America did the Chavin people call home? pg. 382
C. What is the difference between a ceremonial complex and a city? pg. 382
Greece Chapter 4
1. Athens
5. polis
2. Sparta
6. acropolis
3. oligarchy
7. Mycenae
4. democracy
8. Philosophy
A. In what ways did the Greeks honor their gods and goddesses? pg. 124-125
B. Identify and describe what forms of literature were developed in ancient Greece? pg. 111, 126-127
C. How was a Spartan man’s life different from an Athenian man’s? pg. 115-117
D. Describe the characteristics of a Greek city-state. pg. 112-113