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Global Studies I Fall 2009
Name: ________________________ Class:________________
The following is a guide to study for your
midterm. You do not have to write the answers
to these questions; however, you should find
these answers in your notes and know them for
the midterm.
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Map Skills
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What is latitude?
What is longitude?
What is absolute location?
What is relative location?
What is a compass rose?
What purpose does a map key serve?
What purpose does a compass rose serve?
Ancient Greece
8.) How do the roots of modern society start in
Greece?
9.) What is the size of Greece?
10.) How would one describe the geography
of Greece?
11.) How was the sea important to the
development of Greece?
12.) How was the climate important to the
development of Greece?
13.) How did the mountains and land affect
the development of Greece?
14.) Who were the Mycenaeans?
15.) Where did the Mycenaeans settle?
16.) Who were the Minoans?
17.) What did the Minoans bring to Greek
culture?
18.) What did the Mycenaeans and Minoans
together create?
19.) What caused the Trojan War?
20.) How did the ancient people know about
the Trojan War?
21.) What happened in the Trojan War?
22.) How was the Trojan War won?
23.) What quote refers to the winning of the
Trojan War?
24.) What was written about the Trojan War?
25.) Who proved the Trojan War actually
occurred?
26.) What is a polis?
27.) What is an acropolis?
28.) What is an agora?
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Who ruled a monarchy?
Who ruled an aristocracy?
Who ruled an oligarchy?
Who ruled a democracy?
What were the 2 largest Greek citystates?
What was the government of Athens?
What does having citizenship mean as
far as duty?
What did Athens encourage in its
people?
How did Sparta gain territory?
What were its conquered neighbors
called?
Why was Spartan society so harsh?
What qualities did Sparta value?
What defined the life of a Spartan male?
What defined the life of a Spartan
female?
What were the Spartans discouraged
from?
What is the quote about Spartans and
what does it mean?
What changed that allowed the army to
include the poor?
What is a phalanx?
What was the Battle of Marathon and
why was it important?
Who was Pericles?
What did Pericles do?
What is direct democracy and how could
the poor participate?
What 3 factors unified Greeks?
What did Greeks call all non-Greeks?
What was the Peloponnesian War?
Why did Sparta attack Athens?
What killed 1/3 of the population of
Athens?
How long did the Peloponnesian War
last and who won?
What was the result of the
Peloponnesian War?
How did the Greeks demonstrate that
religion was important to them?
Who were the chief Greek gods?
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Global Studies I Fall 2009
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What Greek religious festival do we still
celebrate today?
Why did the Greeks develop myths?
What is the best example of Greek
architecture?
How did the Greeks see the human
body?
How did the Greeks portray people in
sculpture?
What does philosopher mean?
How did philosophers seek to
understand the universe?
What did Socrates teach/say about life
and what does it mean?
Who was Plato?
Who was Aristotle?
Who did Aristotle teach?
Why was Herodotus important?
Why was Hippocrates important?
Why was Pythagoras important?
Where was Macedonia?
How did the Greeks think of Macedonia
and how did they think of themselves?
Who was the emperor of Macedonia that
conquered the Greeks?
What happened at the Battle of
Chaeronea?
How did Alexander the Great come to
the throne?
What did Alexander do to prove his
power to the Greeks?
What did Alexander conquer?
What period/culture did Alexander
create?
What happened to Alexander’s empire
after he died?
What is Hellenistic culture?
Ancient Rome
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How would one describe the geography
of Rome?
What 3 groups competed for control of
the region of Rome?
What did each of those 3 groups bring to
Rome?
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What is a republic and what does it
mean?
What is a patrician?
What is a plebian?
What is a tribune?
What is a consul?
What was the senate?
What were the Twelve Tables and where
were they hung?
What were the 3 reasons for the success
of Rome?
What geographical feature allowed
Rome to trade?
What were the Punic Wars?
Who was Hannibal?
What was the result of the Punic Wars?
What did the Romans call the
Mediterranean and why?
What were latifundia and how did they
affect the poor?
What was the 1st Triumvirate?
How to Julius Caesar come to power?
How and when did Julius Caesar die?
Who was the 1st dictator of Rome?
Who was the 1st emperor of Rome?
What was the period of Roman Peace
called and how long did it last?
How large was the Roman Empire at its
peak?
What was the occupation of the majority
of Romans?
What was the denarius?
Why were Roman roads important?
What does “bread and circus” refer to?
How prevalent was slavery in Rome?
Where did Greco-Roman culture come
from?
How were Roman sculptures different
than Greek?
What building material were Romans the
1st to use?
What were aqueducts?
What language did the Romans use?
Why was this language important?
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119.) How was Rome important to modern
law?
120.) Why did Rome fall? What happened to
its economy, army, government, and
people?
121.) What did Diocletian do to the empire?
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What did Constantine do to the empire?
What are mercenaries?
Who invaded Rome and from where?
What date did Rome fall?
What happened to the eastern half after
Rome fell?