Download world history 1: midyear review

WORLD HISTORY 1: MIDYEAR REVIEW
Your Midyear Exam in World History 1 will cover material from the following units:
•Early Civilizations (about 10% of the questions)
•Ancient Greece (about 90% of the questions)
The exam will include multiple choice, matching, short answer, and map questions.
Use the information that follows to help you review.
1. EARLY CIVILIZATIONS UNIT
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
•What is the difference between “prehistory” and “history?” (see textbook p.4)
•Why was the Neolithic Revolution considered a turning point for human societies? (see textbook
p.8-10)
•What features make a society a full-fledged “civilization?” (see textbook p.11-13)
•What geographic features helped make the earliest civilizations possible in Egypt, Sumer (also
called Mesopotamia), India, and China? (see textbook p.20-21, 30-31, 52-53, 76-79)
•When is a civilization considered an “empire?” (see textbook p.24)
2. ANCIENT GREECE UNIT
Map locations:
Aegean Sea
Alexandria
Athens
Crete
Macedonia
Sicily
Sparta
Troy
Map skills:
Reading a key
Using a scale
Describing relative location
Describing absolute location
Terms to know:
Minoans
fresco
Mycenaeans
"Dark Age"
Iliad and Odyssey
polis
Athens
direct democracy
ostracism
Sparta
hoplite
phalanx
Persian Wars
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
"Golden Age of Athens"
Three Orders of Style (types of columns)
Delian League
Peloponnesian War
Syracuse expedition
philosophy
Hellenistic culture
People to know:
Homer
Darius I
Miltiades
Xerxes
Leonidas
Themistocles
Pericles
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Philip II
Alexander the Great
Ptolemy
Textbook selections to review:
p.107-109; 113-120
p.138-141
Class notes to review:
Greece map & timeline
Atlantis & the Trojan War
Greek Art & Architecture
Philosophy’s "Big Three”
Alexander the Great: 4 Themes
Other readings:
“Gadfly of Ancient Greece”
Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
Your Great Greek “About Me”
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
•How was Mycenaean civilization different from Minoan?
•Why did the Spartans build a society devoted exclusively
to military strength?
•What were the keys to the Greeks defeating the Persians?
•What was the cause of the Peloponnesian War?
Dates/Events:
490 B.C - First Persian War
480-479 B.C. - Second Persian War
431-404 B.C. - Peloponnesian War
399 B.C. - Trial & death of Socrates
323 B.C. - Death of Alexander
•What were the Athenian and Spartan strategies in the
Peloponnesian War?
•Why was Socrates executed?
•How were Plato and Aristotle different in the ways they
tried to gain knowledge?
•How did Alexander the Great spread Greek culture to
other regions?