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World History
Mid –term Study Guide
Mr. Latham
Answer all questions in complete sentences
Chap. 1
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What is geography?
Anthropology is the study of what?
What are the three (3) periods of the stone –age?
What is another name for the Neolithic Revolution? And its causes?
Anthropology is the study of what?
Give the definition of an economy.
What is culture?
Name the eight parts of civilization.
Give the definition of technology.
Name the three (3) species of Human Hominids.
What class are you in?
What does an archaeologist study?
What is culture?
What was the four (4) river valley civilizations studied this semester?
What is the definition of an economy?
What are the characteristics of a civilization?
What was the Bronze Age?
Know the following terms from chap. 1: nomad, hunter-gatherer, domestication, slash and
burn farming, artifacts, specialization, scribes, cuneiform,
Chap. 2
Mesopotamia
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What is the Fertile Crescent?
Where is Mesopotamia located?
What are ziggurats?
Describe a theocracy?
What is the job of a scribe?
What is polytheism?
Give examples of Sumerian inventions.
Know the following terms from chap. 2: cultural diffusion, city-state, Fertile Crescent, delta
Nile River Valley, Hammurabi,
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Why did the people of Egypt depend on the Nile River?
What is silt?
Explain why the early farming villages prospered in Egypt?
How did the Egyptians control the Nile River?
What were the three (3) kingdoms of ancient Egypt?
Know the following terms: delta, pharaoh, pyramid, mummification, papyrus, and
hieroglyphics, theocracy, hieroglyphics.
Indus River Valley
What is a subcontinent?
What are the monsoons?
Why did the people of the Indus Valley depend on the monsoons?
Why is there a lack of information on the people of the Indus Valley?
How were the planned cities of the Indus Valley different from other early cities?
River dynasties in China
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What factors led China to be isolated from other civilizations?
How did this isolation affect the people of China?
What environmental challenges the people of the Indus valley faced?
Know the following terms: loess, oracle bones, mandate from heaven, dynastic cycle.
Chap. 17
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What was the renaissance?
Why did the renaissance begin in Italy?
Why did a wealthy merchant class develop in Italy?
Describe a renaissance man.
What did the northern humanist believe in?
Who was Johann Gutenberg?
What impact did the printing press have on the people?
What was the reformation and what were the causes?
Who was Martin Luther?
What were the 95 theses?
Why did Henry the Eighth want to annul his marriage?
What did John Calvin believe in?
Explain the Catholic Reformation.
Know the following terms: humanism, secular, vernacular, William Shakespeare, indulgence,
protestant, annul, indulgence, predestination, Anabaptist, reformation.
Chap. 19
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What was the three (3) G’s
Why were Europeans looking for new trade routes?
Why did Moctezuma offer tribute to Cortes?
What is a conquistador?
Why were the Spanish victorious over the natives they encountered?
What new technology made exploration possible?
What types of ship did the Europeans used to explore?
Know the following terms from chap. 19: Prince Henry, Treaty of Tordsillas, Vasco da Gama,
astrolabe, mercantilism, caravel, Vasco de Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernan Cortes,
Bartolomeu Dias, Dutch East India Company
Chap. 20
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What is mercantilism?
Why were the colonies good for the mother country?
Why did the Spanish and the Portuguese need slaves from Africa?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What was the triangular trade?
Know the following terms from chap. 20: conquistador, mestizo, encomienda, colony, pilgrims,
puritans, French and Indian War, metacom, middle passage, Columbian Exchange, capitalism,
joint stock company.
Paleolithic Era
(Old Stone Age)
2,000,000 B.C.E. - 8,000 B.C.E.
Neolithic Era
(New Stone Age)
8,000 B.C.E.- 2,000 B.C.E.
Lifestyle
Nomadic; in groups of up to 50;
tribal society; hunters and
gatherers
Sedentary....They farmed in
permanent settlements and
raised/herded animals; agriculture
was discovered and became a major
source of food; families evolved.
Economy
There was no concept of private
property
The concept of private property and
ownership emerged for things such
as land, livestock and tools.
Art
Cave paintings
Wall paintings
Technology
Fire; Rough stone tools
Agriculture and tools with polished
stones
Food
Hunted and gathered for their
food supply.
They grew crops such as corn,
wheat, beans, etc. Raised/herded
animals for milk and meat.
1a. What does the author mean by “nomadic” in the second row of the table?
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1b. Based on the table above, explain the difference between a “nomadic” and “sedentary”
lifestyle.
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1c. How did Paleolithic people’s lifestyle differ from Neolithic people’s lifestyle?
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1d. How did the methods for acquiring food differ between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras?
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2. Ancient Egyptians referred to their king as a pharaoh. What follows is a
description of the role of a pharaoh, found on a tomb:
“[A pharaoh] is a god by whose dealings one lives, the father and mother of all...
without an equal.”
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Based on the quotation, what did ancient Egyptians believe made the
pharaoh such a special person?
What type of power did the pharaoh have in Egypt?