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AP World History
Guided Reading: The Earth & Its Peoples
Chapter 1: From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River Valley
Civilizations
Before Civilization
Identify each term in context of its impact on the development of or evidence of
societies.
Lascaux
culture
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Agricultural
Revolutions
shifting cultivation/
swidden agriculture
maize & quinoa
animal
domestication
pastoralism
matrilineal &
patrilineal
megaliths
Çatal Hüyük
metallurgy
Focus Question: After nearly 2 million years of physical and cultural development, how
did human
communities in different parts of the world learn to manipulate nature?
AP World History
Guided Reading
Mesopotamia
Identify each term in context of its impact on emerging societies.
Anatolia
irrigation
agriculture
fallow
Sumerians
Semitic language
city-state
lugal
Sargon
Akkad
cuneiform
Babylon
Hammurabi
Code of
Hammurabi
anthropomorphic
gods
scribes
ziggurat
AP World History
Guided Reading
Egypt
Identify each term in context of its impact on emerging societies.
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
Kush (Nubia)
Menes
pharaoh
ma’at
Memphis &
Thebes
hieroglyphics
papyrus
Levant
Osiris
Amun
Focus Question: How did Mesopotamian civilization emerge, and what technologies
promoted its
advancement?
Focus Question: What role did the environment and religion play in the evolution of
Egyptian
civilization?
AP World History
Guided Reading
The Indus Valley Civilization
Identify each term in context of its impact on emerging societies.
Himalaya
Harappa
Mohenjo-Daro
urbanization
citadel
Indus River
standardization
issues with Indus
records
systems failure
Focus Question: What does the material evidence tell us about the nature of the Indus
Valley
civilization, and what is the most likely reason for its collapse