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World Cultures
Study Guide
Directions: Complete the study guide below.
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What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Describe hunter-gathers.
What is slash-and-burn farming?
Explain the characteristics that make up a civilization.
Compare polytheism and monotheism.
Describe the importance of the following individuals: Sargon of
Akkad, Narmer, Nebaknezzar, Hammurabi, Moses, King
Solomon, Shi Hauangdi, Chandra Gupta, Asoka, Chandragupta
Maurya, Wudi, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great,
Augustus, Cyrus the Great, Muhammad
7. Describe the early river civilizations. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus
Valley, China
8. Who were the Aryans?
9. Explain Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Jainism, Christianity,
and Islam.
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How did Buddhism and Hinduism change over time?
11. Describe Daoism and the concept of the yin and yang.
12. What is the mandate of heaven?
13. Describe feudalism.
14.Explain the importance of the following Greek philosophers;
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Herodotus
15. What were the Persian Wars? Importance? Describe the major
battles.
16.Explain Athen’s golden age
17. What was the Peloponnesian War?
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Describe Hellenistic culture.
19.What allowed Rome to become so successful?
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What was a problem with the drastic increase of Roman
territory?
21. How did Rome transition from a Republic to an Empire?
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How did Romans treat conquered people?
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What led to the downfall of the Roman Empire?
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How did trade impact India?
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Why were Muslims able to create a vast empire?
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Characterize the following civilizations: Hittites, Minoans,
Phoenicians, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty,
Han Dynasty, Greece, Rome, Mauryan, Gupta
*Potential Short Answer Questions
27. What causes led to the fall of the Roman Empire?
28. How does geography impact the development of civilizations? (Egypt,
Greece, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, China, Rome)
29. Compare Athens and Sparta.
30.What is the period attributed to the discovery of farming? How did
the discovery of farming impact humanity?
31. Compare how two empires govern differently. Possible Ex.
Assyrians, Persians, Han, Rome
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