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What is history?
What is geography?
What kind of tools did people use during the Paleolithic Era?
How did tools improve during the Old Stone Age?
What were two ways people adapted to new environments?
What was one effect of the switch to farming?
What made civilization in Mesopotamia possible?
Why did the Mesopotamians create irrigation systems?
What were Sargon’s greatest accomplishments?
List several Sumerian inventions
What was Hammurabi’s most important accomplishment?
Describe the resources that the Nile provided and what impact they had on Egyptian society
In what Egyptian text would you find information about the afterlife?
Why was embalming important to the Egyptians?
What rights did Egyptian women have?
Why was finding the Rosetta Stone so important to scholars and historians?
What was the Caste System of ancient India? Why did it develop?
What did Buddha think about the Caste System?
List the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism:
How did becoming a Buddhist change Asoka’s behavior?
What were two Indian achievements in mathematics?
Who was Confucius/
What was the Mandate of Heaven?
What items were traded by the Chinese along the Silk Road?
Who were the Helots? What was their place in Spartan society?
Who was the greatest Greek doctor? What is he best known for?
Describe Plato’s idea of an ideal society according to his book, The Republic.
List and identify Homer’s two epic poems.
Describe Hellenistic culture (P.E.G.S.)
Why was the Egyptian city of Alexandria called the center of culture and learning?
What was Rome’s first written law code called?
Describe the efforts of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus to change Roman society and the result.
Describe the accomplishments of the Roman Emperor Augustus and how they improved Rome
Who was Justinian? What were his dreams and goals for the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire?
How was the Christian religion incorporated into the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire?
Describe the changes made in China after Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the Mongols and created the Ming
Dynasty.