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Voyages in World History
Chapter 1: The Peopling of the World to 4000 BCE
I. Introduction:
1. Who was Mungo Man?
2. What is Ocher?
II. The First Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa ca. 150,000 BCE
1. When did anatomically modern humans first arrive in Africa?
2. When did they first behave in recognizably human ways?
3. Define Homo sapiens sapiens
4. Define hominins
5. Define evolution
6. Define Mitochondrial Eve
III. How Modern Humans Populated Asia, Australia, and Europe
1. How and when did the first humans settle Asia?
2. How and when did the first humans settle Australia?
3. Using the First Art Objects of the World reading on Pg. 8-9. Which evidence
from the archaeological record (including but not limited to, the objects
discussed here) do you find most convincing as the earliest indication of
people becoming recognizably human? Why?
4. Define religion
5. How and when did the first humans settle Europe?
6. Using the Movement of Ideas Through Primary Sources reading on pgs. 1213 answer the following:
a. How do archaeologists determine if an idea or motif diffused from one
place to another or developed independently?
b. What constitutes evidence of religious belief among preliterate
peoples?
c. How have scholars interpreted female figurines found across Europe
between 26,000 and 23,000 BCE?
7. Define Neanderthals
8. Why did the Neanderthal die out?
IV. The Settling of the Americas ca. 14,000-12,000 BCE
1. How and when did humans settle the Americas?
2. Explain the Theory of Human Migration involving Beringia?
3. What is the significance of Monte Verde, Chile?
4. What is Stratigraphy?
5. Define Carbon- 14 and what is it used for?
6. Explain the Clovis Technological Complex?
V. The Emergence of Agriculture
1. How and where did humans begin to cultivate plants?
2. How did agriculture’s impact vary around the world?
3. What is agriculture?
4. What does the term Neolithic mean?
5. Who were the Natufians? Explain!
6. What is the historical significance of Catalhoyuk? Explain!
VI. Using the Chapter Summary on Pg. 24 List the 5 most important take a ways
from the chapter
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Voyages in World History
Chapter 2: The First Complex Societies in the Eastern Mediterranean c. 4000-550
BCE
I. Introduction
1. What does Mesopotamia stand for?
2. Where is Mesopotamia located?
3. Who was Gilgamesh?
II. The Emergence of Complex Societies in Mesopotamia, ca. 3100- 1590 BCE
1. How do scholars define a complex society?
2. How do historians use the term city-state?
3. How does Gilgamesh describe the city -state of Urk?
4. What is bronze and how did Mesopotamians use it?
5. How did Mesopotamians use the wheel? What is the historical significance of
the Wheel?
6. Define Sumer
7. What is Cuneiform?
8. Explain Sumerian Religion
9. Describe the Sumerian system of Government
10. What empire took over after the fall of the Akkadians?
11. Who was Hammurabi?
12. Describe in detail The Code of Hammurabi
III. Egypt During the Old and Middle Kingdoms, ca 3100- 1500 BCE
1. Define the term pharaoh
2. Describe the climate and geography of Egypt
3. Why was the Nile River more reliable that the Tigris and Euphrates?
4. Define Hieroglyphics
5. Define Papyrus
6. Summarize the government system of Egypt
7. Describe the social structure of Egypt
8. What is the Rosetta Stone?
9. What was the Old Kingdom?
10. Explain what Egyptians believed about the after life
11. What was the Middle Kingdom?
12. What were the similarities in the political structure, religion, and social
structure in Mesopotamia and Egypt? What were the main differences?
IV. The International System
1. How did the International system of the eastern Mediterranean take shape,
and how did it function?
2. Describe the New Kingdom of Egypt
3. Describe the collapse of the New Kingdom and who took control?
4. Who were the Hittites?
5. What is iron and what was it used for?
6. Using the Visual Evidence in Primary Sources reading on Pgs. 46-47 answer
the following questions:
a. What kind of information about the world of the living and their ideas
about the dead can historians learn from the primary source of
Hornedjitef’s mummified body and interior coffin?
b. Historians always consider the issue of typicality. With his lavish
mummification, which social level does Hornedjitef represent? Why is
it not appropriate to use the information from Hornedjitef’s mummy
to analyze the burial customs of the Egyptian poor?
V. Syria- Palestine and New Empires in Western Asia, 1200-500 BCE
1. Why was the lightly populated and politically weak region of the eastern
Mediterranean important?
2. Define monotheism
3. Describe in detail the history of the Hebrews according to the Hebrew Bible
4. Using The Flood Narrative in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible on
Pgs. 50-51 answer the following questions:
a. What are the similarities between the two versions of the flood story?
b. What are the differences?
c. Explain why the later version diverges from the original
5. Describe in detail the history of the Ancient Hebrews according to the
archaeological evidence
6. List 3 important aspects of the Assyrians
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7. Explain the Babylonian Exile or Captivity
8. How did the Hebrew Bible take shape?
9. What is the Torah?
10. Define the term Jew
VII. Using the Chapter Summary on Pgs. 54-55 List the 5 most important take a
ways from the chapter
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