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AP Global Studies: Guided Reading
As You Read, answer:
Before Civilization
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Where were the earliest complex societies?
a. Mesopotamia
b. Egypt
c. Pakistan
d. Northern China
e. All of the above
To what year does the Epic of Gilgamesh date?
a. 5000BCE
b. 2000BCE
c. 0CE
What are the 8 characteristics of a civilization?
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Which of these describes clothing worn by early humans?
Check all that apply.
a. Animal skins
b. Close-fitting garments
c. Sewn with vegetable fibers & rawhide
d. Loose-fitting garments
10. In what ways did Neolithic people manipulate or adapt to
their environment?
Agricultural Revolutions
11. Why is the transition to agriculture marked as a turning
point in history?
12. What types of tools aided the Agricultural Revolution?
4.
List 3 things that are part of culture.
5.
What is the date range for the Stone Age?
a. 2 million years ago – 4,000 years ago
b. 2 million years ago – 2,000 years ago
c. 4,000 years ago – 2,000 years ago
Which Age was associated with agriculture?
a. Stone
b. Paleolithic
c. Neolithic
What were the responsibilities of Ice Age women?
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7.
13. Where did the transition to agriculture begin?
a. Eastern Asia
b. Nile River Valley
c. Middle East
14. What role did women play in the Agricultural Revolution?
15. What was the first domesticated animal?
a. Cow
b. Sheep
c. Dog
16. What animals were domesticated in the Eastern
Hemisphere?
8.
Why do foragers live in small bands?
17. What animals were domesticated in the Western
Hemisphere?
18. What was the most common in arid parts of Africa and
Central Asia?
a. Farming
b. Foraging
c. Pastoralism
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19. What is the most accepted reason for why the
Agricultural Revolution occurred?
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27. What group populated southern Mesopotamia by
5000BCE?
a. Sumerians
b. Shi’ites
c. Babylonians
28. What cultures did Sumerians interact with, as
documented by historical evidence?
Life in Neolithic Communities
20. What were the detrimental parts of agriculture for early
farmers?
29. Describe the government hierarchy from city-states to
towns.
21. What was a factor in why farming replaced foraging?
a. Higher survival rates
b. Preferable community lifestyle
c. Gradual infiltration
22. What was the foundation of social structure in Neolithic
farming communities?
23. Write one example of an early society’s religious beliefs
reflecting nature.
24. What town was located on the west bank of the Jordan
River?
a. Catal Huyuk
b. Jericho
c. Babylon
25. What was unique about homes in Catal Huyuk?
Mesopotamia
26. Why did Mesopotamians use irrigation rather than
natural spring floods to make their lands fertile for
agriculture?
30. Who played prominent political and economic roles in
early communities?
a. Farmers
b. Merchants
c. Priests
31. What was the system of writing in Mesopotamia?
a. Hieroglyphics
b. Akkadian
c. Cuneiform
32. What Babylonian leader launched military campaigns to
gain territory and installed a famous law code?
a. Amorites
b. Sargon
c. Hammurabi
33. What were the three social divisions in Babylon, which
can be used as a comparison to other early civilizations?
34. Sumerian gods embodied:
a. Animals
b. Forces of nature
c. Ancestors
35. What were large temples called in Mesopotamia?
a. Pyramids
b. Ziggurats
c. Churches
36. What metals did Mesopotamians work with and what did
they make?
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37. What military technology was imported from Asia?
a. Cavalry
b. Horse-drawn chariots
c. Compound bows
Egypt & Indus Valley
38. Why were Egyptians able to rely on the Nile for their
agriculture?
a. Floods were violent and unpredictable
b. Floods occurred regularly each year to fertilize
the land
c. The ebb and flow of successful regimes is linked
to Nile floods
39. In what ways did Egyptians utilize their environment?
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a.
More Egyptians lived in rural villages & engaged
in agriculture
b. Towns were more crucial in Egypt to the
economy than in Mesopotamia
c. Egyptians found wealth from trade, while
Mesopotamians found wealth from agriculture
45. Which civilization experienced more invasions and
cultural influx: Mesopotamia or Egypt?
46. With what civilization were Egyptians interested in
trading, and sometimes claimed as part of their empire?
a. Babylon
b. Nubia
c. Punt
47. What are the two major cities from the Indus Valley
civilization?
48. In what way are metal artifacts found in the Indus Valley
different from those found in Mesopotamia and Egypt?
40. What was the relationship of Egyptians with their gods?
41. Which city was capital during the Old Kingdom?
a. Cairo
b. Memphis
c. Thebes
42. What city was capital during the Middle and New
Kingdom periods?
a. Memphis
b. Cairo
c. Thebes
43. What was the writing form of Egyptians?
a. Cuneiform
b. Hieroglyphics
c. Papyrus
44. How was the distribution of the Egyptian population
different from Mesopotamians?
49. What caused the Indus Valley people to abandon their
cities around 1900BCE?
a. Invaders destroyed cities
b. Systems failure
c. Ecological failures
50. What was the dominant political form in both Egypt and
Mesopotamia?
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Big Questions
Chapter 1
1. How have changes in the environment influenced the physical development of the human species?
2. What effects did the agricultural revolutions have on Neolithic societies?
3.
Explain how the earliest civilizations developed in challenging environments.
4. Draw connections between the organization of labor resources in early civilizations and their social and political
structures.
5. Trace the development of social and political institutions and religious beliefs in river-valley civilizations and
understand the relationship between these institutions and beliefs and their experiences with the natural
environment.