Download 2016 Social Studies Review

2016 Social Studies Review
Map Skills
* Know the difference between political maps and physical maps.
* Know the features that help you read and understand maps. (Title, Compass, Key, Scale)
* Know the difference between latitude and longitude and be able to use them to find a
particular location.
* Know the difference between relative location and absolute location.
Five Themes of Geography
* Know the five themes of geography that geographers use to describe Earth and helps us
understand our world and how we fit into it. (Location, Place, Region, Movement, and Human‐
Environment Interaction)
Prehistory
* Know the difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic time period.
* Otzi and his link to the Neolithic Age
* Know what agricultural is and what happened as a result of the agricultural revolution.
* Know the location and place that archeologists believed the first humans appeared.
* Know the meaning and importance of domestication and how it applies to plants and
animals.
* Importance of tools and fire in Paleolithic and Neolithic Age
* Know what led to the emergence of more defined social ranking.
* Know where the world’s first civilizations arose.
* Know how rivers contributed to the survival of civilizations.
Four River Valley Civilizations
* Be able to name the three River Valley Civilizations and locate them on a map.
(Mesopotamia, Egypt, India)
* Know the importance of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of Mesopotamia and where
they’re located on a map.
* Know why an area of Mesopotamia is called The Fertile Crescent
* Know where the first evidence of agriculture was found.
* Know how the Mesopotamia farmers lived and some of the tools they used.
* Importance of division of labor and food surplus
* Know about the social class of the Sumerians. (Who is at the bottom, middle, and top?)
* Know who Sargon the Great is and the things he accomplished.
* Know the difference between artisans, scribes, and merchants.
* Know some of the great inventions of the Sumerians.
* Know how Hammurabi’s Code affected the people of Babylon.
* Know what cuneiform is and how it played an important role in history.
*Identify importance of irrigation, silt, city-states
Ancient Egypt
* Know what a dynasty is and when the dynasty came into power in Egypt.
* Know what type of plant the Egyptians used to make paper.
* Know what happened as a result of farming and trade.
* Know the role and duties of a pharaoh.
* Know about the Egyptian Social Structure or Egyptian Hierarchy (how people were ranked).
* Know importance of Nile River
* Know what cataracts are and how they affect traveling on the Nile River.
*Know what hieroglyphics are.
* Know why pharaohs built most temples and monuments in Egypt.
Ancient India
*Identify the five social classes of India
*Identify following rivers and physical traits of India
Eastern & Western Ghats
Indus River
Ganges River
Thar Desert
Deccan Plateau
Hindus Kush Mountains
Himalaya Mountains
Brahmaputra River
Ancient Greece
*Identify Democracy, Tyranny, Oligarchy, Monarchy
*Know similarities and differences between Athens and Sparta
*Describe Alexander the Great and the spread of Hellenistic Culture
Ancient Rome
*Describe Julius Caesar’s role in Rome’s transition from republic to empire
Vocabulary
Remus
Plebeian
Civil War
Romulus
Patrician
Pax Romana
Consul
Punic Wars Julius Caesar
Republic
Dictator
Senate
Caesar Augustus