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MID-TERM REVIEW
Name: __________________________
Date: _____
Geography/Early Man:
1. Identify continents and oceans; various locations in Middle East.
a. Be able to identify direction. Example: Which way would you travel to get from Pennsylvania to
England the fastest?
b. Hemispheres / Equator / Prime Meridian
c. Latitude - parallels / Longitude - meridians / Absolute and Relative Location
d. Be able to utilize map elements: title, scale, legend, compass rose
2. What does an Archeologist / Geographer / Historian study?
3. Earliest fossils were found on the continent of?
4. Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age) Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)
a. Time line – What discovery began the Paleolithic Age?
b. What discovery ended the Paleolithic Age?
c. How did food, shelter, communities, jobs, and trade differ in the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic
Age?
Sumerians / Mesopotamia:
5. Why did Sumerians build moats and walls around their cities?
6. Why did Northern Mesopotamians move to the valley?
7. Why did Sumerians use levees, canal, and dams?
8. What happened when people from many villages used the irrigation system?
9. Why were Sumerian settlements called city-states?
10. What does the word “Mesopotamia” mean?
11. What does “Stable Food Supply” mean? example
12. What does “System of Government” mean? example
13. What does “Specialization of Labor” mean? example
14. What is a “Social Level”? example
15. What is “Highly Developed Culture”? Example
16. What does “prehistoric” mean?
17. Were Sumerians prehistoric? Prove It.
18. What is the definition of “writing”? example
19. What is the definition of art? Example
20. What is the definition of music? Example
21. The Sumerians were a civilization but not an empire. What feature did the Akkadian, Babylonian, and
Assyrian empires have that the Sumerians lacked?
22. What did the Akkadians use steles for?
23. King Sargon created the worlds’ first…? How?
24. What is Hammurabi best known for?
25. What made the Babylonian society unique for its time?
26. Which empire was known for trading?
27. The Assyrians used siege techniques, battering rams, and movable towers for what purpose?
28. What were aqueducts used for?
29. Why did Nebuchadrezzar build two walls, some towers, and a moat around his capital?
30. With what problem did all four Mesopotamian empires have difficulty?
You will also be given Skill Development questions that ask you to use a passage/timeline/illustration to
answer questions.