Chapter 1 Study Guide
(1) What are the 8 characteristics of a civilization?
(2) How were aspects of culture passed through generations?
(3) Why is the term "Agricultural Revolutions" more precise?
(4) Why would farmers leave some land fallow?
(5) What was the first domesticated animal? Why?
(6) What is selective breeding and why did they begin doing it?
(7) What animal in the Americas was domesticated? Why?
(8) What is pastoralism?
(9) Why was grain so important?
(10) What do most historians agree was the reason for the change from hunter-gathering to pastoalism?
(11) Why did agriculture not arise in drier parts of the world?
(12) How did farmers displace foragers?
(13) What are lineages?
(14) What were the differences between forager and farmer religions?
(15) What became a specialized occupation in the late Neolithic period?
(16) How did the nature of the Tigris and Euphrates River effect how settlers of that region saw themselves?
(17) How did Mesopotamians open new lands to agriculture?
(18) What are weirs?
(19) What were the two centers of power in Ancient Mesopotamia?
(20) What were the functions of the temples?
(21) What was a lugal?
(22) Why did the king gain power over the priesthood?
(23) How did kings in Mesopotamia present themselves?
(24) Who was Sargon?
(25) How did Sargon and his family secure their power? (there are many ways)
(26) What dynasty restored the Sumerian language and culture?
(27) How did they establish tigher gov’t control?
(28) Who were the Semitic Amorites? What did they do?
(29) Who gained political influence in the second millennium bce?
(30) How were slaves identified?
(31) What do anthropologists think about women in early civilizations?
(32) How did Mesopotamians see the temples?
(33) What is the message of the Babylonian Creation Myth?
(34) What was the purpose of the New Year’s Festival?
(35) What are the two definitions of technology? What are examples of both definitions?
(36) Why did scribes not want to simplify the writing process?
(37) What other technologies were developed in Ancient Mesopotamia and how were they used?
(38) Why does Egypt have a unique culture?
(39) What is meant by the term "triangular delta"?
(40) What is the different between the Black Land and Red Land?
(41) In which direction does the Nile River flow?
(42) Where was Kush?
(43) Which month does the Nile overflow?
(44) What is the connection between regimes and the floods?
(45) What other natural resources did Egypt have?
(46) What difference does this create between Egypt and Mesopotamia?
(47) Who unified Egypt? When?
(48) Into what periods do historians divide Egyptian history?
(49) How did Egyptians see their pharaohs?
(50) How did Egyptian masses possibly view the demand for labor?
(51) What was the job of the bureaucracy?
(52) For what did taxes pay?
(53) What is the Rosetta Stone?
(54) What types of literature other than records was written in Egypt?
(55) What was the cycle of Egyptian gov’t through the different time periods?
(56) What was the social make up of Ancient Egypt?
(57) How were women treated in Ancient Egypt?
(58) What was the role of Re, Osiris, Isis, and Horus?
(59) What is meant by a hybrid god?
(60) What did the Egyptians believe about the after life?
(61) What technologies and knowledge did the Egyptians create?
(62) Explain the writing system in the Indus Valley.
(63) How did cities reveal detailed planning?
(64) What do barracks show the Indus valley may have had?
(65) What do some scholars think was the reason behind standardization?
(2) How were aspects of culture passed through generations?
(3) Why is the term "Agricultural Revolutions" more precise?
(4) Why would farmers leave some land fallow?
(5) What was the first domesticated animal? Why?
(6) What is selective breeding and why did they begin doing it?
(7) What animal in the Americas was domesticated? Why?
(8) What is pastoralism?
(9) Why was grain so important?
(10) What do most historians agree was the reason for the change from hunter-gathering to pastoalism?
(11) Why did agriculture not arise in drier parts of the world?
(12) How did farmers displace foragers?
(13) What are lineages?
(14) What were the differences between forager and farmer religions?
(15) What became a specialized occupation in the late Neolithic period?
(16) How did the nature of the Tigris and Euphrates River effect how settlers of that region saw themselves?
(17) How did Mesopotamians open new lands to agriculture?
(18) What are weirs?
(19) What were the two centers of power in Ancient Mesopotamia?
(20) What were the functions of the temples?
(21) What was a lugal?
(22) Why did the king gain power over the priesthood?
(23) How did kings in Mesopotamia present themselves?
(24) Who was Sargon?
(25) How did Sargon and his family secure their power? (there are many ways)
(26) What dynasty restored the Sumerian language and culture?
(27) How did they establish tigher gov’t control?
(28) Who were the Semitic Amorites? What did they do?
(29) Who gained political influence in the second millennium bce?
(30) How were slaves identified?
(31) What do anthropologists think about women in early civilizations?
(32) How did Mesopotamians see the temples?
(33) What is the message of the Babylonian Creation Myth?
(34) What was the purpose of the New Year’s Festival?
(35) What are the two definitions of technology? What are examples of both definitions?
(36) Why did scribes not want to simplify the writing process?
(37) What other technologies were developed in Ancient Mesopotamia and how were they used?
(38) Why does Egypt have a unique culture?
(39) What is meant by the term "triangular delta"?
(40) What is the different between the Black Land and Red Land?
(41) In which direction does the Nile River flow?
(42) Where was Kush?
(43) Which month does the Nile overflow?
(44) What is the connection between regimes and the floods?
(45) What other natural resources did Egypt have?
(46) What difference does this create between Egypt and Mesopotamia?
(47) Who unified Egypt? When?
(48) Into what periods do historians divide Egyptian history?
(49) How did Egyptians see their pharaohs?
(50) How did Egyptian masses possibly view the demand for labor?
(51) What was the job of the bureaucracy?
(52) For what did taxes pay?
(53) What is the Rosetta Stone?
(54) What types of literature other than records was written in Egypt?
(55) What was the cycle of Egyptian gov’t through the different time periods?
(56) What was the social make up of Ancient Egypt?
(57) How were women treated in Ancient Egypt?
(58) What was the role of Re, Osiris, Isis, and Horus?
(59) What is meant by a hybrid god?
(60) What did the Egyptians believe about the after life?
(61) What technologies and knowledge did the Egyptians create?
(62) Explain the writing system in the Indus Valley.
(63) How did cities reveal detailed planning?
(64) What do barracks show the Indus valley may have had?
(65) What do some scholars think was the reason behind standardization?
