Study Guide: Mesopotamia, Ancient Hebrews and Ancient Egypt
Study Guide: Unit 1
Test on 5 themes of geography, Evolution, Paleolithic Era, Neolithic Revolution,
Test Date: Wednesday September 30, 2015
Directions: Use this sheet as a guide. If you can THOROUGHLY answer the questions on the sheet, as well as the key terms, you should be in good shape. I DO NOT SUGGEST only rereading the textbook. Prioritize YOUR NOTES FIRST. Then you should look at homework (including textbook), and class readings/ activities. Those three sources will help you answer the questions below. Good luck (
Key Terms/Concepts:
- geography
- Longitude vs Latitude
- Human vs. physical characteristics
- Anthropology
- Culture
- Archeology
- Artifacts
- Technology
- primary vs secondary sources (know examples)
- Old Stone age vs. New stone age
- evolution theories (Morton, Darwin, Creation)
- nomads/hunter gatherers
- domesticate
- Neanderthal, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Australopithecus
- Early art/ cave paintings
- Theory
- Complex religion
Key Understandings:
- What are the 5 themes of geography? Know some examples of each
- Know the definitions of the physical geographic features (worksheet given out in class)
- Who are historians? (What professions might the term historian include?)
- What skills must historians have?
- Why do historians have a difficult job?
- Where did early humans first emerge from? Be able to describe their migration path
- How did humans evolve over thousands of years?
o You should also know the main features that evolved in hominids and how those featured gave homo sapiens an advantage.
o What does Harari say about evolution? How is his theory different and similar to Darwin?
- Know the correct order of hominid evolution
- Know the 8-9 features of a civilization
- According to your hw reading, how did fire encourage the economic and social development of human societies?
- What does Paleolithic mean?
- Why was a Paleolithic lifestyle a difficult one?
- How do the paintings in the Lascaux caves suggest that Paleolithic people were advanced in some ways? What are some arguments saying that were not so advanced?
- What caused the Paleolithic era to end?
- Why was farming difficult?
- How did the adoption of an agricultural economy change people’s social groups?
- What were some pros/cons that people experienced once they settled down into farming communities? What were the pros/cons of living in Paleolithic (aka—know the notes from our debate!)
- What was the main idea from the Harari articles?
- Why is Catal Huyuk considered to be a transition settlement from Neolithic times into civilizations?
- How did people in Catal Huyuk live (know details covered in class!)
- Why did people live in Catal Huyuk/gather in this way?
- Why was Catal Huyuk not considered to be a full blown civilization?
Writing prep: (we will do this next week)
Make sure you know how to write a thesis statement! Memorize the components so that you can keep a mental checklist of what you have to complete on the test day!
Make sure you know how to write a topic sentence (memorize components)
Make sure you know how to write a full sentence for a piece of evidence (and make sure your evidence connects to your topic sentence/claim).
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