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Pre-AP World History & Geography I – Semester 1 Midterm Review Packet

In order to prepare for your Semester 1 Pre-AP World History & Geography Exam, you should study the following:

a. the four test study guides that you received (and hopefully completed) during Semester 1

b. the information in this Semester 1 Midterm Review Packet

Copies of all of the above are on Ms. Frank's webpage on the BWHS website.

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1. What is the meaning of the term nomadic?

2. What is the meaning of the term domesticated?

3. Why did the ancient Egyptians build pyramids?

4. Why did Shi Huangdi order the burning of Confucian books?

5. Which TWO rivers influenced the early Indian civilization? _________________ and the ___________________

6. Who was Hammurabi?

7. Why did the ancient Greeks establish colonies?

8. What effect(s) did the Peloponnesian War have on Athens?

9. Sumer was made up of _________________________, instead of being united under one centralized government.

10. Be able to identify the location of each of the following: Nubia, Jerusalem, Canaan and Israel.

11. Answer the following about India's caste system:

a. It was based on ______________________________ and _______________________________.

b. Could people move easily from one caste to another during this lifetime?

c. Could people change their caste from one life to the next? ___________

d. What are the main castes/varnas within the caste system?

12. What is an aristocrat?

13. Identify which civilization/empire/dynasty is shown in each of the following maps:

14. How did Siddharta Gautama first attain enlightenment?

15. Identify the religion(s) associated with each of the following images:

____________________________________ _______________________ _____________________

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16. Be able to identify the locations of the civilizations of Sumer, ancient Egypt, the Indus River and the Huang He

on a map:

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17. Was Asoka an enlightened leader? What evidence supports that he was an enlightened ruler? What evidence

supports the position that he was not an enlightened ruler? What was his approach to the people he conquered and

over which he ruled?

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