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Review – More Early Years Part III

Global History and Geography Name: __________________________

E. Napp Date: __________________________

Part I: Practicing the NYS Global Multiple-Choice

|1. Which social scientist specializes in studying |8. Which aspect of social science would a geographer most likely study|

|issues such as the scarcity of resources and availability of goods? |in depth? |

|(1) anthropologist (3) economist |(1) how beliefs influence the behavior of a group of people |

|(2) sociologist (4) archaeologist |(2) how economic events influence history |

| |(3) how location influences the way people live |

|2. Which feature would most likely be shown on a physical map? |(4) how people influence governmental decisions |

|(1) population density (3) climate | |

|(2) vegetation zones (4) mountain ranges |9. One similarity between the ancient civilizations in Egypt and in |

| |China is that they developed |

|3. Which society practiced direct democracy? |(1) nomadic lifestyles |

|(1) ancient Athens (3) Gupta Empire |(2) monotheistic belief systems |

|(2) dynastic China (4) early Egypt |(3) democratic governments |

| |(4) written forms of communication |

|4. The caste system in India was characterized by | |

|(1) toleration for various religious beliefs |10. What effect did the geography of ancient Greece have on its early |

|(2) equality between men and women |development? |

|(3) a lack of social mobility |(1) The mountainous terrain led to the creation of independent |

|(4) the right of people to choose their occupations |city-states. |

| |(2) A lack of natural seaports limited communication. |

|5. Which belief is most closely associated with the philosophy of |(3) An inland location hindered trade and colonization. |

|Confucianism? |(4) Abundant natural resources encouraged self-sufficiency. |

|(1) nirvana (3) prayer | |

|(2) reincarnation (4) filial piety |11. One contribution of ancient Roman culture was the development of |

| |(1) the concept of zero |

|6. What was one result of large armies traveling great distances |(2) the process of making silk |

|during the Crusades? |(3) a republican form of government |

|(1) Europe’s population severely declined. |(4) the printing press |

|(2) Democracy in the Middle East grew. | |

|(3) Cultural diffusion increased. |12. What is considered one of the Byzantine |

|(4) Slavery was eliminated. |Empire’s greatest contributions to western |

| |European society? |

|7. Constantinople was a thriving city in the 1200s mainly because of |(1) spreading Hinduism throughout the region |

|its location on a major trade route between |(2) supporting the Catholic Church |

|(1) China and southern Africa |(3) defeating the Mongols at Kiev |

|(2) the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea |(4) preserving Greek and Roman culture |

|(3) the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire | |

|(4) Asia and eastern Europe |18. A similarity between Bantu migrations in Africa and migrations of |

|13. Which source of information is considered a primary source? |the ancient Aryans into South Asia is that both moved |

|(1) travel diary of Ibn Battuta |(1) across the Atlantic Ocean |

|(2) modern novel about the Golden Age of Islam |(2) from rural lands to urban areas |

|(3) textbook on the history of North Africa |(3) in search of additional food sources |

|(4) dictionary of English words adapted from |(4) for religious freedom |

|Arabic | |

| |19. The terms Brahma, dharma, and moksha are most closely associated |

|14. Which continent’s economic and political development has been |with which religion? |

|influenced by the Andes Mountains and the Amazon River? |(1) Judaism (3) Hinduism |

|(1) Asia (3) Europe |(2) Islam (4) animism |

|(2) Africa (4) South America | |

| |20. One reason the Euphrates, Indus, Nile, and Tigris valleys became |

|15. • Planting wheat and barley |centers of early civilization is that these valleys had |

|• Domesticating animals |(1) borders and elevations that were easy to |

|• Establishing permanent homes and villages |defend |

|At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution, the most direct impact |(2) rich deposits of coal and iron ores |

|of these developments was on |(3) the means for irrigation and transportation |

|(1) religion and government |(4) locations in regions of moderate climate and abundant rainfall |

|(2) transportation and trade | |

|(3) diet and shelter |21. Hammurabi’s Code, the Ten Commandments, and the Twelve Tables were|

|(4) climate and topography |all significant to their societies because they established |

| |(1) democratic governments |

|16. The terms masters, apprentices, and journeymen are most closely |(2) official religions |

|associated with the |(3) rules of behavior |

|(1) encomienda system of Latin America |(4) economic systems |

|(2) guild system of Europe in the Middle Ages | |

|(3) civil service system of China during the Tang |22. Italy, Korea, Spain, and India are similar in that each is |

|dynasty |considered |

|(4) caste system of India |(1) an archipelago |

| |(2) a peninsula |

|17. Confucianism had a strong impact on the |(3) a landlocked nation |

|development of China mainly because this |(4) an island nation |

|philosophy | |

|(1) established a basic structure for military rule |23. Olympic games, the poems of Homer, and |

|(2) provided a basis for social order |Hellenistic culture are associated with which ancient civilization? |

|(3) contained the framework for a communist |(1) Egyptian (3) Roman |

|government |(2) Greek (4) Phoenician |

|(4) stressed the importance of the individual | |

| | |

Part II: Complete the Global Regents Review Outlines Below – No Word Banks

I. The Neolithic Revolution

• Some people learned to _________ and domesticate animals.

• Agriculture _______.

• Permanent ___________ are established.

II. Africa’s Geography

• Africa is a continent. There are many ________ in Africa today.

• The equator runs through the ________ of Africa.

• Africa has many deserts. The Sahara desert is the __________ desert in the world. It is ____________ to farm in the desert.

• Africa has many fast-flowing rivers. The Nile River is not fast flowing but it is a birthplace of ___________ and the longest river.

• Africa has a smooth or regular coastline. It has few natural __________.

• There are savannas or ______________ in Africa.

III. Hindu Caste System

• The fixed social ___________ system of Hinduism

• Hindus are _________ into their castes and remain in their castes for a lifetime

• Priests, warriors, merchants, and farmers are the ______ castes

• Untouchables or ________ or dalits belong to no caste

• Today untouchability is illegal but ___________ still exists

IV. Feudalism

• a political and ________ system

• land is ________ for service

• existed during ________ Ages and in Feudal Japan

• Powerful lords own land and exchange parcels of land for _________ service

V. Judaism

• ancient Hebrew ___________

• Followers: _________ or Hebrews

• Monotheism-belief in ______ God

• influenced Christianity and __________

• Torah: sacred writing, early books of ________

• Ten Commandments: moral and _________ rules

VI. Athens

• ancient Greek city-______

• developed __________

• Only men born in Athens could ______

• ________, slaves, and foreigners could not vote

Part III: Complete the Review Passage below – No Word Banks

A) Archaeologists are scientists who find and study __________ or objects that people left behind. Artifacts include _______, weapons, pottery, and jewelry. In addition to the work of archaeologists, anthropologists provide insights into earlier people. Anthropologists are scientists who study the ______ of humanity (where humans first developed) and the world’s different _________.

B) Louis and Mary _________ were important anthropologists. They made exciting discoveries about early humans in the Great _______ Valley of East Africa. The Great Rift Valley is a series of canyons. The Leakeys collected stone tools and pieces of bone, skulls, and teeth in the Valley. Mary Leakey found a large skull in Olduvai Gorge. Tests showed that the skull was 1.75 million years old. Later she found footprints more than 3 million years _____. All of these discoveries led the Leakeys to believe that human life evolved or ________ in East Africa.

C) The Indus River Valley was another location of an early ______ valley civilization. As in ___________ and Egypt, when the Indus River flooded, it deposited rich soil along its banks. Food surpluses from successful agriculture allowed people to build large ______ like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. The people of this civilization, sometimes called the Harappans, made the first cotton cloth and developed their own form of ________. They also made pottery and built sewage systems in their cities.

D) Around 300 B.C., a great empire emerged in northern India – the Mauryan Empire. Its most significant ruler was King _______. He ruled from 269 B.C. to 232 B.C. Asoka was raised a Hindu. Hinduism was the traditional religion of ________. However, he converted to ____________ after witnessing a particularly bloody battle. When he converted to Buddhism, he became a tolerant ruler who decreed that people of _____ religions should live peacefully with one another. He improved roads, built hospitals, and sent teachers throughout the empire to encourage education and ________ the ideas of Buddhism. After Asoka’s death, the Mauryan Empire began to fall apart.

E) Islam is a monotheistic religion. It was founded by a man from ______ (Arabia) named Muhammad (Mohammed). Muhammad was involved in the caravan _______ and had contact with Jews and Christians. He was also a spiritual man who often went to the caves of Mecca to _______. While praying, he had a vision that commanded him to convert the Arab tribes to a single _______, known in Arabic as “_______”. The Arabic tribes worshipped many ______ but Muhammad wanted to convert them to the same God worshipped by ______ and Christians. Muhammad preached his beliefs and developed a large following.

Part IV: Practicing the Analysis of NYS Global Regents Documents

My name is Ogg, and I am a hunter. I usually walk a great distance each day to find my food. . . .

I continue to hunt for a living, even though many of my friends have given up. They have learned to plant crops and keep animals. They live in houses made of brick, stone, and grass.

One day, while returning from the hunt, I happened to pass the field of my friends Ulana and Lute. . . .

“Look how well we live,” Ulana replied. “We have a steady supply of meat, milk, vegetables, and wool. In fact, we have everything we need.” . . .

“We are not afraid, nor are we hungry. We all work together and help one another. Some till the soil. Others care for the animals. Still others make weapons and tools. We trade goods with people in other villages. You should give up the hunt and join us, Ogg. You will have a better life.” . . .

I left Ulana and continued to hunt for my food. But last week I returned from the hunt empty-handed every day. I was cold, tired, and hungry. . . .

Source: Henry Abraham and Irwin Pfeffer, Enjoying Global History, AMSCO

Identify one way that progress during the Neolithic Revolution helped Ulana and her friends.

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Then, about 6000 B.C., and somewhere in the Near East (as far as we know), the Neolithic way of life began. It is still called “Neolithic” (New Stone Age, as Mesolithic means Middle, and Paleolithic means Old Stone Age), because the older anthropologists saw everything in the light of stonework, and thought of this “period” as the age of polished stone axes. But it means, rather, a state of culture in which food is planted and bred, not hunted and gathered — in which food is domesticated, not wild. If we had to choose the greatest single change in human history right up to the present, this would be it. I mean, of course, a change by cultural evolution, as distinct from a biological change like standing erect, or gradually becoming able to use culture and language in the first place. And I do not mean that the change was sudden, or dramatic to those who were changing, as though a light were being switched on. It was dramatic, but long after, in its consequences, because everything else we have achieved flowed out of this as a beginning. . . .

— William Howells, Back of History, Doubleay & Co.

Based on this document, identify one important result of the Neolithic Revolution.

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. . . The late-medieval depression began well before the coming of the Black Death (1348–1349). The fundamental trends of demographic and economic decline were not set off by the plague, but they were enormously aggravated by it. Carried by fleas that infested black rats, the bubonic plague entered Europe along trade routes from the East and spread with frightening speed. The death toll cannot be determined with any precision. The best estimate would probably be to of Europe’s population. In many crowded towns the mortality rate may well have exceeded 50 percent, whereas isolated rural areas tended to be spared. Consequently, the most progressive, most enterprising, and best-trained Europeans were hit the hardest. Few urban families can have been spared altogether. Those who survived the terrible years 1348–1349 were subjected to periodic recurrences of the plague over the next three centuries. Fourteenth-century medical science was at a loss to explain the process of infection, and fourteenth-century urban sanitation was so primitive as to only encourage its spread. Some people fled their cities, some gave way to religious frenzy or stark hedonism [lack of moderation], and some remained faithfully at their posts, hoping for divine protection against the pestilence [disease]. But none can have emerged from the ordeal unaffected. . . .

Source: C.Warren Hollister, Medieval Europe: A Short History, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1968

Based on this document, identify two ways the Black Death spread throughout Europe.

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. . . Though the great princes were apt to remain aloof, western knights responded readily to the appeal of the holy war. Their motives were in part genuinely religious. They were ashamed to continue fighting amongst themselves; they wanted to fight for the Cross. But there was also a land-hunger to incite them, especially in northern France, where the practice of primogeniture [eldest son inherited all] was being established. As a lord grew unwilling to divide his property and its offices, now beginning to be concentrated round a stone-built castle, his younger sons had to seek their fortunes elsewhere. There was a general restlessness and taste for adventure in the knightly class in France, most marked among the Normans, who were only a few generations removed from nomadic freebooters. The opportunity for combining Christian duty with the acquisition of land in a southern climate was very attractive. The Church had reason to be pleased with the progress of the movement. Could it not be applied also to the eastern frontier of Christendom? . . .

Source: Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, Cambridge University Press, 1951

According to this document, state one reason European knights and soldiers joined the Crusades.

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Part V: Practicing the NYS Global Content Through Crossword Puzzles

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Word Bank:

Favorable Geography, Sparta, Food Sources, Traditional, Shinto, Climate, Twelve Tables, Shinto, Africa, Civilization

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Word Bank:

South America, Primary Source, Code of Hammurabi, Cultural Diffusion, Confucianism, Guild, Roman, Buddhism, Mediterranean, Neolithic

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