Guided Reading 1



A.P. World History

Guided Reading 1

"The Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations”

TERMS:

1. culture

2. foragers

3. animal domestication

4. pastorialism

5. matrilineal/patrilineal lineages

6. megaliths

7. Civilizations

8. Babylonian Creation Myth

9. City-State

10. Lugal

11. Cuneiform

12. Dynasty

13. Hammurabi’s Law Code

14. Scribes

15. Anthropomorphic gods

16. Ziggurat

17. Amulets

18. Technology

19. Cataract

20. Pharaoh

21. Ma’at

22. Pyramid / The Great Pyramid

23. The Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom / New Kingdom

24. Hieroglyphics

25. Rosetta Stone

26. Papyrus

27. Mummy / mummification

INDIVIDUALS:

28. Sumerians

29. Semites

30. Hammurabi

31. Menes

PLACES:

32. Lascaux

33. Çatal Hüyük

34. Mesopotamia

35. The Fertile Crescent

36. Nile Delta

37. “Upper Egypt / Lower Egypt”

38. Memphis

39. Thebes

40. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

PERIODS/ERAS

41. The Great Ice Age (Pleistocene epoch)

42. Stone Age

43. Paleolithic period

44. Neolithic period

45. Agricultural Revolutions

WORKS OF ART OR LITERATURE

46. The Epic of Gilgamesh

47. The Egyptian Book of the Dead

QUESTIONS TO OUTLINE

1. Outline the characteristics of the primitive agricultural, pastoral and foraging societies. *

2. What were the positive aspects of hunting and gathering as a way of life - list.

3. Why was the Neolithic Revolution considered so highly significant? How did the Neolithic Revolution effect gender roles?

4. Compare and contrast homo sapiens and homo erectus in regards to surviving.

5. Compare the slave systems of Mesopotamian empires and Egypt.

6. List the indicators of a “civilization”.

7. How did the religious beliefs in Mesopotamia and in Egypt reflect the relationships between the environment and the people?

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