World History



World History

First Quarter Study Guide

IMPORTANT

-All students will complete the first 50 questions of this study guide.

-Students may use their completed study guide during a review game to be played on Wednesday, the day before the First Quarter Exam.

- Study Guide will be 10 points extra credit for Standard Students

- Study Guide will be 5 points extra credit for Honors Students

THE EXAM: Will be all multiple choice, 35 multiple choice questions will be from the 50 questions below. The other 15 will be based off of primary source documents, maps, and charts. All questions are worth 2 points each.

Ch. 1 S. 2 & 3 (Week 1.2)

1. (Ch.1 S1) What are an archaeologist’s primary resources in learning about prehistoric people?

2. Why do some scholars think that Old Stone Age people created cave paintings?

3. What is the basic characteristic of a nomadic culture?

4. Why were the populations of early villages were able to grow?

5. Who occupied the top social class in ancient societies?

6. What pivotal event leads to the development of civilization?

7. What are the main features of civilization?

8. What did a ruler create when they conquered many cities and villages?

9. What is the most basic characteristics of civilization?

Ch. 2 (Week 1.3)

10. Why was the invention of iron in the ancient world important?

11. Why was Hammurabi’s Code important?

12. In the Sumerian civilization, what was the purpose of a ziggurat

13. What was the political organization of Sumer like?

14. What Sumerian innovation that later civilizations built on?

15. Describe the pharaoh’s role in Egypt

16. What skills made scribes were valuable to rulers?

17. In the bureaucracy of Egypt’s Old Kingdom, which officials supervised government matters, such as tax collection and the irrigation system?

18. Which group made up the majority of the population in ancient Egyptian society?

19. What have archaeologists uncovered about the people of the Indus civilization? (Ch. 3, S.1)

Ch. 3 (Week 1.4)

20. Which Maurya Emperor converted to Buddhism and vowed to rule by moral example?

21. What got in the way, or hindered, the migration of people in and out of China?

22. What is the ultimate goal of existence for Hindus?

23. A key difference between Hinduism and Buddhism is…?

24. What is the Mandate of Heaven?

25. Why did Shi Huangdi order the construction of the Great Wall?

26. What are Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths?

27. What is the main concern of the philosophy of Daoism?

28. What did Confucius believe about family relations?

Ch. 4 (Week 1.6)

29. Which Greek-speaking people dominated the Aegean world from about 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C., and probably started the Trojan War?

30. What was a form of government in the Greek city-state where power was in the hands of a small, wealthy elite that came from the middle class?

31. Greek architecture, as shown by the Parthenon, seeks to reflect

32. Why did some Spartan women have the responsibility of running the family’s estate?

33. What was a result of the Peloponnesian War?

34. In what ways did Athens differ from Sparta?

35. What did Cleisthenes do around 507 B.C. that changed the government of Athens?

36. How did Pericles govern Athens?

37. What does Plato describe in, The Republic?

Ch. 5 (Week 1.7 & 1.8)

38. What is the difference between a consul and a dictator?

39. In the early Roman republic, what were members of the landholding upper class called?

40. During the early republic, why was it important that Roman laws were written on 12 tablets and shown to the public?

41. In the Punic Wars, who did Rome defeat to gain control of lands around the western Mediterranean Sea?

42. Why did Julius Caesar’s enemies assassinate him?

43. What did the Romans use their engineering skills to build?

44. Roman architecture emphasized what characteristic?

45. What important change did the Roman emperor Constantine make in A.D. 313?

46. What contributed to the economic weakening of the late Roman empire?

47. How did Romans treat the peoples that they conquered?

48. What is the relationship between the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and Judaism?

49. Who was Jesus of Nazareth?

50. How did Roman emperor Diocletian, try to restore order to the empire?

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