Ch 1 Study Guide

World History

 

  1. In our years, what does BC stand for? What was the last year BC?

 

 

  1. With what event does AD start? What is the first year AD?

 

 

  1. What does AD stand for? What does it mean in English?

 

 

  1. What is a decade?

 

  1. What is a century?

 

  1. Between what years did the 1st take place?

 

  1. In what century are we presently? In what century did the year 1776 fall?

 

  1. What is a 1000 year period called?

 

  1. What genus/species name do scientists use in referring to modern humans?

 

 

  1. According to scientists, when did modern humans begin to dominate the earth?

 

 

  1. What is another name for the Old Stone Age? About when did it come to an end?

 

 

  1. What kind of tools did people use during the above time period?

 

  1. What determined where people lived in the Old Stone Age?

 

 

  1. What major innovation did Old Stone Age people learn?

 

 

  1. What is another name for the New Stone Age? Between what years did it take place?

 

 

  1. What is the major difference between the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age?

 

 

  1. What did the rise of agriculture mean for determining where people lived?

 

 

  1. In what 3 areas of the world did agriculture seem to appear at about the same time?

 

 

  1. What is a civilization?

 

 

  1. What are 6 major components of a civilization?

 

 

  1. How did the rise of agriculture help develop a social structure?

 

 

  1. Between what two rivers and in what modern day country would you find the area known as Mesopotamia?

 

 

  1. What did the people in Mesopotamia learn to do that helped them improve their agriculture?

 

 

  1. What was a city-state?

 

 

  1. What group of people lived in Mesopotamia and started the earliest civilization?

 

 

  1. What is an empire?

 

 

  1. What group started the first empire? Who headed it?

 

 

  1. What empire did Hammurabi rule? For what is he best remembered?

 

 

  1. What does it mean that Hammurabi’s Code was based on the “principle of retaliation?”

 

 

  1. What were the Sumerians the 1st to do?

 

 

  1. What was cuneiform? What did they do it on? How did they preserve it?

 

 

  1. What did cuneiform allow the Sumerians to do?

 

 

  1. What was The Epic of Gilgamesh?

 

 

  1. What other accomplishments in the Sumerians do?

 

 

  1. What is bronze?

 

 

  1. On what river did the Egyptian civilization flourish?

 

 

  1. What are the three major time periods in Egyptian history?

 

 

  1. What is a dynasty?

 

 

  1. What was the title given to rulers in Egypt?

 

 

  1. Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

 

 

  1. What was the process that the Egyptians used to prepare a body for burial called?

 

 

  1. What did the process in #41 entail? Why?

 

 

  1. Where can you find the largest pyramid in Egypt?

 

 

  1. In which of the kingdoms did Egypt become the most powerful empire in SW Asia?

 

 

  1. What did most people do for a living in Egypt?

 

 

  1. What did the Egyptians base their calendar on? How many days did it have?

 

 

  1. Why did the Egyptians learn about medicine and the human body more than other people at the time?

 

 

  1. What religion did the Israelites practice?

 

 

  1. What is monotheism?

 

 

  1. Where did the Israelites build their capital?

 

 

  1. What is the holy book of Judaism?

 

 

  1. Where did the Assyrians come from?

 

 

  1. How did the Assyrians treat the people they conquered?

 

 

  1. What did the Assyrians learn to make their tools out of?

 

 

  1. Where did the Persians come from?

 

 

  1. How far E and W did the Persian Empire extend at its greatest size?

 

 

  1. How did the Persian treatment of conquered people differ from the Assyrians?

 

 

  1. Why did the Persians build a lot of roads?