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Unit 1 Review: Ancient Civilizations

Unit 1 Review: Ancient Civilizations. How did the environment impact the development of Chinese civilization?. How did the relations between Egypt & Nubia change over time?. How did the Olmec & Chavin meet the challenges of their different respective environments?.

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Unit 1 Review: Ancient Civilizations

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  1. Unit 1 Review: Ancient Civilizations

  2. How did the environment impact the development of Chinese civilization?

  3. How did the relations between Egypt & Nubia change over time?

  4. How did the Olmec & Chavin meet the challenges of their different respective environments?

  5. How did the kingship in Zhou China compare to that in Mesopotamia and Egypt?

  6. Compare Confucianism, Daoism & Legalism

  7. Compare human life for the Paleolithic & Neolithic Eras

  8. How did the status of women in Nubia compare to that in other civilizations?

  9. How did plant & animal domestication set the scene for emergence of civilization?

  10. How did the Nile River environment compare to Mesopotamia’s?

  11. How and why did writing develop and evolve? Compare and Contrast the writing system in the Indus River Valley, Mesopotamia, and Egypt

  12. How did social standing and freedom change for women from hunter gather period to the time of early Mesopotamia

  13. What was the writing system of Ancient China?

  14. What was believed to be the first monotheistic religion?

  15. How did Egypt politically and economically alter Nubia? Culturally?

  16. Describe Nubia’s cultural shift when the capital moved from the North to the South.

  17. Give examples of cultural diffusion

  18. How is pastoralism different than the domestication of animals?

  19. How did Mesopotamia’s conquest of other lands differ from that of New Egypt?

  20. How is ancestor worship different than other religious systems?

  21. What do scholars think happened to the Indus River Valley Civilization?

  22. What are the strongest similarities between China, Mesopotamia, Indus River Valley, and Egypt

  23. How did China interact with outsiders?

  24. Who developed monotheism in Israel, and why?

  25. An ambiguous term often used to denote complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits

  26. The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the 3rd millennium BC; responsible for cuneiform

  27. The period of the Stone Age associated with ancient Agricultural Revolutions

  28. A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks; associated with religious complexes in Ancient Mesopotamia; function is unknown

  29. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words/syllables; originated in Mesopotamia

  30. Amorite ruler of Babylon who conquered many cities in Mesopotamia and is best known for his code of laws

  31. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe; the divine ruler was the earthly keeper of this order

  32. Historian’s term for the period following the Bronze Age

  33. The first major urban civilization in South America, located in the Andes Mountains of Peru

  34. Fine silt that constitutes fertile soil of the Yellow River valley in Northern Chia

  35. Belief in the existence of a single divine entity

  36. The term for the various means by which ancient peoples attempted to determine the future

  37. The term for tracing the family lineage or inheritance through the mother; somewhat used in Ancient Egypt

  38. The winds that blow over India from the southwest in the summer and north east in the winter; bring rain and drought respectively

  39. The term for the lifestyle followed by foragers as well as most pastoralists

  40. Egyptian ruler that launched a massive building campaign even as Egypt was in a decline

  41. Egyptian monarch that took the throne upon the death of her husband, preventing her stepson from taking the throne until she died; ruled not only as queen, but as pharoah

  42. Name of the Shang Dynasty’s writing system

  43. Perhaps the world’s first monotheistic religion

  44. The system of organizing social groups based on family is called:

  45. Civilization to the south of Egypt rich in gold, etc…

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