Chapter 1—Foundations 8000 BCE - 600 BCE Study Guide

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KEY TERMS Chapter 1—Foundations 8000 BCE - 600 BCE

For each term include time, place,a description and significance.

Periodization

Paleolithic Age,

Mesolithic,

Neolithic Age

Neolithic Revolution

Prehistoric

Metalworking

Civilization

Cuneiform

5 components of civilization

Çatal Hüyük

River Valley Civilizations:

Tigris-Euphrates Civilization

Mesopotamia

Sumerians

Egyptian Civilization

Indian River Valley Civilization
Harappa

Chinese River Valley Civilization

The Shang Dynasty

Jews

Phoenicians

Bronze Age

Hunting and gathering

Slash and burn agriculture

Nomads

Pastoral Nomads

Babylonians

Ideographic Culture

Homo sapiens

matrilocal

pastoralism

Jericho

Catal Hayouk

social differentiation

diffusion

Hammurabi

Hammurabi's Code

Aryan

Indo-Europeans

Meso America

Unit 1 –Foundations: Key Questions and Essay Topics

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  1. In what ways did geography and climate affect the development of human society?
  2. What were the economic and social results of the agricultural revolution?
  3. What is the most common source of change: connection/diffusion or independent invention?
  4. How do agricultural, pastoral and foraging societies differ? Use evidence from Africa, the Americas and Southeast Asia.
  5. What was the impact of agriculture on the environment?
  6. What was the importance of the introduction of bronze and iron?
  7. Compare the basic features of two early civilizations? Choose two of the following: Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, Shang, Indus
  1. Comparethe development of political structures in China with those in India.
  2. How did social and gender structures in India differ from theMediterranean?
  3. Which regions were favored as areas of human settlement, given the technology available during the Classic period?
  4. Describe the major classical period trading patters within and among China, India, and the Mediterranean?
  5. What were the scientific and technological contributions of China, India, and the Mediterranean?
  6. What were the artistic contributions of China, India, and the Mediterranean?
  7. What were the basic features of the major world belief systems?
  8. Polytheism
  9. Hinduism
  10. Daoism
  11. Judaism
  12. Christianity
  13. Buddhism
  14. What were the main emphases and the main changes in organized religion during the Classic period?
  15. What changes in population and culture were brought about by migrations? give an example
  1. What were the Greek approaches to science and philosophy? Explain the role of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
  1. What led to the diffusion of the major religions?
  2. Why was the collapse of empire more severe in western Europe than it was in the eastern Mediterranean or in China?

20. Make a time line of the use of stone, copper, civilization, bronze, Iron