World History Midterm Review

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World History Midterm Review

• Mr. Oberholtzer
• A-36

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Midterm Content Areas

• 100 Objective Questions
• Broken into 3 Sections (Six Social Institutions,
  Early Man, Early Civilizations)
• Main Idea Questions
• Cut and Pasted from previous exams
• You have seen this before!

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What You Need to Know About

• Six Social Institutions
• define family explain
• identify the worlds great religions what is
  monotheistic? Polytheistic?
• Define acculturation
• how does government work? Why does it exist?
• Define and explain economics
• laws of supply demand
• human wants needs
• terms GNP, macro, micro

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What You Need to Know About

• Early Man
• 4 Early Forms Australopithecus, Homo Erectus,
  Neanderthal Cro-Magnon
• Lifestyle hunter/gatherer, superior diet,
  exercise health
• Human Advantage perhensile ability, large brain,
  upright posture tools
• Eras-paleo-old, meso, middle, neo-new
• Human Origins Creationism (Ussher) Evolution
  (Darwin)

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What You Need to Know About

• Early Civilizations
• Civilization Begins
• all civilization is agriculture based
• towns cities develop out of need to irrigate
• hydraulic societies are those that irrigate
• focus of culture is in the city urban centered!

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Early Civilizations Review

• Mesopotamia
• land between the Tigris Euphrates Rivers
  alluvial soil
• Sumer--1st civilization
• Conquest Reconquest many empires!
• Invented the wheel, sailboat
• Cuneiform writing 1st Information Revolution
• architecture--mudbrick
• ziggurat
• walled cities

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Early Civilizations Review

• Egypt (NE Africa)
• Nile Valley alluvial soil
• Isolated geographically
• Technology pottery wheel, sailboat, stone tools
• Centered around strong leader (pharaoh) high
  organization
• Achievements
• hieroglyphics (writing)
• pyramids
• mathematics
• complex religion
• embalming

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Early Civilizations Review

• China
• The Middle Kingdom most populous nation on
  Earth--1.2 billion people
• Huang He River cradle of Chinese Civilization
• Isolated Xenophobic
• 5 Early Dynasties Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang
• Modern China Sun Yat-Sen
• Communist China Mao
• Achievements of Chinese Culture
• writing, paper
• philosophy (Confucianism, Taoism)
• art, literature

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The Essay Question

• Use the Essay to tell the story of Man from the
  Dawn of Time to Civilization
• The Process (1) Hunter-Gatherer--(2)population
  explosion--(3)invention of agriculture, the few
  provide for the many--(4)rise of Towns and Cities
  to facilitate irrigation---(5)Urban centered
  culture--velocity of human achievement increases
  as civilization advances