World History Test

Study Guide
1. Why do historians use eras and time periods to explain human
activity?
2. What are different ways that people made and used calendars in
the past?
3. Give reasons why historians use many different resources to
study the past. Make sure to give examples of those resources.
4. Be able to read a passage and understand the main idea.
5. Understand the difference between primary and secondary
sources.
6. Read a passage and be able to tell whos point of view it is.
7. Why did people settle where they did because of the natural
environment?
8. Explain the impact of the Agricultural Revolution.
9. Compare and contrast the environment, economy, and society of
Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt.

10. Describe the importance of human language and how it helps a

culture develop.
11. Why did major river systems help permanent settlements to grow?
12. Describe three common features of early civilizations.
13. Define cultural diffusion.
14. Describe how cultural diffusion resulted in the spread of ideas and
technology from one region to another.
15. What is a pastoral society?
16. Explain how the climate and geography contributed to the rise of
pastoral societies in an area of the world. Be sure to name the area.
17. Describe three characteristics that classical civilizations share.

Locate a major empire

and describe its
geographic
characteristics. Do this
with three separate
empires.
18.
19. Suggest a relationship between these characteristics (mentioned in
#19)and the development of early empires.
20. Compare and contrast the characteristics of a city-state, civilization
and empire.

21. What was the importance of Greek ideas about democracy and
citizenship in the development of Western societies?
22. Describe major achievements from the Eastern civilizations in the
areas of:
a. art:
b. architecture:
c. Science:
d. technology and mathematics:
e. government:
23. Locate and then describe trade networks among empires in the
classical era.

24. Describe a specific situation to demonstrate how trade helped

cultures to mix and influenced the economy within empires.
25. Describe the role of the following in building lasting empires:
a. government:
b. military power:
c. tax systems:
d. forced labor such as slavery:
26.Describe the importance of the following in the development of
large regional empires:
a. laws:
b. belief systems:
c. written languages:
d. communication:
27Create a timeline that shows the rise and fall of classical empires
during the classical period.

28.

Draw an accurate sketch map of the Eastern Hemisphere.