World Cultures Study Guide

Chapter 1

1) What is the Neolithic Revolution?

2) What do anthropologists study?
3) What do archaeologists study?
4) What is prehistory?
5) Know the difference between primary and secondary sources
6) What is the paleolithic era?
7) Early hominids used stone tools
8) Where did the first humans appear?
9) What are hunters and gathers
10) What are Australopithecines?
11) What are Homo erectus?
12) What are Neanderthals?
13) Homo Sapiens are modern humans

Chapter 2

1) What Persian emperor conquered Babylon?

2) Who united Persia?
3) What is a colony?
4) The Phoenicians had an alphabet
5) Who united upper and lower Egypt?
6) Why was the Nile important?
7) What is a dynasty?
8) What is a Pharaoh and what are they considered?
9) What kind of social structure did the Egyptians have?
10) When Egypt got broken into two who reunited it?
11) Who conquered Egypt?

Chapter 3

1) Who Developed Hinduism?

2) Who is the all-powerful force in Hinduism?
3) What are the two major forms of Brahman?
4) What is the Hindu Caste system?
 5) No chance to leave your caste
6) Who are the untouchables?
7) They Believe in Reincarnation
8) What is Karma?
9) Who founded Buddhism?
10) What are the four Noble truths?
11) What is the goal of Buddhism?

Chapter 4

1) What are the two major Greek city states?

2) How did they trade?
3) What is a polis?
4) What are the three types of government?
5) What is a Phalanx?
6) Who won the PERSIAN WARS?
7) How many Persian wars are there?
8) What is the Delian League?
9) What is the Peloponnesian war?
10) How long was it?
11) How did Athens lose?
12) How allied with Sparta?

Chapter 5

1) How many Punic wars were there?

2) What happened in the first Punic war?
3) What happened in the second?
4) Who did the Romans attack?
5) What happened in the third Punic war?
6) What is imperialism?
7) Who is Julius Caesar?
8) How did he die?
9) Who is Octavian and Marc Antony?
10) Who is the first emperor of Rome?
11) What Roman sculptures supposed to symbolize?
12) Roman architecture symbolizes grandeur
13) How does Roman Law compare to ours?