Review Sheet

Review Sheet Chapter 3

1. What are the 6 earliest civilizations? Know where they developed and what

country it would be included in today?

2. What are 3 reasons there was a shift from an egalitarian society to a

patriarchal society with the birth of civilization?

3. What was crucial to Egypt’s agriculture?

4. What are 3 reasons why kingship emerged?

5. Which of the 6 civilizations we studied developed last?

6. Which of the 6 civilizations had the longest continuity into modern times?

7. Which of the early civilizations did not depend on grain production?

8. What is the foundation of all ancient civilizations?

9. Identify 3 ways social inequality was expressed

10. What are the 8 features of a civilization?

11. Which ancient civilization did not develop a written language?

12. Why was Mesopotamia unstable?

13. What are 3 important principle of Hammurabi’s Code?

14. What period in Egyptian history were the Great Pyramids built? What was

the capital?

15. What was the earliest civilization of Mesopotamia?

16. What were the two key cities of the Indus Valley?

17. What are two important primary sources for understanding Mesopotamia’s

laws, social classes, economy, and religious beliefs?

18. What two sources influenced the Hebrew’s Old Testament?

19. Why was Amenhotep revolutionary?

20. What is unique about Indus Valley civilization’s writing?

ONE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF EACH

Hyksos

Phoenicians

Hittites

Nubians

Review the 3 pictures on Indus Valley art

Define the following terms

Civilization

Anthropomorphic

Cuneiform

Hieroglyphics

Pyramid

Mummification

Rosetta Stone

Salinization

Ziggurats

City State

Mandate of Heaven

Divine Right Rule

Catal Huyuk

Oracle Bone

Quipu

Nubia

Civil Law

Criminal Law

Cataracts – (river)

King Menes

Hammurabi

Gilgamesh

Amenhotep

Hatshepsut

Inundation

Egalitarian

Coercion

Capricious