WORLD HISTORY FALL SEMESTER EXAM STUDY SUIDE
CHAPTERS 1-4
1. Humanitys past based on written records is called_.
2. The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution describes the way life changed when people settled in
_and_animals.
3. The spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another through migration,
trade, and warfare is called__.
4. The Phoenicians were probably most responsible for an exchange of goods and ideas through _Sea trade.
5. The Fertile Crescent people that introduced their 22-letter alphabet that was adopted and
adapted by other cultures was the_
6. Identify the three Western civilization era names and dates:_-_;
7. The idea introduced by the Israelites that one's behavior should be based on a morał codę
following the laws of one Sod is known as_.
8. What kind of government most likely first developed in the earliest ancient civilizations?
9. Identify the 5 elements of a civilization:
10. Hinduism and Buddhism were both founded in__each believe in the_
of the soul, and each of their sacred writings echo righteous living and_to ones
fellow man.
11. Most scientists believe the_land bridge allowed people to migrate from Asia
to North America thousands of years ago.
12. One reasons the earliest civilization developed at the eastern end of the Fertile Crescent in
present-day Iraq was that the_in the area provided favorable conditions for
agriculture.
13. Hammurabi's codę of laws and Qin dynasty legalism are similar in that they both promoted
the idea that_punishment for crimes will lead to morę orderly society.
14. Neolithic Revolution term meaning “to have extra" food or goods is_.
15. The river valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates, the Nile, and the Indus were centers of
civilizations because they provided a means for_and to _.
16. Name of Babylonian king who greatest contribution to humankind was to introduce the world's
first written codę of laws._
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