Midterm Review & Study Guide
If you can write 6-minute answers in response to the following questions, you should do well on the midterm.
You can bring the following with you to the midterm: Major eras with bullets; Gilgamesh handout annotated.
1) Discuss the evidence that paleolithic peoples were more
egalitarian than later peoples. Is the evidence convincing? Why or why not?
2) What was the significance of the development of
agriculture?
3) What did it mean to be civilized to the Mespotamians who created the Gilgamesh story?
4) What are the essential elements of a “civilization”?
5) Please discuss the ideas and impact of two of the seminal
thinkers we have looked at so far.
6) Why was water so important in early societies? How might
a good leader manage the water needs of his or her society?
7) What do we know about the ancient Indus Valley peoples?
Why don’t we know more about them?
8) Strayer changes the term “hunter-gatherer” to
“gatherer-hunter.” In what way does this change reflect the values of the
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as expressed in the Hallmarks? Should other
scholars who write textbooks on World History adopt this change? Why or why
not?
9) In what ways were the Classical-era societies of the Americas different from those of Eurasia?
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