AP World History Unit 1 Study Guide
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What is the first recognizable cultural activity of human beings? ✔✔Stone tool making
Most early human activity centered on...? ✔✔Gathering food
What is
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AP World History Unit 1 Study Guide
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What is the first recognizable cultural activity of human beings? ✔✔Stone tool making
Most early human activity centered on...? ✔✔Gathering food
What is the relationship between tool making and meat eating in the Stone Age? ✔✔The increase
in meat eating is linked to increased tool making
The development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events are the subject
of...? ✔✔History
Since the foraging lifestyle was not particularly unpleasant or hard, foragers had a great deal of
time left for...? ✔✔Socializing, tool making, and creating art
What is NOT true about the transition to plant cultivation and animal domestication 10,000 years
ago? ✔✔It was rapid and complete
The most efficient method of clearing land for agriculture was by using...? ✔✔Fire
Women played a major role in the transition to crop cultivation because....? ✔✔They were the
primary gatherers of wild plant foods
The earliest transition to agriculture was...? ✔✔In the Middle East
Scholars feel that early domestication of animals did not provide...? ✔✔Transportation
The American continents contained very few domesticated animals because...? ✔✔There were
few species suitable for domestication
The gradual adoption of agriculture transformed the world most by causing...? ✔✔Global
population increase
How does the chapter suggest that farmers were able to displace foragers from fertile lands...?
✔✔The gradual peaceful infiltration on fertile lands
The religions of farming communities tended to focus on....? ✔✔An Earth Mother or female deity
Recent discoveries of large stones and burial chambers may indicate...? ✔✔Ancestor rituals
The growth of settled agricultural communities resulted in....? ✔✔Trade and craft specialization
The Neolithic town Catal Huyuk prospered from...? ✔✔Long-distance trade in obsidian, pottery,
and cloth
Metal working in the late Neolithic period was used for...? ✔✔Decoration or in ceremonies
What is NOT generally considered to be an attribute of civilization? ✔✔The absence of social
class divisions
Early societies developed civilizations in the floodplains of great rivers because the rivers and
floodplains provided...? ✔✔Fertile silt and water for agriculture
Creation myths often provide a society with a...? ✔✔Satisfactory explanation of its environment
Mesopotamia was sometimes seen as a dangerous place to live by its inhabitants because of...?
✔✔Flooding
Agriculture in Mesopotamia depended on...? ✔✔Artificial canals and irrigation
The earliest historically documented people of Mesopotamia were the...? ✔✔Sumerians
What is NOT included in the Semitic family of languages? ✔✔Elamite
The term city-state refers to...? ✔✔An urban center and the agricultural hinterlands it controlled
In Mesopotamian cities, the temples...? ✔✔Housed the cult of the deity or deities
In the third millennium B.C.E., the political system that became dominant in Sumer was...? ✔✔A
kingship with the support of priesthood and military
The first king to unite many Sumerian city-states under the control of one king was...? ✔✔Sargon
The Babylonian leader, Hammurabi, is best known for his...? ✔✔Law code
What motivated the Mesopotamian conquests for far-reaching territories? ✔✔The need for vital
resources
Surprisingly, merchant activity in Mesopotamia took place without...? ✔✔Coins
Historians can infer that Mesopotamian society was made up of...? ✔✔Three classes
Women in Mesopotamian society had a lower status than in a hunter-gatherer society because of...?
✔✔The shift of the major role in food provision from women to men
What about women in Mesopotamia was NOT true? ✔✔They could initiate divorce
Mesopotamian gods were anthropomorphic, meaning that they...? ✔✔Were human-like in form
and conduct
Mesopotamian priests...? ✔✔Inherited their positions from their fathers
The abundance or amulets suggests...? ✔✔The belief in the value of magic
The Mesopotamian writing system is called...? ✔✔Cuneiform
The Mesopotamians developed skill in bronze metallurgy. What was NOT considered an
advantage to bronze over other metals? ✔✔It is inexpensive
Although Mesopotamia was "resource poor," it did have abundant...? ✔✔Clay
The culture that developed in Egypt was unique largely because of...? ✔✔Egypt's natural isolation
and essential self-sufficiency
The annual flood of the Nile can best be characterized as...? ✔✔Fairly regular
What was NOT included among Egypt's natural resources? ✔✔Salt
A pivotal event in early Egyptian history was...? ✔✔The unification of all of Egypt under King
Menes
According to Egyptian belief, the function assigned by the gods to the Egyptian kings was to
maintain ma'at, or the...? ✔✔Divinely authorized order of the universe
The Mesopotamian law code is famous. What might account for the fact that Egypt did not create
a similar code of law? ✔✔As a god on earth, the king was the source of all law
Egyptian administrative and governmental records were...? ✔✔Written on papyrus, an early form
of paper
Compared to Mesopotamia, the Egyptian population...? ✔
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