Eventhough, your child has already taken the midterm. These questions will
be on the FINAL EXAM. So your child still needs to review these.
MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
1. Prehistory
2. Anthropologists
3. Louis Leakey
4. Another name for Paleolithic Era
5. Major change that happened in the Neolithic Revolution
6. Reason for disease in farming settlements
7. Factors of cultural diffusion
8. Location of early civilizations
9. 1st civilization
10. Sargon I
11. What did the Phoenicans develop
12. Assyrians
13. Early written code of laws
14. Explain how Cyrus the Great earned respect of people he conquered
15. Central to Persia’s communication system
16. Geography of Egypt
17. Use of Old Kingdoms Pyramids
18. Menes
19. Egyptian religion
20. Pharaohs
21. Mummification
22. Rosetta Stone
23. Importance of the location of the first civilization in India
24. Caste System
25. Moksha
26. Siddhartha Gautama
27. Buddhism
28. Shang achievements
29. Location of the first civilization in China
30. Asoka
31. Mycenaeans
32. Political unit in Greece
33. Location of the first democracy
34. Cause of the Persians Wars
35. Name the major Greek philosophers
36. Results of the Peloponnesian War
37. Socratic Method
38. Alexander the Great (what did he accomplish)
39. Factor that made Rome a powerful civilization
40. What replaced Etruscan rule?
41. Law of the Twelve Tables
42. Results of the Punic Wars
43. Characteristics of the Pax Romana
44. People in the 1st Triumvirate
45. How did Gracchi try to help soldiers
46. Paul of Tarsus
47. Reason tribes attacked Roman Empire in 400’s
48. Legalism
49. What idea spread from India to China over the Silk Road?
50. What empire united India?
51. Gupta period (why is called the golden age)
52. Mecca was known for _____ before Muhammad
53. Allah
54. Five Pillars of Islam
55. What does the Qur’an say about women
56. Islamic religious art
57. Architectural feature in Muslim mosques
58. Foundations of life in early African villages
59. Faith of West Africans
60. What changed farming practices in West Africa in 500 BC?
61. 2 advantages of the geography of Aksum
62. What contributed to the decline of Aksum
63. Identify Swahili
64. Way that Askia Muhammad show his commitment to Islam
65. Why was Constantinople location important?
66. Identify Justinian code
67. Identify Iconoclast
68. 2 ways that Cyril and Methodius helped Christianity spread to Russia
69. Charlemagne
70. Feudal Society
71. Obligations of a lord and vassel
72. Manorial system
73. Magna Carta
74. Who was on Edward I parliament?
75. Name the kingdoms that joined together during the Reconquista to
drive out the Moors.
76. Goal of Crusades
77. Result of Crusades
78. Important Italian trading city
79. Why were Europe’s banks created?
80. Effects of new farming technology in the Middle Ages
81. Purpose of trade guilds
82. Influenced Gothic architecture
83. Causes of hundred Years’ War and War of the Roses
84. Inquisition
MIDTERM TO FINAL STUDY GUIDE
1. Motives for exploration
2. Vasco da Gama’s goal
3. Encomienda system
4. Reason for the drastic drop in the Native American population
5. The goal of the European exploration in the Americas
6. The first English colony in North America
7. Tension between the English and French settlers led to
________________
8. African Diaspora
9. Columbian Exchange
10. Result of the Atlantic slave trade
11. Why was the Great Wall of China constructed?
12. Areas that Charles V ruled
13. How did Henry of Navarre claim his throne?
14. How did Henry IV restore peace in France?
15. What 2 things did Louis XIV spend a great deal of money on?
16. Why did Charles I sign the Petition of Right?
17. Restoration
18. What 2 families struggled for control of Central Europe?
19. Reason the Copernicus delayed publishing his theory on the solar
system
20. The period when philosophers emphasized reason is
called_______________
21. What exchange did Thomas Hobbes call the social contract?
22. Ideas of John Locke’s political theory.
23. What philosopher argued that government should work for the benefit
of the common good, not for the wealthy few?
24. What did Montesquieu believe the separation of powers did?
25. How did the colonist show opposition to taxation without
representation?
26. What American document was an expression of Enlightenment political
philosophy?
27. Importance of the Battle of Saratoga
28. Privileges of the First Estate
29. What was gained from the Tennis Court Oath?
30. Who did not benefit from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizens?
31. The constitution of 1791 gave voting rights to_____________
32. Three factions of the National Convention
33. What Revolution‘s changes to French society is still used today?
34. Reign of Terror
35. Continental System
36. Napoleonic Code
37. Congress of Vienna
38. 3 factors of production that led to Great Britain’s economic success
39. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin AND what was the first
industry?
40. How did the steam engine change the textile industry?
41. Who was the “Father of American Industry”?
42. Why did factory employers prefer to hire women and children?
43. How did Henry Ford change the auto industry?
44. Advantage of the radio over the telephone and telegraph
45. Reform Act of 1832
46. How did the Factory Act improve working conditions in textile
factories?
47. Explain how the Dreyfus affair affected life outside of France
48. What led to the fall of the Second Empire?
49. The declaration that the Americas were off limits to European
colonization was called____________________
50. Indian Removal Act
51. What granted African Americans citizenship?
52. Red Shirts
53. Result of the Austro-Prussian War
54. Explain the Franco-Prussian War peace treaty
55. Result of the Sepoy Mutiny
56. Three principles Sun Yixian based his revolutionary ideology on
57. Meiji Restoration
58. Main reason the British took control of Egypt
59. Four factors that led to the outbreak of World War I
60. Event that led Great Britain to declare war on Germany
61. Why did the US enter World War I
62. Formal Peace Agreement that ended World War I
