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