Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Quiz 1 Study Guide

World History Summer 2018
Quiz 1 Study Guide


If you can write good 6-minute answers to these questions, you will do well on next week’s quiz.

During the quiz you may use the Hallmarks handout and your Gilgamesh handouts with the Hallmarks-related or Gilgamesh-related notes you put on it.


1) What was the significance of the development of agriculture?

2) Discuss the evidence that Paleolithic societies were more egalitarian than later societies. Is this evidence convincing? Why or why not?

3) What did it mean to be civilized to the Mesopotamians who created the Gilgamesh story?

4) Who were the Big 5 seminal thinkers of the Classical era? What can you say about them in six minutes?

5) Is it possible to have a human society that is orderly but not oppressive? Cite examples that might make you more confident in your answer.

6) Why does Strayer change the term “hunter-gatherer” to the term “gatherer-hunter”? Is this change consistent or inconsistent with the values of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as outlined in the Hallmarks? Should other scholars who write textbooks on World History adopt this change?

7) Please discuss the accomplishments of the Ancient peoples of the Indus Valley. Why don’t scholars know more about them?

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