Quiz 1 Study Guide

World History Summer 2017

Quiz 1 Study Guide

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

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) How is an empire different from other forms of political organization? Give examples.

5) What is “Big History?” Why do some historians include universe history (the Cosmic and Gaiaic eras) in their explorations of world history? Does their reasoning have merit?

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

7) 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.

8) 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? ( Here is a link to the Hallmarks: http://www.ndnu.edu/about/mission-strategy/hallmarks-of-a-notre-dame-de-namur-learning-community/ )Should other scholars who write textbooks on World History adopt this change?

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