7th Grade 1st 9 Weeks Study Guide:

Vocabulary:
nomad
scribe
empire
code
prophet
silt

fertile
civilization
polytheism
monotheism
diaspora
astronomer

surplus
social class
caravan
exile
delta
ore

artisan
city-state
bazaar
dynasty
regent
citadel

1. What do scientists use to learn about life in prehistoric times?

civil service
philosophy
tolerance
missionary
migrate
caste

artifacts

2. The people of the Old Stone Age got their food by hunting animals and gathering wild plants
3. Where do most scientists believe humans originated? Africa
4. People who raise livestock and travel from place to place in search of grazing are called what? pastoral nomads
5. How did farming change the way early people lived? settle in one place, have larger families, population grew, surplus
food, became artisans
6. The difference between prehistory and history is what? history is when people started writing
7. What is the main difference in the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age? farming
8. What happened to the world population when people began to farm? it grew
9. What did surplus food during the New Stone Age allow more people to become? artisans
10. Which term means the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers? Mesopotamia
11. Where did writing develop? Sumer, Mesopotamia
12. Who united Sumers city-states into one large empire? Sargon
13. Babylons location helped it to become what? center of trade or crossroads of trade
14. The settlement of Canaan is one of the major events in the history of what people? Israelites
15. What was the most important Phoenician contribution to the world? Alphabet
16. The Phoenicians became wealthy by trading what two items? purple dyed cloth & cedar wood
17. This protected the Egyptians from foreign attacks. deserts
18. Which social class was the largest (most people) in Ancient Egypt? peasants
19. What physical feature cuts India off from the rest of Asia? Himalaya Mountains
20. What is one way in which Hinduism differs from the other major religions? no single founder
21. How did Hinduism develop? a mixture of Aryan and native Indian culture
22. According to their beliefs, faithful followers of Hinduism will be reincarnated as what? as a higher class
23. Confucius believed that loyalty and respect would spread through society if people in authority set good examples.
24. Who was the first emperor of China? Shi Huangdi
25. The Chinese people call themselves the children of the Han.
26. Why was the Silk Road important? it was a trade route that connected China and the Mediterranean
27. Who was the first emperor of the Han dynasty? Liu Bang
28. Who did Confucius believe should be a good example for everyone? people in authority