• Chapter 13 Warm-ups:

    1. According to legend, who were the brothers raised by wolves who fought over where Rome should be located? Which of these brothers was victorious?

    2. What kind of government did the Romans establish when they overthrew their Etruscan king?

    3. What was the name of the conflict the Romans fought after gaining control of the Italian Peninsula and who was the conflict with?

    4. What group made up a majority of the Roman Senate?

     
    Chapter 12 Warm-ups:

    1. What were Pericles' 3 goals for Athens?

    2. What did Pericles do so more poor people would participate in the government?

    3. Why was the Delian League originally created? 

    4. What was the Parthenon? 

    5. How did money affect the Delian League?

    6. What was the Greek ideal?

    7. What did the Greeks work to create in their art and architecture? 

    8. What philosopher did not believe in democracy?

    9. What Macedonian leader first conquered Greece?

     
    Chapter 11 Warm-ups:
     
    1. Name the seas that surround Greece.

    2. List the geographic features that are part of Greece.

    3. Why did Greece have to engage in trade?

    4. What is the relationship between Greece's geography and trade?
     
    5. What was the basic form of government in Greece?
     
    6. What is a direct democracy?  

    7. What was the center of city-life in Greece?

    8. Why did the Persian Wars start?

    9. Who wrote many Greek fables?

    10. What is the Iliad about?

    11. In what city-state did boys learn a variety of subjects, including music and poetry? B. In what city-state did women have athletic training? C. In what city-state did boys leave their families at the age of 7 to train in the military?

    12. What city-state did the goddess Athena protect?

    13. Name the European countries (on your list) that border the Mediterranean Sea.

     
    Chapter 8 Warm-ups:

    1. You want to travel from Tokyo to Vietnam by boat and sticking as close to land as possible. What bodies of water will you sail through (use your Asia map/list)?

    2. What geographic features separated China's early people from the rest of the world (use names, not just the type of feature)?

    3. Name the countries that border China (there are 14). Use the atlas in your book. 

    4. What is the significance of the Huang He river in early Chinese history?

    5. How was the Mandate of Heaven important?

    6. Who was Empress Lu?

     7. List the policies of Shi Huangdi and their effects on the peasants.

    8. Name China's Dynasties in order. 

    9. Name 3 Chinese contributions to the world.

     
    Chapter 7 Warm-ups:

    1. What countries (on your map list) border India?

    2. What is the effect of the mountains on India's climate?

    3. What separates India from the rest of the Asian continent?

    4. What were public baths most likely used for in the Harappan Civilization?

    5. How did the caste system develop?

    6. Why are the Aryans so important to India's history?

    7. What is the Bhagavad Gita?

    8. What is the ultimate goal of Hinduism? 

    9. What was Buddhism's main goal?

    10. Who united Aryan kingdoms into an empire?

     
    Chapter 10 Warm-ups:

    1. a.What major geographic feature does Israel lack? b. Describe where Israel is geographically. 

    2. What was Abraham's covenant with God? How was it reaffirmed? 

    3. What is the significance of Saul in Israel's history?

    4. For 200 years after returning to Canaan from Egypt, who led the Israelites?

    5.  How did the Jewish people view themselves?

    6. What is the combination of the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible called?

    7. What did the Ten Commandments set for the Israelites?

    8. God told Abraham to leave what place and go where?

    9. What Jewish group regained control of Jerusalem from the Syrians by 164 B.C.?

    10. A. What did the Romans do when they first took control of Jewish territory? B. What did the Romans do to increase the diaspora?

    11. What is the most important city in Israel?

    12. What conflict arose between the Romans and Jews?

      
    Chapter 5 Warm-ups:

    1. What bodies of water border Egypt?

    2. How does the Nile River compare to other rivers in the world?

    3. List the Egyptian social class structure from top to bottom (most powerful to least powerful). 

    4. How did the Nile River affect the Egyptians' outlook on life and the afterlife?

    5. A. In what direction does the Nile River flow? B. Where is its mouth?

    6. What did Egyptians use to build homes?

    7. What did Pharaoh Khufu build?

    8. What was the capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom?

    9. Who invaded Egypt from the northeast during the Middle Kingdom?

    10. What did astronomy help the ancient Egyptians to develop?

     
    Chapter 4 Warm-ups:
    1. What are the 3 most important things a river provides a civilization with?

    2. Why is Sargon important?

    3. How did Hammurabi's Code unite the empire?

    4. What is the region of land that curves between the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea called?

    5. What people were the most cruel in conquering and governing their empire?

    6. Who replaced the Assyrians as rulers of the Fertile Crescent?

    7. How did the Persians treat the people they conquered?

    8. Who built the Hanging Gardens?

    9. How did the Persians organize their government and empire? 

    10. What was Hammurabi's Code?

     
    Chapter 3 Warm-ups:
    1. How were rivers so important to early farmers?

    2. Use the map on page 79 to help you answer this question: What natural barriers appear to limit the extent of the Sumerian cultural area?

    3. What was the main purpose of a ziggurat?

    4. What were the priests' nonreligious duties?

    5. List the Sumerian social classes from top to bottom. 

    6. What was the role of the Sumerian gods?

    7. What was the main building material of the Sumerians?

    8. Why did the Sumerians first develop a writing system?

    9. Name 2 tools invented by the Sumerians.

    10. How did Sumerians get water to their crops?

    11. What is the connection between the rivers and the growth of civilization in Mesopotamia?

     
    Chapter 2 Warm-ups:

    1. Study the map on page 47 of your book. A. What part of the earth has the most recent human fossils? B. What factor helped make
    possible the migration of people from Asia to North America?

    2. Use the map on page 52 to answer these questions:  A. Over time what has happened to the distribution of hunter-gatherers throughout the world?  B. What do the red parts of the map represent?

    3. How did hunter-gatherers survive? 

    4. What were disadvantages of living in a village? 

    5. Name 2 of the animals first domesticated. 6. What did rivers provide early communities with? 

    7. What led people to create settled communities? 8. What did early agriculture need in order to be successful?

    9. Give 2 examples of specializations in a complex village. 10. What did people learn to make and control around 500,000 B.C?

    11. Maintaining order was whose primary job in a complex village? 12. What is the term for having more than needed?
     
    Chapter 1 Warm-ups:

    1. What does B.C. refer to? What does A.D. refer to? What does B.C.E. refer to? What does C.E. refer to?

    2. How many years difference are there between 600 B.C. and 700 A.D.? How many years difference are there between 1300 B.C. and 400 B.C.?

    3A. What do the continents sit on? 3B. What is the result of movement of your answer to 3A? 

    4. Use the map on page 21 in your book to help you answer these questions: A. What type of climate does Sao Paulo have? B. What is the
    largest climate in Brazil?

    5. What knowledge did Chinese and Arab mapmakers use to make maps?

    6. What were maps like before 1600?

    7. What do archaeologists do?

    8. What do historians use to study prehistoric events?

    9. How do satellites help geographers?

    10. What is Lucy famous for?