Label Your Notebook: "Name _______________________    Review Notes for Chapter 2 Points _____"
 
Intro:

1.    Why is this land called the Fertile Crescent?
2.    What 3 major religions started in this area of the world?

Section 1: Mesopotamia

3.    Where is Sumer located?
4.    Mesopotamia means “between the two rivers.” Which two rivers?
5.    When did people in Mesopotamia switch from tools made out of stone to tools made out of bronze?
6.    What do we call the writing of the Sumerians?
7.    What is a city-state?
8.    What did the city states of the Sumerians share?
9.    Turn to p. 70 in the textbook.
    a.    What did the gods control?
    b.    How did they act?
    c.    What is a ziggurat?
10.  Describe one thing the Sumerians invented.
11.  What did Hammurabi do?
12.    Turn to p. 71 in the textbook. Read the “establishing civil law” and “defining crime and punishment” sections.
    a.    What does civil law deal with? Crimes against property
    b.    What does criminal law deal with? Crimes against people
    c.    How did Hammurabi’s Code limit personal revenge and encourage social order? Specific penalties for specific crimes
13.   Who was Sargon?


14.    What is the primary water source for Egypt?
15.    Where does this water source come from?
16.    What is unusual about the direction of the flow of this water source?

Section 2: Egypt

17.    What are the three periods of Egyptian history?
18.    What was the title of the ruler?
19.    Was this ruler also a religious ruler, or was there a separate religious ruler?
20.    What was the purpose of the pyramids?
21.    What do we call the writing of the Egyptians?
22.    What crops did Egyptian farmers grow?
23.    Why did they invent a calendar?
24.    How did the Egyptians bury their dead?



Intro:

25.    What were the two rivers flowing through India?
26.    What mountain range separates India from both Russia and China?

Section 3: India

27.    Why do we rely on artifacts and other archeological sources to know about the Harrapan?
28.    Describe the plumbing in Harrapan homes and find out how long it was before people used plumbing again.
29.    What important number was invented by the Harrapan was used by later Indian civilizations?
30.    What was different about the apparent role of religion in Harrapan society?
31.    Why do we think animals were important to the people?
32.    What is a tectonic plate?
33.    Describe one theory why Harrapan society disappeared.


Intro:

34.    What were the two rivers flowing through China?
35.    What mountain range separates China from India?

Section 4: China

36.    The first dynasty was supposedly founded by Yu. What did Yu design for the Chinese people?
37.    What is a dynasty?
38.    The Xia Dynasty began and ended before recorded history, we know everything about them from the Shang Dynasty who wrote about them hundreds of year later. How reliable is the information the Shang wrote. 
39.    How did religious beliefs relate to ancestors?
40.    What is an advantage to the Chinese writing system? What is a disadvantage?
41.    Define the Mandate of Heaven.
42.    What is Feudalism?
43.    What were the three improvements of technology developed by the Chinese?
44.    Name six weapons or tools the Chinese used iron to manufacture.
45.    How dd the Zhou Dynasty end?


1. Choose one characteristic that is common to all of the early civilizatons. How was this characteristic different in the four cultures, and how was it similar? In your conclusion, explain how this characteristic is present in our culture today.