❧Mid-Term #1 – Study Guide❧ (HIST 10 - Spring 2009)

Section I – Map Terms (10 pts) Match the names with the letters on the map Aegean Sea Anatolia Athens Crete Delphi Euphrates River Indus Knossos Lower Egypt

Lydia Mediterranean Memphis Mesopotamia Mycenae Peloponnesus Persia Phoenicia Salamis

Siwa Sparta Tigris River Troy Upper Egypt Ur Uruk

Section II - Matching (20 pts) Match the 10 terms with the correct definition Acropolis Akhenaton Athens Atlantis Çatalhöyük Cleisthenes Code of Hammurabi Confucianism Croesus Cuneiform Daoism Delphic Oracle Enkidu Fertile Crescent First Emperor

Great Wall Han Feizi Harappa Hatshepsut helots Humbaba Hundred Schools Ishtar Knossus Legalism Linear A Linear B Li Si Ma’at Minoan

Mycenean Narmer Old Kingdom Osiris Pisistratus polis Pynx Qin Quipu (khipu) Shamhat Sparta Thera Utnapishtim Xerxes Ziggurat

Section III – Short Answer – Answer 2 out of 4 (40 pts [2 x 20pts]) Essay should be roughly one paragraph (5 – 6 sentences)

1. Discuss what two aspects of Mesopotamian culture most clearly distinguished it from those societies the preceded it.

2. In what ways does the Code of Hammurabi reflect Mesopotamian society? 3. Why do most historians consider Harappan society as one of the “cradles of civilization”

in spite of minimal written documentation? 4. In what ways did ma’at shape political rule in Egypt? 5. Is Hatshepsut’s rule a reflection of traditional or non-traditional Egyptian methods of rule?

Why or why not? 6. How might the myth of Atlantis be rooted in the abrupt demise of the Minoan political

structure? 7. In what ways did Mycenaean society perpetuate key aspects of Minoan culture? 8. Discuss what factor(s) caused “democracy” to appear in the Greek city-state of Athens? 9. Why did the Delphic Oracle hold such sway over the Ancient Greek world? 10. What factors allowed the Qin emperor to unify China?

Section IV – Book Question (30 pts) Essay should be two to three paragraphs long (but no longer than a page)

1. Describe how Enkidu’s transformation in The Epic of Gilgamesh unambiguously reveals Mesopotamian notions of culture, society and “civilization.”

Section V – Photo IDs – Identify two of four (20 pts [2 x 10 pts]) Answer should indicate the significance of the item, not simply identify what it is in order to receive full points. 1. Quipu

2. Code of Hammurabi

3. Narmer Palette

4. Hatshepsut

5. Akhenaton

6. Knossos

7. Delphic Oracle

8. Acropolis

9. Qin Terracotta soldiers

10. Great Wall