Global Studies I

Final Exam ReviewNorman Howard School

Geography

Draw a globe with lines of latitude:

Draw a globe with lines of longitude:

Latitude and longitude are used to find what?

Label the map with the seven continents and four oceans.

Label the hemispheres.What does a cartographer do? ___________________What does a geographer do?___________________

Terms to know

Geography Economics

Government

Neolithic Revolution

1. Neolithic agricultural societies paved the way for civilization by:1. Converting earliest farmers into hunter-gathers2. Fostering settled and secure communities3. Depicting life in cave painting and stone figures4. Mastering and using language while traveling over wide areas.

2. Early Civilizations arose along the Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, and Huang He because:1. Easy access invited invasion2. Rivers contributed to nomadic lifestyles3. Building materials were easy to find4. Climate and Geography favored agriculture

River Valley Civilizations

What were the four River Valley Civilizations:

________________________________________________________________________________

“If the Nile smiles, the earth is joyous, Every stomach is rejoicingEvery spine is happyEvery jawbone crushes its food.”- ancient Egyptian hymn

Why did Egyptians find joy in the annual flooding of the Nile?

In what ways did the Nile unify Egyptian society?

Ancient GreeceDouble-Bubble Map comparing/contrasting Athens and Sparta.

Rome

Greece & Rome Study Questions

1. Most of the poleis of ancient Greece were controlled by:

1. Oligarchies2. Oracles3. Philosophers4. Foreign Kings

2. Athens and Sparta fought each other in:1. Poleis Wars2. Persian Wars3. Pantheon Wars4. Peloponnesian Wars

3. The work of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Greece’s Classical Period created:

1. Widespread support for philosophy2. An intellectual basis for Western Thought3. The basis for democracy in all poleis4. New theories about the origin of the universe.

4. “Until philosophers are kings, … cities will get no rest from troubles and neither will mankind. Then only will this State of ours see the light of the day with a good chance of survival.” – Socrates speaking in Plato’s The Republic

1. According to the quotation, on what does the survival of the State Depend?

2. Why is having an education important for a quality ruler?

1. A similarity between Alexander the Great’s empire and the Roman Empire is that both:1. Started as small republics.2. Were undermined by new religions3. Adapted and spread Greek civilization4. Disintegrated after initial conquests

2. Rome’s cultural contributions to Western civilization rested on:1. Adaptation and preservation of Greek and other cultures.2. Conquest of Teutonic tribes and outlying peoples3. Suppression of religious movements4. A long succession of brilliant empires.

3. The events listed below occurred between 400-500 AD. Use these events to create a multi-flow map.

Loss of a central governmentWeak EmperorsFall of RomeHigh Taxes and rising pricesDecline of unified language and cultureFeudalismByzantine Empire

Belief Systems (1 of 3)

What does monotheistic mean?

What does polytheisticmean? What polytheistic religion did we study?

What is a philosophy?

What are the three monotheistic religions?

_________________________________________________________

Where were these religions founded?

Belief Systems (2 of 3)

Judaism Islam

Christianity

Belief Systems (3 of 3)

Animism

Hinduism

ConfucianismBuddhism

Emerging Empires

Emerging Empires Study Questions

1. Both Byzantine Emperor Justinian and China’s Tang Emperors:

1. Created state-sponsored religions2. Tried to isolate their realms from foreign

influences3. Reorganized their legal systems4. Were overthrown by revolution

2. Gupta, Tang, and Byzantine emperors all oversaw:

1. A change from agriculture to hunter-gathering

2. Golden Ages of Intellectual and cultural achievement

3. Violent religious conflict4. Power losses to strong bureaucracies

3. Which exerted the most influence on Byzantine culture?

1. Engineers and artists2. Roman Emperors of the West3. Invaders4. The Orthodox Church

“The Civil Service examination system provided a trained bureaucracy based on merit other than family or political connections. It is a major factor in the continuity of Chinese civilization.”-Tok Li’wen, Eastern Journeys

1. How were government workers selected in Ancient China?

2. Why is an educated and trained bureaucracy important to the functioning of a government?

Middle Ages (1 of 2)Feudal System:

________ Central government._____________ most powerful force in Europe.

Middle Ages (2 of 2)

Create a double-bubble map comparing and contrasting Feudal Japan and Feudal Europe.

Japan is an island chain (_____________) and is very _________________

Middle Ages Study Questions

1. In the Medieval Era, the relationship between the lord and those who lived and worked on his lands was called:

1. Feudalism2. Illumination3. Manorialism4. Investiture

2. Which statement best describes the role of the Christian Church in Medieval Europe?

1. The Church set the rules for the manorial system.

2. The Church provided moral and social leadership for Europe.

3. Popes exercised political power through their role as Holy Roman Emperors.

4. Kings could pick Church leaders.

“The baron and all vassals of the king are bound to appear before him when he shall summon them, and to serve him at their own expense for forty days and forty nights, with as many knights as each one owes. And the king wishes to keep them more than forty days at their own expense, they are not bound to remain if they do not wish it. And if the king wishes to keep them at his expense for the defense of the realm, they are bound to remain.”-Legal Rules of Military Service, 1072

1. How long must vassals give military service to the king at their own expense?

1. Under what circumstances would they be bound to serve longer?

2. What did vassals receive in exchange for military service to their overlord?

Crusades

Guilds#1 Apprentice#2 Journeyman#3 Master

______________Wipes out 1/3 population of EuropeTransmitted by Trade/Cultural DiffusionPeasant Status increased slightly.People began to question Roman Catholic Church

Trade and Black Death

Global Trade and Interactions

Desire for _________ goods by __________.

Expanded __________

Growth of ________

____________ cities such as _________ control trade on

the Mediteranean Sea.

Beginnings of a __________ econonomy, use of money.

___________: Business Associations

Rise of __________ Class and end of ____________ in

Western Europe.

Mongols

Africa

Mansa Musa, _________, _________

Renaissance

Reformation

Protestant Reformation

Luther was _________________.

First Protestant religion: ____________.

Other reformers: _____________, Anabaptists,

_______________.

Renaissance values of

____________ and secularism.

Guttenberg's _______________

Martin Luther's ____________

(1517).

95 Thesis ________ the extravagance of the ____________

Church.

Especially the sale of

____________.

Anglican (Church of England): _______________ wanted a

_____________, so he seperated from the Roman Catholic Church.

Catholic Counter-Reformation: Catholic Church tries to

____________.

Council of Trent (1563) Ended the

sale of indulgences and ended other

abuses.

Inquistion

__________ no longer unified

by Roman Catholic Church.

_________ and _____________

between Catholics and Protestants

Catholic Church loses

___________.

Kings gain __________.