Ap World History Units 1-3 Study Guide

Unit One 1. Consequences of the Neolithic Revolution didn’t include * End of hunting-gathering societies 2. Most scholars believe that, during the Paleolithic Age, social organization was characterized by * A rough social equality 3. The earliest metal worked systemically by humans are * Copper 4. The spread of the Bantu-speaking peoples over southern Africa can be best explained by their * Knowledge of agriculture 5. Characteristics of complex civilizations * Specialization of labor * Trade and cultural diffusion * Written languages * Complex political order and power 6. Evidence proves that the Mesopotamians * Traded extensively with peoples as far away as Anatolia, Egypt, & India 7. Major effect of Neolithic Revolution * The establishment of sedentary village communities 8. Conditions for women in Mesopotamia * Grew increasingly worse over time 9. The division of the ancient people into social and gender hierarchies was first made possible by * Rise in agricultural production 10. Ethical monotheism was the tradition of the * Hebrews 11. Hammurabi’s code was based on the concept of “lex talionis” but the punishments were shaped by * The social standing of the accused 12. The Hittites who were the most influential ancient Indo-European migrants into southwest Asia are credited for * Horse-drawn chariots * Metallurgy * Migrating from southern Russia * Defeating the Babylonians 13. The society who began the custom of embalming to preserve the body for its life after death * Egypt 14. Which metal was most important in transforming agricultural societies into large urban civilizations? * Iron 15. In which society did women enjoy the most freedom and opportunity? * Egypt 16. In tribes which, as early as 3000 BCE, began to spread their language and agricultural