Study Guide for next week's quiz

In class last night, we went over examples of some questions that might appear on the quiz next week. Those examples were:

1) What was the significance of the development of agriculture?

2) Discuss the migration of humans out of Africa.

3) Discuss the evidence that Paleolithic societies were more egalitarian than later societies.

4) What did it mean to be civilized to the Mesopotamians who created the Gilgamesh story?

5) How is an empire different from other forms of political organization?

6) Discuss the differences between a Western Civilization timeline and a World History timeline.

7) You should be able to write the major eras of human existence in order. 

8) What were the major Ancient Civilizations?

9) What were the Big 5 seminal thinkers (+1) of the Classical era?

10) Is subjugation inevitable in human societies?

11) As stated in the Week 3 Guidelines, there will also be optional questions from the study materials posted by those students who were unable to attend class on Tuesday.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive study guide, but rather an indicator of the types of questions most likely to appear on the quiz.