7^th Midterm Study Guide

 

Study maps and Geography  – Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Middle East

Latitude and Longitude

Types of Maps and how to use

Why did people of ancient civilizations settle along rivers?

5 Themes of Geography – What are they and be able to provide examples

What are the ways we can understand the past?

Describe the advantages of a settled life over that of a nomadic life

 

Middle East Conflict

• What is the dispute between Israel and Palestine?
• What is the Zionist movement?
• What is the PLO? Whom does it represent?
• What was the intifada?  Who was involved and what caused it?
• What was the British mandate for the region of Palestine after WWI?
• How did the Holocaust affect the formation of a Jewish homeland?
• Describe the UN Partition Plan of 1947.  What occurred as a result of Palestine rejecting the plan?
• What was the 6 days war of 1967?
• What did the UN Resolution 242 call for?
• What treaty was signed in 1979 serving as a major step in the peace process?
• Describe the Oslo Accords.  What steps towards peace were achieved as a result?
• How did the Gulf War affect the peace process?
• Be able to describe the following leaders’ association with and role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Yasser Arafat, Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon

 

How did physical geography affect the growth of ancient civilizations?

• Mesopotamia
• Phoenicia
• Egypt
• India
• China

What historical accomplishments is each civilization known for?  (You will be responsible for knowing at least 3 for each.)

• Early humans – stone tools, farming, fire, domestication
• Babylonians and Assyrians
• Egyptians –
• India -
• China -

 

What were the beliefs and values of ancient peoples?

• Israelites – Judaism, Christianity
• Egyptian – gods and goddesses – afterlife
• India – Hinduism and Buddhism
• China - Confucianism

 

How did ancient people develop governments?

• Development of cities
• Egyptian pharaohs – how did they rule – old, middle, new kingdoms
• India – Maurya Empire -
• China – dynasties, rise and fall of Chinese dynasties

 

How did each society develop and organize its economic activities?

• Trade – organization, imports, exports, trade routes

 

 

 

Possible Essays:

 

Middle East Conflict – discussing the steps taken towards peace and reasons why they have failed – discussing various leaders’ roles in the conflict -

 

 

Explain how the geography affected the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China.  Your answer should demonstrate the similarities and differences in geography of these places and should explain the importance geography has had in their history.

 

 

**BE SURE TO STUDY YOUR PREVIOUS TESTS, THE CAHPTER REVIEWS, AND YOUR NOTES.  ALL WILL BE USEFUL FOR THE MIDTERM!!!