Know where the following are located and why they are important: Mesopotamia Euphrates River Tigris River Nile River Palestine Syria Indus River Ganges River Yellow River Yangtze River Ur Babylon Thebes Memphis Herakelopolis Sumer Akkad MariIdentify the following people: Who were they, where and when did they live and why were they important: Sargon "The Great" Shamshi-Adad Ur Namu Hammurapi Narmar (Menes) Ames Hatshepsut Tutmose III Amenhotep III Ikhnaton Ramesis II Suppiluliumas Buddha Chandragupta Ashoka Confucius Mencius Liu Bang Shang-ti Amen-re Enlil First Emperor Emperor Wu Chester Starr
Describe the following terms: What were they , when did they occur, or first occur, and why were they important: Lugal Ensi Gilgamish Epic Semites Ziggurat Nomes Laws of Hammurapi Old Babylonian Empire Hyksos Old Kingdom/New Kingdom Step Pyramid Aton Mastaba Tomb 1st/2nd Intermediate Period Sea People Indo Europeans Mitanni Hittites Cuneiform Hieroglyphics Vedas Buddhism Shang Dynasty Chou Dynasty Warring States Legalism Confucianism Taoism Bagavad Gita Chin Dynasty
Comprehensive Questions (One of these will be on the test worth 20 points. You should be prepared to write about one full page on each of these questions) 1. Describe the Analects of Confucius and tell what we can learn about Confucius himself and about the culture and society of ancient China from this text. 2. Discuss the development of civilization in Egypt and how the geography of Egypt influenced how that civilization developed and how it influenced the religion and society of ancient Egypt. 3. Discuss the similarities and differences between the ancient civilizations that first developed in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China. How were they the same? What factors do you think influenced these similarities? How were they different? What factors may have influenced these differences?