History 151: World Civilizations I
Instructor: Colette Higgins

Study Guide: Unit One

Lectures: History, Human Origins, Settling Down (Sumer), River Valley Civilizations (Egypt & Indus), Israel & Judaism

After completing the assigned readings and attending the lectures listed above, you should be able to:

describe:
1) what historians do and why we should study world history. (I-1, I-7 to I-15)
2) the distinguishing features of the early hominids (from A. ramidus to Homo sapiens sapiens). (10-18)
3) the influence of biology on culture (i.e. brain size & no oestrus cycle). (20-21)
4) the seven creative behaviors that make us human. (22-32)
5) modern critiques of early urbanization (Mumford, Marx, Lerner) and benefits of cities. (60-62)
6) Mesopotamian civilization: geography, chronology, religion, class, architecture, writing, and laws. (48-59)
7) Egyptian civilization: geography, chronology, religion, ruler, architecture, writing, and burial practices. (65-78)
8) Indus civilization: urban planning, writing, crafts, and legacy. (79-85)
9) the history of the Biblical Hebrews and the essential beliefs of Judaism (309-314).

know the importance of:
written records (notes) creation myths (5-7)
Charles Darwin (7-10)
candelabra & "Noah's Ark" theories (15-18)
the Leakey's (Louis, Mary, Richard) (12-14)
"Lucy" (14- 15)
Neanderthal's burial practices (notes)
early man's cave paintings (29-32 + notes)
radiocarbon dating & thermoluminescence (22)
Neolithic era & Agricultural Revolution (40, 43-46 + notes)
Epic of Gilgamesh (56-58 + notes)
Law Code of Hammurabi (59 + notes)
Hyksos (78)
Rosetta Stone (67-69)
Akhenaten (78,132-133)
Tutankhamen (notes)
hieroglyphics (66, 67 + notes)
pyramids (73-76)
Isis, Osiris, Horus (69-70)
Great Bath (81, 85)
Aryans (83-84)
fall of the Hittite and Egyptian empires (notes)
Philistines , Phoenicians (notes)
Abraham, Moses, Saul, David, and Solomon (309,314)
temple in Jerusalem (318)
Yahweh (315-316)
covenant (309, 311), circumcision (notes)
Hebrew exodus from Egypt (309, 313)
Ten Commandments (312)
Dead Sea Scrolls (310, 311)

define:
prehistory (2)
history & historiography (I-7, 451)
primary source (I-15)
secondary source (notes)
teleology (9)
evolutionary theory (7-9)
ziggurat (51)
cuneiform ( 54-56)
pictograms, ideograms, phonetics (55-56 + notes)
monotheism (78 + notes)
nomes & nomarchs (68, 72, 76)
papyrus (67)
pharaoh (notes)
ma'at (68, 69)
ka (notes)
canopic jars (notes)
natron (notes)
TaNaKh (Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim) (309-310)
Old Testament (309), Pentateuch (notes)
Habiru (notes)
"ten lost tribes" (130, 317)
diaspora (317)

locate on a map:
Great Rift Valley & Oluvai Gorge (8,13)
Fertile Crescent (45)
areas of innovative primary ubanization (46-47)
Mesopotamia & Sumer (45, 47, 48, 52)
Tigris & Euphrates (45, 47, 52)
Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt (67)
three main geographical areas of India (notes)
Khyber Pass (notes)
Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro (81)
Indus & Ganges (47 + notes)
Kingdoms of Israel & Judah (310)
Jerusalem & Samaria (310)
Nineveh & Babylon (129)