Quiz 3 Study Guide

Quiz 3 Topics for Study

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1) Please draw our world historical timeline as we have constructed it so far this semester (up to but not including the Modern Era). You should have 5 major milestones listed on your timeline, along with their approximate dates / date ranges, and a sentence or two explaining what characterizes each one.

2) Strayer causes a significant and useful shift in his reader’s perspective by using the term “gatherer-hunter” instead of the traditional “hunter-gatherer.”

3) Through the character of Enkidu, the ancient Mesopotamians have communicated what it meant to them to be civilized human beings.

4) By attempting to control free communications over the internet, China has increased its isolation relative to other countries along these “cyber roads.” In continuing along this path, China is repeating one of the mistakes of her past.

5) “We think that way because it’s our way of thinking” (student blog, Spring 2010). Discuss. How can the study of Paleolithic societies hep us re-evaluate our contemporary assumptions about man’s role on the planet?

6) What were the Confucian notions of “the Superior Man” and the “Mandate of Heaven”? In what ways did these ideas shape the Chinese state as it evolved after approximately 500 BC? Do they still guide Chinese thinking and behavior today?

7) How did Buddhism challenge the caste system in India?

8) How did “Christendom” evolve during the Classical Era, and why is it of historical significance even to people who do not profess the Christian faith?

9) How did Islam evolve during the Classical Era, and why is it of historical significance even to people who do not profess the Muslim faith?

10) The Mongols got a bad rap. In fact, they made significant long-term contributions to the evolution of the Eurasian world.

11) 1492 was a Very Bad Year, both for what ended in Spain and for what began there.