2. Which 4 regions of the world were connected by
Indian Ocean trade?
Which region of the world was Mesopotamian
civilization in?
What 3 regions (parts) of the world did the Roman
Empire control?
What other major empires controlled significant parts
of the Mediterranean besides the Roman Empire
before 1450?
3. What was the Neolithic Revolution?
What caused it?
How did the Neolithic Revolution affect…
the environment?
women’s status?
social structure?
4. In the first civilizations, which of the following is NOT a way in
which free commoners supported the upper classes?
• A. paying taxes
• B. creating surplus food production
• C. slave labor
• D. working as soldiers, artisans, or farmers
•
What gave governments of the early civilizations so much
power?
• A. the state’s ability to create order and defend the people
• B. the state’s ability to enforce and protect the privileges of
the upper class.
• C. the state’s function in organizing construction and
irrigation projects
• D. all of these were sources of power
5. Time period, Regions, & POLITICAL STRUCTURE
before 600 BCE, 600 BCE -600 CE, 600 -1450, after 1450
• Mesopotamian Civs
• Egyptian Civ
• Shang China
• Indus Valley
• Greece
• Persian Empire
• Roman Empire
• Mauryan & Gupta India
• Qin and Han China
• Early Islamic Empire
• Umayyad and Abbasid
• Byzantine Empire
• Western European
states
• Sui, Tang, Song China
• Mongol Empire
• Ming Dynasty
6. COMPARISONS
Han and Roman Empire
compared
• Political Structure
• Innovations
• Social Structure
• Fall (what happened after)
Classical Greece and Persian
Empire compared
• Political Structure
(Bureaucracy)
• Social Structure
• Byzantine Empire and
Western European
states
• Social Structure
• Culture
• Economics
