Questions from Today's WH SOL Review Session

1.       How did physical geography influence the lives of early humans?

2.       What were the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies?

3.       How did the beginning of agriculture and domestication of animals promote the rise of settled communities?

4.       How does archaeology provide knowledge of early human life and it’s changes?

5.       Why did ancient civilizations develop in river valleys?

6.       Where were the earliest civilizations?

7.       When did these civilizations exist?

8.       What were the social, political, and economic characteristics of early civilizations?

9.       What religious traditions developed in ancient civilizations?

10.   What were the essential beliefs of Judaism?

11.   How did Judaism influence Western Civilization?

12.   What forms of language and writing existed in early civilizations?

13.   How did Persian govern its Empire?

14.   Why were physical geography and location important to the development of Indian Civilization?

15.   What impact did the Aryans have on India?

16.   Why was the caste system central to Indian culture?

17.   What were the accomplishments of the Mauryan and Gupta empires?

18.   What are the beliefs of the Hindu religion?

19.   How did Hinduism influence Indian society and culture?

20.   What are the beliefs of Hinduism?

21.   How did Buddhism spread?

22.   Why was the Great Wall of China built?

23.   What were the contributions of classical China to world civilization?

24.   Why were Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism important in the formation of Chinese culture?

25.   How did the mountains, seas, islands, harbors, peninsulas, and straits of the Aegean Basin shape Greek economic, social, and political development and patterns of trade and colonization?

26.   How did mythology help early Greek civilization explain the natural world and human condition?

27.   What impact did Greek mythology have on later civilizations and the contemporary world?

28.   How did democracy develop in Athens?

29.   How did Sparta differ from Athens?

30.   Why were wars with Persia important to the development of Greek culture?

31.   Why was the Peloponnesian War important to the spread of Greek culture?

32.   Why was the leadership of Pericles important to the development of Athenian life and Greek culture?

33.   What were some important contributions of Greek culture to Western civilization?

34.   How did the empire of Alexander the Great establish a basis for the spread of Hellenistic culture?