WHAP First Semester Exam Study Guide/AP Practice Exam, Chapters 1-11

  1. Describe the social structure/gender relations during the Paleolithic era?
  2. In what way did the Paleolithic humans affect their physical environment?
  3. How was the Agricultural Revolution in the Americas different from the Agricultural Revolutions elsewhere?
  4. What caused instability in ancient Mesopotamia?
  5. Which of the following human accomplishments emerged with the First Civilizations?
  6. Describe the political structure of Egypt.
  7. The rulers of which First Civilization based their authority on the Mandate of Heaven?
  8. How was patriarchy expressed in the First Civilizations?
  9. How did the rulers of the First Civilizations display their power?
  10. Describe the Code of Hammurabi.
  11. How was the political culture of classical Greek civilization different from the Persian Empire?
  12. Which foreign religious tradition was absorbed into China during the classical period?
  13. The conquests of which leader contributed to the widespread dissemination of Greek culture during the Hellenistic era?
  14. How are Buddhism and Hinduism similar?
  15. How did Confucianism affect Chinese society and politics?
  16. What did Confucianism and Greek rationalism share in common?
  17. How did Christianity change in the first 500 years since its emergence?
  18. Describe women’s status in the classical civilizations.
  19. What language was spoken by the groups of people who had spread throughout most of southern and eastern Africa by the classical era?
  20. Compare Maya and Greek political organization.
  21. How did the sudden rise of Islam in the seventh century affect Indian Ocean commerce?
  22. What practice suggests that Chinese women’s lives were more restricted than they had been in the Tang dynasty?
  23. Why was there mass conversion of people living in the Middle East to Islam by the eighth century?
  24. What disagreement led to the split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
  25. What political system emerged in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire?
  26. What groups were influenced by the religion of the Byzantine Empire?
  27. Why did pastoral societies emerge only in the Afro-Eurasian world and not in the Americas?
  28. How did Mongols contribute to the globalization of the Eurasian world?
  29. What regions did Islam impact and what were the motivations for expansion?
  30. What are the essential beliefs of Islam and Christianity? What other religions share characteristics with them?