Spring 2003

Map Section: Learn the location of all of the following. Worth 1 point each.
 

Olmec homeland area  Yucatan peninsula Valley of Mexico Andes Mountains Chavin de Huantar Area of Chavin state Nineveh Persepolis Anatolia Tyre Antioch Dead Sea Red Sea Jordan River Jerusalem Area of Phoenicia (see p 117) Sicily Sardinia Alexandria

Carthage Libya Spain Gaul (France) Britain Ireland Macedonia Aegean Sea Black Sea Constantinople (Byzantium) Athens Sparta Peloponnese Rome Chang'an Great Wall (Han era) Korea Qin homeland

Identification (ID) Topics: Be able to identify, establish the context and evaluate the historic significance of all of the following. Worth 13 points each.
 

ayllus  Neo-Assyrian mass deportations  Abraham Moses Solomon Jewish Diaspora Phoenician alphabet Carthage coinage Zoroastrianism  tyrants  hoplites

triremes Delian League Socrates Peloponnesian Wars (431-404 BCE) yeoman farmers Roman Senate Diocletian Constantine Paul of Tarsus Legalism Daoism Xiongnu

Short Essay Topics: Worth 26 points each.

1. Understand the basic characteristics and achievements of the Olmecs: when and where did they live, achieving what level of culture, and with their complex civilization ending how/why?

2. Be able to describe the basics of civilization at Chavin: in what geographic situation, based on what economic resources and technology, what sort of state and culture did they develop? Possible reasons for eventual decline?

3. Describe the Celts at their height - where were they, with what sort of rule, society, and beliefs?

4. Describe and explain the bases and style of Neo-Assyrian military conquest and rule, 900s-600s BCE. Weaknesses?

5. Describe and assess Persian empire and rule during the time of Darius the Great

6. How, why, and in what ways did Christianity develop within the Roman lands, from death of Christ through era of Constantine?

7. Describe and assess the reasons and dynamics of Qin unification and brief rule of late 3rd century BCE China. How did they first manage to defeat all rivals and then how did they rule, with what results?

Full Essay Topics:  Worth 56 points each.

A. Describe and explain the situation, rule, society, and beliefs of the Israelites as of the height of the Israelite Monarchy under Solomon (10th C BCE).

B. Describe and assess Athenian Greece at its mid-5th century BCE "Golden Age" height. Nature of Athenian democracy and empire? Society (classes and genders), economy, culture and beliefs?

C. Describe and assess Imperial Rome at its height, soon after the time of Augustus. Nature of Imperial Roman government and empire? Society (classes and genders), economy, culture and beliefs

D. Describe and assess Confucian China under the Han. Nature of Confucian imperial government and empire? Society (classes and genders), economy, culture and beliefs?