GPS 120, Study Guide for the Final Exam, Spring 2020
Virtually all of the ID Terms covered in this Study Guide have been covered in quizzes and tests
we had during the semester. You will therefore do well to use those quizzes and tests for
reviewing them. Do not of course neglect your lecture notes and the PowerPoints I shared with
you.
Chapter 1: First Peoples; First Farmers: Most of History in a Single Chapter to 3500 BCE
• Paleolithic: Paleolithic economy; Paleolithic society
• The Neolithic Revolution: Agricultural economy; Pastoral economy
• Name the river valleys in which the Neolithic Revolution first occurred
Chapter2: First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500-600 BCE
• Civilization (or First-Wave Civilizations): what is “civilization”? Know the names of at
least four (4) of the earliest civilizations (aka: First-Wave civilizations)
• Name at least four (4) river valleys in which these earliest civilizations emerged
• What explains the emergence of social inequality in these First-Wave Civilizations?
• Mesopotamia: The Law Code of Hammurabi
• China: the king as “son of Heaven” and ruling by the “Mandate of Heaven”