1. 9R Final Review Final Multiple Choice – June 7th Essay – June 6th

2. 9R – Final Essay Theme: Movement of People and Goods- Trade
Identify two trade routes and /or trade organizations and for each:
Explain one reason for the establishment of the trade route or trade organization. (Time Period, Where, Why)
Discuss one positive effect or one negative effect of the trade route or trade organization on a specific nation or region.
Suggestions: Mediterranean Sea, the Silk Road, Trans-Saharan Trade Route in Africa, Triangular Trade in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean Trade Network, Hanseatic League

3. Final Review Earliest Humans – Rift Valley in East Africa
Paleolithic People – hunter/gatherers, small population
Neolithic Revolution – Learned to farm, domesticate animals, settled
Cities need to establish agricultural surpluses
River Valley Civilizations
Flooded, fertile soil, mild climate, transportation, trade
- Mesopotamia (Fertile Crescent) – Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- Egypt – Nile River
- India – Indus River
- China – Huang He (Yellow River)

4. Final Review Mesopotamia Absolute monarchies Priests had power
Code of Hammurabi – reflected that divisions existed between social classes
Egypt
Gift of the Nile
Developed a calendar to predict the floods
Contributions – irrigation systems, astronomy

5. Final Review China Geographic isolation / ethnocentrism
Greek / Roman contributions – Law and Government
Greece
Europe - Mountainous / Islands – City-States – Mediterranean Sea
Established Democracy (Athens)– all adult males citizens had right to vote
Developed philosophy

6. Final Review Rome Europe - Peninsula – Mediterranean Sea
Republic – representative government
Twelve Tables – codified law
Decline – political corruption, economic problems, barbarian invasions (Similar to Han Dynasty)
476 AD – End of the Empire

7. Final Review
Culture – way of life – contributes to a societies development
Animism – appreciation for spirits/forces in nature
Judaism – Monotheistic, Torah (Holy Text), Ten Commandments, Diaspora
Christianity – Monotheistic, Bible, Ten Commandments, Gospels, Jesus
Islam – Monotheistic, Koran, 5 Pillars, Mohammed, Hajj, Mecca, Muezzin calls Muslims to prayer