HIST 1111 (Module 1-4 QUESTIONS)

What are the features of Hunter-Gatherer societies?

How are Hunter-Gatherers societies structured in terms of gender and the family?

Why was there less social inequality in Hunter-Gatherer societies?

Who are shamans, and what role did they play in Hunter-Gatherer societies?

What is the “Neolithic Revolution” and when did it begin?

How are domestication and intensification related to the Agricultural Revolution?

How did language groups spread from agricultural societies to hunter-gatherer societies?

What were the nine main impacts of the Agricultural Revolution?

How did the Agricultural Revolution impact Hunter-Gatherer societies?

How did the Agricultural Revolution influence the relationship between men and women?

In what ways did the Agricultural Revolution make everyday life more difficult?

What are the main features of Agricultural Village Societies, and what role do women play in them?

What are the main features of Pastoral Societies, and why did they only exist after the Agricultural Revolution?

What are the main features of Chiefdoms, and how is authority maintained in them?

What were the main characteristics of the Mesopotamia/Sumer civilization?

Where was Norte Chico located, and what were its main characteristics?

What were the main features of the Indus Valley civilization?

What made the Oxus civilization unique?

How did chiefdoms play a role in the rise of the Olmec civilization? What impact did it have on language?

What broad changes caused the rise of civilizations?

What are the five characteristics of a civilization?

What is class, and how does the Code of Hammurabi demonstrate the importance of class in early civilizations?

What is patriarchy, and why did it emerge as a result of changes in agriculture?

Why did the state emerge along with civilizations? What does it mean that states rule via a mix of coercion and consent?

What was the Urban Revolution, and how is it only possible after the Agricultural Revolution?

How did geography influence the development of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia?

What differentiates the “universal” religions or philosophies from their polytheistic counterparts?

What is the overarching goal of Confucianism and how do assumptions about society’s inequality influence Confucianist ideas and practice?

According to Confucianism, how is social harmony achieved?

What is the role of education in Confucianism, and what career is “ideal”? Why?

According to Daoism, what is the Dao, and how should humanity use wuwei to align themselves with the Dao?

In what ways are Confucianism and Daoism opposing philosophies? How have they been made complementary, not contradictory, in practice?

According to Hinduism, what is the goal of humanity as it relates to the Brahman?

What is Moksha, and how does one achieve it?

According to Buddhism, what are the Four Noble Truths?

According to Buddhism, what is the goal of humanity, and how does one achieve Nirvana?

How did the bhakti movement in Hinduism cause Buddhism to disappear in India?

Who was Jesus of Nazareth? When and where did he live, what did he do, and what happened to him?

According to Christianity, what kind of world did God create, and what happened to it? Why did God send his son Jesus to die?

According to Christianity, how can a person be restored to a full relationship with God?

What role did Saint Paul play in the spread of Christianity? How did he help change Christianity from a small Jewish sect to a world religion?

What was the “Church of the East”, and what did worship look like in it?

Where was Christianity first adopted as the state religion and when did this happen?

How did Christians in Africa (Egypt, North Africa, Ethiopia, Eritrea) impact Christianity in terms of language and rituals/worship practices?

Why did the Roman Empire initially persecute Christians? How did the conversion of Emperor Constantine change Rome and Christianity?