HIEU 201:
TEST 1 STUDY
GUIDE
Lectures – Make sure you have watched each of the lecture presentations for Module/Week 1
and use the following questions to guide you in study.
1) Understand the importance of studying Western Civilization and the purpose of
this course.
It is important to studying western civilization because it The history major
provides the student with a broad based understanding of a wide
range of societies and cultures. A degree in history also means that
graduates learn to read and research, to evaluate evidence, and to
communicate these findings orally and in writing. Although sometimes
students think the only opportunity for the history major is teaching,
there are many other options available. The skills obtained through the
study of history are highly valued in today’s complex world of work.
The purpose of the course This course will focus instead on process’ and
developments. You will learn to look for the overall concepts, the big
idea.
2) Understand the scope of this course.
Analysis & Critical thinking
Processes and developments
Difference in regards to events, people and development
The scope of the course include the chronological and geographical topics covered
3) Recognize the important geographic elements for the rise of civilizations.
The important geopgraphic elements for the rise of civilization was water or river –
sustenance and transportation
4) Recognize the geographic boundaries of Mesopotamia, particularly in its early stages.
Fertile cresent between Euphrates and tygris river
, HIEU 201:
TEST 1 STUDY
GUIDE
5) Review the legacies of the earliest civilizations.
Mesopotamisa – wheel, lunar calendar, multiplication and division tables, Chaldean
and Persian empire, dividion by 360 degrees, chart star and plantes
Egypt – architure, art, science, and medicine, surgery, h uman anatomy, solar
calendar (12 months with 30 days), pyramids
Phoenicians- phonetic alphabet, purple dye
6) Who fashioned the first iron weapons?
Hittites (p. 8 notes)
7) Recognize the significance and contributions of Assyrians.
By 800 BC, this changed when the Assyrians sought once again to
expand their borders. By the 7th century BC, the Assyrians were a
deadly force of ruthless attackers, feared by all (p. 8-9 notes)
8) Know the origins of world empires, and recognize the difference between a small
nation and an empire.
Egypt not an empire because the kingdom in homogenus Empires led to the
intermingling of people (multi people group, ethnicities and culture)
Small nations – The small nations of the Near East, which tended to be the
weakest targets of land hungry invaders, were left in relative peace, little
fearing massive invasion. (Mespotamia,
Empires – Assyrians, Babylonian Empire, Chaldean, Persian
, HIEU 201:
TEST 1 STUDY
GUIDE
In political science, a "nation" refers to a group of people who
feel bound into a single body by shared culture, values,
folkways, religion and/or language.
Empire is a comparatively larger geographical entity in
which a group of states or nations are ruled by a single
monarch or authority
9) Know the largest empire covered in this section and its extent.
Persian empire it extents from Fertile Crescent in the East to the Mediterranean Sea
in the West
TEST 1 STUDY
GUIDE
Lectures – Make sure you have watched each of the lecture presentations for Module/Week 1
and use the following questions to guide you in study.
1) Understand the importance of studying Western Civilization and the purpose of
this course.
It is important to studying western civilization because it The history major
provides the student with a broad based understanding of a wide
range of societies and cultures. A degree in history also means that
graduates learn to read and research, to evaluate evidence, and to
communicate these findings orally and in writing. Although sometimes
students think the only opportunity for the history major is teaching,
there are many other options available. The skills obtained through the
study of history are highly valued in today’s complex world of work.
The purpose of the course This course will focus instead on process’ and
developments. You will learn to look for the overall concepts, the big
idea.
2) Understand the scope of this course.
Analysis & Critical thinking
Processes and developments
Difference in regards to events, people and development
The scope of the course include the chronological and geographical topics covered
3) Recognize the important geographic elements for the rise of civilizations.
The important geopgraphic elements for the rise of civilization was water or river –
sustenance and transportation
4) Recognize the geographic boundaries of Mesopotamia, particularly in its early stages.
Fertile cresent between Euphrates and tygris river
, HIEU 201:
TEST 1 STUDY
GUIDE
5) Review the legacies of the earliest civilizations.
Mesopotamisa – wheel, lunar calendar, multiplication and division tables, Chaldean
and Persian empire, dividion by 360 degrees, chart star and plantes
Egypt – architure, art, science, and medicine, surgery, h uman anatomy, solar
calendar (12 months with 30 days), pyramids
Phoenicians- phonetic alphabet, purple dye
6) Who fashioned the first iron weapons?
Hittites (p. 8 notes)
7) Recognize the significance and contributions of Assyrians.
By 800 BC, this changed when the Assyrians sought once again to
expand their borders. By the 7th century BC, the Assyrians were a
deadly force of ruthless attackers, feared by all (p. 8-9 notes)
8) Know the origins of world empires, and recognize the difference between a small
nation and an empire.
Egypt not an empire because the kingdom in homogenus Empires led to the
intermingling of people (multi people group, ethnicities and culture)
Small nations – The small nations of the Near East, which tended to be the
weakest targets of land hungry invaders, were left in relative peace, little
fearing massive invasion. (Mespotamia,
Empires – Assyrians, Babylonian Empire, Chaldean, Persian
, HIEU 201:
TEST 1 STUDY
GUIDE
In political science, a "nation" refers to a group of people who
feel bound into a single body by shared culture, values,
folkways, religion and/or language.
Empire is a comparatively larger geographical entity in
which a group of states or nations are ruled by a single
monarch or authority
9) Know the largest empire covered in this section and its extent.
Persian empire it extents from Fertile Crescent in the East to the Mediterranean Sea
in the West
