MIDTERM EXAM

Midterm – World History / Andrews

Fall 2018

Please respond to 6 of the following questions. There is no time limit but as a general guideline, spend about 6 to 10 minutes on each response. Do not answer more (or fewer) than 6 questions. This midterm is open book and open note. 

When you are done, please email your responses to me at pandrews@ndnu.edu.

Have a nice midterm break weekend!

1) Discuss the evidence provided by Strayer that paleolithic peoples were more egalitarian than later peoples. Is this evidence convincing? Why or why not?

2) What was the significance of the development of agriculture?

3) Why was water so important in early societies? How might a good leader of an early agricultural society manage the water needs of his or her society?

4) Who were the Indus Valley people? What were their accomplishments? Why don’t we know more about them? 

5) Strayer changes the term “hunter-gatherer” to “gatherer-hunter.” In what way does this change reflect the values of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as expressed in the Hallmarks? Should other scholars who write textbooks on World History adopt this change? Why or why not?

6) Discuss the development of social inequality in the first four eras of human history.

7) Discuss some examples of classical-era social variations (i.e. examples of societies that did not fit the standard mold of empire or cosmopolitan urban center or were unique in some way). Why are these important to study?