HIST 150: Study Guide for Test One

General information: Test One will be on Tuesday, September 19. There will
be thirteen questions worth one hundred points in this test. Eight questions will
be from the class lectures and five questions will be from Pompeii. You will skip
one question. If you are absent you must have a valid written excuse for your
absence in order to be able to take the make up test. The make up test will be
given on Thursday, September 21.

Study Guide updated on 8/24/2017:

It is not required, only recommended that you answer the following questions
before our next class meeting. Your answers to these questions will not be
collected at any time. However, if you request assistance in improving your test
scores, these note cards will be the first thing that we will want to check.

Part Two: Pompeii

Read Pompeii and be able to answer fully the following questions from the
Pompeii guide: 1, 2, and 3.

Part Two: Class Lectures

1. Where was the Fertile Crescent located Describe four characteristics of the
land located in the Fertile Crescent.

2. Identify each of the following items with a minimum of three valid facts:
Ramses II, Hammurabi, and Kadesh.

3. List and describe four of the inventions that both Egypt and Mesopotamia both
made.

4. Identify each of the following items with a minimum of three valid facts:
Hammurabis Code, Hieroglyphics, and Cuneiform.