Social Studies Study Guide
Chapter 3&4
*Hints: Study your notes!
o You should study the vocabulary words we have covered so far…even in chapter 1 &2 J It may help you when looking for an answer.
o When taking a multiple-choice exam, it sometimes helps to cross out the answers you know are incorrect first. This helps you narrow your thinking to find the correct answer.
Chapter 3
· What discovery began the Neolithic Age and what discovery ended it?
· What was the greatest benefit when people began farming?
· How did people in Neolithic times build homes to protect against animal attacks?
· Why did people live in larger communities during the Neolithic Age?
· What was different about living in Paleolithic times compared to Neolithic times?
· What happened to Neolithic traders as they traveled and traded items?
· What were the results of people developing special skills in Neolithic times?
· What changes came about because people began living in permanent shelters?
· There will be a Venn diagram that you will fill in with the similarities and differences between Paleolithic and Neolithic times.
Chapter 4
· What does the name Mesopotamia mean?
· How did Early Sumerian cities protect themselves from attacks?
· What change, caused by farming in northern Mesopotamia, led people to move south?
· How did Sumerians create an irrigation system?
· What happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems?
· Why were Sumerian settlements called city-states?
· Why didn’t Sumerians continue living in small villages, as their ancestors had?
· What made it harder to live in Sumer than in the Zagros foothills?
· Know the sequence of problems/solutions that we filled out in class.
o ____________ caused Mesopotamians to à move to the river valley à ____________ caused Mesopotamians to à build irrigation systems à ____________ and ____________ over water caused Mesopotamians to à live in larger communities.
