World History Fall 2013
Take-home Midterm
Please respond to five (5)
of the following questions. Spend approximately ten minutes on each question.
If you finish early, spend the extra time going back and revising / improving
your answers. You have a total of 50 minutes to complete the exam.
Please type your responses
and email them to me (in the body of the email, please, not an attachment…
email to me at pandrews@ndnu.edu) no later than 8:50 am on Monday, October 14.
Because this is a take-home
midterm, our class will not meet in person on Monday 10/14.
The “non-written” portion of
the midterm will take place on Wednesday, October 16 and will be based on your
written responses.
1)
What was the significance of the development of agriculture?
2)
Why was early agriculture less widespread in the Americas that it was in
Afro-Eurasia?
3)
Discuss the evidence that Paleolithic societies were more egalitarian than
later societies. Is this evidence convincing? Why or why not?
4)
What did it mean to be civilized to the Mesopotamians who created the Gilgamesh
story?
5)
Please list the four eras we have discussed so far, along with their date
ranges. How much can you recall of the four comparative bullet points that go
with each era?
6) Is
subjugation inevitable in human societies? Cite examples that might make you
more confident in your answer.
7) Strayer
changes the term “hunter-gatherer” to the term “gatherer-hunter.” In what way
is this change consistent with 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?
8)
Please discuss the ideas and impact of two of the “seminal thinkers” we have
studied so far.
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