Review sheet for CLAR 120 Midterm 2013The midterm exam is Tuesday October 15. The exam will be multiple choice, so bring number 2 pencils and a scantron sheet with you. It will cover all material covered before the exam date: Neolithic Levant and Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt (as far as we get).It will only cover sites we have discussed in class up to the last meeting before the test (things in the book or course pack or syllabus that we have not covered in class, will not be on the test).I am happy to discuss with you material in preparation for the midterm. Please feel free to bring up questions in class on Tuesday and Thursday—thatis I will not prepare a review session, but I am happy to take class time to do this, if you have questions.StudyingThe best way to study is to work inductively from the individual site (especially the pictures on Artstor, and in your textbook), then to your notes and the course pack. For every site, building, or object, you should be able toconceptualize what it is, where it is, its approximate date or culture period, and why it is significant, or what it means. The course pack readings for this material (Introduction through ancient Egypt) are basically my lecture notes. While my lectures and our discussions move in diverse directions and well beyond the reading, you can use the course pack as a basic outline. I would study from the images, to your notes, then to the course pack, then to the textbook for some more details. Below are some (just a few) sample questions. The questions are just samples of kinds of questions—they do not represent the scope of the exam, which will include all material we cover in class up to the date of the exam. There will be about 40-50 questions to answer in a one-hour and five-minute period (assuming that it may take as long as ten minutes to distribute the test).CLAR 120 Sample Exam questions1. Steatopygous is a term that refers to:1. a type of stone tool found in Neolithic Mesopotamia2. a type of Neolithic female figurine type with exaggerated breasts,buttocks, and abdomen3. a type of burial in Ain Ghazal, in which the skull is modeled with plasterand then painted4. a type of settlement plan5. non of the above2. The area known as the Near East does not include:1. Anatolia2. Levant3. Greece4. The Iranian plateau5. The Balkan penninsula3. During the Neolithic period at Jericho the shift towards closed complex, multi-room rectilinear house plans and evidently household control of work areas and storage facilities most probably indicates:1. blight on communal lands2. takeover by a military strongman3. more economically or socially stratified community4. fear of war with neighboring settlements5. the need for more space for bigger families4. In the region of the ______________, the first substantial agricultural communities and permanent settlements were established.1. Aegean2. Flood plains of the Tigris and Euphrates3. Nile Delta4. Jordan River valley and fertile crescent5. The lower floodplain (alluvium) of Mesopotamia5. The first cities in Mesopotamia were larger in population than earlier settlements such as Çatal Hüyük. What advantages (besides population) did these first cities enjoy?1. Emergence of a temple-focused society providing administration and control2. Dependent hinterlands3. Complex social organization and skilled craft production and trades4. All of the above5. None of the above6. Though they are both river-valley based urban cultures, Egypt differs from Mesopotamia in the following way:1. Egypt developed irrigation agriculture before Sumerian cities2. Egypt was a more advanced urban society, developing larger and more populous cities and city states3. Egypt was poorer agriculturally, so developed slave populations as the basis for the growth of cities4. Egypt’s annual inundation created stable and regionally undifferentiated agricultural environments in marked contrast to Sumer5. Egypt was an under-populated society because it could never cultivate thedesert. 7. Given the difference in question 91. Egypt developed strongly divided and competing urban centers2. Egypt developed strongly unified and interconnected regional territories, that very early became a territorial state3. Egypt developed a unified world view of cosmic stability and order under the power of a king4. 2 and 3 above.5. None of the