AP WORLD HISTORY AMSCO PROLOGUE
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SOLUTION SET
◉ What religion did early humans develop? Answer: Animism
◉ Animism Answer: reverence for deities associated with nature's
features like animals or specific mountains and rivers
◉ By 10,000 BCE, humans... Answer: lived on every continent but
Antarctica.
◉ Agricultural Revolution Answer: Humans began planting crops
and raising animals for food around 8000 BCE; began in the Middle
East
◉ People produced a surplus of food during the Agricultural
Revolution allowing for Answer: people to specialize in non-food
producing activities
◉ What trends and innovations did the Agricultural Revolution
cause? Answer: Cities, people becoming highly skilled in one job
, (non-food producing of course), new technology, more extensive
government and taxes, and writing.
◉ The Evolution of Cities Answer: Surplus of food population
growth larger settlements became cities.
◉ The first civilizations were a result of... Answer: the Agricultural
Revolution
◉ Mesopotamia Answer: World's first civilization(s); a region
around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day Iraq
◉ Sumer Answer: Accity-state in Mesopotamia that invented the
first written language in history - Cuneiform
◉ Cuneiform Answer: First written language in history and was
used for practical development such as the recording of trade and
laws
◉ Egypt Answer: Civilization in the Nile River Valley which had a
centralized government ruled by a pharaoh
◉ Indus River Valley Civilization(s) Answer: Ancient civilizations
that existed along the Indus River in South Asia
EXAM FINAL SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE
SOLUTION SET
◉ What religion did early humans develop? Answer: Animism
◉ Animism Answer: reverence for deities associated with nature's
features like animals or specific mountains and rivers
◉ By 10,000 BCE, humans... Answer: lived on every continent but
Antarctica.
◉ Agricultural Revolution Answer: Humans began planting crops
and raising animals for food around 8000 BCE; began in the Middle
East
◉ People produced a surplus of food during the Agricultural
Revolution allowing for Answer: people to specialize in non-food
producing activities
◉ What trends and innovations did the Agricultural Revolution
cause? Answer: Cities, people becoming highly skilled in one job
, (non-food producing of course), new technology, more extensive
government and taxes, and writing.
◉ The Evolution of Cities Answer: Surplus of food population
growth larger settlements became cities.
◉ The first civilizations were a result of... Answer: the Agricultural
Revolution
◉ Mesopotamia Answer: World's first civilization(s); a region
around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day Iraq
◉ Sumer Answer: Accity-state in Mesopotamia that invented the
first written language in history - Cuneiform
◉ Cuneiform Answer: First written language in history and was
used for practical development such as the recording of trade and
laws
◉ Egypt Answer: Civilization in the Nile River Valley which had a
centralized government ruled by a pharaoh
◉ Indus River Valley Civilization(s) Answer: Ancient civilizations
that existed along the Indus River in South Asia
