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Historical Terms and Concepts to Know- Chapter 10
*Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?
Homer
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Mycenaeans
Trojan War
King Minos and Minoans
Polis
Minoan Linear A and B
helot
Pericles
Alexander the Great
Antigonus
Ptolemy
Seleucus
Olympic Games
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
tyrant
Spartan
Solon
Persian Wars
Darius, Xerxes
Peloponnesian War
Hellenistic
Alexander of Macedon
empires
Sappho
Stoics
*Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what- chapter 11
Paul of Tarsus
Po River
Senate
patricians
tribunes
Gaul
Carthage
latifundium/-ia
republic
Tiber River
consuls
plebeians
dictator
Celtics
Punic Wars
Julius Caesar
Octavian Augustus
Marc Antony
Cleopatra
pax romana
mare nostrum
paterfamilias
Colosseum
bread and circuses
Jesus of Nazareth
Historical terms and Concepts to Know- chapter 12
*Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?
Han Wudi Bactria
monsoon winds Chang’an
Kush Hindu Kush Mountains
Himalaya Mountains Madagascar
Taklamakan Desert Kashgar
Taxila Caspian Sea
Persian Gulf
Palmyra
Arabia
Tyre
Antioch
Arabian Sea
Red Sea
Damascus
South China Sea
Ceylon
Guangzhou
Pondicherry
missionaries
epidemics
Merv Bukhara
Samark and Khotan
Dunhuang
Parthia
Expatriate
merchants
Java
Sumatra Nestorians
Manicheaism
syncretic/syncretism
bubonic plague
Diocletian
smallpox
Constantine
Constantinople
Visigoths
Huns Attila
Bishop of Rome western and eastern Roman empires
476 C.E. St. Augustine
Essay Questions to ponder for test
1. In what ways were the Mycenaeans similar to the later Athenians and Spartans of the classical age?
What legacy did the Mycenaean period leave behind?
2. What were the achievements and limitations of Greek democracy? In what ways could the
experiences of the Greeks have influenced the early American thinkers in the formation of their
republic?
3. What were the major historical legacies of the Hellenistic age? In what ways was this period different
from the earlier Hellenic age?
4. Discuss the Greek Olympic Games. What can these games tell us about the nature of the Greeks?
5. What could the nature of Greek drama and comedy tell us about how the Greeks viewed
themselves? What makes their drama and comedy unique?
6. Discuss the nature of the Homeric epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. How influential were these
works to the Greeks? In what ways do these works express the Greek worldview?
7. Examine the social structure of the ancient Greeks. What role did women play in their society? Were
there variations of the social structure among the different city-states?
8. Examine the relationship between the Greeks and the Persians. How influential were the Persian
Wars on later Greek history?
9. Examine the role that family played in ancient Rome. What role did women play inside and outside
the home? Did women have more or less freedom in Rome than in other societies?
10. Examine the reign of Augustus Caesar. What steps did he take to restore order and implement the
pax romana? What were the long-term effects of his influence?
11. Examine the intellectual world of the Romans. How did the Greeks influence the Romans? In what
ways were they different?
12. Why did the Romans create such a huge and long lasting empire, when the Greeks were never able
to unify? Did character play a role?
13. Compare and contrast the Roman and Chinese empires. What made these states so powerful and
influential for such a long period of time?
14. How did trade shape the Roman world? How did trade work to bring the Roman world together?
15. Compare the status of women in Rome to their status in the rest of the ancient world. How was the
role of women different in Rome than in the Greek city-states?
16. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of trade? How did trade along the silk roads
influence the societies that engaged in trade?
17. Compare and contrast the spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. What were the social
and cultural implications of this movement of different faiths?
18. What role did nomadic tribes play in the decline of the Roman empire? Examine the role of Attila
the Hun in detail.
19. Examine the establishment of the silk roads. How did increased trade along these routes influence
the participating societies?
20. Examine the spread of Christianity. How was it helped along by the established trade routes? How
did it evolve in the later Roman period?
21. Discuss the spread of epidemic diseases along the trade routes. Examine the consequences of these
diseases in the Han and Roman empires.
22. Examine Map 12.1, The silk roads, 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E. Follow the trade routes and discuss what
items would be traded from country to country. How did trade along these routes foster
relationships between societies?