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World Cultures I
Merion Mercy Academy
2010 Mid Term Study Guide
Unit I: Introduction to World Cultures
1. culture
2. cultural universals
3. worldview
Unit II: From Pre-History to the Earliest Civilizations
Chapter 1, Section 1: Human Origins in Africa (pages 2 to 5 and 7 to 13)
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prehistory
artifacts
archaeologists
hominids
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
technology
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nomads
hunter -gatherers
Neolithic Revolution
slash and burn farming
domestication
Chapter 1, Section 2: Human Try to Control Nature (pages 14 to 18)
Chapter 1, Section 3: Civilization (pages 19 to 23)
17. civilization
18. specialization of workers
19. artisans
20. institutions
21. scribes
22. cuneiform
23. The Bronze Age
24. Sumer
25. barter
26. ziggurats
Chapter 2, Section 1: City-States in Mesopotamia (pages29 to 32 ONLY)
27. Fertile Crescent
28. Mesopotamia
29. Tigris and Euphrates
30. city-state
31. dynasty
32. cultural diffusion
33. polytheism
Unit III: Ancient Egypt
Chapter 2, Section 2: Pyramids on the Nile (pages 35 to 43, and supplemental handouts)
34. Nile
35. Silt
36. Delta
37. Upper Egypt / Lower Egypt
38. Old Kingdom
39. Pharaohs
40. theocracy
41. pyramids
42. mastabas
43. mummification
44. hieroglyphics
45. The Rosetta Stone
Mr. Clementi
Chapter 4, Section 1: The Egyptian and Nubian Empires (pages89 to 94, and supplemental handouts)
46. Hyksos
47. Achmose / Kamose
48. New Kingdom
49. Hatshepsut
50. Thutmose III
51. Nubians
52. Ramses II
53. Great Temple at Abu Simbel
54. Sea People
Unit IV: Hinduism and Buddhism (Chapter 3, Sections 1& 2)
55. Indo-Europeans
56. Hittites
57. Aryans
58. caste system
59. Brahmins
60. Hinduism
61. moksha
62. reincarnation
63. karma
64. Buddhism
65. Siddhartha Gautama
66. enlightenment
67. The Four Noble Truths
68. The Noble Eightfold Path
Unit V: Classical Greece
Section 5.1 Cultures of the Mountains and the Sea
69. geographic features of Greece
70. Mycenaean
71. Trojan War
72. Dorian
73. Homer
74. epics (Iliad)
Section 5.2: Warring City States
75. polis
76. monarchy
77. aristocracy
78. oligarchy
79. democracy
80. The Persian War (Specifically the significance of the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salami)
81. Delian League
82. phalanx
Section 5.3 Democracy and Greece’s Golden Age
70. Pericles
71. direct democracy
72. The Parthenon
73. Greek Drama (tragedies and comedies)
74. Peloponnesian War
75. Greek Philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
Section 5.4 Alexander’s Empire
76. Macedonia
77. Philip II
78. Alexander the Great
79. Darius III
80. Battle of Gaugamela
81. Kingdoms of Antigonus, Ptolemy and Seleucis
Section 5.5 The Spread of Hellenistic Culture
82. Hellenistic
83. Cultural diversity
84. Alexandria
85. Alexandria Museum and Library
86. Ptolemy
87. Euclid
88. Archimedes
Unit VI: The Roman Empire
Section 1: The Roman Republic
1. Etruscans
89. Roman Republic
90. Patricians
91. Plebians
92. Consuls
93. senate
94. Roman legions
95. Carthaginians
96. Punic Wars
97. Scipio
98. Hannibal
99. Roman Civil War
100. Julius Caesar
101. Augustus
102. Roman Empire
103. Pax Romana
Essay Question:
Choose an ancient civilization we have studied so far. Using at least 4 cultural universals, explain what
would be the worldview of a 14 year old girl in that society. Compare and contrast her world to your
own. NOTE: Grammar, syntax and paragraph structure will be accessed.