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World History PreAP Midterm Review 2010-2011
Below you will find ideas, items, terms, people, places that will appear on your midterm exam. Use your interactive
notebook, textbook, old quizzes, and any other documents we have used throughout the year.
For each term, you MUST handwrite a definition or description. Number each term according to the numbers below. You
may list them on plain paper or define them on flashcards. DO NOT DEFINE THEM ON THIS PAGE. Staple this page to the
front of your definitions/descriptions. This is an individual assignment.
This study guide is worth 200 points and 10 BONUS points on your final. (1 point per term + neatness + effort)
Unit 1: The Rise of Civilization
1) Artifact
2) Prehistory
3) Barter
4) Archaeologist
5) Neolithic Revolution (aka Neolithic
Agricultural Revolution)
6) Polytheism
7) Monotheism
8) Cultural Diffusion
9) Fertile Crescent
10) Specialized Workers
11) Disadvantages of the Hunter/Gather life
style
12) Important Advances that lead to the rise of
civilization—specialized workers, farming,
herding animals, etc.
13) The importance of domesticated animals
14) 5 Characteristics of Civilization
15) Development around River Valleys, the
Empires
16) Advantages of Agriculture (what type of
lifestyle did this lead to?)
17) Hammurabi’s Code
Unit 2: Ancient Rome and Greece
18) City-state/Polis
19) Athens
20) Sparta
21) Impact of Geography on Greece
22) Monarchy
23) Aristocracy
24) Democracy (Direct vs. Representative)
25) Oligarchy
26) Homer
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Philosophy & the Philosophers
Plato
Golden Age of Greece
Pericles
Disadvantages of both Sparta and Athens
Hellenistic Culture
Alexander the Great
Roman Republic
Roman Empire
Republic (executive, legislative, judicial)
Pax Romana
Twelve Tables of Law
Rise & Spread of Christianity
Fall of Roman Empire, East and West
Impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on
Western Civilization
Unit 3: Byzantium, Russians & Turks, Islamic
Empire, World Religions
42) Byzantine Empire
43) Justinian Code
44) Icons
45) Hagia Sophia
46) Constantinople
47) Schism
48) Excommunication
49) Origin of Eastern Orthodox
50) Islam Empire Characteristics
51) Islamic Contributions/Inventions
52) Ghengis Khan
53) Russian Empire Characteristics
54) Ottoman Empire Characteristics
55) Judaism Basics
56) Christianity Basics
57) World Religion Basics
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Unit 4: Middle Ages
58) Feudalism
59) Lord & Serf
60) Fief & Vassal
61) Manor
62) Cycle of Debt
63) Tithe
64) Causes of Feudalism-Rise of and what was
the effect of Feudalism?
65) Medieval Manor
66) Chivalry
67) Impact of Chivalry on Feudal Society
68) Clergy
69) Canon Law
70) Holy Roman Empire
71) Lay investiture
72) Concordat of Worms
73) Common Law
74) Magna Carta
75) Black Plague
76) Crusades
77) 100 Years War
78) Great Schism
Unit 5: Renaissance & Reformation
79) Renaissance
80) Humanism
81) Secular
82) Patron
83) Vernacular
84) Renaissance Artists & their works
85) Thomas Moore’s Utopia
86) William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
87) Effects of Printing Press, Gutenberg Bible
88) Reformation, Martin Luther, 95 Theses
89) Indulgences
90) Protestantism, Lutheran
91) Henry VIII
92) Calvinism & predestination
93) Presbyterians, Baptists
94) Catholic Reformation
95) Queen Elizabeth I
96) Council of Trent
Unit 6: Exploration & Colonization
97) Prince Henry
98) 1400s – Most important traded good
99) Batolomeu Diaz
100) Vasco da Gama
101) East India Company
102) Cape of Good Hope
103) Chinese Exploration
104) Japanese Exploration
105) Motives of European Exploration
106) Treaty of Tordesiallas
107) Dominant Countries in India in 1700s
108) Motives of French colonization
109) Aztecs conquered by?
110) Incas conquered by?
111) Christopher Columbus, 1492
112) Encomienda system
113) Incan Chasquis
114) Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
115) Columbian Exchange – Items traded
116) 1754 Map of America
117) 1763 Map of America