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World History
Exam Review Guide
Fall Semester 2011
Name: ____________________________________________________
Date: ___________________________________ Period: __________
CHAPTER ONE: Foundations of World History
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
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Written records
Why study history?
CHAPTER TWO: Early Civilizations
- Monotheism
- Polytheism
- Capitals of Ancient Civilizations
- Hammurabi
- Ziggurats
- Astrology
- Astronomy
- Three Kingdoms of Egypt
- Khufu
- Hatshepsut
- Hieroglyphics
- Abrahamic Covenant
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Theocracy
Epic
Mesopotamia
Phoenicians
Cuneiform
Aramaic
Akkadian accomplishments
Amorite accomplishments
Egyptian accomplishments
Phoenician accomplishments
Persian accomplishments
Hyksos
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Battle of Salamis Bay
Themistocles
Minoans
Mycenae
Trojan War
Homer
Ptolemy
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Hippocrates
Herodotus
Sophocles
Aristophanes
Parthenon
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Second Punic War
Third Punic War
Romulus and Remus
Mare Nostrum
Triumvirate – Crassus, Pompey, Caesar
Ides of March
Mark Antony
Octavian
Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus
Carthage
Rome’s treatment of her people
Roman expansion after the Punic Wars
CHAPTER THREE: The Greek Civilization
- Frescoes
- Hellespont
- Homer
- Polis
- Acropolis
- Monarchy
- Oligarchy
- Tyranny
- Democracy
- Peloponnesian League
- Delian League
- Hellenic/Hellenistic
- Greek gods/goddesses
- Spartan life
- Athenian life
- Solon
- Pericles
CHAPTER FOUR: The Roman Republic
- Etruscans
- League of the Seven Hills
- Patricians
- Plebeians
- Fasces
- Republic
- Senate
- Consuls
- Assemblies
- Plebiscites
- Law of Twelve Tables
- First Punic War
CHAPTER FIVE: The Roman Empire
- Pax Romana
- Geocentric theory
- Aqueducts
- Octavian/Augustus
- Princeps
- Octavian’s accomplishments
- Roman law
- Virgil
- Ovid
- Pompeii
- Ptolemy
- Circus Maximus
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Colosseum
Stephen
Paul
Early church
Jesus’s life and ministry
Nero
Constantine
Edict of Milan
Council of Nicaea
Theodosius I
Constantinople
Decline of Rome
CHAPTER SIX: The Byzantine and Islamic Empires
- Constantinople
- Justinian
- Theodora
- Justinian Code
- Nika Revolt
- Hagia Sophia
- Split of the Church
- Greek Fire
- Battle of Manzikert
- Cyril and Methodius
- Mosaic
- Russian land
- Varangians
- Novgorad
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Kiev
Yaroslav
Vladimir I
Onion dome
Arabian land
Arabian lifestyle
Muhammad
Founding of Islam
Kaaba
Flight to medina
Five Pillars of Islam
Koran
Abu Bakr
Muslim capital movements
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Civilizations of Asia and Africa
- Indian land
- Himalayaz
- Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
- Aryans
- Vedas
- Indian society
- Caste system
- Hinduism
- Upanishads
- Brahman
- Reincarnation
- Buddhism
- Siddhartha Gautama
- Four Noble Truths
- Eight Fold Path
- Nirvana
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Asoka
- Middle Kingdom
- Chinese land
- Chinese society
- Confucianism
- Taoism
- Lao-tzu
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Shang Dynasty
Chou Dynasty
Ch’in Dynasty
Shih Huang Ti
Han Dynasty
Wu Ti
Pax Sinica
T’ang Dynasty
Li Po
Chinese culture
Japanese land
Japanese history
Yamato clan
Jimmu Tenno
Shintoism
Prince Shotoku
Taika Reform
Shogun
Samurai
Mongols
Ghenghis Khan
Kublai Khan
African kingdoms
African culture
World History
Exam Review Guide
Fall Semester 2011
Name: ____________________________________________________
Date: ___________________________________ Period: __________