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World History: Mid-term Exam Review
Unit One: World Religions:
Have an understanding of the following religious origins:
1. Christianity
a. Types of people that were attracted to the religion.
2. Islam
a. Define the term Hijrah.
b. Define the term shari’ah.
Unit Two: Islam & African Trade:
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Why was there a split of Islam into two sects, the Sunni and Shia?
Which battle stopped the advancement of the Umayyad’s expansion
Islamic scholar’s largest contribution to mathematics?
Which of the following was the first great trading states in western Africa?
The people of Ghana often traded gold for what?
The crucial factor in African trade across the Sahara.
What effect did the Bantu Migrations have on other Africans?
Unit Three: Asian World
1. An important concept of Chinese government hat became a crucial part of
Chinese history.
2. The effects of Ghengis Khan and the Mongolian Empire on the world. Role of the
Samurai in the Japan Feudal System.
3. What factors lead to Kublai Kahn’s failure to invade Japan?
4. Define Scholary Gentry in the Tang and Song Dynasty.
5. Define Bushido and compare it to the code of chivalry in Europe.
6. How did the Mogul Dynasty, in India, effect religious life. Which Dynasty
controlled Indian sub-continent in the 1600 and why?
7. List the Hierarchy of the Japanese feudal system from Lowest to Highest.
8. What is a Khanate?
9. Define the silk road.
10. Effects of the Civil Service Exam
Unit Four: Middle Ages
1. Most important gift from Lord to vassal?
2. What was the code of ethics that knight’s were to follow?
3. Whose power did the Magna Carter limit?
4. Name the great Muslim leader who retakes Jerusalem from the Christians during
the crusades.
5. The First Holy Roman Emperor.
6. The agreement between the Lord and his vassal is known as a what
7. The issues surrounding The Great Schism of 1378-1417.
8. How did Joan of Arc inspire the French people in the Hundred Years War?
9. The Catholic Church’s attempt to find an try heretics.
10. What are the effects of the Black Death?
Unit Five Review: Renaissance and Reformation Era:
1. Painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, mathematician and best example of at
Renaissance Man.
2. What were the main arguments in Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Thesis? What was
the significance of the Council of Trent?
3. How did the Renaissance change Europe?
4. Importance of Humanism in the renaissance. Henry the VII founded what
religion?
5. What city-states were important to the Italian Renaissance and why?
6. How were the social classes of the Middle Ages changed in Europe by the
Renaissance?
7. Positive and Negative effects of the Columbian exchange on Europe and
America.
Unit Six- Absolutism:
1. What was the Spanish Armada, and how its attack on England change the political
landscape of Europe?
2. What is the concept of Divine Rights of Kings?
3. What group of English Protestants were inspired by the teachings of John Calvin?
4. What role did Oliver Cromwell play during the English Civil War? What type of
authority did he eventually obtain as a result of his actions?
5. What is the definition of absolutism?
6. What type of distraction did Louis XIV use on those from the upper classes in order
to ensure his monarchy?
7. What was the “Glorious Revolution” and why was it a unique example of political
changeover?
8. What were the core principles that made up John Locke beliefs on natural rights?
9. What specific groups in the European population were targeted by witchcraft trials
in the 16th and 17th centuries?
10. How did Peter the Great of Russia change the culture and government of his nation
during his reign?
Unit 7: Scientific Revolution:
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Who replaced Catholicism as the religion of England with the Anglican Church
What is Isaac’s Newton’s Law of Gravity?
Who believed scientists should use the scientific method?
Explain Ptolemy’s theory on the composition of the universe.
What were Galileo’s discoveries on the composition of the Universe?