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Honors World History
Semester 1 Final Exam Review
Exam Review
Chapters 1-3: Peopling of the World; Early River Valley Civilizations, People and Ideas on the
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Paleolithic vs. Neolithic
Old Stone Age vs. New Stone Age
Barter System
Domestication
Nomads
Scribes / Artisans / Cuneiform
Mesopotamia (Fertile Crescent)
Polytheism
Sumerian Culture / gods
Ziggurat
Hammurabi’s Code
Ancient Egypt (environment, social structure, natural barriers, Upper vs. Lower)
Pharaohs
Theocracy
Indus River Valley
China’s Sorrow
Chinese “Mandate from Heaven”
Minoans
Phoenicians
Chapter 4: The Assyrians
Assyrians (methods of ruling especially)
Nineveh Library
Province System
Nebuchadnezzar
Persians
Cyrus vs. Darius
Royal Road
Chapter 5: Age of Empires and Classical Greece
Mountainous Geography of Greece
Trojan War
Dorians
Phalanx
Democracy in Athens
Persian War
Peloponnesian War
Comedies vs. Tragedies
Peloponnesian War
Aristocracy
Polis
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
King Philip II
Alexander the Great
Homer
Zeus
Helot
Sparta
Hellenistic Culture
Chapter 6-9: Ancient Rome
Roman Republic
Patricians vs. Plebeians
Consuls
Senate
Carthage
Hannibal
Punic Wars (3)
Pax Romana
Julius Caesar
Triumvirate
Diocletian’s Reforms
‘Bread and Circus’
Roman Education
Constantine
Collapse of the Roman Empire
Chapter 7 – India/China
Mauryan Empire
Silk Roads
Matriarchal vs. Patriarchal
Han Dynasty in China
Chapter 8 - Africa
Desertification (Geography of Africa)
Aksum
Bantu speaking people
Chapter 9 – The Americas
Reasons for Migration
Land Bridge Theory
Olmecs
Zapotecs
Chavin Period
Nazca vs. Moche culture
Chapter 12:
Asian Steppes
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
Samurai
Shogun
Chapter 13
European Middle Ages
Tithe
Chivalry
Knighthood
Lords / serfs / manor life
Clergy
Canon Law
Chapter 14:
The Crusades
3 Field System
Magna Carta
Excommunication
Great Schism
Sacraments
Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
Bubonic Plague
Chapter 16:
Aztec Empire
Huitzilopochtli
Quetzalcoatl
Tenochtitlan
Incan Empire
Chapters 17, 19-20: European Renaissance, Exploration
Renaissance “Rebirth”
Renaissance Art
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo
Niccolo Machiavelli
Printing Press
Gutenberg
Martin Luther
Indulgences
95 Theses
Reformation
Henry VIII
Predestination
Calvinism
Anabaptists
European Exploration
Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Treaty of Tordesillas
-Christopher Columbus, Colonies, Hernando Cortes, Conquistador
-New France, Jamestown, New Netherland, Fur Trade, Gold-Glory-God (3 Gs)