Foundations Review WHAP/Napp

The Time Period:
  • 8000 B.C.E. to Around 600 C.E.
  • History Review through 600 C.E.
-Nomads
-The Neolithic Revolution
-The Early Civilizations
-The Classical Civilizations
-The Late Classical Period
  • Belief Systems
  • Technology and Innovations
  • Changes and Continuities in the Role of Women
  • Major Developments 8000 B.C.E. to 600 C.E., organized by time and place

From Nomads to Early Civilizations
Nomads: ______
Foraging Societies: ______
Hunter-Gatherer Clans: ______
Pastoral Societies: ______
Social Stratification Among Hunters: ______
Social Stratification Among Pastoralists: ______
Neolithic Revolution: ______
Effects of Neolithic Revolution: ______
Importance of Food Surplus: ______
Bronze Age: ______
Agricultural Villages: ______
Jericho: ______
Çatal Hüyük: ______
River Valley Civilizations: ______
Civilization: ______
Urbanization: ______
Specialization: ______
City-states: ______
Mesopotamia: ______
Fertile Crescent: ______
Tigris and Euphrates: ______
Sumer: ______
Ur, Erech, Kish: ______
Sumerian Civilization: ______
Cuneiform: ______
Scribes: ______
Polytheistic: ______
Ziggurats: ______
Class Hierarchy/Sumerians: ______
Decline of Sumer: ______
Akkad: ______
Babylon: ______
Code of Hammurabi:______
Class Divisions: ______
Hittites: ______
Iron Weapons: ______
Assyrians: ______
Nineveh: ______
Medes: ______
Chaldeans:______
Nebuchadnezzar: ______
Persian Empire: ______
Great Royal Road: ______
Lydians: ______
Phoenicians: ______
Hebrews: ______
Judaism: ______
Monotheism: ______
Torah: ______
Diaspora: ______
Babylonian Captivity: ______
Covenant: ______
Egyptians: ______
Nile River:______
Pyramids: ______
Hieroglyphics: ______
Pharaohs: ______
King Menes: ______
Mummification: ______
Egyptian View of the Afterlife: ______
Queen Hatshepsut: ______
Egyptian Class Hierarchy: ______
Old, Middle, New Kingdoms: ______
Upper Nile/Lower Nile: ______
Status of Women in Egypt: ______
Decline of Egypt: ______
Indus River Valley: ______
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro: ______
Urban Planning: ______
Writing but Not Deciphered: ______
Trade: ______
Decline of Indus River Valley Civilization: ______
Aryans: ______
Vedas: ______
Upanishads: ______
Brahmans: ______
Hinduism: ______
Caste System: ______
Shang China: ______
Hwang Ho River Valley: ______
Patriarchy: ______
Oracle Bones: ______
Zhou Dynasty: ______
Mandate of Heaven: ______
Zhou and Feudal System: ______
Bureaucracies: ______
“Age of Warring States”: ______
Kush: ______
Nubia: ______
Meroë: ______
Bantu Migration: ______
Jenne-Jeno: ______
“Stateless Society”: ______
Olmec: ______
Olmec Stone Heads: ______
Chavin: ______
Lack of Domesticated Animals in the Americas: ______
North/South Orientation of the Americas: ______
Classical Civilizations:
Time Period: ______
Mayans: ______
Hieroglyphics: ______
Architecture/Pyramids: ______
Tikal: ______
Golden Age of Mayan Culture: ______
Mayan Social Hierarchy: ______
Advances in Math and Science: ______
Mayan Cosmic Worldview: ______
Warfare: ______
Location: ______
Decline: ______
Maize.: ______Chichen Itza: ______
Mayan Calendar: ______
Decline of Maya: ______
Mauryan Empire: ______
Chandragupta Maurya: ______
Ashoka Maurya: ______
Battle of Kalinga: ______
Conversion to Buddhism: ______
Rock and Pillar Edicts: ______
Decline of Maurya: ______
Gupta Empire: ______
Gupta – Golden Age of Hindu Culture: ______
Arabic Numerals: ______
Hinduism Reinforcing Caste System: ______
Pressures from White Huns: ______
Decline:______
Qin Dynasty: ______
Qin Shihuangdi: ______
Great Wall of China: ______
Legalism: ______
Qin Centralization: ______
Uniform System of Writing: ______
Han Dynasty: ______
Wu Ti: ______
Silk Road: ______
Civil Service Examination: ______
Trade: ______
Chinese Inventions: ______
Decline of Han: ______
Ancient Greece: ______
Geography of Greece: ______
Cultural Diffusion: ______
Establishing Colonies: ______
Polis: ______
Athens: ______
Sparta: ______
Athenian Democracy: ______
Spartan Helots: ______
Status of Athenian Women: ______
Draco: ______
Solon: ______
Slave Labor in the Mediterranean: ______
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: ______
Greek Mythology: ______
Persian Wars: ______
Delian League: ______
Peloponnesian War: ______
Homer: ______
Columns: ______
Archimedes, Hippocrates, Euclid, and Pythagoras: ______
Macedonians: ______
Philip of Macedon: ______
Alexander the Great: ______
Hellenism: ______
Antigonid: ______
Ptolemaic: ______
Seleucid: ______
Alexandria Library: ______
Rome: ______
Italian Peninsula: ______
Roman Mythology: ______
Roman Republic: ______
Patricians: ______
Plebeians: ______
Slaves in Rome: ______
Senate: ______
Twelve Tables of Rome: ______
Pater Familias: ______
Status of Women in Rome: ______
Carthage: ______
Punic Wars: ______
Hannibal: ______
The Third Punic War: ______
Gaul: ______
Reasons for Collapse of Republic: ______
First Triumvirate: ______
Julius Caesar: ______
Civil War: ______
44 B.C.E.: ______
Second Triumvirate: ______
Octavius/Augustus Caesar: ______
Rome as an Empire: ______
Pax Romana: ______
Ovid’s Metamorphoses: ______
Virgil’s Aenid: ______
Roman Engineering: ______
Emperor Diocletian: ______
Paganism: ______
Christianity in the Roman Empire: ______
Emperor Constantine: ______
Constantinople: ______
Edict of Milan: ______
Colosseum: ______
Germanic Invasions: ______
Visigoths: ______
Attila the Hun: ______
Battle of Adrianople: ______
Reasons for the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire: ______
The Byzantine Empire: ______
Wang Mang: ______
Xin Dynasty: ______
Belief Systems (8000 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.):
Confucianism: ______
Filial Piety: ______
Five Relationships: ______
Analects: ______
Impact of Confucianism: ______
Daoism: ______
Lao-tzu: ______
Wuwei: ______
Dao: ______
Dao De Jing: ______
Yin-Yang: ______
Impact of Daoism: ______
Legalism: ______
Impact of Legalism: ______
Hinduism: ______
Karma: ______
Dharma: ______
Moksha: ______
Caste System: ______
Vedas: ______
Upanishads: ______
Impact of Hinduism: ______
Buddhism: ______
Four Noble Truths: ______
Eightfold Path: ______
Siddhartha Gautama: ______
Nirvana: ______
Theravada (Hinayana): ______
Mahayana: ______
Bodhisattvas: ______
Sutras: ______
Impact of Buddhism: ______
Spread of Buddhism: ______
Conversion of Asoka: ______
Judaism: ______
Monotheism: ______
Covenant: ______
Moses: ______
Diaspora: ______
Zoroastrianism: ______
Christianity: ______
Jesus of Nazareth: ______
Romans and Crucifixion: ______
New Testament: ______
Gospels: ______
Paul of Tarsus: ______
Trinity: ______
Forgiveness of Sins: ______
Impact of Christianity: ______
Spread of Christianity: ______
Technology and Innovations:
Ploughs: ______
Wheels: ______
Copper: ______
Stirrup: ______
Canals: ______
Aqueducts: ______
Roads: ______
Calendars: ______
Concept of Zero: ______
Windmills: ______
Wheelbarrows: ______
Gunpowder: ______
Paper: ______
Changes and Continuities in the Role of Women:
Patriarchy: ______
Women in Hinduism: ______
Women in Confucianism: ______
Women in Daoism: ______
Women in Greece: ______
Women in Rome: ______

Important Terms:

Agriculture

Agrarian
Bands/Clan

Barbarian

Bureaucracy

Civilization

City-states

Classical

Domestication

Economy

Egalitaran

Emperor

Empire

Feudalism

Foraging

Hierarchy

Hunter-Gatherer

Irrigation

Monarchy

Monotheism

Neolithic
Pastoral

Paleolithic

Polytheism

River Valley

Sedentary
Settlement

Subsistence

Surplus

Sustenance

Theocracy

Traditional

Urbanization

Vassals

People, Places, and Events:

Alexander the Great

Analects of Confucius

Bronze Age

Byzantium

Calendar

Code of Hammurabi

Cuneiform

Democracy

Eightfold Path

Four Noble Truths

Gothic Migrations

Great Wall

Han Dynasty

Hellenism

The Huns

Indian Ocean Trade

Iron Age

Jewish Diaspora

Legalism (China)

Pax Romana

Pyramids

Roman Republic

Roman Senate

Shang Civilization (China)

Shi Huang Di (Qin China)

Siddhartha Gautama

Silk Road Trade

The Torah

The Vedas of Hinduism

Ziggurats