Seminar World History Final Exam Study Guide
Early Man
Hunter Gatherer
Neolithic Revolution
Domestication of Animals
Monotheism
Polytheism
Features of Civilization: Organized Government, Complex Religion, Writing, Art and Architecture, Social Classes, Public Works, and Job Specialization
Mesopotamia, Egypt, IndusValley and Yellow River region of China: Compare and contrast how geography effected these river civilizations.
Forms of early writing: Cuneiform, Pictographs, Hieroglyphs, and Sanskrit
Hammurabi
Ziggurats
Pyramids
City-States
Classical Civilizations: Greece and Rome
Geography of Greece
Minoans
Crete
Oligarchy
Democracy
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
Alexander the Great
Hellenistic culture
Gods, Religion
Athens
Sparta
Rise of the RomanRepublic
Republic- describe the divisions of government
Plebian
Patrician
1st Triumvirate
Aqueducts
Public Entertainment
Julius Caesar
2nd Triumvirate
Augustus
Pax Romana
Constantine
Empire
World Religions
Major beliefs, founder, symbols, and sacred texts of:
Hinduism
Buddhism
Confucianism
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Middle Ages
Byzantines- Justinian Code, The Great Schism, Constantinople
Feudalism
Lord/Vassal Relationship
Manorial System
The role of the Church in the Middle Ages
The Crusades
Guilds
Hundred Year’s War
Black Death
Magna Carta
Africa
Geography
Mali
Songhai
Ghana
Eastern Trading States
The Renaissance
Cause and Effects
Difference between the Northern and Italian
Vernacular, Secular
Renaissance writers
Renaissance Painters
The Prince, Machiavelli
Reformation – Martin Luther
Describe: Protestant and Catholic
Importance of Printing Press and by who and when?
Exploration: Columbian Exchange, mercantilism, Middle Passage, Aztecs, Mayans, Incas
Age of Absolutism
Louis XIV, “The Sun King”
Versailles
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
How did England become a Constitutional Monarchy?
The Enlightenment
Philosophe
John Locke
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Social Contract
Natural Rights
Enlighten deposits
Age of Revolution
How did the Age of Reason influence these events?
American Colonies
Cause and Effect of the American Revolution
France
Old Regime
Estates General (the three estates)
Louis XVI
Maria Antoinette
Tennis Court Oath
National Assembly
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Legislative Assembly
National Convention
Sans-culottes
Reign of Terror
Napoleon
Napoleon’s major reforms
Invasion of Russia
Nationalism – lasting impact
1800’s and “isms”
Nationalism
Romanticism
Realism
Industrialization – England
Factory
Factors of Production
Why England First?
Capitalism
Imperialism
Socialism
Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels – Communist Manifesto
Communism
Unions
World War I
MAIN Causes
Spark
New Technology
Trench Warfare
Western Front
Russian Revolution
Before the war Alliances
Central and Allied Powers
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Effect of the War
World War II
Causes for the Great Depression of 1929
Why did totalitarian governments arise in Europe and East Asia?
Causes and Effects of the War
Appeasement
Non-Aggression Pact
AXIS POWERS
Battle of Britain
Pearl Harbor
Allied Powers
Two theaters of war
D-Day
Stalingrad
Truman
Atomic Bomb
Holocaust
Final Solution
Nuremberg Trials
The Cold War begins (US and Russia) – WHY?
The Cold War
Berlin Airlift
Containment
Deterrance
Arms Race
Sputnik
Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Values of Soviet Union, USA
Berlin Wall
Chinese Communism
21st Century Topics
United Nations
Terrorism
September 11th
Globalization
Human Rights
Environment
Technology