WORLD HISTORY EXAM REVIEW

ANCIENT & RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS—

Vocabulary for Early Foundations:

  • Paleolithic
  • Neolithic
  • Nomadic
  • Sedentary
  • Pastoral
  • Domestication
  • Civilization
  • Polytheism
  • Monotheism
  • Cultural diffusion
  • Economic
  • Surplus
  • Technology

What is the study of World History include? Make sure and understand the shift in history that catapults the world into sedentary civilizations?

Identification:

  • Filial piety
  • Confucian “Five Relationships”
  • Ancestor of worship
  • “Son of Heaven”
  • Scholar Gentry

Explain the teachings of Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism…

How did each of the three philosophies affect the government and traditions of China?

Describe the class structure and gender relations in Classical China…

What intellectual and technological advancements did imperial China make?

What was the role and social position of the Merchant Class?

Identification:

  • Four Noble Truths
  • Dharma
  • Karma
  • Aryans
  • Castes
  • Jatis
  • Nirvana

How did geography and environment influence the Indian civilization?

Explain the basic beliefs of Hinduism and how they evolved from the Aryans to the Guptas.

Describe Hindu political hierarchy, caste structure, and gender relations…

What is the major difference between Buddhism and Hinduism?

How were Buddhism and Hinduism spread?

What was the role and social position of the merchant class?

Identification:

  • Zoroastriansim
  • Hellenic; Hellenistic
  • Rationality
  • Tyranny
  • Republic
  • Clientage
  • Natural Law

What political institutions were common in the Classical Meditteranean?

How did Rome unify its vast empire and diverse peoples?

Describe social divison, gender relationships and inequalities in the Greco-Roman world…

What principals motivate Greco-Roman society and culture?

Describe the agricultural life and mercantile institutions of the classical Mediterranean…

CLASSICAL EMPIRES—

All the classical civilizations needed to integrate their expanding empires. How did each civilization integrate territorially and socially?

  • China
  • India
  • Mediterranean

How did India influence the areas in its periphery?

How did expansion occur in parts of sub-Saharan Africa? (Include Kush and Axum, their contacts with Greece and Rome; religious changes; effects on the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.

SCRIPTED over Japan.

What were the major achievements of the Olmecs and why were they significant to central America?

How and when were the Polynesian Islands first explored and settled?

What was the role of nomads in the expansion and transformation of civilizations?

Discuss Buddhism—where did it come from, how did it expand and how did it change as it moved?

What was the Chinese view of Buddhism, Daoism, and Legalism?

Christianity—

  • Similarities/Differences from Buddhism
  • General Message
  • Reasons it was an appealing new faith—
  • Relationship of Christianity to Roman Empire—

In what ways did Christianity preserve classic Mediterranean civilizations? In what ways did it deviate from them?

How did Islam come to north Africa?

Who was instrumental in its moving south of the Sahara?

What are some reasons Islam appealed to African rulers and masses alike?