World History I Semester Exam Study Guide
Schumm
January 2018
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World Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism pp. 66-71
Key Terms:Key People:Key Ideas:
HinduismCaste SystemSiddhartha GautamaSimilarities between Hinduism/
AtmanNirvanaBuddhism
BrahmanSilk RoadImportance of the Silk Road
KarmaEight-fold Path
Reincarnation
______Western Religions: Judaism pp. 77-82, Christianity pp. 168-172 and Islam pp. 263-271
Key Terms:Key People:
Palestine/CanaanmartyrsAbraham
TorahDiasporaMoses
MonotheismpopeJesus
PolytheismIslamPeter/Paul
CovenantHijrahMuhammad
Ten CommandmentsQur’anSunni/Shi’a
GospelsCaliph
Key Ideas:
Importance of Abraham and the covenant What happened to the Church as Rome declined?
Decline for the kingdom of IsraelBasic Beliefs of Islam
Reasons why Christianity became a World ReligionConnections between Islam, Judaism and
Christianity
Chapter 12: pp. 324-326 and331-343: Tang and Song Innovation and Achievements, Wu Zhou, Ghengis Khan, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Decline of the Mongol Empire, Kamikaze, samurai, bushido, shogun ______
Middle Ages Chapter 13 pp. 353-367 Chapter 14 pp. 382-385, p. 387 and p. 389-390
Key Terms:
Middle AgesFiefReconquistaVassalInquisition
MonasteriesVikingspeasantsThree-field systemFeudalism
serfsSecularLordCrusade
Key People:
Richard the Lion-HeartedFerdinand and Isabella
Pope Urban II
Saladin
Key Ideas:
Differences between Feudalism/Manorialism
Goals of the First, Second, Third Crusade
Changes in food production
Reasons Why Viking Invasions Ended
Black Death: pp.399-400
Origin of the Plague and how it got to EuropeEffects of the Plague
Spread of the Disease/Death toll in EuropeHow peasants/serfs and kings benefitted
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Renaissance and Reformation pp. 471-483
Key Terms:
RenaissancePatrons
HumanismPerspective
Greece/RomeVernacular
SecularChristian Humanist
Key People:
Lorenzo de MediciMachiavelliGutenberg
Da VinciErasmusElizabeth I
MichelangeloThomas More
PetrarchShakespeare
Key Ideas:
Reasons why the Ren. began in ItalyImportance of the Printing Press
Renaissance Man/WomanHow Ren. Changed Society
Changes in Art/Literature
Goals of Christian Humanists
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Chapter 18 pp. 507- 511
Look in your worksheet packet: ghazi, Timur the Lame, Mehmed II, Suleyman the Lawgiver, devshirme, janissary.
Chapter 19 pp. 529-532
Look in your worksheet packet: Demand for spices, Prince Henry the Navigator, Bartholomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama
Chapter 20 pp. 553- 559and pp. 566-575
Look in your packet: Columbus, Cortes, encomienda , Triangular Trade, Mercantilism and Columbian Exchange.
Key Terms / Key People / Key IdeasBullion
Spanish Armada
Absolute monarchy
Divine Right
Versailles
Boyars
Czar
Westernization / Philip II
Elizabeth I
Cervantes
Rembrandt
Louis XIV
Ivan IV
Peter the Great / Theme #1: SAD Cycle
Theme #2: Innovation vs. Tradition
Stability and Decline Under Philip II
Weakness/Decline for Spain’s Economy
Reasons for Dutch Prosperity
Achievement and Decline under Louis XIV
Stability Under Peter the Great
Reform and Westernization Under Peter the Great
Chapter 22 pp. 623-639
Key Terms / Key People / Key IdeasGeocentric Theory
Heliocentric Theory
Scientific Revolution
Scientific Method
Enlightenment
Social Contract / Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
John Locke
Voltaire
Montesquieu / Conflict between the Church and Scientific Revolution
Steps of the Scientific Method
The Social Contract and Natural Rights
Montesquieu’s idea of Separation of Powers
Know books for each of the important people
Use this in addition to our Quizlet Review to study for next week’s final exam.