Sunday, December 12, 2010

World History fall semester exam study guide

Genesis 1-8, Chapters 1-3

Dates:
• Give a date that would be in the third century B.C. . . .and the third century A.D.
• How many years is a decade? century? millennium?

Identify:
• Biblical view of history
• What did God create on each day of creation?
• Adam and Eve
• the Flood
• Noah
• Abraham
• homonid
• Cuneiform
• Bronze Age
• Ziggurat
• Polytheism
• Amorites (2000 B.C.)
• Hammurabi’s Code
• Phonecians, Phonecian alphabet
• Jews, Jewish religion
o What region did they come from?
o Who were the three kings of the golden age?
o In what year were the Jews scattered and exiled?
• Mesopotamia (3500 B.C. – 331 B.C.)
o Where is it located ? What rivers flow through it ?
o What is the Fertile crescent?
o Why is it significant?
• Sumerians (3500 B.C.)
o city-states
o What were their inventions?
• Assyrian Empire (850 B.C.), Ninevah
• Babylon
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Captivity of the Jews
• Persians
• Darius
• Egypt: Nile, deserts, source of the Nile, Upper Egypt, Lower Egypt
• Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom
• Hyskos
• Tutankhamon
• Hatshepsut
• Hittites (1900 B.C.)
• Akhenaton
• Ramses II
• Hieroglyphics
• Rosetta Stone

Chapter 4

• Harappa
• Mohenjo-daro
• Hinduism
• caste system
• reincarnation
• dharma
• Buddha
• Four Noble Truths
• Mandate of Heaven
• Confucius
• dynasty (name some)
• Yellow River
• Yangtze River
• Han dynasty

Chapter 5
• Socrates
• Aristotle
• polis
• Athens
• Sparta
• Delian league
• Peloponnesian War
• Crete
• Pericles
• phalanx
• Macedon


Chapter 6 – Roman Republic

Sparticus, Hannibal, Punic Wars, First Triumvirate, Battle of Zama, Crassus, Carthage, Plebian, Brutus, Cleopatra, Gauls, Battle of Zama, Alps, Pater familias, toga, mercenary, First Triumvirate, gladiator, Rome, Tiber River, Po River, Greeks, Etruscans, Patrician, Second Triumvirate, Punic Wars, patricians, Romulus and Remus, Battle of Zama, consuls, 44 B.C.

Julius Caesar: describe his rise to power and his assassination

Chapter 7 – Roman Empire 29 B.C. – A.D. 180

Pax Romana: what was it, and what were the dates?

Colosseum, Octavian Augustus, denarius, aqueduct, concrete, plebian, Rome (city), Latin, Greco-Roman culture, Epicurean, Stoic, Virgil, Aeneid, martyr, Pontius Pilate, Paul, Marcus Aurelius, Diocletian, Constantine, Fall of Rome (date)

How did Rome care for the poor?
How did Octavian contribute to the success of the Roman Empire?
What was Rome’s religion?
During what time period did Jesus live?
Describe the teachings of Jesus.
How did Christianity spread throughout the empire?
Why did the Romans persecute Jews and Christians?
What were the causes of the decline of the Roman Empire?
What were the barbarian groups that overran Rome?

Chapter 8 – Byzantine Empire (A.D. 450– 1453)

Bosporus, Byzantium, Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea, Justinian, Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Muhammed, Mecca, Koran, mosque, Jihad, caliph, Battle of Tours, Cyrillic alphabet, Ottoman Turks

When was Constantinople founded, and by whom?
What was the Schism, what were its causes, and when did it occur?
In what date did Constantinople fall, and to whom?
What is the date for the founding of Islam?

Chapter 9 – Early Middle Ages (A.D. 450 – 1000)

Franks, Saxons, Clovis, monastery, Pope, Charlemagne, Charles Martel, Pepin the Short, Viking warships, Leif Ericson, Rollo the Viking, feudalism, vassal, fief, investiture, serf, Normandy

During what years did Charlemagne rule? In what year was he crowned by the pope?
What is another name for the North Men or Norsemen? What is the time period of their invasions and explorations? What were their home countries? Why did their raids eventually die down?
What was the relationship between a lord and a vassal? A vassal and a knight?
What was the strongest civilizing force in western Europe?

Chapter 10 – High Middle Ages (1000 – 1300)

Romanesque, Gothic, Otto I, Frederick Barbarossa, chivalry, squire, page, knight, troubadour, Elanor of Aquitaine, William Duke of Normandy, Battle of Hastings (and date), crusades, Francis of Assisi

What were improvements to farming methods during this time period?
What group of people invaded England in the Battle of Normandy, and what language was spoken in England as a result?
What were some motives for the crusades?
What was the result of the 4th crusade? Which crusade was most successful and why (of the first four)?
What two religious groups existed on the Iberian Peninsula until 1492?

Chapter 11 – Origin of European Nations

Richard the Lionheart, John I, Magna Carta, limited monarchy, Edward I, burgesses, “Model Parliament,” Louis IX, John Wycliffe, Council of Constance, Bubonic (Black) Plague, Charles VII, War of Roses, Henry VIII, Czar, Kiev, Ivan I, Kremlin, Ivan III, Ivan IV

What was the time period of the Black Plague, and what was its effect on Europe?
What were the dates of the Hundred Years’ War? Which nations did it involve? What were its four stages? What was the lasting effect?
Who was Joan of Arc—what did she accomplish, and what happened to her?
What new weapons were developed, and what old ones became outdated?
What kingdom did Ferdinand and Isabella rule? What kingdom did they defeat? What two people groups did they exile?

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