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Honors World History Midterm Exam Review Sheet 2015 – 2016
Instructions: The following review sheet will provide you basic concepts that you should know for your midterm examination scheduled
for the end of January. You can find the more specific information (including key vocabulary words and significant people associated with
various cultures) concerning these concepts in your notes and/or at the end of each chapter in your textbook. Due to the general nature of
these concepts, all of the ideas on this review sheet may not be in order in the book.
Chapter 14: Latin West, 1200 - 1500
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Three-field system –
Latin West –
Gothic Cathedral –
Romanesque Cathedral –
Black Death –
Hanseatic League –
Guild –
Italian Renaissance –
Northern Renaissance –
Universities –
Scholasticism –
Humanism –
Humanists –
Erasmus –
Brunelleschi –
Da Vinci –
Petrarch –
Boccacio –
Renaissance Artists –
Medici –
Printing press –
Great Western Schism –
Hundred Years War –
Patronage –
The Church –
Pope –
Chapter 15: The Maritime
Revolution
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2. Prince Henry the Navigator –
3. Caravel –
4. Gold Coast –
5. Sextant –
6. Ptolomy’s Geography –
7. Spices –
8. Bartolomeu Dias –
9. Vasco De Gama –
10. Christopher Columbus –
11. Ferdinand Magellan –
12. Conquistadors –
13. Cortes –
14. Pizarro –
15. Atahualpa –
16. Montezuma II –
17. Germs –
18. Columbian Exchange –
19. Mestizo –
20. Factors in exploration –
21. Renaissance and new inventions –
22. Sugar trade –
23. Slavery –
24. Treaty of Tordesillas –
Chapter 16: Transformations in
Europe, 1500 – 1700 (Reformation
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Martin Luther –
Charles V –
Peace of Augsberg –
Johan Tetzel –
Indulgences –
Pope Leo X –
Protestant Reformation –
Hus and Wycliffe –
John Calvin –
Theocracy –
Geneva –
Catholic Counter-Reformation –
Jesuits –
Pope Paul III –
Council of Trent –
Baroque art –
Henry VIII –
English Reformation –
German Peasant Revolt –
Diet of Worms –
Ninety-five thesis –
Transubstantiation –
Zwingli –
Family life –
Chapter 8 Islam
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Muhammad (about his life) –
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Ulama –
Hadith –
Hegira –
Medina –
Five Pillars of Islam –
Shari’a –
caliphate –
Jihad –
Muslim empire (why did it expand so rapidly) –
Umayyad Dynasty –
Ali, Umar, and Uthman –
Sunni and Shi’ites –
Hussein and Abu al-Abbas –
The Abbasid Dynasty –
Seljuk Turks (who and how perceived) –
Saladin –
Mamluks –
“fleets of the desert” –
Islamic Society –
Philosophy and science (advances in) –
Ibn Rushd (Averroës) –
Mecca –
Revolutions in Thought and Religion
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Hinduism –
Brahmans –
Daoism –
Dharma –
Karma –
Samsara –
Confucius –
Mencius –
Confucianism
The Dao –
Laozi –
Vedas –
Upanishads –
Moksha –
Siddhartha Gautama –
Buddha –
Four Noble Truths –
Buddhism –
Dukkha –
Types of Buddhism –
Ahimsa –
Nirvana –
Socrates –
Plato –
Aristotle –
Sophists –
Remember you must study both the textbook and your notes. Your test will consist of 10 matching, 30 multiple choice, 2
Identifications, a Short Answers and an essay. Anything from your key terms or review questions may be included on the exam.
You may have one 4 X 6 notecard with as many notes as you can fit on both sides. Good Luck.