World History Vocabulary
Chapter 1: The First Humans
1. Prehistory
2. Archaeology
3. Artifacts
4. Anthropology
5. Paleolithic Age
6. Culture
7. Civilization and 6 characteristics
Chapter 2: Ancient Egypt/Mesopotamia
1. Tigris and Euphrates Rivers/Mesopotamia
2. Fertile Crescent
3. Sumerians
4. Polytheistic
5. Ziggurat
6. Theocracy
7. Cuneiform
8. Patriarchal
9. Babylon/Hammurabi
10. Dynasty
11. Pharaoh
12. Bureaucracy
13. Vizier
14. Mummification
15. King Khufu/Giza/Great Pyramid
16. Hyksos
17. Hatshepsut
18. Akhenaten
19. Tutankhamen
20. Ramses II
21. Cleopatra VII
22. Hieroglyphics
23. Pastoral Nomads
24. Hittites
25. Phoenicians
26. Israelites
27. King Solomon/Jerusalem
28. Monotheistic/Judaism
29. Assyrians
30. Nebuchadnezzar II
31. Persians
32. Cyrus
33. Satraps
34. Zorastrianism
Chapter 3: Early India and China
1. Himalaya
2. Indus River Valley
3. Monsoon
4. Aryans
5. Sanskrit
6. Caste system
7. Hinduism and beliefs: Yoga, Reincarnation, Karma, Dharma
8. Buddhism/Siddhartha Gautama/Nirvana
9. Silk Road
10. Yellow River/Yangtze River
11. Aristocracy
12. Mandate of Heaven/Dao
13. Pictographs/Ideographs
14. Confucius/Confucianism
15. Daoism
16. Legalism
Chapter 4: Ancient Greece
1. Minoan Civilization
2. Mycenaean
3. Homer
4. Epic Poem
5. Polis/City-state
6. Acropolis and agora
7. Hoplites
8. Phalanx
9. Tyrants
10. Democracy
11. Oligarchy
12. Sparta
13. Helots
14. Ephors
15. Athens
16. Solon
17. Peisistratus
18. Cleisthenes
19. Darius/Xerxes
20. Delian League
21. Pericles/Age of Pericles
22. Ostracism
23. Thebes
24. Olympus
25. Oracle/Delphi
26. Greek Tragedies
27. Herodotus/Thucydides
28. Philosophy and Greek Philosophers:
a. Pythagoras
b. Socrates/Socratic method
c. Plato
d. Aristotle
29. Macedonia
30. Phillip II
31. Alexander the Great
32. Alexandria
33. Hellenistic Era
34. Eratosthenes
35. Euclid
36. Archimedes
37. Stoicism
Chapter 5: Rome and the Rise of Christianity
1. Rome
2. Latins/Etruscans
3. Republic
4. Patricians
5. Plebeians
6. Consuls/Praetors
7. Roman Senate
8. Carthage
9. Hannibal
10. Triumvirate
11. Julius Caesar/Crossing the Rubicon
12. Dictator
13. Octavian/Augustus/Imperator
14. Antony
15. Nero
16. Pax Romana
17. Literature of Livy/Horace/Virgil
18. Spartacus
19. Judaea
20. Jesus
21. Simon Peter
22. Paul
23. New Testament/Christianity
24. Clergy/Laity
25. Constantine
26. Theodosius the Great
27. Plague
28. Huns/Vandals/Visigoths
Chapter 6: Rise of Islam/Chapter 7: African Kingdoms/Chapter 8: China and Japan
1. Shikh
2. Allah
3. Makkah/Mecca
4. Muhammad
5. Quran
6. Islam/Muslims
7. Hajj
8. Five Pillars of Islam
9. Shari’ah
10. Caliph
11. Jihad
12. Shia and Sunni
13. Vizier
14. Sultan
15. Saladin
16. Mongols
17. Mosques
18. Bazaar
19. Dowry
20. Astrolabe
21. Arabesques
22. Ghana
23. Berbers
24. Mali
25. Timbuktu
26. Mansa Musa
27. Subsistence Farming
28. Swahili
29. Stateless Societies
30. Zimbabwe
31. Matrilineal
32. Marco Polo
33. Genghis Khan
34. Kublai Khan
35. Samurai
36. Bushido
37. Shogun
38. Daimyo
39. Shinto
40. Zen
Chapter 9: Byzantine Empire
1. Wergild
2. Ordeal
3. Popes
4. Gregory I
5. Monk
6. Saint Benedict
7. Missionaries
8. Nuns/Abbesses
9. Charlemagne
10. Carolingian Empire
11. Vikings
12. Feudalism
13. Vassal
14. Knights
15. Fief
16. Feudal Contract
17. Tournaments
18. Chivalry
19. Eleanor of Aquitaine
20. William of Normandy
21. Common Law
22. Thomas Becket
23. Magna Carta
24. Justinian
25. Schism
26. Crusades
27. Infidels
Chapter 10: Middle Ages
1. Manor
2. Serfs
3. Guilds
4. Apprentice/Journeymen
5. Papal States
6. Heresy
7. Inquisition
8. Relics
9. Theology
10. Scholasticism
11. Saint Thomas Aquinas
12. Vernacular
13. Black Death
14. Anti-Semitism
15. Joan of Arc
Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation
1. Italian Renaissance
2. Secular
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Niccolo Machiavelli
5. Humanism/Petrarch
6. Dante
7. Geoffrey Chaucer
8. Fresco
9. Raphael
10. Michelangelo
11. Protestant Reformation
12. Martin Luther
13. Christian humanism/Desiderius Erasmus
14. Salvation
15. Indulgence
16. Ninety-five Theses
17. Edict of Worms
18. Lutheranism
19. John Calvin and Calvinism
20. Predestination
21. King Henry VIII
22. Annul
Chapter 11: The Americas and Chapter 12: Age of Exploration
1. Inuit
2. Iroquois
3. Longhouses
4. Plains Indians
5. Tepees
6. Anasazi
7. Pueblos
8. Olmec
9. Maya
10. Aztec
11. Inca
12. Machu Picchu
13. Hernan Cortes
14. Vasco da Gama
15. Christopher Columbus
16. Ferdinand Magellan
17. John Cabot
18. Amerigo Vespucci
19. Conquistadors
20. Montezuma
21. Francisco Pizarro
22. Encomienda
23. Columbian Exchange
24. Colony
25. Mercantilism
26. Balance of Trade
27. Plantations
28. Triangular Trade
29. Middle Passage
30. King Afonso
Chapter 14/17: Absolutism and Enlightenment
1. Armada
2. Inflation
3. Witchcraft
4. Huguenots
5. Puritans
6. Absolutism
7. Baroque
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William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Thomas Hobbes
Geocentric
Nicolaus Copernicus
Heliocentric
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton/Universal Law of Gravitation
Rene Descartes/Rationalism
Scientific Method/Inductive Reasoning/Francis Bacon
John Locke
Natural Rights
Montesquieu/Separation of Powers
Voltaire/Deism
Denis Diderot
Laissez-faire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau/Social Contract
John Wesley
Music
a. Bach
b. Handel
c. Haydn
d. Mozart
Chapter 18: Revolution
1. The Three Estates
2. Bourgeoisie
3. Louis XVI
4. Tennis Court Oath
5. Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
6. Jean-Paul Marat
7. Jacobins
8. Committee of Public Safety
9. Maximilien Robespierre
10. Reign of Terror
11. Coup d’état
12. Napoleon Bonaparte
13. Consulate
14. Napoleonic Code/Civil Code
Industrial Revolution
1. Nationalism
2. Duke of Wellington
3. Socialism
4. Conservatism
5. Principle of Intervention
6. Liberalism
7. Militarism
8. Queen Victoria
9. Romanticism
10. Ludwig van Beethoven
11. Louis Pasteur
12. Secularization
13. Charles Darwin/Natural Selection
14. Realism
15. Charles Dickens
16. Thomas Edison/Alexander Graham Bell/Marconi
17. Assembly Line
18. Mass Production
19. Karl Marx
20. Proletariat
21. Dictatorship
22. Revisionists
23. Feminism/Suffrage
24. Modernism
25. Claude Monet
26. Pablo Picasso
27. Frank Lloyd Wright
28. Marie Curie
29. Albert Einstein
30. Sigmund Freud/Psychoanalysis
31. Social Darwinism
Imperialism
1. Imperialism
2. Racism
3. Protectorate
4. Indirect Rule/Direct Rule
5. Annexed
6. David Livingstone/Henry Stanley
7. King Leopold II
8. Mohandas Gandhi
9. Monroe Doctrine
10. Cash Crops
11. Spheres of Influence
12. Open Door Policy
WWI
1. Triple Alliance
2. Triple Entente
3. Conscription
4. Serbia
5. Leaders:
a. Archduke Francis Ferdinand
b. Gavrilo Princip/Black Hand
c. Emperor Wilhelm II
d. Czar Nicholas II
6. Mobilization
7. General Alfred von Schlieffen
8. Propaganda
9. Trench Warfare
10. War of Attrition
11. Lawrence of Arabia
12. Total War
13. Rasputin
14. Soviets
15. Bolsheviks
16. Vladimir Lenin
17. Leon Trotsky
18. Armistice
19. Reparations
Chapter 24: Between the Wars
1. Dawes Plan
2. Depression
3. John Maynard Keynes
4. Deficit Spending
5. New Deal/FDR
6. Totalitarian state
7. Benito Mussolini
8. Fascism
9. New Economic Policy
10. Joseph Stalin
11. Five-Year Plans
12. Collectivization
13. Francisco Franco/Spain
14. Adolph Hitler
15. Nazi
16. Concentration Camps
17. Enabling Act
18. Heinrich Himmler
19. Surrealism/Salvador Dali
WWII
1. Demilitarized
2. Appeasement
3. New Order
4. Sanctions
5. Blitzkrieg
6. Isolationism
7. Neutrality
8. Stalingrad
9. Midway Island
10. Douglas MacArthur
11. Winston Churchill
12. Normandy
13. Harry S. Truman
14. Hiroshima
15. Genocide
16. Auschwitz
17. Holocaust
18. Kamikaze
19. Dresden
20. The Blitz
Cold War
1. Cold War
2. Marshall Plan
3. Satellite States
4. Policy of Containment
5. Warsaw Pact
6. NATO
7. Deterrence
8. Nikita Khrushchev
9. Domino Theory
10. De-Stalinization
11. John F. Kennedy
12. Détente
13. Leonid Brezhnev
14. Mikhail Gorbachev
15. Perestroika
16. Ronald Reagan