HIST 001: Western Civilization, I
Review sheet – First term examination
March 8, 2006
Here are some terms you should know. Make sure that you can not only identify their basic
factual information, such as place and date, but that you can tell me about their significance
to the greater picture. Answer the “so what?” Why is this term important? How does it fit
into the picture we have been creating of Western civilization?
Mesopotamia and Early Acculturation
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Hammurabi
cuneiform
"flood"
Mesopotamian gods/religion
Phoenicians
Hebraic Experience
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Moses
Solomon
David
Israel and Judah
Judaism/Old Testament
Ancient Greece
1. Minoan Crete
2. agora
3. Mycenea
4. Dark Age
5. Homer
Classical Greece
1. polis
2. Sparta and Athens
3. phalanx
4. Lycurgan Reforms
5. Spartan society
6. Cleisthenes’ Reforms
7. Persian Wars
8. Pericles
9. Athenian democracy
10. Peloponnesian Wars
Hellenistic Era
1. Macedonia
2. Phillip II
3. Alexander the Great
4. Hellenistic culture and society