Study Guide for the World History I Semester Exam
Unit 1 Origins and Early Civilizations
Anthropology
o Abraham
archaeology
o Moses
artifact
o Exodus
paleotologist
o Ten
Commandments
radiocarbon dating
thermoluminescent o Saul
dating
o David
o tree-ring dating
o Solomon
o DNA dating
o diaspora
o Paleolithic Age
o Cyrus
o Neolithic Age
o monotheism
o Donald Johanson
o Yahweh
o Australopithecenes o covenant
o Mary Leakey
o Messiah
o Louis Leakey
o Torah
o Richard Leakey
o Carthage
o Java Man
o alphabet
o Peking Man
o specialization of
labor
o hominid
o Jericho
o Homo sapiens
o Cro-Magnon Man o Catal Huyuk
o Neanderthal Man
o Neolithic
Revolution
o pastoral nomadism
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Unit 2 India and China
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Civilization
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Fertile Crescent
city-state
ziggurat
cuneiform
polytheism
Epic of
Gilgamesh
Sargon the Great
Akkadians
Babylonians
Code of
Hammurabi
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Menes
pharaoh
theocracy
Great Pyramid
of Giza
Grand Canal
Hyksos
Aknaton
hieroglyphics
papyrus
Rosetta Stone
Jean Francois
Champollion
Queen Ahhotep
Hatshepsut
Harappa
Mohenjo-Daro
Khyber Pass
Aryans
Vedas
brahmin
caste
pariah
purdah
sati
Hinduism
Upanishads
karma
dharma
Shiva
Jainism
Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama
Four Noble Truths
Eightfold Path
nirvana
moksha
Ashoka
reincarnation
Untouchables
Brahma
Vishnu
Shiva
Mauryan Empire
Gupta Empire
Unit 3 Persia and Japan
Cyrus
Royal Road
Zoroastrianism
Darius
Imperial Bureaucracy
Xerxes
Persian War
satraps
King's Eyes and Ears
Unit 4 Greece
Athena
Mahayana Buddhism
Shang
loess
oracle bone
yin and yang
Mandate of Heaven
Confucius
Daoism
Laozi
Legalism
Shang Yang
foraging
Great Wall of China
Huang He River
dynasty
Han dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Chinese contributions
Silk Road
Han Dynasty
Qin Huangdi
Confucianism
Analects
filial piety
Confucian 5 Relationships
Kublai Khan
Mongol Peace (Pax
Mongolica)
Persians
archipelago
samurai
shogun
bushido
Shinto (or Shintoism)
Heian
seppuku
daimyo
feudalism
Zen Buddhism
Tang dynasty
Song dynasty
Archimedes
Hera
Artemis
Zeus
Aphrodite
Apollo
Trojan War
Homer
Acropolis
Oligarchy
Sparta
helot
Athens
Direct democracy
Democracy
Cleisthenes
City-states (polis)
Aristocracy
Tyrant
Solon the Lawgiver
Draco
Ostracism
Persian War
Xerxes
Darius I
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Thermopylae
Herodotus
Thucydides
Pericles
Peloponnesian League
Delian League
Peloponnesian War
Unit 5 Mesoamerica and Africa
 Tikal
 Chichen Itza
 truncated pyramid
 Popol Vuh
 glyph
 Quetzalcoatl
 Maya
 Olmec
 Inca
 Aztec
 Lake Texcoco
 Tenochtitlan
 chinampa
 Triple Alliance
 Quechua
 Lake Titicaca
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Swahili
Nok
Aksum
kinship group
stateless society
animism
griot
age grade
Sundiata
Mansa Musa
Timbuktu
Ibn Battuta
Benin
Great Zimbabwe
Ezana
stele
Euclid
Hippocrates
Pythagoras
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Philosophy
Socratic method
oracle at Delphi
tragedy
comedy
hubris
Acropolis
golden mean
patriarchal
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Parthenon
Doric Columns
Ionic Columns
Corinthian Columns
Phillip II
Alexander the Great
Alexandria of Egypt
mystery religion
Hellenistic
Cynicism
Epicureanism
Stoicism
Zeno
Ptolemy
o Polynesians
o polytheism
o Australia
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Pachacuti
Cuzco
quipu
parallel descent
Hiram Bingham
Machu Picchu
Toltecs
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Bantu
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Kush
Map Locations to Know:
Crete
North America
Sparta
South America
Athens
Australia
Troy
Antarctica
Mediterranean Sea
Indus River
Atlantic Ocean
Ganges River
Pacific Ocean
Huang He (Yellow River)
Indian Ocean
Nile River
Arctic Ocean
Tigris River
Asia
Euphrates River
Europe
Hindu Kush Mountains
Africa
Himalayas Mountains
Japan
India
Egypt
Mesopotamia
China
Greece
Mali Empire
Songhai Empire
Incan Empire
Aztec Empire
Ghana Empire
Persian Empire
Mongol Empire