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World History
Semester 1 Final Review Packet
Directions: This packet represents the important themes and concepts covered in World History
this semester. Your unit reading guides completed for each unit will be your best source of
information for this review, as well as your textbook. The unit notes and powerpoints are also a
great tool to use to help you study. If you are missing something try visiting the blog again and
going back to the time period in which we were studying that unit.
THE EARLIEST HUMANS
1. Define artifacts:
2. Define hunter/gatherers:
3. What was Lucy?
4. What were the Laetoli Footprints?
5. What was Cuneiform?
6. Describe the geography of Mesopotamia:
7. What was Hammurabi’s Code?’
ANCIENT EGYPT AND JUDAISM
8. Describe the geography of Egypt:
9. Who built the Bent and Step pyramids?
10. What was mummification?
11. What were hieroglyphics?
12. Who was Hatshepsut?
13. What was significant about Ramesses II?
14. Who was Abraham?
15. What did Moses do?
16. What was the Exodus?
17. What is Canaan?
ANCIENT CHINA AND JAPAN
18. Describe the geography of China:
19. Who was Shi Huangdi?
20. Who was Confucius?
21. Make a generalization about the rise and fall of the Chinese Dynasties:
22. Who were the Mongols?
23. Who was Genghis Khan?
24. Who was Kublai Khan?
25. What is Japanese Feudalism?
26. Describe the following:
a. Shogun
b. Daimyo
c. Samurai
d. Emperor
e. Peasant
CLASSICAL GREECE AND THE PERSIANS
27. What peoples helped provide the early culture for the Greeks?
28. Describe Greek geography:
29. What was the Trojan Wars?
30. What is Greek Mythology?
31. What happened at the battle of Marathon?
32. What happened at the battle of Thermopylae?
33. What happened at the battle of Salamis?
34. Who were the three main philosophers of Ancient Greece and what did they believe in?
35. What is Hellenism?
36. Describe the accomplishments/legacy of Alexander the Great:
ANCIENT ROME AND CHRISTIANITY
37. Who were the earliest Romans?
38. Who were Romulus and Remus?
39. What are plebeians and patricians?
40. How did Julius Caesar take power? What happened to Julius Caesar?
41. Who was Octavian?
42. What was the appeal of Jesus, especially to those of the lower classes?
43. List different ways the Romans helped Christianity spread:
44. What factors caused the fall of Rome?
45. What was Byzantium?
46. Who was Justinian and what did he do?
47. How was Constantinople protected?
ISLAM
48. Who was Muhammad?
49. What are the 5 pillars of Islam?
50. What is the difference between Sunni Muslims and Shi’a Muslims?
51. Who were the Ottomans?
52. Who were the Safavids?
53. Who were the Mughals?
MESOAMERICA
54. Describe the geographic locations for each of the following:
--Maya Civilization:
--Aztecs:
--Incas:
MIDDLE AGES
1. List the causes of the Middle Ages:
2. Approximately when did the Middle Ages take place?
3. Who was Clovis and what did he do?
4. Describe Feudalism (Include manor, fief, vassal, knight, lord, king, serf):
5. Who was Charlemagne? What did he do?
Christianity
6. What was a monastery?
7. What are monks and nuns? How did they live?
8. Describe the structure of the Church:
9. Describe the Church’s role in Charlemagne’s coronation in the year 800:
10. What was simony?
11. What was lay investiture?
12. What were the Crusades?
13. What were the reasons people went on crusade?
-Social:
-Economic:
-Spiritual:
-Political:
14. Describe the effects of the Crusades:
15. What was the Black Plague?
16. What was the Hundred Years War?
RENAISSANCE
17. What is the Renaissance and why did it start in Italy?
18. Who did the educated look to during the Renaissance for inspiration?
19. What was humanism?
20. What did it mean to be a Renaissance man? Woman?
21. Who was Michelangelo and what was he famous for?
22. Who was Donatello and what was he famous for?
23. Who was da Vinci and what was he famous for?
24. Who was Raphael and what was he famous for?
25. What is vernacular?
26. What is a patron?
27. Who was Thomas More?
REFORMATION
28. Describe some of the causes of the reformation:
29. Who was Martin Luther and what did he do?
30. What is an indulgence?
31. What is a Protestant?
32. Who was Henry VIII? (hint: family tree)
AGE OF EXPLORATION
33. What were Europeans looking for when they began exploring?
34. What was the caravel and how was it better than previous technology?
35. Describe Vasco da Gama’s voyage for Portugal:
36. What was the Treaty of Tordesilla?
37. What was the Dutch East India Company?
38. Who was Zheng He and what did he do?
39. What was the Closed Country Policy?
40. What was the Triangular Trade?
41. What happened aboard the Amistad?
42. How did John Quincy Adams fit into the Amistad story?
43. What lands did Philip II of Spain control?
44. What was the Spanish Armada and what was it used for? Result?
45. Describe the 4 main reasons Spain’s economy weakened:
CAN YOU LOCATE THE FOLLOWING GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES (CHECKLIST)?
RIVERS
Tigris River
Euphrates River
Nile River
Indus River
Ganges River
Huange He River
Yangtze River
Sparta
Carthage
Ur
CIVILIZATIONS
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus River Valley Civilization
China
BODIES OF WATER
Red Sea
Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Ionian Sea
Aegean Sea
Yellow Sea
CITES
Rome
Constantinople/Istanbul
Athens
Greece
Persia
Rome
Ottoman Empire
Safavids
Mughals
Olmec
Zapotec
Mayas
Aztecs
Incas