World History - Hopkins & Waldram
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WAS DUE TUESDAY, JANUARY 13TH
1st Semester Study Guide – Questions need to be answered on flashcards or Cornell Style

Really Early Stuff
1. What was the Neolithic Revolution and why was it so important to mankind?
2. Compare and contrast the civilizations of Egypt and Sumer.
3. Characteristics and importance of Hammurabi’s code.
4. What social groups made up urban civilizations? How could I tell if you were wealthy?
5. Know what a theocracy is and how polytheism and monotheism differ. Which cultures used each?
6. What is tribute and why would people pay it?

India and China
7. Where is Harappa? What are their civilizations are known for what?
8. Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? How do we know about them?
9. What were the Rock Edicts? Who wrote them? What was their purpose?
10. Know the Indian social system. Who was at top, the bottom, etc.
11. What is karma? Dharma?
12. What is sati?
13. Buddhism: What did Buddha believe in? Who was Buddha? What are the four noble truths? What is the 8-fold path? Where does Buddhism diffuse to?
14. Know the dynastic cycles of China (the first 4). Know basic information from each dynasty.
15. Who was Confucius? What did his ideology believe in? Where does Confucianism diffuse to?
16. Compare and contrast Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism.

Ancient Greece and Rome
17. What is the geography of Greece? How did this affect its inhabitants?
18. Know the differences between (compare and contrast) Sparta and Athens
19. What is Hellenistic? Why is it significant?
20. Know about Alexander the Great. What he did do and why he is important? What happened after he died?
21. What are the origins of Rome and how did its geography contribute to its early development?
22. Discuss the conflict between early Christians and the Roman government?
23. Be able to distinguish between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. What marks the beginning and end of each?
24. Be able to cite some examples of Roman innovations.
25. How did the Roman Empire finally collapse?

Byzantine Empire
26. Who founded Constantinople?
27. Who was Justinian and what was his legacy? Who was his wife and why do we study her?
28. When the Christian Church split between east and west, which church formed in the Byzantine Empire?
29. What influenced Vladimir’s rule? What religion did he choose for his empire and why?
30. Starting with Ivan III, what title did Russian rulers take?
31. Who were the mamelukes?
32. Who ended up taking over Constantinople and when?

Origins of the Muslim World
33. Explain the origins of Islam and the growth of the Islamic Empire
34. Explain the reasons for the split between Sunni and Shia Muslims
35. Describe the impact of the Crusades on both the Islamic World and Europe
36. Analyze the relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
37. What was Arab life like before the founding of Islam?
38. Who was Muhammad? Know the story surrounding him starting Islam.
39. What is the Quran, and why is it important to Muslims?
40. What are the five pillars of Islam?

Empires in Africa
41. Identify the Bantu migration patterns and contribution to settled agriculture.
42. What do we know about the kingdoms of East Africa? Where are they? Economies that they had? Etc.

European Middle Ages
43. When were the Middle Ages?
44. Who was Charlemagne? Why was he important? What happened to his empire after he died? (which treaty)?
45. What was significant about the Holy Roman Empire?
46. What is Feudalism? How does it compare with Manorialism?
47. Who were the Vikings? Where were they from? What are they known for? Why did they leave their homeland? What slowed the expansion?
48. What is a fief and who had control of it?
49. Who are the peasants? What power or lack of power do they have? What do they give their lords? What does the lord give them?
50. What was the main purpose of the Crusades and how does it affect Europe and the Middle East?
51. Who went on the Crusades? Why did they go (what were their incentives)?
52. What is vernacular?

Empires of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea)
53. Which religion gain more acceptance during the Tang dynasty?
54. During the Tang and Song who replaced the landed aristocracy as the political and economic elite?
55. Which philosophy will become the main ideology during the Song dynasty?
56. Korea’s and Japan’s early culture was influenced by which neighboring country?
57. Characteristics of Japanese feudalism and European feudalism. Know the equivalents of each aspect (i.e. king = emperor; knights = samurai; chivalry = bushido, etc.)

Empires in the Americas
58. Know the geography of the Olmecs, Maya, Aztecs and Inca. Where are they from? What present-day countries?
59. What were the Olmec know for?
60. Where are the Maya from?
61. What is codex? What did they use it for?
62. When and how did the Maya decline?
63. What do you know about the Maya ballgame?
64. Where are the Aztecs from?
65. What was their capital?
66. What are chinampas?
67. Who was the Aztec god of sun and warfare?
68. Why did the Aztec sacrifice so many people?
69. How did the Aztec receive the Spanish when they (the Spanish) first arrived?
70. How were the Spanish able to so easily defeat the Aztecs?
71. Where are the Inca from?
72. What city represents the finest of Incan architecture?
73. What is mit’a and how did the Inca use it?
74. How did the Inca keep track of record-keeping?
75. How did the Inca Empire collapse?

Imperialism stuff
76. What is social Darwinism? What did the Europeans claim with Darwinism?
77. What did the European countries do to Africa in 1885 when they met in Berlin?
78. What was the importance of the Suez Canal? Why did the British want control of it?
79. What was the history behind the Congo? Who controlled it? What was the end result?