GLOBAL HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY 9H MIDTERM REVIEW SHEET Some of the chapter topics that will be covered on the exam include: General Terms and Vocabulary Culture Economy Anthropology History Agriculture Cultural Diffusion Subsistence agriculture Barter system Golden Age Geography Syncretism Chapter One (Before History): The Leakeys Donald Johansen Hominids Nomad Hunter/gatherer Migration Technology of Early Humans Paleolithic Age Nomadic Role of Women Cave Paintings Neolithic Revolution Subsistence Agriculture Gender roles & Agriculture Technology of Agriculture Population Growth Civilization Pastoralism Chapter Two (Early Societies in SW Asia): Tigris & Euphrates Mesopotamia Sumerians Cuneiform Epic of Gilgamesh Ziggurat Sargon Hammurabi Hammurabi’s Code Babylonia Assyrians New Babylonians
Wheel Trade Networks Patriarchal Role of Women Veils Lunar Calendar Hebrews Palestine Diaspora Monotheism Phoenicians Alphabet Indo-European Migration Language Horses Hittites Iron Metallurgy War Chariots Chapter Three (Early African Societies): Nile River Cataracts Desertification Ancient Egypt “Gift of the Nile” Mummification Pyramids Pharaohs Hieroglyphics Demotic Akhenaton Cult of Osiris Nubia Role of Women Meroitic Writing Kush Hyksos Trade Networks Bantu Migration Chapter Four (Early Societies in South Asia): Indus River Hindu-Kush Mtns Ganges River Monsoons Mohenjo-Daro Harappa Early Aryan Migration Vedas Caste & Varna Subcastes & Jati Rig Veda Sati Upanishads Moksha Karma Dharma Brahman Chapter Five (Early Societies in East Asia): Yellow River Xia Shang Zhou Millet Bronze Metallurgy Decentralized gov’t Mandate of Heaven Iron Metallurgy’s impact Role of merchants Veneration of ancestors Patriarchal Oracle Bones Chinese Writing Book of Songs Warring States Period Steppe Nomads Yangzi River Terraced farming Chapter Six (Early Societies in the Americas & Oceania): Olmecs Maize Ceremonial centers Jade & obsidian Yucatan Peninsula Maya
Mayan terraced farming Tikal City-kingdoms Chichen Itza Popol Vuh Bloodletting Ball game Maya calendar Maya writing Teotihuacan Pyramids of the Moon & Sun Andes Mtns Chavin Terraced farming Irrigation Alpacas & llamas Mochica Australian hunting & gathering societies Austronesian migrations Agriculture in New Guinea Polynesia Lapita peoples Chapter Seven (Empires of Persia): Achaemenid Cyrus Darius Persepolis Satrapies Lydian coins Persian Royal Road Qanat system Xerxes Persian Wars Seleucid/Parthains/ Sasanids Free peasants Zoroastrianism Gathas Ahura Mazda Influence of Zoroastrianism Chapter Eight (The Unification of China): Confucius Analects Daoism Laozi Daodejing Legalism Shang Yang Han Feizi Qin Shi Huangdi Book burning Centralization The Great Wall 1st Emperor’s Tomb Standardization Han Liu Bang Han Wudi Confucian education Xiongnu Ban Zhao Silk, Paper, Crossbow Yellow Turban Uprising Chapter Nine (State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India): Mauryan Dynasty Ashoka Maurya Rock & Pillar Edicts Regional Kingdoms Gupta Dynasty Arabic Numerals Gupta Golden Age Indian Ocean Trade Epics Vaisyas Jainism Ahimsa Buddhism Siddhartha Gautama Mahayana Buddhism Bodhisattvas Bhagavad Gita Popular Hinduism
Chapter Ten (Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase): Minoans Mycenaean Society City-States (Polis) Sparta Military Society Athens Solon Pericles Parthenon Direct Democracy Greek colonies Mediterranean Trade Olympic Games Slavery Socrates, Plato & Aristotle Pythagoras Greek Deities Cult of Dionysus Comedy & Tragedy Persian Wars Delian League Peloponnesian War Philip of Macedon Alexander the Great Hellenistic Chapter Eleven (Mediterranean Society: The Roman Phase): Etruscans Roman Republic Law (12 Tables) Patricians & plebeians Punic Wars Roman Expansion Gracchi Brothers Julius Caesar Octavian/Augustus Pax Romana Roman roads Commercial agric. Mediterranean trade Aqueducts “Bread & Circus” Paterfamilias Slavery Roman Deities Cicero & Stoicism Cult of Mithras & Isis Judaism Christianity Jesus of Nazareth Paul of Tarsus Chapter Twelve (Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads): Zhang Qian Monsoon System Hellenistic Trade Silk Roads Mare Nostrum Spread of Buddhism Spread of Hinduism Spread of Christianity Spread of Manichaeism Spread of Disease Fall of the Han Sinicization of nomads Fall of Western Rome Diocletian Constantine Germanic Invasions The Huns St. Augustine Orthodox Christianity Patriarchs
CLASSICAL EMPIRES REVIEW CHART Social (Gender Roles & Relations, Family & Kinship, Racial & Ethnic Constructions, Social & Economic Classes) Political (Political Structures & Forms of Governance, Empires, Nations & Nationalism, Revolts & Revolutions, Structures & Organizations) Interactions Demography, Disease, Migration, Patterns of Settlement, & Technology) Cultural Religions/Belief Systems, Philosophies, Ideologies, Science & Technology, Arts and Architecture Economic (Agricultural & Pastoral Production, Trade & Commerce, Labor Systems, Industrialization, Capitalism & Socialism) Maya Persia Greece Rome Mauryan Gupta Qin Han