Final Exam Review Guide Fall 2015-16 Fill in the missing items on the Levels of Societies chart. Know the vocabulary from textbook Readings and handouts be able to match the words the proper definition for the following: (From Ch 2 sec. 3, and Ch 4 sec. 1, 3, & 4.) TERMS subcontinent filial piety Legalism Daoism Confucius Shi Huangdi Ramadan Qur an hajj Mecca Islam 5 Pillars of Islam Allah Judaism mosque Torah Muhammad Abraham monotheism polytheism Vedas Hinduism karma Buddha 4 noble truths Siddartha Gautama Be ready to match vocab items with the appropriate religion. For example: The Middle Way (aka the Eight-fold path) Nirvana Jesus apostle gospels messiah Christ 1. Most of those who follow this religion live in India. a. Christianity b. Hinduism c. Buddhism 2. The sacred text of this religion is the Torah. a. Hinduism b. Islam c. Judaism 3. This religion was founded by Siddartha Gautama. a. Judaism b. Islam c. Buddhism 4. This religion says that people are reincarnated. a. Christianity b. Islam c. Hinduism 5. How did Buddhism spread to areas outside of India?
6. What are the 4 Noble Truths? 1. 3. 2. 4 7. What are the 2 covenants that first Abraham, and then Moses, made between the Jewish people and God? 8. How is karma important in terms of achieving moksha? 9. What do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common as a primary belief? 10. What river separates the 3 monotheistic from the other 2 of the 5 major world religions? 11. Which religions say for at least some who follow that faith--that eating pork is NOT allowed? 12. What are the 5 pillars of Islam? UNIT 2 1. 2. a. What was the Parthenon? b. What was its purpose? c. Where was/is it located? (note: don t just give the name of the city)
3. Which famous Greek philosopher was put to death for corrupting the youth of Athens? 4. What was the population of Athens? 5. Before Rome was an empire, what was it? 6. When and what was the Pax Romana? 7. Match the person with their country/place 1. Alexander the Great 2. Julius Caesar 3. Augustus 4. Hannibal 5. Socrates 6. Attila 7. Plato 8. Aristotle A. enemy of Rome (Huns) B. Greece (Socrates s student) C. Rome D. Greece E. enemy of Rome (Carthage) F. Rome G. Macedonia H. Greece (Plato s student) 8. LIST WORDS THAT DESCRIBE or NAME A TYPE OF GOVERNMENT HERE. 9. What did each person do what are their major accomplishments/why are they famous historical figures? Julius Caesar Hannibal Socrates Plato Augustus Alexander the Great Attila Aristotle 10. What wind helped trade between India and Africa/the Mediterranean world (by way of the Red Sea)? 11. What sorts of goods were traded from India to the Mediterranean world? (list 5, but include those associated with a weed, grass, and the larva of a beetle) 12. Where was the Kushan empire located, in general terms? 13. How do coins from the Kushan empire show that it was connected to, and influenced by the cultures around it? 14. Who ruled the Roman Empire as the time of Kanishka ruling the Kushan empire? What dynasty ruled China then? 15. What kind of metal work did Chinese artisans elevate to an art form? 16. Which dynasty oversaw big projects of canal and water-was construction and also, the uniting of the Great Wall? 17. a. What led to the Qin emperor s death? b. What kind of army guarded the Qin emperor s burial place? 18. What 3 Chinese dynasties are represented here? (label them) Draw an arrow to point to when the Shang Dynasty existed. Circle the part of the Zhou Dynasty known as the Warring States period.
20. How would the ideas of Confucianism support an emperor s authority? 21. a What happened to China s population during the Han Dynasty? 19. Write a sentence using the 2 vocabulary terms below that shows you understand what each one means and how they relate to each other: MANDATE of HEAVEN / DYNASTIC CYCLE b. How did farming change during that era as well? 22. a. Which two Empires in India are represented here? (label them) b. Show when the Kushan empire existed. 23. a. Which were the main religions in India in these 2 Empires? b. Which one spread via trade routes? 24. a. What are some of the achievements of the Mauryan Empire? c. Which ruler(s)/empire(s) were more tolerant? b. What are some of the achievements of the Gupta Empire? 25. Which regions traded with each other by ships using the monsoon winds? 26. What Silk Route trade items came from India? 27. What society/empire was each of the following from and what they were famous for having done? Chandra Gupta I Shi Huangdi Confucius Chandragupta Maurya Asoka Unit 3 ABOUT AFRICA early states/empires. 28. a. What two, main trade goods were exchanged in trade between West African kingdoms and their partners crossing the Sahara? and b. How did West African rulers grow rich from this trade? c. What was the Bantu migration and what effects did it have? d. What main trade goods did the East African kingdoms produce? 31. What were the 3 main West African kingdoms in the medieval era, from earlier to later? 29. a. Sahel a. Large desert in Africa b. Maghreb b. Grassy plain c. savanna c. Land at the southern edge of the Sahara d. Sahara d. Part of North Africa that is today the Mediterranean coast of Morocco 30. Where in Africa were these Medieval African states located? a. Songhai e. Ghana b. Hausa f. Mutapa c. Yoruba g. Great Zimbabwe d. Mali 1 st : 2 nd : 3 rd :
32. Write a brief definition for each of the following a. Nok EXAMPLE: Early people of Nigeria, worked iron b. Aksum e. animism c. Djenné-Djeno h. Sahel d. Mansa Musa f. savanna About Islam s Golden Age 33. After the death of Muhammad, how did Sunni and Shi a versions of Islam differ over leadership of Muslims? (Remember: the Islam Expands packet switched Sunni and Shi a definitions) 34. a) The first Muslim dynasty: (circle one) Umayyads / Abbasids. b) Who did not openly resist Umayyads? S(circle one) Sunni / Shi a c) Who s capital was Baghdad? (circle one) Umayyads / Abbasids d) Which ruled al-andalus? (circle one) Umayyads / Abbasids 35. Where was al-andalus? Where was Cordoba, and what was it like? (note: al-andalus and Cordoba are two names for the same overall kingdom) 36. How did Muslim scholars help save the learning of the West? 37. How did some of the beliefs and practices of Islam lead to advances in learning in general and/or in such areas as geography? Write customs/habits from Ziryab here 38. For each category give 2 examples medicine mathematics (each) of how Muslim scholars developed knowledge. 39. Where did Ziryab live? What are some of the ways Ziryab shaped habits and customs? ABOUT THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES 41. What is the connection between the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire? 42. What was the Byzantine Empire s capital? What was its main religion? 43. What did the Byzantine emperor Justinian do? 40. What dates and/or events mark the beginning and end of the Middle Ages? Beginning = End = 44. Which groups attacked, or raided ( a) the Byzantine Empire? (b) Western Europe (4 mentioned in the Middle Ages PowerPoint) 46. How was feudalism (knights, etc.) a response to that raiding of Western Europe? 47. What happened to trade and cities as result of the Fall of the TRADE: CITIES: Roman Empire, and raiding by Germanic barbarians and others? 48. When the Roman Empire stopped ruling over Western Europe, what was the basis for the new kind of government that arose to replace it? 49. Match the descriptions with the appropriate Frankish leader. 50. Clovis a) Expanded kingdom from France to include parts of Italy, Spain and Germany, & revived learning. Charles Martel Pepin Charlemagne Converted to Christianity Son of Charles Martel, he became king and started the Carolingian Dynasty Defeated a Muslim force moving north from Spain, stopped Muslim advance into Western Europe.
What were the 3 main groups (and/or their jobs) of feudal society? b) What did lords give to peasants? c) What did peasants do with the land, and then give to their lord and the Church? 51. a) With central governments weak the was the most important force in European society. (fill in blanks) b) How could the Church punish those who broke its canon laws? (there are 2 main items to know) What were the Crusades? When did they start? How did they start? When did they end? a) Where did the Plague come from first arrive in Europe? In what year? b) How did the Plague c) How did it change people s the plague spread? lives and medieval society? a) Who started the Mongol Empire? In what year? What sort of tactics did the Mongols use? b) How did they treat those who resisted being conquered? c) How did they treat those who surrendered and accepted Mongol rule? d) How did the Pax Mongolica affect the places under Mongol rule? 52. a. Why did Europeans want alternatives to the Silk Road trade system? b. In addition to finding an alternate route to China/India, why else did Europeans explore and conquer in the Americas? c. What changes in technology/know-how/equipment made it possible for Europeans to explore and find those alternatives? 53. a) In what region did the Aztecs and Maya live? b) What region did the Inca live in? b) Which civilization had codex s? Which had quipu? How are those items similar? c) What was a mita? Which civilization is it associated with? d) How did the Maya civilization end? e) How did the Aztec and the Inca civilizations end? 54. a. How did Spain s encomienda system b. Describe the Atlantic Slave Trade get work from Native Americans? conditions aboard ships and treatment of Africans, as well as the triangular trade pattern. 55. a. In general terms what was the Columbian exchange? What cargos/goods moved along each side of the triangle? b. What crops and animals were native to the Americas? (and so, were new to Europeans)? (name 3-6) c. What crops and animals came from Europe to the Americas? (name 4-5) d. Besides crops and animals, what else [that had a REALLY bad impact] did Europeans bring to the Americas? 56. What were some achievements and/or inventions of the Tang and Song Dynasties?
57. a. What was humanism? (How did Renaissance views differ from those of the Middle Ages? How was individual achievement viewed?) b. How/from what did it develop? Which of the factors that led to the Renaissance, also led to humanism? (How did study of the classics influence Renaissance artists and thinkers?) 58. a. How did Renaissance art look different from art of the Middle Ages? b. How was wealth from trade related to Renaissance art? (How was it part of the competition between wealthy families in places like Florence? How else did those families compete?) 59. a. How did inventing the printing press help the Protestant Reformation? How else did the printing press change things? b. How did use of the vernacular also help in spreading ideas and changing people s beliefs? c. Who (which groups) did the Spanish Inquisition tend to target? VOCABULARY: Renaissance (when, where, general description) Martin Luther indulgence humanism Leonardo da Vinci Council of Trent secular linear perspective (Protestant) Reformation patron(s)/patronage vernacular (Catholic) Reformation [a.k.a. the Counter Reformation] Medici John Gutenberg