1. PRE-HISTORY

(1) Social Scientists:

(a) Archeologist:

(b) Economist:

(c) Geographer:

(2) Paleolithic Era:

(3) Neolithic Revolution:

(4) Elements of Civilization:

(5) Why did people settle near River Valleys?

2. MESOPOTAMIA

(1) Fertile Crescent:

(2) Sumerian Contributions:

(3) Code of Hammurabi:

(4) Phoenicians:

(5) Judaism: Page ! of ! 1 22

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3. EGYPT

(1) Nile River:

(2) Social Classes (Hierarchy):

(3) Natural Barriers:

(4) Religion:

(5) Technology:

4. INDIA:

(1) Geography:

(2) Caste System:

(3) Karma:

(4) Dharma:

(5) Buddhism:

(a) Four Noble Truths:

(b) Eightfold Path:

(c) Nirvana:

(d) Cultural Diffusion:

(6) Gupta Empire: Page ! of ! 2 22

5. CHINA

(1) Dynastic Rule:

(2) Mandate of Heaven:

(3) Ethnocentrism:

(4) Geography:

(5) Silk Road:

(6) Great Wall:

(7) Confucianism:

(8) Legalism:

(9) Daoism/Taoism:

6. GREECE

(1) Geography of Ancient Greece:

(2) City-State (Polis):

(3) Athens:

(4) Pericles:

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(5) Direct Democracy:

(6) Sparta:

(7) Philosophers:

(8) Contributions:

(9) Alexander the Great:

7. ROME

(1) Republic:

(2) Geography:

(3) Contributions:

(a) Twelve Tables:

(b) Engineering:

(4) Pax Romana:

(5) Fall of Rome:

(6) Rise of Christianity:

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8. MIDDLE AGES

(1) Effects of the Fall of Rome:

(2) Dark Ages:

(3) Charlemagne:

(4) Black Death:

(5) Code of Chivalry (similar to Feudal Japan):

(6) Manorialism:

(7) Feudalism:

(8) Crusades:

(9) Guilds:

(10)Commercial Revolution:

(11) Role of the Church:

(12) Gothic Architecture: Page ! of ! 5 22

9. ISLAM

(1) Religious Beliefs:

(a) Hajj:

(b) Prayer:

(c) Other:

(2) Mohammad:

(3) Sunni/Shiite:

(4) Locations:

(5) Ottoman Empire:

(6) Mughal Empire:

10. BYZANTINE EMPIRE:

(1) Location:

(2) Justinian:

(3) Code of Justinian:

(4) Influences:

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11: AFRICA

(1) Geography:

(2) Bantu:

(3) Mali/Ghana:

(4) Mansa Musa:

(5) Trans-Saharan Trade:

(6) Animism:

12. JAPAN:

(1) Geography:

(2) Feudal Society:

(3) Samurai:

(4) Tokugawa:

(5) Shintoism: Page ! of ! 7 22

13. MONGOLIA

(1) Genghis Khan:

(2) Kublai Khan:

(3) Warfare:

(4) Marco-Polo:

14. RENAISSANCE

(1) Definition:

(2) Why does it begin in Italy:

(3) Medici:

(4) Leonardo Da Vinci:

(5) Michaelangeo:

(6) Humanism:

(7) Writers:

(7) Impact of the Renaissance: Page ! of ! 8 22

15. SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

(1) Definition:

(2) Copernicus/Galileo:

(3) Heliocentric:

(4) Newton:

(5) Impact:

16. PROTESTANT REFORMATION

(1) Definition:

(2) Martin Luther:

(a) 95 Thesis:

(b) Vernacular:

(3) Indulgences:

(4) King Henry VIII:

(a) Act of Supremacy:

(5) Counter-Reformation:

(a) Council of Trent: Page ! of ! 9 22

17. ABSOLUTISM

(1) Definition:

(2) Machiavelli:

(3) Peter/Catherine the Great:

(4) Louis XIV:

18. LIMITED MONARCHY

(1) Definition:

(2) Magna Carta:

(3) Queen Elizabeth:

(4) Glorious Revolution:

19. AGE OF EXPLORATION

(1) Mercantilism:

(2) Columbus:

(3) Encounter:

(4) Aztec/Inca/Maya:

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(5) Conquistadors:

(6) Columbian Exchange:

(7) Middle Passage/Triangle Trade:

20. ENLIGHTENMENT

(1) Definition:

(2) John Locke:

(3) Natural Rights:

(4) “Consent of the Governed”:

(5) Montesquieu:

(6) Voltaire:

(7) Natural Law:

(8) Enlightened Despots:

(9) Adam Smith:

(10) Laissez Faire:

(11) Influences: Page ! of ! 11 22

21. FRENCH REVOLUTION

(1) Influences on the French Revolution:

(2) Background Causes of the French Revolution:

(3) Bastille Day:

(4) Reign of Terror:

(5) Robespierre:

(6) Effects of Revolution:

(7) Napoleon:

(8) Congress of Vienna (Metternich):

22. LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

(1) Causes:

(2) Spanish Class Pyramid (Encomienda):

(3) Hacienda: Page ! of ! 12 22

(4) Simon Bolivar:

(5) Gran Colombia:

(6) Toussaint L’Overture:

(7) Modern Problems:

23. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

(1) Causes:

(2) Britain:

(3) Urbanization:

(4) Positive Effects:

(5) Negative Effects:

(6) Unions:

(7) Karl Marx:

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24. NATIONALISM

(1) Define Nationalism:

(2) Unification:

(3) Otto Von Bismarck and Blood/Iron:

(4) Garibaldi, Cavour, Mazzini:

(5) Irish:

(a) Religion:

(b) Potato Famine:

25. IMPERIALISM:

(1) Define Imperialism:

(2) Berlin Conference (Mad Scramble):

(3) White Man’s Burden:

(4) Social Darwinism:

(5) India:

(a) Sepoy Rebellion:

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(6) China (Sphere’s of Influence):

(a) Boxer Rebellion:

(7) Japan:

(a) Before Imperialism:

(b) Meiji Restoration:

(c) Imperial Japan:

26. WWI:

(1) Causes (Background):

(a) M: (b) A:

(c) I:

(d) N:

(2) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand:

(3) Trench Warfare:

(4) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk:

(5) Treaty of Versailles:

(6) Effects of WWI: Page ! of ! 15 22

27. RISE OF DICTATORS:

(1) Economy After WWII:

(2) Russian Revolution of 1917 (Bolshevik Revolution):

(3) Josef Stalin:

(4) Francisco Franco:

(5) Benito Mussolini:

(6) Fascism:

(7) Germany:

(a) Hyperinflation:

(b) Weimar Republic:

(c) Nazi:

(d) Hitler:

(e) Mein Kampf:

(f) Totalitarian:

(g) Propaganda: Page ! of ! 16 22

28. WWII

(1) Appeasement (Munich Conference):

(2) Blitzkrieg:

(3) Axis Powers:

(4) Invasion of Poland:

(5) Pearl Harbor:

(6) D-Day:

(7) Rape of Nanking:

(8) Island Hopping:

(9) Atomic Bomb:

(a) Hiroshima & Nagasaki:

(b) Effects:

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29. COLD WAR

(1) Iron Curtain:

(2) Containment:

(3) Marshall Plan:

(4) Alliances:

(a) NATO:

(b) Warsaw Pact (Satellite States):

(5) Berlin Wall:

(6) Korean War:

(7) Vietnam War:

(8) Arms Race:

(9) Cuban Missile Crisis:

(10) Perestroika and Glasnost:

(11) Collapse of USSR:

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(12) China:

(a) Mao Zedong:

(b) Long March:

(c) Great Leap Forward:

(d) Deng Xiaoping:

(e) Four Modernizations:

(f) Tiananmen Square:

30. GENOCIDES

(1) Armenia:

(2) Holocaust:

(a) Nuremberg Trials:

(3) Cambodia (Pol Pot):

(4) Balkans (Slobodan Milosevic):

(5) Africa:

(a) Rwanda:

(b) Darfur: Page ! of ! 19 22

31. MIDDLE EAST

(1) India:

(a) Gandhi:

(b) Civil Disobedience:

(c) Salt March:

(d) Partition:

(2) Israel:

(a) Zionism/Balfour Declaration:

(b) Six Day War:

(c) Occupied Territories:

(d) Camp David/Oslo Accords:

(3) OPEC:

(4) Suez Canal:

(5) Turkey:

(a) Secular:

(b) Ataturk: Page ! of ! 20 22

(6) Iranian Revolution:

(a) Shah:

(b) Iranian Revolution:

(i) Ayatollah Khomeini:

(c) Theocracy:

(i) Sharia Law:

(7) Gulf War:

(8) Islamic Fundamentalism:

(a) Jihad:

(b) Terrorism:

32. GLOBALIZATION

(1) Apartheid in Africa:

(a) Segregation:

(b) Nelson Mandela:

(a) Background:

(b) Protests:

(c) Effects: Page ! of ! 21 22

(2) Problems in Africa:

(a) Tribalism:

(b) AIDS:

(c) Poverty:

(3) Environmental Concerns:

(a) Desertification:

(b) Deforestation:

(4) NAFTA:

(5) WTO:

(6) Burma (Aung San Suu Kyi):

(7) Nuclear Profliferation:

(a) WMDs:

(8) Human Rights:

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