Name: Date: PeriodWHI: Midterm Review Sheet

Unit 1: The Americas

Essential Questions: 1. Compare & contrast the political organization of the Maya, Aztecs, & Inca. Be sure to use terms such as city-states, empire, ayullas, and tribute in

your response._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Agricultural Revolution

Mesoamerica

CodexT Theocracy

Chinampas

Terraced Farming

Slash & burn Farming

Glyphs

Tribute

Dynasty

Tenochitlan

Potecha

Ayullas

Incan road system

Mita

Quipu

Name: Date: Period2. Compare & contrast the ways in which geography affected the development of the Maya, Aztecs, & Inca. Be sure to use terms like slash-and-burn

farming, chinampas, terraced farming, and suspension bridges in your response._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What specific achievements support the claim that they Maya were a highly intellectual & culturally complex society?_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What specific examples of architecture features help prove the advancement of the Maya, Aztecs, & Inca? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. How did the Aztecs ultimately contribute to the downfall of their own civilization? Be sure to use the terms Quetzacoatl and Monctezuma II in your response. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. How did gender roles differ between men & women in Mesoamerican societies? Be sure to use the word “gender complementarity” in your response._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. In what specific ways did Mesoamerican kings create political & economic unity in their empires? Be sure to include the term tribute in your response._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. Why, specifically, did the conquering Spanish view the Maya, and particularly the Aztecs as backwards, uncivilized people?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Unit 2: China & JapanDirections: Define each of the terms listed belowMandate of Heaven

Dynasri Dynastic Cycle

Philosophy

Name: Date: PeriodFilial Piety

Grand Canal

Seven Warring States

Code of Qin

Bureaucracy

Autocracy

Civil Service Exam

Patriarchy

Silk Road

Buddhism

Movable Type

Junks

Ghenghis Khan

Kublai Khan

Kamikaze winds

archipelago

Sinification

Name: Date: PeriodShinto

Feudalism

Daimyo

Samurais

Shoguns

Code of the Bushido

Essential Questions1. How did geography affect the development of ancient China? List the specific geographic features (rivers, mountains, deserts) and explain the

effect they had upon Chinese society______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Why did the Mandate of Heaven create an ineffective political structure? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What happened during the 7 Warring States period & how was this period of instability resolved? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Why was the Great Wall of China created? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Describe Confucianism’s philosophy’s conception of social order. Be sure to address the five relationships, education, filial piety, and the role of women. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. In what specific ways did Confucianism influence the Chinese government, such as that of the Han dynasty? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Describe Legalism’s conception of social order.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. In what specific ways did the Han Dynasty implement Confucianism in Chinese society?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. How did the Han dynasty improve sea travel & trade?

Name: Date: Period__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. How did the Silk Road help cause cultural diffusion across the ancient world? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. Why did ancient China experience a rise in literacy during its Golden Age? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12. Identify four key inventions or innovations that occurred during China’s Golden Age: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

13. What political strategies and military tactics allowed the Mongols to create such a vast empire?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14. What prevented the Mongol empire from invading Japan?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

15. Describe the role of imperial women in Heian Japan.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

16. Identify two ways in which early Japan was influenced by China (Sinification)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

17. Why did feudalism emerge in Japan society and how was power distributed in this system? Be sure to identify the roles of the peasants, samurais, daimyos, and the emperor.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

18. What led to the creation of a shogunate in Japan?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Unit 3: Dar al IslamDirections: Define each of the following terms:

Dar al Islam

Islam

Qur’an

Name: Date: PeriodFive Pillars of Faith

Caliph

Caliphate

Rightly Guided Caliphs

Umayyad Dynasty

Abbasid Dynasty

Sunni/Shi’ah split

Umma

Abrahamic faiths

Social conversion

Trans-Sahara Trade

Gold-Salt Trade

Mansa Musa

Matriarchical

Essential Questions: 1. Describe life in pre-Islamic Arabia.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What are the key beliefs of Islam?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name: Date: Period3. How did Muhammad create an umma on the Arabian Peninsula?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. How does Islam view other Abrahamic faiths?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What role did violence play in the spread of Islam?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What caused the Sunni/Shi’ah split?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. How did the Islamic empire change under the Umayyad dynasty? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. What were the defining achievements of the Islamic Golden Age?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. How did geography affect the development of West Africa?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. How did Islam spread to North & West Africa?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. In what specific ways did Islam influence the development of West Africa?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Unit 4: Europe in the Middle AgesDirections: Define each of the following key terms:Republic

Julius Caesar

Patricians

Plebeians

Name: Date: PeriodEmpire

Augustus

Jesus of Nazareth

Edict of Milan

Constantine

Essential Questions:

1. Contextualize the Roman Republic by identifying a world events/time periods that occurred at the same time as the emergence of the Roman Republic._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Contextualize the Roman Empire by identifying two world events/time periods that occurred at the same time as the Roman Empire.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What caused the fall of the Roman Republic & the rise of the Empire?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Which advancements in architectural or engineering can be credited to the Romans?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. How did the Roman Empire unify its people politically and culturally? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Why did Christianity challenge the authority of the Roman Empire? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name: Date: Period

Label the following countries: The Americas

Canada The United States Mexico Guatemala Belize Peru Brazil Chile Argentina

Label the following countriesAsia

China Russia Mongolia Japan N. Korea S. Korea India

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