Semester 2 Review 2009 World Civilizations and Humanities

Review for China

  1. China’ geography
  2. What is the significance of Marco Polo coming to China?
  3. How does studying the accomplishments of the Chinese dynasties help us learn about Chinese history?
  4. Which group of non-Chinese successfully invaded China?
  5. What was it like to live under non-Chinese rule if you were Chinese-during Mongol times?
  6. What was the world’s largest city during the Middle Ages?
  7. What was footbinding? Purpose? Benefits?
  8. What benefits did the Grand Canal allow the Chinese people?
  9. When was porcelain in high demand (dynasty)?
  10. How did the Sung keep the Mongols from invading?
  11. Name a lasting effect of Empress Wu’s reign in China today.
  12. Was China an isolated area? (what evidence can you provide?)
  13. What does looking at the Qingming Scroll tell you about life in a Chinese city?
  14. What did you learn about Chinese painting while looking at the scroll?
  15. Match the dynasties with major accomplishments.
  16. discuss the foundation of Buddhism (who, when, beliefs)

  1. 4 Noble Truths
  2. 8fold Path
  3. Daoism
  4. impact of Confucius on Chinese life
  5. impact of silk road
  6. Zheng He’s voyages
  7. cultural revolution
  8. bureaucratic government
  9. great leap forward
  10. priest astronomers
  11. China’s students
  12. Book of Odes
  13. dynastic cycle
  14. mandate of heaven
  15. Shih Huang Ti
  16. terra cotta
  17. great wall
  18. inventions of the Chinese
  19. impact of Sun Yat Sen
  20. Chiang Kai shek
  21. Mao Zedong
  22. Opium wars
  23. spheres of influence
  24. open door policy
  25. Deng Xiaoping
  26. Tiananmen Square
  27. May 4th Movement
  28. Boxer Rebellion
  29. Taiping Rebellion
  30. one child policy
  31. 4 Modernizations
  32. traditional society
  33. Forbidden City
  34. 3 Principles of the People
  35. 3 Gorges Dam
  36. women in China
  37. civil service system
  38. Nationalists vs. communists and civil war
  39. Long March
  40. Shanghai Massacre
  41. To Live
  42. 2008 Olympics
  43. Human Rights violations
  44. communism in China (history to today)
  45. most respectable occupation in China (arguably even today)

Japan Review

  1. Japan’s geography
  2. bushido
  3. samurai
  4. feudalism
  5. emperor and emperor worship
  6. mythology
  7. shogun
  8. daimyo
  9. Ashikaga
  10. Kamakura
  11. Meiji Era/Meiji Restoration
  12. kamikaze
  13. Sino-Japanese War
  14. Russo-Japanese War
  15. imperialism
  16. democracy
  17. No theatre
  18. Kyoto
  19. Heian era
  20. Pillow Book
  21. Tale of Genji
  22. Sei Shonagon
  23. Lady Murasaki
  24. Nara
  25. Edo
  26. Japanese scripts!
  27. typical family home
  28. geography of japan
  29. Kabuki theatre
  30. tea ceremony
  31. Shinto
  32. block printing
  33. influences from China
  34. Matthew Perry
  35. Land of the rising sun
  36. seppuku
  37. flowering arranging
  38. landscape gardening
  39. Ieyasu and unifying Japan
  40. effects of 1929 on Japan
  41. Pearl Harbor
  42. Japanese-American internment
  43. Hagakure
  44. textbook controversy
  45. Ministry of Education
  46. Rape of Nanking
  47. American occupation of Japan
  48. atomic bombs
  49. hibachi
  50. differences in Japan and America’s educational system
  51. “never give up” society
  52. Japanese family life in 21st century
  53. Japan’s 21st century economy
  54. lifetime employment
  55. government regulations of trade

Africa Review

  1. Africa’s geography
  2. In general, know which imperialist countries dominated sectors of Africa.
  3. Identify both positive and negative impact of imperialism in Africa.
  4. apartheid-definition, history of,
  5. Nelson Mandela
  6. Steven Biko
  7. ancient kingdom of Ghana
  8. ancient kingdom of Mali
  9. Mansa Musa
  10. ancient kingdom of Songhai
  11. identify 3 generalizations you could make about Africa considering the presentations
  12. Identify S. Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Ghana, Mali, Botswana, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia on a map
  13. Identify NileRiver, AhaggarMountains, Lake Victoria, Kilimanjaro, Kalahari Desert, Sahara, Congo River, Drakensberg, Namib Desert, Libyan Desert on a map
  14. Great Rift Valley
  15. Atlantic Slave trade-include ways it affected Africa and how Africans were involved
  16. Olaudah Equiano
  17. middle passage
  18. importance of oral traditions and histories
  19. Great Zimbabwe
  20. Scramble for Africa
  21. apartheid
  22. Berlin conference
  23. Boer Wars
  24. Cecil Rhodes
  25. David Livingstone
  26. Social Darwinism
  27. factors contributing to European conquest of Africa

-guns, SD, transportation, control, diseases, quinine drug

  1. Negritude movement
  2. Kenya, Algeria, Congo, Angola’s fights for independence
  3. Problems with ignoring cultural divisions in Africa
  4. why were democracies in Africa short-lived?
  5. dissidents
  6. FW de Klerk
  7. Thabo Mbeki
  8. Swahili
  9. influence of Islam in Africa
  10. cause and effect of migration in early Africa
  11. TimbuktuUniversity
  12. important question to ask when studying Africa
  13. Justification Britain gave for colonizing Africa
  14. Black homelands
  15. imperialism
  16. Responses of Apartheid government to resistance?
  17. Soweto
  18. Sharpeville
  19. ANC
  20. South African Indian Congress

Latin AMERICA

  1. latin America’s geography
  2. Nazca
  3. Moche
  4. Inca
  5. Maya
  6. Aztec
  7. Cortes
  8. Pizarro
  9. quipus
  10. importance of sacrifice
  11. tlatchli
  12. effects of conquistadors
  13. the Perons’ of Argentina
  14. Olmec
  15. Zapotec
  16. maya mathematics
  17. Monte Alban
  18. Chavin
  19. Tenochtitlan
  20. Popol Vuh
  21. Montezuma II
  22. Spanish colonization
  23. Incan roads
  24. encomienda
  25. democracy in Latin American nations

GREECE

  1. Greece’s geography
  2. Minoans
  3. Mycenaeans
  4. development of Greek democracy
  5. different types of Greek government—monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny
  6. Athenians
  7. Spartans
  8. Persian Wars
  9. Peloponnesian Wars
  10. Darius I
  11. Xerxes
  12. Thermopylae
  13. Trojan War
  14. Socrates
  15. Plato
  16. Aristotle
  17. Hippocrates
  18. Thucydides
  19. Herodotus
  20. Archimedes
  21. Diogenes
  22. Epicurus
  23. Delian League
  24. Minotaur
  25. Acropolis/polis
  26. King Minos
  27. Olympics—give examples of prizes

--how often occurred

--What happens if two countries at war?

--Why were they important to city states?

  1. Pericles’ achievements
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Hellenistic culture
  4. Battle of Salamis
  5. results of Persian wars
  6. results of Peloponnesian wars
  7. Phidipides
  8. Battle of Marathon
  9. women in Greece
  10. Homer
  11. citizenship in Greece-limited democracy

ROME

  1. praetors—purpose, powers at court
  2. censors-purpose
  3. assemblies—purpose, how many
  4. tribunes—how many, purpose
  5. 1st triumvirate members
  6. 2nd triumvirate members
  7. army emperors
  8. What role did Cleopatra play? Where was she from?
  9. Pax Romana
  10. Romulus and Remus
  11. Etruscans and Latins
  12. Republic
  13. Senate
  14. Conflict of the orders
  15. Patricians
  16. Plebeians
  17. Key to roman republic growth?
  18. Julius Caesar-accomplishments, what did he do for the people? dictator for life, calendar, how/when killed, legacy
  19. What led to shift from republic to empire?
  20. Hadrian-accomplishments, where from?
  21. Marcus Aurelius-describe, accomplishments
  22. Caligula-describe, accomplishments
  23. Agrippina
  24. Nero
  25. Colosseum
  26. Marc Antony
  27. Describe what it means to be Roman.
  28. Aqueducts
  29. Diocletian, Constantine
  30. Republic vs. Empire
  31. Women in Rome
  32. Childhood in Rome
  33. Causes for the fall of Rome
  34. Gladiators
  35. consuls—term, powers, how many
  36. 12 Tables
  37. Augustus Caesar
  38. Problems with expansion
  39. Division of Roman empire-West v. East
  40. Influence of Christianity

Middle Ages: no separate test for this unit, will be part of final exam.