TERMS:
Paleolithic, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, sympathetic magic, mythopoeic, Neolithic, animism, cuneiform, Urukagina, Sargon, Hammurabi (Amorites), ziggurat, Menes, Old Kingdom, pharoah, First Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period, Hyksos, New Kingdom, hieroglyphics, Maat, Hatshepsut, Akhenaton, Tutankhamen, Re/Amon, Osiris, Rosetta Stone, Hittites, Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Assyrians, Ashurbanipal, Nebuchadnezzar (Chaldeans), Persians, Cyrus the Great, satrap, Zoroaster, Hebrews, Abraham, monolatry, Exodus (Moses), Yahweh, Israelites, Philistines, David, Solomon, Babylonian Captivity, Jeremiah, monotheism, Isaiah, Old Testament.
DISCUSSION:
Discuss the accomplishments of the Paleolithic Period(4).
Discuss the accomplishments of the Neolithic Period (7).
What are the four necessary developments that make a culture "civilized" (4).
Discuss the achievements of the Sumerians (7).
Compare and contrast the Old Kingdom and New Kingdom periods of Egyptian history (4).
Compare and contrast Mesopotamian culture with Egyptian culture (4).
Discuss the four stages of the Hebrew religious revolution.
Compare and contrast the characteristics of the Hebrew God with the Near Eastern gods (4).
TERMS:
Minoans (Evans), Mycenae (Schliemann), Dorians, Homer (Iliad/Odyssey), polis, Solon, Pisistratus, Cleisthenes, ostracism, Sappho, Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Democritus, Herodotus, Ionians, Darius, Marathon, Xerxes, Delian League, Pericles, Aspasia, Hippocrates, Sophists, Protagoras, Socrates (dialectics), Plato (The Republic), Aristotle, Thespis, Sophocles (Oedipus Rex), Aristophanes (The Clouds), Peloponnesian War, Thucydides, Philip II, Alexander the Great, Ptolemies, Seleucids, Antigonids, koine, Theophrastus, Aristarchus, Euclid, Eratosthenes, Archimedes, Epicurus, Zeno (Stoicism), Logos, Skepticism, Cynicism (Diogenes).
DISCUSSION:
What are the 3 broad periods of Greek history?
Discuss the characteristics of the Minoan (5) and Mycenaean (5) civilizations.
Contrast 4 characteristics of Spartan society with 4 of Athenian society.
Compare and contrast the beliefs of the Stoics and Epicureans (4).
TERMS:
Etruscans, Struggle of the Orders (patricians & plebeians), consul, tribune, Twelve Tables, Punic Wars (Hannibal and Scipio Africanus), Equites, Spartacus, latifundia, Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Julius Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony, Augustus (Octavian), pax Romana, Plautus, Lucretius, Cicero, Vergil/Aeneid, Ovid, Marcus Aurelius (Meditations), Ptolemy/Almagest, Galen, ius civile/ius gentium, mystery religion/Mithras, Neo-Platonism/Plotinus, Huns/Attila, Jesus/Christ, Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Zealots, St. Benedict, Paul, Nero, Decius, Diocletian, Constantine (Edict of Milan), Theodosius I, Council of Nicea (Arius v Athanasius), Jerome, St. Augustine (The City of God).
DISCUSSION:
Discuss the influences of the Etruscans on the Romans (5).
What were the results of the Punic Wars on the Roman Republic (5)?
Explain the complaints of the plebeians during the Struggle of the Orders (5).
What were the two major causes of the Roman agricultural crisis of the 2nd century BC?
Contrast the ideals of Christianity and classical humanism (4).
Discuss the four external factors leading to the emergence of Christianity.
Discuss the four internal factors leading to the emergence of Christianity.
Discuss the causes of the fall of Rome (4).
TERMS:
Franks, Clovis, Carolingians, Charles Martel, Battle of Tours, Benedict of Nursia, Charlemagne, Alcuin, Treaty of Verdun, Vikings, Muslims,Magyars, feudalism, manorialism, crusades, guilds, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Hastings/1066, Henry II, Magna Carta, Parliament, Hugh Capet, Philip II Augustus, Louis IX, Parlement, Philip IV the Fair, Estates General, Otto the Great, Cluniac Reform, Gregory VII, Investiture Controversy, Innocent III, Inquisition, Waldensians, Cathari, St. Francis, St. Dominic, scholasticism, Peter Abelard, Sic et Non, Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Averroes, Roger Bacon, chansons de gest, The Song of Roland, troubadours, Geoffrey Chaucer, Dante Alighieri, Suger/Gothic, Boniface VIII, Babylonian Capitivity, Great Schism, Council of Constance, Consiliar Movement, John Wycliffe, John Huss, Black Death, Hundred Years' War, Edward III, Capetians, Joan of Arc .
DISCUSSION:
Discuss three (3) important contributions of Charlemagne.
What were the five (5) causes of the development of feudalism?
What were the three (3) classes in the Middle Ages?
Discuss the results (6) of the Crusades.
Name the two (2) kinds of Medieval guilds.
Explain the situations (3) leading to the rise of cities .
List four (4) provisions of the Fourth Lateran Council.
What were the educational services (3) provided by cathedral schools?
Explain the motivations (4) for building a Medieval cathedral.
Discuss the reasons (4) for the disintegration of the spiritual and temporal power of the Roman church in the 14th century.
Terms:
Medici, Petrarch, Ficino, Pico, Lorenzo Valla, Machiavelli, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Gutenberg, Erasmus, More, indulgences, Luther, Peace of Augsburg, Zwingli, Calvin, Huguenots, Edict of Nantes, Henry VIII, Anglican Church, Anabaptists, Loyola, Counter Reformation, Council of Trent, Henry the Navigator, Dias, Vasco de Gama, Columbus, Magellan, Cortes, Pizarro, price revolution, copyhold, open-field system, enclosure, leasehold, commercial agriculture, convertible husbandry, putting-out system, merchant capitalist, joint-stock company, capitalism, private enterprise, free enterprise, mercantilism.
DISCUSSION:
Discuss the achievements (5) of the Renaissance.
What were the weaknesses (4) of the Renaissance?
What were the results (4) of the Reformation?
List and explain similarities (6) between the Renaissance and Reformation.
Explain the differences (3) between the Renaissance and Reformation.
List 4 theological provisions of the Council of Trent.
What were the causes (5) of European expansion from 1400 - 1650?
REVIEW OF PREVIOUS MATERIAL:
TERMS:
Sumerians, Egyptians, Abraham, Assyrians, Cyrus, Mycenae, Thales, Persian Wars, Pericles, Peloponnesian Wars, Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander (323 BC), Stoics, Epicureans, Etruscans, Roman Republic, Caesar, Augustus, Roman Empire, Virgil, Jesus, Paul, Council of Nicea (325), monasticism, 476 AD, Charlemagne, feudalism, manorial system, Crusades, Hastings (1066), Henry II, Magna Carta, Philip Augustus, Otto the Great, Holy Roman Empire, Innocent III, Thomas Aquinas, Abbot Suger, Babylonian Captivity, Great Schism, Black Death, Hundred Years' War,
DISCUSSION:
Discuss the advances (3) made by Neolithic culture and the resultant changes in their society (4).
What necessary developments (4) do historians consider make a culture civilized?
What 3 major ideas characterize the Classical Period? Explain them.
What 3 major ideas characterize the Hellenistic Period? Explain them.
Explain external factors (4) that led to the emergence of Christianity.
Discuss the developments (4) by the end of the Empire that caused the fall of Rome.
What 3 phenomena led to the rise of cities in the llth c.? How?
Discuss the reasons (4) for the disintegration of the Roman Church in the 14th c.
