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Mid-term Study Guide
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Terms to know for the Mid-term Updated on 5 October 2006 Interactive Zones Diffusion Syncretisim Upper Paleolithic Neolithic Gather Hunters Gender Division of Labor Agricultural revolutions Neolithic Farmers Grain Gathering Neolithic Hand Axe Slash and Burn Plow Irrigation MESOPOTAMIA SUMER FERTILE CRESCENT SEMITES AKKAD MESOPOTAMIAN CITY-STATES SARGON THE GREAT .GILGAMESH ENLIL ENKIDU URBAN REVOLUTION CIVILIZATION’S ATTRIBUTES BARBARIANS LUGAL EGYPT NILE RIVER PHAROH OLD KINGDOM MIDDLE KINGDOM NEW KINGDOM PYRAMYD TEXT COFFIN TEXT NEGATIVE CONFESSION INDUS RIVER HARAPPA MOHENJO-DARO YELLOW RIVER XIA SHANG ZHOU MANDATE OF HEAVEN The Bronze Age Chariots Iron Age The Aryans Sanskrit The Vedas Rig Veda Vedic Age Indra Purusha Dasas Varna/Caste Kshatriya Brahmin (in the caste sense) Vaisya Sudra Hittites Assyrians Mycenaeans Acheans Dorians Ahura Mazda Avesta Ahriman Zoroaster Monotheism/Monolatry Hebrews Yahweh Babylonian Captivity Judaism Brahmanas Upanishads Brahman Atman Samsara Karma Dharma Moksha Hinduism Buddhism Four Noble Truths The Eight-fold Path Dorian Mycenaean Persian Empire Polis Persian War Hellenic Rationalism Euripedes Hippocrates Pericles Solon Lycurgus Socrates Athens Sparta Peloponnesian War Zhou/Chou Confucius/Confucianism Legalism Han Fei Daoism Warring States Period Silk Road Parthia Han Empire Roman Empire Pax Romana Xiongnu Qin/Chin Empire Qin Shi Huang Ti Alexander the Great Hellenistic World
We probably won't get the following terms: Periplus of the Erythrean Sea Rhapta Swahili Shanga Lion Carthage Augustus Punic Wars Han Wudi Sima Qian Monsoon Broader themes you should consider: What is a civilization? How is a civilization different from a Neolithic society or from the barbarian societies that sometimes exist in the orbit of civilizations? To what extent does the history of barbarian societies affect the history of civilization? What is the relationship between technology and political, economic and social change? Does environment affect political and economic development? How and to what extent? Are civilizations inherently coercive? Do people live in them because they choose to gain the benefits of living in large groups or is there something more sinister at work? How do changes in the scale of human society affect the religious beliefs that people hold? What about social and political beliefs?
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