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Midterm Study Guide
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Honors World Civilization Mid-term Study Guide Modified Aug. 30 2007
Rise of Agriculture
Interactive Zones Diffusion Syncretism Upper Paleolithic Neolithic Gather Hunters/Foragers Gender Division of Labor Agricultural revolutions Neolithic Farmers Grain Gathering Slash and Burn Plow Irrigation
Rivers and Civilization
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 Vaisya Sudra Mycenaeans Acheans Dorians The "Styles" of Hellenic and Chinese Civlization 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 Shi Huang Ti Warring States Period
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? |