The Key Terms will be part of the midterm and final exams in the course. You should study these terms using your textbook, but you are also encouraged to use any other sources, such as Wikipedia. A good answer to a test identification of a key term should include answers to these basic questions: who, what, where, when and why important. It is especially important to focus on why the key term is important. Check out some examples.
- History
- Civilization
- Pre-History
- Paleolithic and Neolithic
- Mesopotamia
- Hammurabi
- Pharaoh
- Monotheism
- Polis
- Socrates
- Alexander the Great
- Pericles
Unit 5 Classical Rome and Christianity
- Julius Caesar
- Pax Romana
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Saint Paul of Tarsus
- Muhammad
- Abbasid
- Khalifa (caliph)
- Qur'an (Koran)
- Carolingian Renaissance
- Charles Martel
- Charlemagne
- Vikings
- Justinian
- Byzantine Empire
- Vladimir
- Rus'
- Magna Carta
- Chivalry
- University
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Feudalism
- William the Conqueror
- Capetian Dynasty
- Crusades
- Mongols (Tatars)
- Golden Horde
- Ivan IV the Terrible
- Black Death
- Hundred Years' War
- Joan of Arc
- Chaucer
- John Calvin
- Indulgence
- Martin Luther
- Justification by faith
- Humanism
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Conquistador
- Columbus
- History
- Civilization