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
- Paleolithic and Neolithic eras
- Mesopotamia
- Hammurabi
- pharaoh
Unit 4 Classical Mediterranean
- Plato
- Cyrus
- Pax Romana
- Harappa
- Gautama Buddha
- Asoka (Ashoka)
- Zhou (Chou) dynasty
- Wu Zetian
- Confucius
- The Silk Road
- Abbasid
- Khalifa (caliph)
- Qur'an (Koran)
- Justinian
- Theodora
- Vladimir
- Rus'
- Maya
- Inka (Inca)
- Montezuma II
Unit 10 Charlemagne and the European Middle Ages
- Chivalry
- Feudalism
- Charlemagne
- Joan of Arc
- Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khan)
- Delhi sultanate
- Great Zimbabwe
- Mansa Musa
- Swahili
- Shogunate
- Yamato regime (clan)
- Bushido
Unit 14 Renaissance and Reformation
- Renaissance
- Humanism
- Martin Luther
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Conquistador
- Hernán Cortés
- civilization