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Study Terms: World History 1 (Dachowski), Exam 2, Spring 2015

Format: chronological order (10%), map (10%), historical sources (20%),terms (30%), lists (30%). Chapters covered: Patterns of World History, chapters 6-9 (and chapter 2, p. 45). Lectures and handouts: March 4-April 1. Primary sources: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea; Arrian's Speech of Alexander the Great; the Buddha's Sermon at Benares; two letters of Sidonius; selections from Analects of Confucius.

Consider the following questions: 1. Consider these questions in reference to the empires that we have studied: a. What were the main empires that existed in the period between about 800 BCE and 600 CE? b. What was the role of population and natural resources in the growth of these empires? c. What was the role of existing social and cultural developments in the growth of these empires? d. Were the empires we have studied mainly the products of

powerful personalities (such as Alexander the Great)? Or were they more the result of underlying long-term conditions (social, economic, geographic, cultural, etc.)? 2. What factors led to the decline and/or fall of major empires between about 800 BCE and 600 CE? 3. What thinkers are associated with the "Axial Age"? What ideas and approaches to knowledge did

they share? What unique contributions did each thinker make? What major religions have begun to take shape by the end of the Axial Age? Does it make sense to speak of an "Axial Age" even though these thinkers were widely separated in time and place and never met each other (or even read each others' writings)? 4. What made some smaller states viable alternatives to empires in the period we have been studying?

Index card: You may bring a 3x5 index card (or a piece of paper cut to 3 inches by 5 inches) to consult during

the exam. You may write or type whatever you want using both sides of the card, but cannot bring magnifying glasses or other extraordinary aids to read minuscule writing. You must have your name on the card. I will initial the card before the exam starts, and you must hand in the card with your exam.

Terms

Oceania Polynesia Easter Island Aksum Bantu animism bananas Jenné-Jenno Kintampo Niger inland delta Nubia sahel Titchitt-Oualatta villages Meroë sahel savanna Mayans Mayan calendar blood-letting obsidian Olmecs Popul Vuh Teotihuacan

Alexander the Great Cyrus the Great Macedonia Peloponnesian War Persian War Persians Philip of Macedon Homer Dark Age Greece Heinrich Schliemann avatars Buddhism castes (jati) Chandragupta Maurya dharma karma moksha nirvana sansara the Buddha varnas four noble truths quest for the mustard seed

Aeneas Augustus Caesar bread and circuses Crash of the Third

Century Diocletian Julius Caesar latifundia Mediterranean Sea Roman Republic Roman Empire Romulus and Remus Tarquin the Proud Trojan War Ahriman Ahura Mazda Christianity Constantine Jesus Jewish Diaspora Zoroastrianism Abrahamic religions

Confucius Daoism five relationships Great Wall of China Han Dynasty Legalism Liu Bang Mencius Qin Dynasty shi (gentleman) Xunzi secret societies Red Eyebrows shi class Shi Huangdi Mozi Archimedes Aristotle Plato Socrates Sophists

Lists

technologies and skills used by the people of Oceania to travel

places reached by settlers of Oceania

African river valleys African crops major African trade routes

(describe route or give endpoints)

areas of Bantu dispersal Bantu cultural markers West African ecological

zones key foods in the

Mesoamerican diet shared Mayan and Olmec

cultural features Mayan religious beliefs

and practices trade items in

Teotihuacan Olmec contributions to

Mesoamerican culture

features of Alexander the Great's government

governmental features of the Persian empire

places conquered by Alexander the Great

areas colonized by the Greeks

features of Dark Age (Minoan and/or Mycenaean) Greece

Hindu devotional

practices (after about 500 BCE)

ideas of Vedic religion places where Buddhism

spread four noble truths four varnas (excluding

untouchables) Buddhist beliefs Buddhist practices

policies of Augustus Caesar

effects of Roman expansion

plausible explanations for the fall of the western Roman Empire in 476

founding stories of Rome Roman cultural values places conquered by the

Romans Abrahamic religions reasons for persecution

of Christianity by Romans

shared traits of Abrahamic religions

early Christian beliefs and practices

Zoroastrian conflicts beliefs of Judaism beliefs and practices of

Zoroastrianism

groups hostile to Qin Dynasty

factors in fall of the Han Dynasty

principals of Legalism policies of the Han

Dynasty policies of Shi Huangdi things standardized by

Shi Huangdi types of questions asked

by Axial Age thinkers ways in which conditions

supported Axial Age thinkers

Axial Age thinkers ideas of Confucius Five Relationships of

Confucius