NAME: _________________________ COLOR: _______ DATE: _________________

WORLD HISTORY I FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Friday, June 17, 2011 at 8 a.m. (location to be determined)

EXAM FORMAT

70 multiple-choice questions (1 point each)

2 short answers (one analytical paragraph each, 15 points each)

FOUR BIG QUESTIONS THAT HELPED SHAPE OUR COURSE THIS YEAR

• In what ways do LEADERS gain, maintain and/or lose legitimacy?

• How do TRADE NETWORKS allow ideas, goods, and people to spread?
• What sparks technological and intellectual INNOVATIONS, and what changes because of them?
• How do religious and philosophical IDEAS influence government, art and culture?

UNITS OF STUDY, TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS, ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

India
• Has South Asia’s unity and diversity been a source of conflict or strength?
o Chapter 3 Section 1 (starting from “Aryan Invaders Transform India”)
o Chapter 3 Section 2 (except “New Religions Arise”)
o Chapter 7, Sections 1 and 2 (up to “The Spread of Indian Trade”)

China:
• How do social and political institutions in ancient China work to create a more unified culture within a
vast empire?
o Chapter 2, Section 4
o Chapter 4, Section 4
o Chapter 7, Section 3
o Chapter 12, Sections 1, 2 and 3

East and Southeast Asia:

• How did Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia adopt and adapt the culture of continental Asia?
o Chapter 12, Section 4
o Chapter 12, Section 5

Rome and Byzantine:

• How did the Romans manage diversity as the empire expanded?
o Chapter 3, Section 4
o Chapter 6
o Chapter 11, Section 1

Muslim World:
• How did religion and trade contribute to the scientific, artistic and intellectual accomplishments of the
Islamic empires?
o Chapter 10, Sections 1-3

Ancient Africa:
 • How did geography impact the development of societies?
o Chapter 8, Sections 2-3
o Chapter 15, Section 1 (only “Muslim States”)
o Chapter 15, Section 2 (up to “Other Peoples of West Africa”)
o Chapter 15, Section 3 (up to “Mutapa Empire”)

Europe:
• How did the interaction between secular and religious authorities affect society from the European
Middle Ages to the Renaissance?
o Chapters 13 and 14
o Chapter 17 (but use your notes to guide your studying)

You should also be familiar with your world timeline so that you are able to make connections among units!
If you need extra copies of the blank timeline, let me know.

VOCABULARY GRID (terms and names)

Below are broad terms and names that we have studied this year in history. You will not only need to know
the meaning of these words but also how they connect to material we have covered in class – sometimes within
a particular unit and sometimes across different units. The key is to make connections. It would be helpful to
refer to our four big questions for this course.

monsoons Mandate of Heaven Siddhartha Gautama karma

moksha Ashoka Charlemagne secular
Silk Road West African Empires Pax Romana Swahili Coast
Sunni/Shia Julius Caesar Abraham Crusades
gold trade Jesus of Nazareth Tang & Song innovations Timbuktu
Ibn Battuta Spread of Islam Mansa Musa Hindu caste system
Muhammad power of medieval church centralized government Five Pillars
Torah Diaspora Four Noble Truths spread of Buddhism
Bubonic Plague Jerusalem Daoism Germanic tribes
pagan cultural diffusion civil service fall of Roman Empire
Roman republic monotheism Islamic Golden Age Justinian’s Code
Gupta Golden Age Reformation Great Schism (1054) Renaissance
feudalism Byzantine Empire Legalism Confucianism
Shi Huang Di Han Dynasty Gutenberg printing press monarchy
aristocracy pastoral nomads peasants bureaucracy

IN-CLASS MS. KUO’S OPTIONAL AFTERSCHOOL REVIEW SESSIONS

Come with questions! Come to listen in!

In Room 169
Wednesday, June 15 (at 1:30 p.m.)
Thursday, June 16 (at 1:30 p.m.)

REVIEW SCHEDULE (June 9 to June 14)

Day 1 (Wednesday for E, Thursday for everyone else)

homework due:
bring in your notes for your assigned unit.

in class:
identify major themes of each unit

homework:
define 15 words from the vocabulary grid (next page). Everyone will define the same words. I will let you know
which ones.

Day 2 (Friday for everyone)

homework due:
15 definitions from vocabulary grid

in class:
big word web day 1

homework:
Divide the rest of the words from the vocabulary grid among your in-class study group. Define your assigned
words! Your group is depending on you!

Day 3 (Monday for everyone)

homework due:
definitions for the words you were responsible for

in class:
big word web day 2

homework:
study!

Day 4 (Tuesday for everyone. We will split B and E blocks.)

no homework due

in class:
more word web (if needed)
discuss and return FRPs

homework:
study!