Historia

I. Historical Terms and Prehistory.

1. What is a primary source?
2. What is a secondary source?
3. What is a document?
4. What is an archive?
5. What is an artifact?
6. What is a collection?
7. Define nomad
8. Why were the nomads most likely hunter-gatherers?
9. What affected the lives of nomads?
10. What was the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution?
11.Why is it important to know that plants grow from seeds?
12. What are the characteristics of a civilization?
13. Why is it important for a civilization to be able to produce surplus food (food to be saved for later)?
14. Why were irrigation systems developed?
15. What does the ability to build irrigation systems say about the people in early civilizations?
16. What did tradewith other peoples lead to?

II. Ancient Civilizations

17. How did the Egyptians call their rulers or emperors?
18. Which cilvilization was the first one to develop a writing system?
19. Which civilization was the first one to develop a coined money economy?
20. What rivers drain the Hindus River Valley (Ancient India)?
21. What rivers drain the Ancient China?
22.What rivers drain Mesopotamia?
23. What is a Ziggurat?
24. Why was China such an isolated civilization?
25. Describe and explain the social structure of Sparta.
26. Describe and explain the social structure of Athens.
27. What were the geographical differences between Greece and Rome?

III. Greece

28. Describe the social structure in Sparta.
29. Describe the socialstructure en Athens
30. What were the geographical differences between Greece and Rome?

IV. Rome

31. Draw and explain the diagram of the Early Roman Republic.
32. What were the Punic wars?
33. How was Hannibal defeated by the Romans?
34. What was a Triumvirate?
35. Who formed the First Triumvirate?
36. Who formed the Second Triumvirate?
37. What was the PaxRomana?
38. Explain the Battle of Marathon
39. Explain the Battle of the Thermopylae
40. Explain the Second Punic War

V. The Rise of Christianity
41. Why was Jesus identified as a potential revolutionary by the Romans?
42. What was the importance of Diocletian and Theodosius the Great for early Christianity?
43. Explain ALL the theories of the fall of the RomanEmpire. Which one is the most reasonable for you? Why?

VI. The World In Transition
44. Explain the main differences between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church regarding:
a) Clergy
b) Icons
c) Leadership´
d) Holy Trinity

VII. The Islamic World
45. Where was Muhammad born? To what kind of family?
46. What two religions have influenced Islam?47. What is Islam’s holy book?
48. What is the first year of the Muslim Calendar? Why?
49. What are the Acts of Worship or Five Pillars of Islam?
50. What is jihad?
51. In 680, why did Islam split into Sunni and Shi’ah?
52. What was a bazaar?
53. What was the Shari’ah?

VIII. The Middle Ages and the Crusades

54. Explain the Manor and all of its parts (draw)55. Explain the first crusade
56. Explain the second crusade
57. Explain the third crusade
58. Explain the fourth crusade
59. How could one start a banking business during the Middle Ages? Who could do it? Why?
60. What is Usury?
61. What is Capital?
62. What is a Guild?
63. What is the Manufacturing System?
64. What is a Barter Economy?
65. What is aMarket Economy?
66. What is the relationship between trade and the Black Death?
67. How did the Tudors get to the power in England?
68. What did Isabel and Fernando of Spain do to unify their nation?

IX. The Renaissance & The Age of Exploration

69. What are the main characteristics of the Renaissance?
70. What were the Humanities?
71. Who has been called the...