World History Study Guide 2007-2008

World History Study Guide 2013-2014

 Location of the first civilizations  Monotheism: Egyptians and Sumerians  Egypt-Nile River  Ancient China-gunpowder and the compass  Common belief between Hinduism and Buddhism  Isolation: China  The Hellenistic Age  Wars between Carthage and Rome  Hannibal  Preservation of Literary Latin  Preservation of the cultural heritage of Greece and Rome  Judaism, Christianity and Islam  Synagogue to Judaism; ______to Islam  Collapse of Charlemagne’s empire  Feudalism: vassals-lords  Church-Tithes  Renaissance-Italy  Effects of the printing press  Scientist of the Renaissance  Martin Luther-Reformation  Martin Luther and John Wycliffe: read and interpret the Bible for themselves  Isaac Newton-gravity  Mayan and Incan civilizations  Encounters between the Spanish and the Native Americans  Matrilineal societies  Cultural diffusion-Africa  Oral tradition  Crusades eventually led to the discovery of the New World  Mercantilism  Absolute Monarchies  People can govern themselves  Declaration of Independence  Taxation in early America  French Revolution  Pre-Revolutionary governments  Napoleon Bonaparte  Continental System  Peacetime accomplishments-Napoleon  Centralized government in Japan  1500s- China’s official trade policy  Opium War and Boxer Rebellion  Commodore Perry-Japan  Industrial Revolution  Three Factors of Production-Industrial Revolution  Free-market System  Socialism and Communism  Five Year Plans  Nationalism  Cause of Russo-Japanese War in 1904  Change in power in 1871 Europe  Fourteen Points  Treaty of Versailles: postwar Germany  Cold War  Rebuilding of Japan after WW II  Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan  Limited African nationalism  Kwame Nkrumah=Jomo Kenyatta  Mohandas Ghandi-civil disobedience  Sepoys-Boxers-Mau Mau  Formation of the state of Israel  Cold War Era (1945-1990) reluctance towards direct military conflict  SALT; SALT II; START  Berlin Blockade (1948-1949); Premier Krushev’s visit to the United States (1959); Cuban missile crisis (1962); Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963); Joint Apollo-Soyuz space mission (1975); Russian invasion of Afghanistan (1979)  Major element of the economic policy of Perestroika  Indira Ghandi  Golda Meir  Apartheid in South Africa  Tiananmen Square  Berlin Wall 1989  Former Yugoslavia and former Soviet Union-self determination  Female political leader-Indira Ghandi; Margaret Thatcher; Gold Meir; Violeta Chamorro  Wars in DPR Congo; Nigeria; Rwanda and Somalia  OPEC  World Trade Organization  International Monetary Fund  Coca-Cola v Pepsi-Cola  Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs  Goal of radical religious and cultural terrorists  Cell phones & internet  Osama bin Laden terrorist organization