Table Of ContentGlobal Studies Midterm Review
Units
Unit One- Into to Global Studies
• Time (Cyclical, Linear, BCE vs. BC)
• Map projections (Peters, Interrupted, Robinson, and Mercator)
• Early humans (Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Revolution)
• Migration of peoples
Unit Two- River Valley Civilizations
• Mesopotamia
• Nile
• Indus
• Yellow I and Yellow II
Unit Three- Nomadic Invasions I
• Aryans (European Steppe/Khyber Pass)
• Akkadians (Arabian Desert)
• Amorites (Arabian Desert)
• Hittites (Arabian Desert)
• Assyrians (Mesopotamia/Arabian Desert)
• Chaldeans (Nebuchadnezzar)
• Persians (Steppe)
• Hebrews (Arabian Desert)
• Vedic Age and Epic Age
Unit Four- Axial Age in India and West Asia
• Zoroastrianism
• Brahminism
• Asceticism
• Jainism
• Buddhism
• Hinduism (Synthesis)
Unit Five- Axial Age in China
• Era of Warring States
• Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
• Confucius (Confucianism)
• Daoism
• Legalism
• Han Synthesis
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Unit Six-Cultural Diffusion and Golden Ages
• Mauryan Empire
• Gupta Empire
• Mahayana vs. Theravada Buddhism
• Han Dynasty
• Sui Dynasty
• Song Dynasty
• Southern Song
• Shintoism
• Yamato Emperors (Heian)
• The Shogunate
Unit Seven-Islam
• Mohammed
• Ka’aba
• Allah
• Hijrah
• Medina
• Qur’an
• Umayyads
• Sunni vs. Shi’a
• Sufi
• Abbasids
• Fatimid
• Five Pillars of Islam
Unit Eight-Nomads and Empires II
• Mongols (Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo)
• Mughals (Timur the Lame, Akbar, and Aurangzeb)
• Ottomans (Osman, Mehmut, and Suleiman)
• Sikhism
• Ming Dynasty (Zheng He)
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Map (Reprint a few times to practice locating places)
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Unit One- Intro to Global Studies
Terms
BCE: “Before the Common Era.” Referring to the time before Christ’s birth.
CE: “Common Era.” Referring to the time after Christ’s birth.
BC: “Before Christ.” Referring to the time before Christ’s birth.
AD: “Anno Domini,” (“in the year of the lord”). Referring to the time after
Christ’s birth.
Decade: A span of ten years.
Century: A span of 100 years.
Millennium: A span of 1,000 years.
Age/era: An undefined period of time characterized by a shared pattern of
life.
Cyclical Time: Time moving in circles.
Linear Time: Time moving forward in a straight line from a fixed beginning to
some future final event.
Lunar Calendar: Based on the phases of the moon.
Solar Calendar: Based on the rotation of the Earth around the sun.
Ethnocentrism: The belief that one’s own ethnic group/culture is superior to
others.
Equator: the line of latitude midway between the North and South poles.
Latitude: imaginary lines that circle the globe from east to west, measuring
an area’s distance north and south of the equator.
Longitude: imaginary lines that circle the globe from north to south,
measuring an area’s distance east or west of the prime meridian.
Prime Meridian: the line of longitude at 0° that runs through Greenwich,
England.
Hemisphere: half the globe. The globe can be divided into Northern and
Southern hemispheres (separated by the equator) or into Eastern and
Western hemispheres (separated by the prime meridian).
Compass Rose: an object on the map pointing out the four primary
directions: north, south, east, and west.
Scale: a part of the map that tells the map’s proportion relative to the area’s
actual size.
Legend: a key that explains symbols, lines, and special colors on the map.
Cartographer: a mapmaker
Greenwich, England: A point where the prime meridian lies.
Mercator Project: All of the lines of longitude are parallel, distorting the
projections of the actual size.
Peters Project: The lines of latitude near the poles are closer together, but it
is more accurate than the mercator project in relative size of al areas. Alas,
the shapes are still distorted.
Primary Source: Documents written during the same time period as an
event.
Secondary Source: Material written about an event later.
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Oral Tradition: Legends, myths, and beliefs passed on by spoken word from
generation to generation.
Historians: A writer, student, or scholar of history.
Fossil: Evidence of early life preserved in rocks.
Prehistoric: Referring to the time period before history was recorded.
Artifact: Remains.
Culture: People’s unique way of life.
Archeologists: Scientists who learn about early people by excavating and
studying the traces of early settlements.
Anthropologists: Scientists who study culture.
Paleontologists: Scientists who study fossils.
Mary Leakey: Archaeologist who led a scientific expedition into the region of
Laetoli in Tanzania in the mid-1970s.
Hominid: Humans and other creatures that walk upright.
Lucy: The oldest hominid ever found at 3.5 million years old.
Paleolithic Age: Earlier and longer part of the Stone age lasting from 2.5
million to 8,000 B.C.E.
Neolithic Age: Beginning about 8,000 B.C.E. and ending as early as 3,000
B.C.E., was the new Stone Age.
Homo erectus: “Upright man,” being more intelligent and adaptable than
Homo habilis.
Homo sapiens: Modern humans.
Nomads: People who wander from place to place, rather than making
permanent settlements.
Hunter-Gatherers: People whose food supply depends on hunting animals
and collecting plant foods.
Iceman’s Tool Kit: The tool kit of a 5,000 year old prehistoric traveler
consisted of a six-foot longbow, 14 arrows in a deerskin case, a stick with an
antler tip for sharpening flint blades, a small flint dagger in a woven sheath,
and a copper ax.
Cave Paintings: Pictures were used to communicate information, ideas, and
history.
Neolithic Revolution: The agricultural revolution causing the far-reaching
changes in human life.
Slash-and-Burn Farming: Farming method in which people clear fields by
cutting and burning tress and grasses, the ashes of which serve to fertilize the
soil.
Domestication: The taming of animals.
Africa: Where man began…
Race: classifying people by their adaptive, physical characteristics
Racism: the belief that one race is superior to another
Migration: movement of people
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Limitations/Problems with Sources
Primary Source- just one point of view, biased
Secondary Source- too general, may miss details
Oral tradition- story may change over time
Fossil- decompose, weathered, difficult to find
Artifact- decompose, weathered, have to make educated guess
What makes man human?
• Development of skills
o Tools
o Writing
o Agriculture
o Fire
o Art
o Beliefs
World Map
Above is a map of the world. This map is good because it has all of the
elements you need to know for the test, but the one thing different in this
map is that it splits the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans into North and South.
Just so you know, they are just the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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Map Projections
Peters Projection
Interrupted Projection
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