Vocabulary Notecard List
Chapter 2 - Classical Civilization: China
Zhou, Xianyang, Feudalism, Mandate of Heaven, Qin, Shi Huangdi, Warring States Period, Confucius, Laozi, Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Great Wall, Han
Chapter 3 - Classical Civilization: India
Vedas, Himalayas, caste system, Mauryan Dynasty, Ashoka, Gupta Dynasty, Hinduism, reincarnation, Buddhism, nirvana, stupas
Chapter 4 - Classical Civilizations in the Mediterranean and Middle East
Hellenistic culture, direct democracy, Peloponnesian War, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, stoics, Socrates, republic, Persian Wars, Aristotle, Punic Wars, Pericles
Chapter 6 - The Rise of Islam
Bedouin, Mecca, Umayyad, Muhammad, Five Pillars, Caliph, Abu Bakr, Ridda, Sunnis, Shi'a, Abbasid, Qur'an
Chapter 7 - Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization
Seljuk Turks, Crusades, Ulama, Sufis, Mongols, Mamluks, Sati, Shrivijaya, Ibn Khaldun, Salah-ud-Din, Buyids, Al-Biruni
Chapter 8 - African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam
Stateless Societies, Almohadis, Sudanic States, Kankan Musa, Ibn Batuta, Sundiata, Songhay, Yoruba, Kongo Kingdom, Great Zimbabwe, Hausa States
Chapter 9 - Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
Justinian, Body of Civil Law, Greek Fire, Cyril and Methodius, Kiev, Valdimir I, Boyars, Tatars
Chapter 10 - A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe
Middle Ages, Manorialism, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Magna Carta, three estates, scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas, Hanseatic League, guilds, Black Death,
Chapter 11 - The Americas on the Eve of Invasion
Toltecs, Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli, Tenochtitlan, chinampas, Inca, Pachacuti, Quipu
Chapter 12 - Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization
Wendi, Li Yuan, Mahayana (Pure Land) Buddhism, Yang Guifei, Khitan nomads, Wang Anshi, Jurchens, Grand Canal, flying money, footbinding
Chapter 13 - The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
Taika Reforms, Fujiwara, bushi, samurai, seppuku, Gempei Wars, bakufu, shoguns, Ashikaga Shogunate, sinification, Khmers, Trung sisters
Zhou, Xianyang, Feudalism, Mandate of Heaven, Qin, Shi Huangdi, Warring States Period, Confucius, Laozi, Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Great Wall, Han
Chapter 3 - Classical Civilization: India
Vedas, Himalayas, caste system, Mauryan Dynasty, Ashoka, Gupta Dynasty, Hinduism, reincarnation, Buddhism, nirvana, stupas
Chapter 4 - Classical Civilizations in the Mediterranean and Middle East
Hellenistic culture, direct democracy, Peloponnesian War, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, stoics, Socrates, republic, Persian Wars, Aristotle, Punic Wars, Pericles
Chapter 6 - The Rise of Islam
Bedouin, Mecca, Umayyad, Muhammad, Five Pillars, Caliph, Abu Bakr, Ridda, Sunnis, Shi'a, Abbasid, Qur'an
Chapter 7 - Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization
Seljuk Turks, Crusades, Ulama, Sufis, Mongols, Mamluks, Sati, Shrivijaya, Ibn Khaldun, Salah-ud-Din, Buyids, Al-Biruni
Chapter 8 - African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam
Stateless Societies, Almohadis, Sudanic States, Kankan Musa, Ibn Batuta, Sundiata, Songhay, Yoruba, Kongo Kingdom, Great Zimbabwe, Hausa States
Chapter 9 - Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
Justinian, Body of Civil Law, Greek Fire, Cyril and Methodius, Kiev, Valdimir I, Boyars, Tatars
Chapter 10 - A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe
Middle Ages, Manorialism, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Magna Carta, three estates, scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas, Hanseatic League, guilds, Black Death,
Chapter 11 - The Americas on the Eve of Invasion
Toltecs, Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli, Tenochtitlan, chinampas, Inca, Pachacuti, Quipu
Chapter 12 - Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization
Wendi, Li Yuan, Mahayana (Pure Land) Buddhism, Yang Guifei, Khitan nomads, Wang Anshi, Jurchens, Grand Canal, flying money, footbinding
Chapter 13 - The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
Taika Reforms, Fujiwara, bushi, samurai, seppuku, Gempei Wars, bakufu, shoguns, Ashikaga Shogunate, sinification, Khmers, Trung sisters