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Unit I (Foundations) Vocabulary

Before History

|complex society |Lucy |

|Paleolithic |Neolithic |

|Venus figurines |Lascaux cave paintings |

|metallurgy |textile |

|social class, social structures |Neolithic “revolution” versus “agricultural transition” |

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|Early Societies in SW Asia and Indo-European Migrations | |

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|The Epic of Gilgamesh |Semitic |

|irrigation |city-state |

|kingdom, regional kingdom |empire |

|Sargon of Akkad |Hammurabi |

|Hammurabi’s Codes/Laws |Indo-Europeans |

|stele |Hittites |

|Assyrians |Hanging Gardens of Babylon |

|economic specialization |bronze and iron metallurgy |

|stratified patriarchal society |pastoral nomads |

|elite, commoner, dependant, slave |Hebrews, Israelites, Jews |

|cuneiform |Abraham |

|Moses |monotheism |

|polytheism |Phoenicians |

|cross-cultural interaction and exchange | |

Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations

|mummification |savannah |

|demographic pressures |Menes |

|pharaoh |mercenary |

|scribe |cataracts |

|hieroglyphics |Rosetta stone |

|pyramids | |

Early Societies in South Asia

|Aryans |Harappans |

|semi-precious stones |sewage systems |

|ecological degradation |Vedas, Rig Veda, Vedic Age |

|republic |administrators |

|varna |caste |

|jati |brahmins |

|social mobility |sati (suttee) |

|ritual sacrifices |Dravidians |

|Upanishads |Brahman |

|samsara |karma |

|moksha |ascetic, asceticism |

Early Society in East Asia

|staple foods (rice, millet, wheat, barley) |dynasty |

|Xia |loess |

|“China’s sorrow” |hereditary state |

|Shang |Zhou |

|“mandate of heaven” |decentralized administration |

|royal court |artisans |

|cowrie shells |ancestor veneration |

|extended family |oracle bones |

|consort |steppe nomads |

Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania

|obsidian |maize |

|Bering land bridge |ceremonial centers |

|authoritarian society |agricultural terraces |

|bloodletting rituals |Andean highlands, lowlands, valleys |

|Austronesian peoples |double-hulled canoes |

|Olmec ball games | |

The Unification of China

|Sian Qian |castration |

|eunuchs |Period of the Warring States |

|Kong Fuzi |Analects |

|ren, li, xiao |Laozi |

|Dao, Daoism |Legalism |

|Qin Shi Huangdi |Great Wall |

|Chinese script |conscription |

|Liu Bang |Chang’an |

|Han Wudi |Vietnam |

|Korea |Xiongnu |

|Bactria |tribute |

|hegemony |silk |

|Yellow Turban Uprising | |

|From Chapter 12 | |

|Han Wudi |Bactria |

|Chang’an |Taklamakan Desert |

|Kashgar |South China Sea |

|Guangzhou |missionaries |

|epidemics |Merv |

|Bukhara |Samarkand |

|Khotan |Dunhuang |

|Kuqa |expatriate merchants |

|Java |Sumatra |

State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India

|Hindu Kush Mountains |Punjab |

|political vacuum |Chandragupta Maurya |

|Indus River |Ganges River |

|Ashoka Maurya |Patiliputra |

|Bactria |Kushan empire |

|tributary alliances |White Huns |

|monsoons |Indonesia |

|southeast Asia |caste system |

|varna |jati |

|Brahmin |Jainism |

|Siddhartha Gautama |Buddha |

|Four Noble Truths |Noble Eightfold Path |

|dharma |stupas |

|patronage |Ceylon |

|boddhisatva |“Arabic” numerals |

Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase

|Homer |The Iliad and The Odyssey |

|Mycenaeans |Trojan War |

|King Minos and Minoans |Minoan Linear A and B |

|polis |helot |

|Pericles |Alexander the Great |

|Antigonius |Ptolemy |

|Seleucus |Olympic Games |

|Socrates |Aristotle |

|Plato |tyrant |

|Spartan |Solon |

|Persian Wars |Darius, Xerxes |

|Peloponnesian War |Alexander of Macedon |

|Hellenistic empires |Sappho |

|Stoics | |

Mediterranean Society: The Roman Phase

|Paul of Tarsus |Republic |

|Po River |Tiber River |

|senate |consuls |

|patricians |plebeians |

|tribunes |dictator |

|Gaul |Celtics |

|Carthage |Punic Wars |

|latifundium/-ia |Julius Caesar |

|Octavian Augustus |Marc Antony |

|Cleopatra |pax romana |

|mare nostrum |Colosseum |

|pater familias |bread and circuses |

| From Chapter 12 | |

|Jesus of Nazareth | |

|Diocletian |Constantine |

|Constantinople |Visigoths |

|western and eastern Roman empires |Huns |

|Attila |476 C.E. |

|St. Augustine (Ch 12) |Bishop of Rome (Ch 12) |

Cross-Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads

|Han Wudi |Bactria |

|monsoon winds |Chang’an |

|Kush |Hindu Kush Mountains. |

|Himalaya Mountains |Madagascar |

|Taklamakan Desert |Kashgar |

|Taxila |Caspian Sea |

|Persian Gulf |Palmyra |

|Arabia |Antioch |

|Tyre |Arabian Sea |

|Red Sea |Damascus |

|South China Sea |Guangzhou |

|Ceylon |Pondicherry |

|missionaries |epidemics |

|Merv |Bukhara |

|Samarkand |Khotan |

|Dunhuang |Parthia |

|expatriate merchants |Java |

|Sumatra |Nestorians |

|Manicheaism |syncretic/syncretism |

|bubonic plague |smallpox |

|Diocletian |Constantine |

|Constantinople |Visigoths |

|Huns |Attila |

|Bishop of Rome |western and eastern Roman empires |

|476 C.E. |St. Augustine |

|From Chapters 16 and 19 | |

|Ghana |Java |

|Korea |Japan |

|Cairo |Timbuktu |

|Niger River |Senegal River |

|Sofala, Kilwa, Malindi, Axum, Mogadishu |Sahara Desert |

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