Global/Balantic



Global Name __________________

Review -- Global Events

|Cause(s) |Event/Description |Effect(s) |

| |Neolithic Revolution | |

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| |Growth of Civilizations | |

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| |Fall of Rome | |

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| |Crusades | |

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| |Renaissance/Reformation | |

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| |Mongol Invasions | |

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| |“Discovery of the ‘New’ World” | |

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Global History I Name ___________

Date ____________

Geography

Essential Question: To what extent is Geography destiny? How has it shaped the history and culture of specific regions?

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Global History I Name ___________

Date ____________

Religion/Philosophy

Essential Questions: Does religion unite or divide people?

How does art and architecture reflect the values of a particular civilization?

How do different civilizations maintain, achieve, and restore order?

|Religion/ |Basic Beliefs/ |Impact on Historical, Political, Economic, Social Life |Where Practiced |

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Global History I –Final Review

Essential Questions

Below is a working list of Essential Questions that have helped to frame our study of Global History. These questions can be answered based on what you have learned throughout the year.

1. What are the major turning points in Global History? Why should they be considered turning points?

2. To what extent has geography shaped history and culture?

3. How have religion/philosophy influenced political and social developments?

4. How have societies attempted to achieve and maintain order?

5. To what extent do art and architecture reflect the values of society?

6. How do societies deal with scarcity?

7. How did individuals shape history? To what extent did they reflect their societies?

8. Has contact between cultures resulted in more positive or negative change?

Focus Questions for Each Unit

The Work of Historians/Global Origins

❑ What tools do historians use to learn about and interpret the past?

❑ How did geography affect the culture of nomadic societies?

❑ How did nomadic societies create and maintain order?

❑ What distinguishes the Old Stone Age from the New Stone Age?

❑ In what ways was the Neolithic Revolution a turning point?

Ancient Civilizations

❑ How did the Neolithic Revolution lead to the rise of interdependent cities and early civilizations?

❑ How did geography contribute to the settlement of ancient civilizations?

❑ How did new technologies (farming and domestication of animals) address issues of scarcity?

❑ How did early religions help create and maintain order?

❑ In what ways were the arts of ancient civilizations mirrors of those societies?

Classical Civilizations

❑ How did classical civilizations create and maintain order?

❑ What enabled early empires to obtain and maintain power?

❑ What caused the rise and fall of classical civilizations?

❑ What trading routes led to interdependence between the various classical civilizations?

❑ How did individuals such as Confucius, Lao Tzu, Ashoka, Socrates, etc. shape classical civilizations? To what extent did they reflect their societies?

❑ In what ways were the arts of classical civilizations mirrors of those societies?

Era of Regional Civilizations

❑ Why did the Rome fall?

❑ How did the political, economic, and social structures of feudalism create and maintain order?

❑ How did the political, economic, and social structures of feudalism address scarcity?

❑ What defines a Golden Age?

❑ To what extent do civilizations follow a pattern that includes a rise, a Golden Age, and a period of decline?

❑ How did Byzantium’s geography shape its destiny?

❑ How did Russia change as a result of its contact with Byzantium?

❑ How did the ideas of Eastern Orthodox Christianity reflect, and differ from, Roman Catholicism? How did conflict between Eastern

Interregional Contacts

❑ To what extent were the Crusades a turning point in history?

❑ What role(s) did individuals such as Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta play in connecting regional civilizations?

❑ How did geography contribute to, and ultimately limit, Mongol conquests and domination?

❑ How did the Mongols create and maintain a Eurasian empire?

❑ How did Mongol culture reflect and adapt to the surrounding cultures?

❑ To what extent did Mongol political and military leaders shape the lands they conquered? To what extent were they shaped by those lands?

The (Re)Surgence Of The West

❑ How did geography contribute to the political, economic, social, and intellectual rebirth of Europe (the Renaissance)?

❑ Why did capitalism emerge?

❑ How did Renaissance art, science, and literature reflect the political, economic, and social changes of the time?

❑ What changes resulted from the Renaissance?

❑ How did a lack of order contribute to the Reformation?

❑ What technological factors contribute to the Reformation?

❑ To what extent was Martin Luther “responsible” for the Reformation?

❑ In what ways did the Reformation reflect, and change, European society?

❑ How did Machiavelli’s ideas support absolute power?

❑ Why did the Age of Exploration begin in the 15th century? To what extent was it a turning point in history?

❑ What ideas and values of Renaissance Europe contributed to exploration and conquest?

❑ To what extent was Columbus a reflection of his society? What changes did his exploits introduce?

❑ What ideas and values of traditional China contributed to the cessation of exploration?

❑ How did geography affect the development of the Olmecs, Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs?

❑ How did the Incas and Aztecs create and maintain order prior to European arrival?

❑ What geographic, political, economic, social, and technological factors enabled European conquistadores to dominate Latin American civilizations?

❑ What were the positive and negative effects of European and American interdependence in the Columbian exchange?

People & Power

❑ How did absolute monarchs obtain and maintain their power?

❑ How were absolute monarchs both a reflection of, and sources of change in, European states/nations?

❑ In what ways were absolute rulers similar to/different from dynastic rulers and totalitarian dictators in their justifications, tools, methodology, and impact?

❑ To what extent was absolutism destined to be a source of conflict?

❑ How and why did a limited monarchy emerge in England?

Global II -

Middle East - Review

Paleolithic

Neolithic

Neolithic Revolution (causes/effects)

Geography - impact on history, economics, culture etc.

Location - crossroads

resources

scarcity of water

population distribution

Civilization – characteristics

Organized religion

Gov’t

Specialized jobs

Etc.

Patterns of civilizations

Fertile crescent

"cradle of civilization"

Mesopotamia, Sumer, etc., Egypt (in Africa)

How did the rivers shape each civilizations (remember the nature of the rivers is very different)

Babylon

Hammurabi’s Code

Three monotheistic religions (Use the overall religion sheet to review religions)

Judaism

Jewish Diaspora

Zionism

Christianity

Spread of Christianity

Jesus

Islam

5 Pillars

Koran (Quran)

Muhammad

Role of women

Golden age of Islam (700s and 800s)

Area covered

Reasons for spread of Islam

Preservation of Greek and Roman culture

Art

Science

Trade

Sunni

Shiites

Crusades

Causes

Effects

Ottoman Empire defeat of Byzantine Empire in 1453

Suleiman

Global Studies –

China – Review Sheet

Physical features – impact

Rivers

Mountains

Deserts

Population distribution

Middle Kingdom

China’s relationships with other nations

Ethnocentrism

Dynastic cycle

Mandate of Heaven

Disunity

Dynasties – be able to speak specifically about a few (you choose which ones) Date will help you connect them to other places – what else is going on in the world at that time?

Yellow River Valley

Shang dynasty

Writing

Oracle bones

Zhou

Daoism

Legalism

Confucianism

Five relationships

Impact on society

Group over individual

Impact on government

Basic beliefs

Traditional China- hierarchy

Role of Women

Qin

Shi Huangdi -- Great Wall, Terra Cotta Soldiers

Han (similarities to Rome?)

Civil service exams

Bureaucracy

Empire

Reasons for fall

T'ang

Song

Mongols - Yuan Dynasty – impact (in China and in other areas – Eastern Europe (Russia), India)

Expansion - Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan

Effects of Mongol rule throughout Eurasia

Pax Mongolica

Silk Road

Black Plague

Causes/ Effects

Buddhism

Ming Dynasty

Traders – Zheng He

Japan

Geographic features

What impact have they had on the historical, political, economic or cultural development o f Japan?

Scarcity of resources

Mountains

Islands

Location

Selective borrowing

explain and give examples

Shintoism

Buddhism

Confucianism

Heian period

Feudalism (compared to European feudalism) – 1185-1600

Hierarchy

Daimyo

Samurai

Zen Buddhism

Bushido

Tokugawa Period – 1600-1853

characteristics

developments

role of samurai?

Global Studies/Africa Review

Geography

How have specific features influenced the historical, cultural, economic development of Africa?

Sahel

Sahara

Rivers

Great Rift Valley

“dark continent”

Achievements/contribution of…

West African civilizations

Ghana

Mali

Mansa Musa

Songhai

East African civilizations

Axum

Kush

Ancestor worship

Animism

Masks

Dances

Art

Islam

Christianity

Oral history – griot

Extended families – why?

Timeline of African history

Slave trade – when?

Causes

Effects

Triangular trade

Global Review/Latin America

Geography and its impact on history, culture, economy, etc.

Size

Landforms

Regionalism

4 regions

pampas

resources

Pre-Columbian

Early civilizations and contributions of each

• Olmecs

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

• Taino

Reasons for decline of civilizations

Age of Exploration

Causes

Effects

Conquistadors – Spanish and Portuguese influence - role of the conquistador

Pizarro

Cortes

Bartolome de Las Casas

Sepulveda

Colonialism/Imperialism –

Who? When? Where? Why? How?

Slave trade – Think about it in a ‘global’ sense

Who? When? Where? Why? How?

Columbian Exchange

Fusion of cultures – explanation and examples of it

Mercantilism

Encomienda system

Social hierarchy

Peninsulares

Creoles

Mestizos

Mulattoes

Slaves

Role of the church

Missionaries

Global Studies –

South Asia Review Sheet (India)

Geographic features and their impact

Monsoons

Himalayas

Nations of South Asia

Indus Valley civilization

Harappan civilization

Aryan invasions – impact?

Accomplishments/contributions of each civilization

(Dates will help you connect them to other places)

Maurya - Asoka

Gupta - Chandragupta

Mogul (Mughal) - Akbar

Hinduism - basic beliefs and practices and how they influence the lives of people who practice the religion.

Polytheism

Ramayana

Dharma

Karma

Reincarnation

Wheel of Life

Caste system

Varna

Mobility

connection to reincarnation

Untouchables

Buddhism

4 Noble Truths

Noble Eightfold Path

Islam

Conflict

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