World History I

Final Exam
Thursday, June 18th
8 AM

All blocks will take their World History final on Thursday, June 18th at 8 am. Room assignments have
not yet been posted, but please stay tuned for that information.

Your final will consist of multiple choice and open response questions. ALL UNIT MATERIAL from
this year will be covered. You will have 90 minutes to complete the test.

This test counts for 40 % of your final exam grade. The rest of the grade is determined by your
Freshman Research Project. You will receive your graded FRP after final exams.

Please review ALL class notes, homework, handouts, and readings. Remember: this handout is just a
guide for studying. If you are looking for specfic terms to review, check out your old study guides.

Essential questions
• How do trade networks allow ideas, goods, and people to spread?
• How do technological and intellectual innovations help people to solve problems and create
new ones?
• How do people’s ideas help them understand, question, and represent the universe?
• In what ways do leaders positively and negatively affect society?

Units of Study and objectives

South Asia
• Explain the origins, beliefs, and development of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism
• Compare the accomplishments, challenges, and leadership styles of rulers during the Mauryan
and Gupta Empires
• Describe the achievements in Indian literature, art, science, and math

China
• Define dynastic cycle, mandate of heaven, and bureaucracy
• Examine the role of Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism in government and society
• Analyze the ways the Silk Road allowed ideas, goods, and people to spread
• Evaluate how innovations of the Tang and Song dynasty influenced China and the rest of the
world
• Analyze the role of the Mongols in world history

E. & S.E Asia

• Explain how ideas from China were adapted and adopted in E. & S.E Asia
• Explain the Japanese feudal system, court life, and the role of the samurai

Rome & Byzantine Empire

• Compare and contrast the Roman republic to the Roman Empire
• Analyze the ways Pax Romana allowed ideas, goods, and people to spread
• Explain the origins, beliefs, and development of Judaism and Christianity
 • Compare they ways the Roman Empire affected Judaism and Christianity
• Evaluate the key factors that led to the fall of the Roman Empire
• Compare the Byzantine and Roman Empires
• Define republic, empire, civic virtue, Pax Romana, absolute ruler, Diaspora

Islamic Empires
• Identify several ways in which Islam is rooted in Judaism/Christianity
• Explain how Muhammad unified the Arabian Peninsula under Islam
• Describe 5 Pillars of Islam and the development of Islam (spread of)
• Identify and compare the major caliphates
• Explain how caliphates led to religious movements – Sunni/Shi’a
• Explain the ways Islam encouraged trade and accomplishments
• Identify examples of scientific, artistic and intellectual accomplishments of people in the Islamic
Empires
• Define: caliph, Sunni, Shi’a, House of Wisdom

Africa
• Explain how trade led to the rise of Aksum, West African Empires, Swahili Coast and Great
Zimbabwe
• Examine the role of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa
• Summarize the cause and effect of human migration, specifically the Bantu migration
• Explain the role of monsoon winds on East Coast African trading cities in the development of
the Swahili Coast
• Explain how the Indian Ocean sea trade connected the East and West
Middle Ages
• Explain how feudalism established order and manors established self-sufficient communities
• Describe the relationships and obligations of the feudal system
• Describe the difference between the lives of monks, common people, nobles, knights, and
townspeople
• Analyze the role of the Church throughout the Middle Ages
• Evaluate the impact of technological advancements in the Middle Ages
• Explain the cause and effects of the crusades
• Examine the ways Europe changed because of the Bubonic Plague, Hundred Years War, and
the Great Schism

Renaissance and Reformation

• Explain the ideas of the Renaissance
• Identify the ways art reveals the ways art expressed Renaissance ideas
• Explain the cause and effects of the Reformation

Mapping
Be able to identify the following cities:
• Xi’an • Jerusalem
• Rome • Mecca
• Constantinople
• Baghdad
• Timbuktu
• Alexandria • Cordoba
 • Islamic Empires
Be able to identify the following empires: • West African Empires
• Gupta Empire • Swahili Coast
• Han Dynasty • Byzantine Empire
• Roman Empire