History 151: World Civilizations I
Instructor: Colette Higgins

Study Guide: Unit Two

Lectures: A Polycentric World (China, Americas, Africa), Early Empires, Greece, Greece: From City-States to Empire

After completing the assigned readings and attending the lectures listed above, you should be able to:

describe:
1. the order of Chinese dynasties & cultural advancements of each (Xia, Shang, Zhou) (90-97).
2. the Mesoamerican urbanization of the Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations (98-107).
3. the South American urbanization of the Moche, Chimu, Chavin, Tiwanaku, Huari, Nazca, and Inca (106-110).
4. the characteristics of the Akkadian, Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian empires (127-139).
5. the influence of geography on Greek history and the characteristics of a polis (141, 143 + notes).
6. the order of the different time periods in Greek history and significant achievements of each (notes).
7. the Greek artistic and intellectual pursuits (i.e. architecture, drama, history, and philosophy) (148-150).
8. how women were treated in ancient Greece (150-151 + handout).

know the importance of:
Sima Qian (92)
Yangshao & Longshan (89-90)
Ban Po (36-39, 89)
Quetzalcoatl (101 + notes)
human sacrifice in the Americas (103, 106, 108)
Nok (112, 114), Bantu (112-113)
Jenne-jeno (113-114)
empires (125-126)
Cyrus II, Cambyses II, Darius I (136-139)
Zoroaster, Ahurmazda & Ahriman (139)
Minoans & Mycenaeans (139-141 + notes)
Homer's Iliad & Odyssey (142)
Olympic Games (143 + notes)
Battle of Marathon (146)
Persian Wars (146-147)
Peloponnesian War (147, 148, 153)
Solon, Peisistratus, Cleisthenes (143-145)
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes (150)
Herodotus & Thucydides (148)
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (149, 150-152)
Philip II of Macedonia (154-155)
Alexander the Great (155-157)

define:
oracle bones (91-92)
chinampas (98, 100), milpa (notes), chunu (notes)
“navel of the universe” (101)
quipu (110, 394), mit'a (110)
zimbabwes (111)
"master narrative" (115-116)
two forms of empire: hegemony & dominance (126)
Indo-Europeans (134)
satrapy (135)
agora & acropolis (143, 148)
monarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy (notes)
democracy (143 + notes)
helots (notes)
hoplites (146)
deme (144)
ostracism (notes)
Delian League (147, 152)
Parthenon, Propylaea, Erechteum (148)
ecumene (158)
Greek loves: eros, agape, philia (handout)
pornae, auletrides, hetaerae (handout)

locate on a map & know the importance of:
Zhengzhou & Anyang (91, 95)
Teotihuacan (99, 101-102)
San Lorenzo & La Venta (100)
Monte Alban (100)
Tenochtitlan & Lake Texcoco (99, 103)
Yucatan (99, 103, 105)
Andes mountains (99, 109)
Lake Titicaca (99, 109)
Jenne-jenno (113)
Nubia (130)
greatest extent of the Persian Empire (135)
Royal Road (135, 138)
Balkan mountains (notes)
Aegean Sea (152)
Knossos on Crete (152, 139-140)
Sparta & Athens (152, 153)
Salamis & Plataea (146, 152)