The test will primarily be multiple choice questions (50-60) based on the study terms, using the textbook, primary sources, and lectures as sources. Additionally, there will be an essay question for each test based on the primary source readings.
Test 1 (9/28)
Pre-test Assignment (1 multiple choice question per term) due Midnight, Sunday (9/25)
Chapter 1 bronze cities domestication Neolithic Revolution pastoralism tools |
Chapter 2 animism Babylonia pharaoh monotheism literacy Epic of Gilgamesh Hammurabi’s Code Instructions of Ptah-Hotep |
Chapter 3 Aryan Harappa & Mohenjo Daro Mandate of Heaven Shang varnas Vedas |
Chapter 4 Confucius Daoism eunuchs The Great Learning Han dynasty iron Legalism Qin dynasty |
Chapter 5 Alexander the Great Athens drama Peloponnesian War philosophy Royal Road Thucydides, Funeral Oration of Pericles Thucydides, Melian Dialogue Zoroastrianism |
Essay Question: The Melian Dialogue and Funeral Oration are both critical sources in our understanding of Athens. What values does each portray Athens as having, and are they in conflict? |
Test 2 (11/2)
Pre-test Assignment (1 multiple choice question per term) due Midnight, Sunday (10/30)
Chapter 6 Buddha’s First Sermon Chandragupta Maurya dharma Emperor Ashoka Gupta Empire karma Upanishads Vow of the Bodhisattva |
Chapter 7 Augustus Caesar Carthage Cicero Colosseum Gospels Jesus of Nazareth mystery religions plebians |
Chapter 9 Axum Bantu Germans Ghana Maori pastoral nomads Polynesians taboo Yamato |
Chapter 10 Attila the Hun Constantine heresy |
Chapter 11 Abbasids dhimmi Five Pillars jihad Muhammad Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat Qur’an Shi’a Sunni Surahs 1 and 2 Thousand And One Nights Umayyads |
Chapter 12 Bhakti Crusades Delhi Sultanate dhows Harun al-Rashid Seljuk Turks Sufi |
Essay Question: Compare and contrast the role of women in Babylonian society (Code of Hammurabi) with the role of women as depicted in the Qur’an (Surah 2). “Better” or “worse” isn’t the question: how are they different or similar? |
Test 3 (noon: 12/14; 2pm: 12/12)
Pre-test Assignment (1 multiple choice question per term) due Midnight, Thursday (12/8)
Chap. 13 Ethiopia Mansa Musa slave trade stateless society Sundiata Swahili |
Chap. 14 Crusades Cyril icons Justinian Kievan Rus’ schism |
Chap. 15 Charlemagne chivalry Guilds Magna Carta Manorialism serfs Thomas Aquinas vassals |
Chaps. 8 and 16 Anasazi Aztecs Cahokia Incas maize Maya Olmec Toltec |
Chap. 17 bureaucracy flying money footbinding Grand Canal gunpowder junks Neo-Confucianism Sui dynasty Yang Guifei |
Chap. 18 samurai Shoguns Shotoku’s 17 Article Constitution Silla Sinification Tale of Genji Trinh and Nguyen |
Chap 19 Chinggis Khan Khanates Kubilai Khan Timur-i-lang |
Chap 20 Black Death Ottoman Empire Renaissance Vasco de Gama Zheng He |
Essay Question: Based on the Magna Carta explain the relationship between citizens and the government in 13th century England. What authority does the King have and what rights to individuals have? |