World Civ 2026 Study Guide

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the World Civ 2026 lecture notes.

Ibn Battuta

World's greatest traveler.

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

Historical figure from Turkmenistan after whom the algorithm is named.

Edward Said and Orientalism

Occurs when one country thinks they are superior to other countries and the other countries are exotic.

The West

Ideas and cultural practices like freedom of speech being determined western.

Hegemony / Hegemonic ideas

Common belief or common knowledge, such as the American dream being hegemonic in the 1990's.

Languages spoken in Turkey and in Iran

Turkish and Purshan or farsi.

Foucault on knowledge

The concept that knowledge goes with Power.

Hammurabi and the Codes of Hammurabi

Established a patriotic society and laws that established social status and gender.

Ancient civilizations Bureaucracy

Bureaucracies were established where people had certain things in common and identified differently.

Snake Charmer

Made a young boy seem to be acceptable to be naked in the street.

Polis / city states

Entities that are like countries, have autonics, and have small populations.

Sparta

Military city where knowledge was downsized, like philosophy or independent thought.

Socrates

Teacher of Plato who believed in an argumentative teaching style to make you think thoroughly and believed that teaching should be for self improving or the Socratic method; he was assassinated for corrupting the youth.

Plato

Wrote the republic and believed that power can't be rich and those who have can rule.

Localization

How people do things in different countries, like pizza and ice coffee.