Humanities Fall '24 Exam

Poetic devices:

alliteration

allusion

assonance

hyperbole

imagery

metaphor

onomatopoeia

parallel structure (parallelism)

paradox

personification

repetition

rhyme

simile

Other literary terms:

mood

inference

theme

tone

Terms related to epics and drama:

chorus

deity

epic hero (and characteristics)

epic poetry

epithet

Homeric/epic simile

hubris

muse

tragedy (review characteristics):

Tragic Hero

Harmartia

Catharsis

Hubris

Anagnorsis

Chorus

II. World History

Identify the following characteristics for the states below. 

• historical background (founders)

• general geographic features

• political organization

• major religious and philosophical ideas

• major artistic and intellectual ideas

• social structures (classes, position of women, & gender roles)

• reasons for decline & collapse (especially classical)

East Asia

Chinese dynasties: Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han

European

Byzantine Empire, Medieval Western Europe; Feudalism, End of the Middle Ages

South Asia

Mohenjo Daro, Harappa

Maurya, Gupta India, Delhi Sultanate

Middle East

Mesopotamia

Egypt

Persia

Umayyad, Abbasid Caliphates

Mediterranean

Greek city-states: Athens, Sparta

Alexander the Great’s empire

Roman Republic, Empire

Africa

West African kingdoms: Mali, Ghana, Songhai

East African kingdoms: Axum, Zimbabwe

Mesoamerican - Olmec

Importance of trade including the role of the Silk Road, Indian Ocean, and Trans-  Saharan trade routes and connections between societies.  

Be able to compare religions and regions during the Classical period.  Summarize the Classical and Post Classical time periods.

Terms to know:

Neolithic Revolution

Bantu

Black Death

Hammurabi

Hebrews

Monotheism

Cuneiform 

Shi Huangdi

Mandate of Heaven

Chinese dynastic cycle

Confucianism

Crusades

Legalism

Daoism

Ancestor worship

Hinduism

Hundred Years War Caste system

Siddhartha Gautama

Buddhism

Ashoka

democracy

Augustus Caesar

Romanization

Jesus

Justinian

Christianity

Muhammad

Islam

Sunni

Shi’ite

Sufi 

cultural borrowing

III. Humanities

Architecture/Art/ Music

Buddhist Statues (compare)

Buddhist Stupas

Byzantine and  Islamic Mosaics

Cave Paintings

Comparison of Mosques

Discus Thrower

Dome

Early Southeast Asian Art

Egyptian Pyramids

Grand Mosque at Mecca

Great Wall of China

Great Zimbabwe

Gregorian Chants

Hagia Sophia

Hindu Temples

Islamic Calligraphy

Islamic call to prayer

Minaret

Mosque

Olmec Heads

Parthenon

Pillars of Ashoka

Roman Architecture

Terracotta Soldiers

Ziggurat

Drama/Literature:

Catharsis

Chorus

Iliad

Tragedy (characteristics)

Epic (characteristics)

Gilgamesh

Oedipus

Rumi poetry

Philosophy and Religion (main beliefs, holy cities, similarities, differences):

Aristotle

Buddhism

Christianity

Confucianism

Daoism

Hinduism

Islam

Judaism 

Legalism

Plato

Socrates

Zoroastrianism

Civilizations: (For each: description of humanities, types of art, purposes of art, what was borrowed by other civilizations)

Mesopotamia (Sumeria, Babylon)

Byzantine

Egyptian

Chinese

Greek

Middle Ages Europe

Persian

Roman

Islamic