Units 1-2 World History

  • Culture vocabulary:

  • surface versus internal;

  • universals vs. cultural specifics vs. personals;

  • collectivism vs. individualism;

    Our two culture stories that showed the ethnocentrism and culture shock of the outsider


  • Three eras of human history, proto globalization, hoe, status hierarchies; be able to convert dates between YA, BP to CE or BCE etc; be able to describe significant achievements of the eras


  • Religions:

  • Hinduism,

  • Buddhism,

  • Confucianism,

  • Daoism,

  • Judaism,

  • Christianity,

  • Islam -

  • Be familiar with all relevant vocabulary from our slideshow ; know the significance of the Axial Age; video on the spread of religions around the world - know the general patterns


  • Israel/Palestine/Jerusalem - be able to explain the creation of Israel and the war of 1948;

  • Sykes-Picot and the Balfour Agreement,

  • refugee camp,

  • occupied territories,

  • checkpoint,

  • land deeds - Make sure you view the entire Promises documentary.

  • Map of Southwest Asia and North Africa*


  • Silk Road trade network, Timbuktu trade network


  • Splits in three western religions


  • Jerusalem, The Crusades, Mansa Musa's Hajj and the Hajj in general, pilgrimage


  • the Mongols, Black Death


  • the Ming and the Vikings - water trade routes


  • globalization; homogenous/heterogenous; Chanda's four motives


  • Dates to think about:

  • 250,000 YA, 12,000 YA, c. 550 BCE, 0 CE, 1750 CE

    • 70 CE destruction of Temple in Jerusalem

    • 313 CE Christianity becomes official religion in Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire

    • 632 CE Muhammad dies - split of Islam into two sects

    •  c. 1000 Crusades; Catholic and Orthodox Great Schism; Vikings reach N. America

    • c. 1220 Genghis Khan dies - four Khanates begin

      • Marco Polo, Mansa Musa lived between these two events

    • c. 1350 Black Death

    • 1433 Ming dismantle fleet

    • 1492 CE Columbus comes to the Americas

    • 1918 World War I ends - ending Ottoman Empire

    • 1948 CE Israel becomes a nation; 2012 UN admits Palestine as nonmember observer state