2. What is the significance of the Paleolithic era in world history?
Hunters and Gathers

5. What was revolutionary about the Neolithic Revolution?
What different kinds of societies emerged out of the Neolithic Revolution?
Was the Neolithic Revolution inevitable? Why did it occur so l

7. What distinguished civilizations from other human societies?
In the development of the First Civilizations, what was gained for humankind, and what was lost?
Hammurabi’s Code
Patriarchy
Cuneiform

8. Greek Empire

9. Roman Empire

10. Persian Empire

11. Classical China

12. Classical India

13. What common features do Classical Chinese Civilizations and Classical Indian Civilizations share?
What different features do Classical Chinese Civilizations and Classical Indian Civilizations have?

14. Qin Shihuangdi
Han dynasty
Ashoka
Mauryan dynasty
Gupta dynasty
Alexander the Great
pax Romana

15. The Spread of Early Christianity and Buddhism

16. “Religion is a double-edge sword, both supporting and undermining political authority and social elites.” How would you support both sides of this statement?

17. Classical Africa

18. Bantu Migration

19. Map Silk Roads

20. Map Sea Roads

21. Map Sand Roads

22. What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads and Sand Roads?
In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes?

23. Map Post Classical China

24. The World of Asian Buddhism

25. In what ways did the Tang and Son resemble the classical Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?
How did China influence East Asia from 600C.E. to 1450?
Tribute system
Song dynasty economic revolution
Bushido
Silla dynasty

26. The Byzantine Empire

27. Europe in the High Middle Ages

28. The Crusades

29. How did the histories of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe differ from 600C.E. to 1450?
Constaninople
Eastern Orthodox
Kievan Rus
Charlemagne
Crusades

30. Spread of Islam

31. The Growing World of Islam (900-1500)

32. What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history form the early history of Christianity and Buddhism?
How led to the immense religious and political/military success of Islam in its early centuries?

33. Quran
Pillars of Islam
Umma
Haji
Ibn Battuta
Mecca
Timbuktu
Baghdad
Sharia
sufis

34. The Mongol Empire

35. Trade and Disease in the Fourteenth Century

36. Prior to the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
In what ways did the Mongol empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ form them? Why did it last a relatively short time?

37. Turks
Chinggis Khan
Yuan dynasty
Khubilai Khan
Golden Horde
Black Death/plague

38. The Americas in the Fifteenth Century

39. Toltec culture
Maya Empire
Aztec Empire
Inca Empire
calpulli
Tribute system
chinampas
Mesoamerica
Teotihuacan
 Andean Highlands