UNIT 1
Sumerians
Akkadians
Sargon
Babylon
Hammurabi
**cuneiform and
hieroglyphics
Gilgamesh
**Egyptian myths
Great Pyramid
Mummies
Great Sphinx
Hyksos
Hatshupset
Thutmose III
Akhenaton
Tutankhamen
Ramses II
Cleopatra
another Pharoah
Hittites
Phoenicians
King David
King Solomon
**Old Testament
character
Torah and Judaism
Philistines
Assyrians
Persians
Nebuchadnezzar
Cyrus
Darius I
Artaxerxes
Zoroaster
Buddha
**an ancient
Chinese dynasty
Kong-fu-zi
(Confucius)
Great Wall of China
UNIT 2
Mauryan Dynasty
Minoans
Greek religion and
temples
Heinrich Schliemann
The Trojan War
phalanx and warfare
Battle of
Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Xerxes I
Battle of Marathon
Peloponnesian War
**Oracles, divination
Philip II
Alexander the Great
Darius III
Battle of Gaugamela
Etruscans
Romulus and Remus
The Punic Wars
Battle of Cannae
Triremes and ships
Hannibal Barca
Spartacus
Julius Caesar
Caesar Augustus
Caligula
The Roman Coliseum
A Roman Emperor
Paul of Tarsus
**New Testament
character
Jewish Civil War and
the siege of Masada
Diocletian
Constantine
a pre-Columbian
civilization
Machu Picchu
UNIT 3
Bedouins
Muhammad
Five Pillars of Islam
The Mosque of the
Dome of the Rock
Mosque design and
purposes
Umayyads
Abbasids
**Sunni vs. Shia
division within Islam
Seljuk Turks
Abbasid Dynasty
Mongol Dynasty
Qu’ran/Koran
Great Zimbabwe
King Ezana
Mansa Musa
Muhammad Ture
**an ancient
Chinese dynasty
Mongol Empire
Marco Polo
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Shintoism
Daoism
Confucianism
**an ancient
Japanese “period”
Minamoto Yoritomo
Shogun/daimyo
Haiku (poetry)
Medieval Japanese
painting styles
Timur Lenk
Jayavarman
Ancient Indian
temples
Angkor Wat
UNIT 4
Clovis
Saint Benedict
Charles Martel
Pepin
Charlemagne
Magyars
Vikings
knights and Code of
Chivalry
jousting
Eleanor of Aquitaine
William the
Conqueror
Battle of Hastings
Philip II (of Spain)
Justinian
Constantinople
Seljuk Turks
one of the many
Crusades
Knights Templar
Saladin
Richard Lion Heart
Pope Innocent III
**Magna Carta
Pope Gregory VII
Saint Francis of
Assissi
the Inquisition
Thomas Aquinas
The Great Schism
John Hus
The 100 Years War
Battle of Crécy
Battle of Agincourt
Joan of Arc
Isabella and
Ferdinand
Bayeaux Tapestry
Gothic church
construction
UNIT 5
Black Death and
plagues
Leonardo da Vinci
Machiavelli
Johannes
Guttenburg
Dante
Chaucer
Michelangelo
Albrecht Dürer
Martin Luther
Erasmus
Thomas Müntzer
Huldrych Zwingli
Jean/John Calvin
Henry VIII
Anabaptists
Council of Trent
an explorer from
chapter 16
**Middle Passage
and slave trade
Sultan Selim I
Süleyman I
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Dynasty
Taj Mahal, design
and purposes
Zheng He
**an ancient
Chinese dynasty
**ancient Tai-chi
The Forbidden City
(Bejing, China)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Matsuo Basho
Kabuki theatre
Samurai and the
Bushido Code
Zen Buddhism
Ho Chi Minh
Chiang Kai-shek
Philip II (of Spain) The Crimean War
assassination of
Archduke Ferdinand Mao Zedong
Elizabeth I
Czar Alexander II
The Long March
Kaiser William/
The Spanish Armada Louis Pasteur
The Good Neighbor
Wilhelm II
Thirty Years War
Beethoven
Policy
James I
Realism (art form) Czar Nicholas II
von Schlieffen Plan Appeasement
Charles I
Charles Dickens
Lawrence of Arabia Anschlüss of Austria
Oliver Cromwell
Charles Darwin
Blitzkrieg military
Puritans and beliefs Thomas Alva Edison trench warfare
tactics
Cardinal Richelieu
Guglielmo Marconi World War I battle President F.D.R.
Lusitania (ship)
Louis XIV
Friedrich Engels
World War II battle
Czar Ivan IV
Emmeline Pankhurst Grigory Rasputin
Alexander Kerensky Douglas MacArthur
Peter the Great
Socialism
Winston Churchill
Vladimir I. Lenin
baroque (art form) Karl Marx
invention and use of
Leon Trotsky
Shakespeare
Andrew Carnegie
the Atomic bombs
von Ludendorff
Copernicus
Henry Ford
Holocaust
“14 Points” and
Galileo Galilei
Samuel Morse
Albert Speer
their impact
Issac Newton
Otto von Bismarck
Kamikazes
post-War reparations
René Descartes
Feminism -- as a
Hideki Tojo
Treaty of Versailles
political
movement
John Locke
evaluating the
League of Nations
Clara
Barton
Voltaire
historical accuracy of
Armenian Massacre
Queen
Liliuokalani
a specific movie
Denis Diderot
Treaty
of
Locarno
Albert Einstein
Nuremberg War
Rousseau
Great
Depression
Trials
Sigmund Freud
John Wesley
Weimar
Republic
Zionism
Bach (several)
UNIT 9
Frederick the Great Symbolism (art form) John Maynard
Keynes
Catherine the Great Impressionism (art
The Cold War
The New Deal
form)
Seven Years War
United Nations
Fascism
Pablo
Picasso
Robert Walpole
The “Iron Curtain”
Benito Mussolini
Frank
Lloyd
Wright
speech and impact
**Articles of
Josef Stalin
King
Mongkut
The Marshall Plan
Confederation
Francisco Franco
Suez
Canal
Alexandre Dumas
The Berlin Air Lift
Spanish Civil War
The
Boer
War
Louis XVI
NATO and the
Adolf Hitler
Queen
Victoria
Warsaw Pact
Versailles Palace
Heinrich
Himmler
Nikita Khrushev
Mohandas Gandhi
Storming of the
Kristallnacht
José de San Martín
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bastille
Nüremburg
Laws
Robespierre
Simón Bolívar
Josip Tito
Surrealism
(art
form)
guillotine
The Monroe Doctrine
Charles de Gaulle
Kemal
Atatürk
Napoleon Bonaparte Panama Canal
Martin Luther King
Reza
Shah
Pahlavi
Jr. and idea of civil
Duke Wellington
Opium War
Balfour
Declaration
disobedience
Battle of Waterloo The Boxer Rebellion
Malcolm X
W.E.B. Dubois
Congress of Vienna Sun Yat-sen
Leonid Brezhnev
**American Bill of Russo-Japanese War Marcus Garvey
Mikhail Gorbachev
Rights
UNIT 6
UNIT 7
UNIT 8
Boris Yeltzin
Vladimir Putin
Lech Walesa
Willy Brandt
Margaret Thatcher
Richard Nixon
Watergate
Pierre Trudeau
Pop Art
1972 Olympic
Hostage Crisis
Fidel Castro
The Falklands War
Salvadore Allende
Augusto Pinochet
apartheid policy
Desmond Tutu
Suez War of 1956
Six Day War of 1967
Gamel Abdel Nassar
Yasir Arafat
Anwar el-Sadat
Ayatollah Khomeini
Saddam Hussein
Persian Gulf War
Deng Xiaoping
The Korean War
Greenhouse Effect
Chernobyl Disaster
The Space Race
Global Warming
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