Word List – Dr. Kenneth Wilburn
Human Origins and Pre-History: Baobab; homocentricity; homocentric; Richard Rive; Cape Coloured;
Afrocentrism; Eurocentrism; Sinocentrism; Global African; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Philosophy of
History; Hugh Trevor-Roper; Aristotle; Plato; Egypt; Ethiopia; Hebrews; trans-Saharan; dependent
correlation value system; Griots; Keita: Heritage of the Griot; Mabo; Djileba; Afro-Asiatic (240); NiloSaharan (100); Niger-Congo (1600, including “Bantu” family of languages); Khoisan (50, Khoi-Khoi [KhoeKhoe] and the San); chattel slavery; Middle Passage; Berlin Conference (1884-1885); Ottomans; physical
anthropologists; paleoanthropologists; microbiologists; primatologists; BCE (before the common era) CE (in the common era); fossils; Middle Stone Age (10,000 – 6,000 BCE); Caliphates; Ummayids;
Abbasids; Ghana; Mali; Songhai (Songhay); Great Zimbabwe; millennia; Old Stone Age (1.8 million –
10,000 BCE); hominids; Australopithecus; Homo (our genus) erectus; Out of Africa model; Homo sapiens;
Neanderthals; Cro-Magnon humans; Regional Continuity; gene; mitochondria DNA (mtDNA); Y
chromosomal DNA; mutations; 2% divergence per million years; diversity; Namibia; “Bushman”; human
progeny; J. Ki-Zerbo.
What is History? archaeology; Code of Hammurabi; Asia Minor; Babylon; Babylonia; Mesopotamia;
Tigris; Euphrates; Phoenicians; Persians; Cyrus; Darius; Dardanelles; hieroglyphs; skepticism.
Egypt: Martin Bernal; Black Athena; Phoenecia; Mesopotamia; Tigris – Euphrates; Sumer; Ur; Babylonia;
Hammurabi; Neolithic—New Stone Age (starts about 10,000 BCE); Bronze Age (starts about 3600 BCE);
Basra; Baghdad; Indus; White Nile (originates in Lake Victoria/Nyanza) and Blue Nile (originates in Lake
Tana in Ethiopia); metallurgy; cuneiform (writing on pottery)—similar to hieroglyphs, but they were
often on papyrus (a kind of paper, not pottery); alluvium (soil); basin irrigation; shadoof (water-raising
device); levees; dikes; pharaohs; pharaonic; cataract; riverine commerce; Nubia; Aswan; nomads;
Egyptologist; Hellas; Hellenic; Macedonia; Ptolemaic; Ptolemy; Abraham; Canaan; Libyans; Assyrians;
Persians; pyramids; Giza; Horus; Re; Osiris; Book of the Dead; deity; Sudan; pastoralism; Ma’at;
Memphis; millennium; Levant (eastern part of Mediterranean); Fertile Crescent; Hyksos; Hittites;
Anatolia; Tuaregs.
Greece: Herodotus; History of the Persian Wars; Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars;
Polybius, History of the Punic Wars; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Marathon; Thermopylae; polis; Homer;
Iliad; Odyssey; Golden Mean; Athens; Sparta; aesthetics; Hellas; Hellenistic; Skeptics; Cynics;
Antisthenes; Pyrrho; Epicurus; Epicurianism; Stoics; Zeno; historiography; Trojan War; Achilles; Troy;
Punic; Phoenecian; Scipio.
Socrates; Dialectic Method; Sophists; Plato; Academy; holistic; The Republic; Law of Opposites; forms;
aesthetics; epistemology; Aristotle; Lyceum; peripatetic (walking) philosophy; metaphysics; Ethics;
Politics; Socrates; Meletus; Anytus; Lycon; Xenophon; Apology; sophists; Prytaneum; junta; Charmides;
daemon; Agora; Aristophenes; Clouds; hemlock; Plato.
The Three Great West African Empires: Ghana; Mali; Songhai (Songhay); Ibn Battuta; Leo Africanus
(Moor); Bambuk; Bure; Akan; Niger River and the Niger Valley; Soninke; Wangara; Senegal; The Gambia;
Sijilmasa; Taghaza; Berbers; jihad; Sosso; Gao; Timbucto (Timbuktu); sorghum; millet; Mande;
Mandingo; Mali; Mansa; Mansa Musa and Mansa Kaw; Sunjaata (Sundiata); hajj; Jenne; Keita
Keita: Heritage of the Griot: Sundjata Keota (Son-Jara Keyta or Sundiata Keita); Mandé; Mali; Dani
Kouyaté (director); Djïliba Kouyaté (played by Sotigui Kouyaté, the director’s father); Mabo Keïta;
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Djula; Wagadu; Jula; Maghan Kon Fatta; ‘Konate’ (“No one hates you”);
Djeliba Kouyate; (djeliba means something great griot); Do; Boicar Keita; Sitan; Sassouma Berete;
cowries; Do-Kamissa; Do-Samo; Sogolon; Fofano; Doua; Kani; Kanko; Nan Boukary; Noumoufari; Bella
Fasseke; Dankaran Touman; baobab; Farakourou Wagadu; Jula; Maghan Kon Fatta; ‘Konate’ (“No one
hates you”); Djeliba Kouyate; (djeliba means something great griot); Do; Boicar Keita; Sitan; Sassouma
Berete; cowries; Do-Kamissa; Do-Samo; Sogolon; Fofano; Doua; Kani; Kanko; Nan Boukary; Noumoufari;
Bella Fasseke; Dankaran Touman; baobab; Farakourou
Islam: Dar al Islam (abode of Islam); bedouin; Eurasia; Baghdad; Shatt al-Arab; the Straits link the Black
Sea to the Aegean Sea (Mediterranean); north-Bosphorus; middle: Sea of Marmara; south-Dardenelles;
Semites; dromedary; Ishmael; Hagar; Fertile Crescent; shaykh (sheikh, sheik); Yathrib/Medina;
muruwwah; Sheba; Saba; Sabaeans; Yemen; frankincense; Byzantine Orthodox Empire; Sasanid
Zoroastrian Empire; Ethiopian Coptic Empire (monophysites); animists; Mecca; Ukaz; Kabah; Mount
Arafat; al-Lat; al-Uzza; al-Manat; Quraysh; Hashim; Commonwealth of Mecca; Mohammed; Allah; Year
of the Elephant (570 CE/54 BH); Abdallah; Abd al-Muttalib; Abu-Talib; Khadijah; polytheistic animism;
jinns; Ramadan—Night of Power; Quran; Ali; Fatimah; Abu-Bakr; Aisha; Uman; Uthman; Ummayid; Bilal;
Zayd ibn Harithah; Muslim—one who submits to God’s will; Islam—the act of submitting to God’s will;
Nadir; Kurayzah; Kaynuka; Aws; Khazraj; hijrah; ummah; ansar; Abu Sufyan; Hind; Taif; Badr; Uhud;
Ditch; Hudaybiyah; Aishah; Yom Kippur; Rosh Hashanah; jihad; khatam; Umar; Kufa; Basra; hadith; jinns;
surahs; juzs; ayats; al Fatiya; mahdi; muezzin; minaret; hajj; Muawiya; Hasan; Husayn (the martyr);
Yazid; imam
India: Deccan; Ganges; Indus; Harappa; Sri Lanka; monsoons; Hindu/Hinduism; Buddhist/Buddhism;
Muslim/Islam; Hindi; Tamil/Dravidian; Aryans; Indo-Europeans; Sanskrit; Brahmins; Vedas; Upanishads;
Ghandi; caste; Kshatriyas: authorities (political and military); Vaishyas (farmers, professionals, and
artisans); Shudras (servants and others who carry out menial tasks); “Untouchables”; dharma; atman;
maya; reincarnation (transmigration); karma; nirvana; Siddhartha Gautama (563-487 BCE); 4 Noble
Truths and 8-Fold Path; Theravada (doctrine of the elders); Mahayana (great vehicle); bodhisattva;
Mauryan Dynasty; Chandragupta Maurya; totalitarianism; Ashoka (c304 - 232 BCE); Edicts of Ashoka;
mahamattas; dhamma; Kalinga (Orissa); dhamma-mahamattas; Gupta; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Delhi;
Sultanate of Delhi; Taj Mahal; Mogul Dynasty; Sikhs; Nanak (c.1469-1539 CE); Punjab
Rome: Etruscans; Magna Graecia; Forum; consuls; magistrates; curiae; Pyrrhus; Pyrrhic; Epirus;
patricians; plebeians; tribunes; Lex Hortensia; Carthage; Scipio; Phoenecians; Punic; Zama; Hannibal;
Sicily; Corsica; Sardinia; Brutus; Cassius; Ptolemy; Triumvirate; Crassus; Pompey; Julius Caesar; Marc
Antony; Lepidus; Octavian Augustus
Cleopatra VII: Octavian Augustus; Marc Antony; Actium; Ptolemy/Ptolemaic/Ptolemies; Pompey; Julius
Caesar; Plutarch; Brucheion; Arsinoe; Caesarion; Tarsus, Cilicia; Inimitable Livers; Fulvia; Imperator;
Parthians; Ceasarion (born 47 BCE); twins (probably born 40 BCE) Alexander Helios (sun) and Cleopatra
Selene II (moon); Ptolemy Philadelphus (born 36 BCE)
Judaism and Christianity: carpe diem; eschatology; Osiris; Ur; Habiru; Hebrew; Terah; Sumarian;
Abraham; Canaan; Goshen; Hyksos; Assyrians; Chaldean; Nebuchadnezzar; Israelites; servitude;
Passover; Moses; Joshua; Philistines; Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant; Judah; Soloman; Israel; Babylonia;
synagogue; Ptolemies; Herodotus; diaspora; Herod; Antipas; Sanhedrin; Sadducees; Pharisees; Essenes;
Palestine; monotheism; messiah; rabbi; Hellenizers; Pompey; Zealots; Wailing Wall; Hadrian; Akiba;
Simeon bar Kochba; Tanach; Torah; Mishna; Talmud; covenant; transcendental, presbysters, clergy,
laity, Petrine Doctrine, Council of Chalcedon, Aurelius, Galerius, orthodoxy, heresy, Iranaeus,
Gnosticism, Athanasius, Council of Nicaea, monophysitism, Pelagianism, Manichaeism, Origin,
monasticism, Monte Casino, Benedict