Name: _________________________ PM World History
Date: __________________________ Ms. Whitaker
Pre-Modern World History Spring Exam Review Guide
The final exam will follow a similar format to that of your midterm. All of the material
covered on the exam will be cumulative from second semester only. Your exam will be at 8
AM on Tuesday May 31st in the Science Forum. Remember that you can bring your Greek
and Roman timelines to the exam, but no essay prep. I will lead a PM World History specific
review session 7:00-7:30 PM during history office hours Monday night. Happy studying!
Remember that the emphasis will be on Rome as you have not been assessed on it yet. Then
Greece, with some China mixed in—no China on the map or essay portions!
Chapter 5, Early Society in East Asia
The Yellow River (Huang He) Banpo Village/Yangshao Society
Xia Dynasty Shang: Bronze Metallurgy
Shang: Political Organization Shang: Capitals Ao & Yin
Shang: Fu Hao Zhou: Rise of & Mandate of Heaven
Zhou: Political Organization Zhou: Iron Metallurgy
Period of Warring States Xia/Shang/Zhou Ruling Elites
X/S/Z Trade X/S/Z Patriarchal Society
Oracle Bones Ideographs & Early Chinese Writing
Zhou Literature: Books of… Central Asian Nomads
Yangzi Valley
Chapter 8, The Unification of China
Historian Sima Qian Eunuchs & Castration
Confucianism C: Analects
C: Junzi C: Ren, Li, Xiao
C: Mencius, Xunzi Daoism
D: Laozi, Daodejing D: Zhuangzi
D: Dao & Wuwei Legalism
L: Shang Yang L: Han Feizi
Qin: Qin Shihuangdi Qin: Book Burning
Qin: Centralization Qin: Standardized Script
Qin: Tomb of 1st Emperor (TC soldiers) Han: Liu Bang
Han: Policies, Centralization Han: Han Wudi
Han: Confucian Education Han: Xiongnu
Han: Filial Piety Han: Iron, Silk, Paper
Han: Social/Land Problems Han: Wang Mang
The Later Han Dynasty: Collapse
Chapter 10, Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase
Homer (Iliad, Odyssey) Minoans Crete
Linear A/B Volcanic Eruption @ Thera Mycenaeans
Peloponnesus Polis Monarchy
Tyrant Oligarchy Democracy
Sparta Laconic Helots
Chattel Xenophobia Athens
Citizenship Solon Pericles
Cleisthenes Greek colonization Persian Wars
Darius Xerxes Marathon
Thermopylae Salamis Plataea
Delian League Peloponnesian War Macedon
King Phillip II Alexander the Great Antigonid Empire
Ptolemaic Empire (Alexandria) Seleucid Empire Bactria
Mediterranean Trade Olympics Patriarchal Society
Role of women Sappho Slavery
Socrates Plato Aristotle
Mythology Cults: Dionysus Tragic drama
Hellenistic philosophers
Chapter 11, Mediterranean Society: The Roman Phase
Paul of Tarsus Romulus & Remus Etruscans
Latins, Latin League Foedus Cassianum Municipiae
Colonae Divida et Impera Republic
Patricians Plebeians Consuls/Senate/Tribunes
Gallic Sack of Rome Phalanx Samnite Wars
Magna Graecia Pyrrhic Victory Punic Wars
Sicily Carthage Corvus
Hamilcar Barca Hannibal Cunctator (Fabius)
Scipio Africanus Wild West: Spain Guerilla Fighting
Gaius & Tiberius Gracchus Gaius Marius Lucius Cornelius
Sulla Proscriptions Latifundia
Gnaius Pompey Marcus Licinius Crassus Marcus Tullius Cicero
Julius Caesar First Triumvirate Optimates
Populares Pompey vs. Caesar Ptolemy XIII
Cleopatra Dictator Perpetus Ides of March
Mark Antony Octavian : Augustus Lepidus
Second Triumvirate Republic to Empire Pax Romana
Roads (Via Appia) Aqueducts Farmers, Soldiers
Mos Maiorum Roman Virtues Pater Familias
Roman Education Role of Women Roman Slavery
Roman Mythology Stoicism Druidism
Mithraism Cult of Isis Judaism
Essenes Jesus of Nazareth Christianity