World History FINAL Review Packet

Review for World History F I N A L
First Semester 2010 – Mr. Weiss
Objective: To prepare you for your World History Final Exam.
The Night Before the Final – What Should I Do to Do Well on the Exam?
- Study!
- Organize your binder and study any worksheets we have done over the course of the semester.
- Any topics that you do not feel confident in, read about them in your text.
- Get with a friend, sibling, or parent and have them quiz you.
- Get a good night sleep and a good breakfast the following morning.
- Draw a timeline, and be able to place all time periods from Part D on it.
- Make sure your cheat sheet (a notecard) is ready to go.
PART A: Timeline - On the lines provided below write the dates of each time period. Some dates may be broad, like 1500s to 1600s.
Then using a sheet of paper, draw a timeline from 1300 to 1900 like I drew below. Then draw all the following time periods on the
timeline. On each line write the name of the time period or era and write the dates on the timeline.
1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900
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1. Middle Ages ___________ to __________
2. Renaissance ___________ to __________
3. Reformation ___________ to __________
4. Scientific Revolution ___________ to __________
5. Age of Exploration ___________ to __________
6. Ming Dynasty ___________ to __________
7. Qing Dynasty ___________ to __________
8. Feudal Japan ___________ to __________
9. Tokugawa Period _________ to __________
10. Meiji Period ___________ to __________
11. Enlightenment ___________ to __________
12. French Revolution ________ to __________
PART B: BC, BCE, AD, and BCE - Place in the following abbreviations on a timeline. Then change the abbreviations to the full
name. For example: BC = Before Christ. For the final, be able to do this!
- BC
- BCE 0
- AD
- CE
PART C: Vocabulary - Define the following terms, people, or events below.
Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Cancer
Prime Meridian
Equator
Feudalism
Predestination
Martin Luther
Henry the Eighth
John Calvin
Renaissance Art characteristics
Humanism
Michelangelo
Leonardo Da Vinci
Indulgences
Capitalism
Laissez-Faire
Mary Wollstonecraft
Protestant
Lutheranism
Calvinism
Anglican Church
John Locke
Galileo
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Ptolemy
Ptolemaic model
Muhammad
Salons
John Kepler
Isaac Newton
Copernicus
Copernicus model
Geocentric
Heliocentric
Columbian Exchange
Triangular Trade
Shogun
Daimyo
Dynasty
Boxer Rebellion
Opium Wars
Muslims
Religious Sects
Chinese Civil War
Sphere of Influence
Isolationism
Imperialism
Interventionism
Three Estates
King Louis XVI
Reign of Terror
Civil War
Monarchy
Maximilien Robespierre
Marie Antoinette
Import
Export
Secular
5 Pillars of Islam

PART D: Time Periods - Answer the following questions about each of the listed time periods. Write the name of the time period on
the front of the note card. Then write the answers A-F on the back of the card.
a. When was this period?
b. Where did this period happen?
c. What was this period? Define it in a sentence.
d. Why did this period occur when it did, or what caused this period to happen?
e. What did it accomplish? Or what was its results?
f. Who were the important people of this period?
1. Middle Ages
2. Renaissance
3. Reformation
4. Scientific Revolution
5. Age of Exploration
6. Ming Dynasty
7. Qing Dynasty
8. Feudal Japan
9. Tokugawa Period
10. Enlightenment
11. French Revolution
PART E: Religions - Answer the following questions about each of the listed religions.
1. Hinduism
2. Christianity
3. Buddhism
4. Judaism
5. Islam
6. Daoism
7. Confucianism
a. Monotheistic, Polytheistic, Non-Theistic, etc?
b. Where does it stand in the world as having the most followers?
c. Where and how did it originate?
d. What are the major beliefs of this religion?
e. What does it have in common with the other religions?
PART F: Questions - Answer the following questions. Why did the Age of Exploration begin?
What were the effects of the Age of Exploration?
What caused the French Revolution?
Did China influence Japan or the other way around?
Does Japan and China still have an emperor?
Compare and Contrast ancient Japan and Europe during the Middle Ages
Did the Enlightenment inspire the Scientific Revolution or the other way around?
What are the steps of the Scientific Method?
What is the foreign policy history of China?
What is the foreign policy history of Japan?
Where are all the 4 hemisphere located?
Why do the Sunni and Shiites not get along?
It is 1888, what century is it?
It is the 17 th century, give me a year that is in this century.
Why does “modern” world history start in the 1500s around the world?
What European countries colonized what parts of the New World?
What was the economy like during the Age of Exploration?
PART G: Map - Be able to locate the following places on a world map.
- England
- India
- France
- Japan
- Italy
- China
- Mecca/Medina
- Spain
- Portugal
- Brazil
- Mexico