World History Term List

For the term list being built for the final exam, see World history term list for final exam.

Ancient History:

* denotes honors

Abraham

Acropolis

Aesop

* Age of Metal

* Age of Pericles

* Ahhotep

* Akkadian Empire

Alexander the Great

* Alluvial

Ancient world

Archimedes

* Arianism

aristocracy

Aristotle

* Ark of the Covenant

* Aryans

* Ashoka

Assyrian Empire

Athens

Attila

Augustus Caesar

Babylon

Babylonia

* Bantu

* Barracks Emperors

* Battle of Marathon

* Bhagavad Gita

Bible

Brahman

Bronze Age

Buddhism

Byzantine Empire

* Caesar's Commentaries

* Caligula

* Canaan

Carthage

caste

* Catal Huyuk

* Cato the Censor

Celts

Chaldeans

* Champollion, Jean

* Chandragupta Maurya

China

* Cicero

* Cincinnatus

city-states

civilization

Classical Civilizations

Classicism

* Claudius

* Cleopatra

Code of Manu

Colosseum

comedy

* Confucianism

Confucius

Constantine

Constantinople

* Constitutional monarchy

* consul

* Copts

Council of Nicaea

* Covenant

cuneiform

* Cynicism

* Cyrus

* Darius

David

* Delian League

* Demosthenes

Dharma

Diaspora

* Diocletian

Direct Democracy

* Dorians

* Dravidians

Early agriculture

Edict of Milan

Egypt

Eightfold Path

* Empress Lu

Enlightened One

Epic of Gilgamesh

* Epicureanism

* Etruscans

Euclid

* Euripedes

* Exodus

Fertile Crescent

* Five Good Emperors

* foraging society

* Four Emperors Era

Four Noble Truths

* Franks

* Gaul

Gentiles

* Golden mean

Gracchi brothers

* Great Canal

Great Wall of China

Greek drama

Greek empire

Gupta empire

* Hadrian

Hammurabi

* Han empire

Hannibal

* Harappa

* Hatshepsut

Hebrews

heliocentric

Hellenistic

* Hellenistic culture

* helot

* Herodotus

hieroglyphics

Hinduism

Hippocrates

* Hiram

* Hittites

Homer

* Horace

* humanism

Huns

* Hyksos

Ideograms

India

Indus River Valley

Iron Age

* Iron Smelting

Isaac

Ishmael

Israel

* Iliad

Jainism

* Jericho

Jesus

* Josephus

Judah, Kingdom of

Julius Caesar

Karma

* Kassites

* Khufu

* Khyber Pass

* Kush

* Larger Vehicle

* Last Roman Emperor

Latin

* Legions

* Lesser Vehicle

* Livy

* Loess

Maize

* Mahayana

Mandate of Heaven

* Manichaeism

* Marathon

Marc Antony

* Marcus Aurelius

* Marius

* Masada

Mauryan Empire

* Menes

* Meroe

Mesoamerica

Mesopotamia

Messiah

Middle Ages

Middle Kingdom

* Minoan Civilization

* Moksha

monotheism

monsoons

Moses

* Mount Sinai

* Mycenaean Civilization

* Nebuchadnezzar I

* Nebuchadnezzar II

* Neolithic Age

* Nero

* Nerva

New Kingdom

Nicene Creed

* Nineveh

Nirvana

* Nok culture

* Octavian

* Odyssey

Old Kingdom

* Olmec

Olympics (Ancient Greek)

* Ostrogoths

* Ovid

* Paleolithic Age

* papyrus

* Parthenon

* patricians

Paul

Pax Romana

Peloponnesian War

Pentateuch

Persian empire

Persian Wars

* Peru

Peter

pharaoh

Philip of Macedon

* Philippides

Philistines

* Philo

Phoenicians

* Pisistratids

Plato

* plebian

* Plutarch

polis

polytheism

* Pompey

* praetors

* Prehistory

Ptolemy

Punic Wars

pyramids

* Pythagorus

* Ramayana

* Ramses II

* Rig Veda

Roman empire

Roman republic

* Romance of Three Kingdoms

Rome

* Romulus and Remus

Rosetta Stone

* rule of tyrants

* Sargon the Great

* Sati (Buddhism)

* Satrap

Saul

* Saxons

* Schliemann, Heinrich

* Scipio

Senate

* Seneca

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

* Shang dynasty

* Shang Yang

* Shi

* Shiva

Siddhartha Guatama

Silk Road

Socrates

Solomon

* Solon

* Sophocles

Sparta

Spread of Buddhism

St. Augustine

* Steppes

* Stoicism

* Stone age

* Stupa

* Sulla

Sumer

Sumerians

* Sumuabum

* Suttee

* Tacitus

* Taj Mahal

Taoism (Daoism)

Ten Commandments

* terra cotta

Theocracy

* Theravada

Thucydides

* Thutmos III

* Tiber River

* Tiberius

* Tigris and Euphrates

* Titus and Domitian

Torah

* Trajan

Tragedy

* Tribal Assembly

* Triumvirate

* Twelve Tables

* Untouchables

* Upanishads

* Ur

* Vandals

Vedas

* Vespasian

Virgil

Vishnu

Visigoths

Warring States Period

* Wheel

* Xenephos

* Xerxes

Yahweh

Yin and Yang

* Zealots

* Zeno

Zhou dynasty

Ziggurat

Zoroastrianism