History of Western Civilization

Reading Terms
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Prehistory
Civilization
Sumerians
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Fertile Crescent
Code of Hammurabi
Polytheism
Cuneiform
Epic of Gilgamesh
Nile River
Pharaoh
Pyramids
Hieroglyphics
Mummification
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Covenant/Law/Prophets
Hebrews
Israel
Saul, David, & Solomon
Jerusalem
Temple
Judah/Jews/Judaism
Assyrians (722 BC)
Chaldeans (586 BC)
Monotheism
Assyrian Empire
Ninevah
Iron weapons
Relief sculptures
Chaldean Empire
Babylon
Persian Empire
Susa & Persepolis

Cyrus & Darius

Zoroastrianism
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Minoan Civilization
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
Polis
Sparta
Athens
Democracy
Marathon
Pericles
Herodotus
Thucydides
Tragedy & Comedy
Classical Style
Parthenon
Socrates
Plato & Aristotle
Zeus, Apollo, Athena
Olympic Games
Oracle at Delphi
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Alexander the Great
Hellenism
Alexandria
Euclid
Archimedes
Epicureans
Stoics
Isis
Judas Maccabaeus
Hanukkah
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Romulus and Remus

Consuls and Praetors

Senate
Patricians and Plebians
Livy
Carthaginian Empire
Punic Wars
Hannibal
Slavery
Spartacus
Twelve Tables
Cicero
Coliseum
Julius Caesar
Octavian
Antony & Cleopatra
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Praetorian Guard
Virgil
Horace
Ovid
Livy
Seneca
Gladiators
Diocletian
Constantine
Zealots
Jesus
Christ
Treason
Perpetua
In this sign you will conquer.
Edict of Milan
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Ostrogoths
Visigoths
Franks
Pope

Gregory I
Monk
Anthony
Benedict
Byzantine Empire
Muhammad
Islam
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Charlemagne
Leo III
Vikings
Lord and vassal
Knights
Serfs
Slavs
Cyril and Methodius
Vladimir
Cordoba
Mathematic

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Iron plow:
Three-field system:
Mills: A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.
Sacraments: A religion ceremony or act of the Christian Church
Castles: a large building or group of building fortified against attack with thick walls.
Chivalry: the medieval knightly system with its religious code.
Masterpiece: a work of outstanding artistry or workmanship.

University: an educational institution designed for instruction, examination of students in

many branches of advanced learning.
Latin: language of ancient Rome and its empire.
Bachelor/Master/Doctor: degrees
Scholasticism: System of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities.
Romanesque: relating to a style of architecture that prevailed in Europe.
Gothic cathedrals:
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King (monarchy): male ruler of an independent state.
Battle of Hastings: battle between Norman-french army vs English army.
Henry II: King of England
Thomas Becket: Archbishop of Canterbury
Magna Carta: a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his
assent in June.
Parliament: the highest legislature.
Estates-General: the bicameral legislative body in the Netherlands.
Holy Roman Empire: complex of territories in central Europe.
Genghis Khan: Founder of the Mongol Empire.
Lay investiture: most important conflict between secular and religious powers.
Pope Innocent III: most powerful and influential popes.:
Cardinal: a leading dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church.
Hildegard of Bingen: German Benedictine writer, composer, philosopher.
Francis of Assisi: Roman catholic friar and preacher.
Dominic: is a name common amoung Roman Catholics and other latin-Romans
Saints: a person acknowledged as holy and typically regarded as being in heaven after
death.
Virgin Mary:
Relics: a part of a deceased holy persons body.
Cathars/Albigensians: A member of a heretical medieval Christian sect.
Anti-Semitism: hospitity to or prejudice against jews.
Crusades: A medieval military expedition.
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Black Death
Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
House of Commons

House of Lords
Golden Bull
Republic of Venice
Avignon
Great Schism
Catherine of Siena
Dante Alighieri
Geoffrey Chaucer
Clock
Cannon
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Renaissance
Hanseatic League
Medici
Book of the Courtier
Italian States
Florence
Niccolo Machiavelli
Petrarch
Johannes Gutenberg
Renaissance artists
Leonardo Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Albrecht Drer
Ivan III
Byzantine Empire
John Hus
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Christian humanism
Erasmus
Thomas Kempis
Martin Luther
Justification by faith
95 Theses
Ulrich Zwingli
Anabaptists

King Henry VIII

Book of Common Prayer
John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Predestination
John Knox
Jesuits
Ignatius Loyola
Index of Forbidden Books
Council of Trent
Huguenots
Queen Elizabeth
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Age of Expansion
Marco Polo
Astrolabe
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartholomeu Dias
Vasco de Gama
Goa & Macao
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Treaty of Tordesillas
Conquistadors
Maya
Aztec
Inca
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Smallpox
Missionaries
10 Million
Sugarcane
Dutch East India Company
British East India Company
Joint-stock trading company
Stock exchange

Commercial capitalism
Mercantilism
Columbian exchange
Mercator projection
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Secularization
Witchcraft
Thirty Years War
Holy Roman Empire
Absolutism
Cardinal Richelieu
King Louis XIV of France
Palace of Versailles
Prussia (Hohenzollern)
Austria (Hapsburg)
Russia (Romanov)
Dutch Republic
Ivan IV
Time of Troubles
Peter the Great
St. Petersburg
Suleiman the Magnificent
Puritans
English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell
Glorious Revolution
Bill of Rights
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Baroque
Rembrandt van Rijn
William Shakespeare
Jean-Baptist Moliere
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Scientific Revolution
Claudius Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus

Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
William Harvey
Rene Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Francis Bacon
Empiricism
Rationalism
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Enlightenment
Reason
John Locke
Philosophes
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Denis Diderot
Deism
Adam Smith
Laissez-faire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile
Mary Wollstonecroft
Rococo
George Frederick Handel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carnival
John Wesley
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United Kingdom of Great Britain
George III
Frederick II
Catherine II
Joseph II
Pugachevs rebellion
Partitions of Poland
Seven Years War

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Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Estates
Versailles
Olympe de Gouges
Haiti
Grand Army
Waterloo
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Abolition of slavery
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Agricultural revolution
James Watt
Factory
Crystal Palace
Irish potato famine
Luddites
Chartism
Reformer
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Congress of Vienna
Klemens von Metternich
Edmund Burke
Greek Revolution
Nicholas I
Liberalism
Conservatism
Nationalism
Socialism
Revolutions of 1830
Revolutions of 1848

Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
John Marshall
Andrew Jackson
Romanticism
William Wordsworth
Ludwig van Beethoven
John Stuart Mill
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Napoleon III
Crimean War
Unification of Italy
Unification of Germany
Otto von Bismarck
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Serfdom
Alexander II
Karl Marx
Realism
Henry Ford
Social Democrats
Urbanization
Mass education
Mass leisure
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Marie & Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud
Naturalism
Symbolism
Impressionism
Postimpressionism
Vincent van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Vasily Kandinsky
Feminism

Emmeline Pankhurst
Anti-Semitism
Zionism
Theodor Herzl
Imperialism
The White Mans Burden
Cecil Rhodes
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Militarism
Black Hand
Schlieffen Plan
Gallipoli
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lusitania
Censorship
Propaganda
Nicholas II & Alexandra
February (March) Revolution
October (November) Revolution
Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Peace, Land, and Bread
Communist Party
Civil War
League of Nations
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Dawes Plan
Treaty of Locarno
Great Depression
John Maynard Keynes
Popular Front
New Deal
Benito Mussolini
Vatican City
Weimar Republic
Adolph Hitler

Nazi Party
Fhrer
Enabling Act
SS
Hitler Jugend
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Joseph Stalin
Industrialization
Collectivization
Purges
Francisco Franco
Radio, motion pictures
Salvador Dali
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Aryan
Axis
Munich Conference
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Vichy France
Luftwaffe
Stalingrad
Normandy
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Holocaust
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Final Solution
Cold War
Eastern Europe
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Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin airlift
West & East Germany
Nuclear weapons
NATO

Warsaw Pact
Korean War
Vietnam War
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Decolonization
Israel
PLO
Mao Zedong
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Hungarian revolt
Prague Spring
Charles DeGaulle
Welfare state
EEC
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika
Germany
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Solidarity
Vaclav Havel
Nicolae Ceausescu
Berlin Wall
Yugoslavia
Ethnic cleansing
Kosovo
European Union
Euro
Margaret Thatcher
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
September 11, 2001

Jackson Pollock
Jean-Paul Sartre
John Paul II