Vocabulary Lists

For each group you will have a vocab quiz over these terms. When applicable, only 20 of these terms will be quizzed over (and no, I won't tell you which ones). Some vocab lists maybe combined to make for a larger quiz.

It is YOUR responsibility as a student to define and know these terms in time for the quiz. There may or may not be class time devoted to vocab research.

Early Civ Vocabulary (20):

civilization theocracy
institution pyramid
barter mummification
Ziggurat hieroglyphics
Fertile Crescent monsoon
silt irrigation
city-state dynasty
polytheism empire
Hammurabi cataract
delta Cuneiform

Greece and Rome Vocab (24):

Homer Republic
Epics Patrician
Myths Plebeian
"polis" Senate
Acropolis Dictator
Monarchy Triumvirate
Oligarchy Pax Romana
Democracy Gladiator
Aristocracy Apostle
Direct Democracy Pope
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Euclid

World Religions Vocab (22):

Torah Reincarnation
Abraham Karma
monotheism Buddha
covenant Enlightenment
Moses Nirvana
Tribute Four Noble Truths
Allah Eightfold Path
Mohammed Shia
Islam Sunni
Koran
Mosque
Hajj
Five Pillars of Islam

Middle Ages Vocab (16) (Note: A few of these terms will be added to the Exploration VQ to make an even 20):

- secular Chivalry
- Charlemagne Pope Urban II
- lord Crusades
- fief Inquisition
- vassal guild
- knight vernacular
- serf Bubonic Plaugue
- manor
- tithe

Renaissance and Reformation Vocab (21):

Renaissance Reformation
patron Martin Luther
Florence indulgences
Medici Julius II
fresco 95 Theses
sfumato Henry VIII
perspective annulment
vanishing point Mary Tudor
Michelangelo Elizabeth I
da Vinci Spanish Armada
Sistine Chapel

World Exploration Vocab (16):

Bartolomeu Dias triangular trade
Prince Henry the Navigator middle passage
Vasco da Gama Commercial Revolution
Treaty of Tordesillas capitalism
Christopher Columbus mercantilism
colony joint stock company
Hernando Cortes
conquistador
Fransisco Pizzaro
mestizo

Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Vocab (20):

Copernicus
heliocentric
Kepler
Galileo
scientific method
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
Social contract John Locke
Thomas Hobbes Beccaria
natural rights Voltaire
salon Baroque
Neoclassical Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence federal system
Bill of Rights

French Revolution and Napoleon Vocab (20):

- Old Regime coup d'etat
- Louis XVI plebiscite
- Marie Antoinette Napoleonic Code
- Estates-General Trafalgar
- National Assembly blockade
- Tennis Court Oath Continental System
- sans-culottes guerrilla warfare
- guillotine Waterloo
- Robespierre the Hundred Days
- Reign of Terror Congress of Vienna

The Age of -isms (no vocab quiz but you need to know them for the Unit Test)

Capitalism

Socialism

Communism

Industrialism (Industrial Revolution)

Imperialism

Romanticism

Impressionism

WWI Vocab (20):

militarism Woodrow Wilson
alliances Fourteen Points
Triple Alliance League of Nations
Triple Entente Treaty of Versailles
Wilhelm II Article 231
Franz Ferdinand self-determination
Central Powers Zimmerman Note
Allies Western Front
U-Boats Lusitania
rationing armistice

WWII Vocab (33):

fascism Mussolini Hitler Naziism Mein Kampf
Lebensraum appeasement Franco 3rd Reich Munich Conference
Blitzkrieg de Gaulle Winston Churchill Dunkirk Lend-Lease
Yamamoto Pearl Harbor Midway Douglas MacArthur Aryans
Holocaust Kristallnacht Ghettos Stalingrad D-Day
Battle of the Bulge Kamikaze Enola Gay Manhattan Project Fat Man / Little Boy
Hiroshima Nagasaki Nuremberg Trials