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