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

Pelopennesian 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