<small>''This is the growing list of study terms for [[World History Lectures|World history]], from creation to 1648 (the same midpoint used by the [[CLEP]] exams)''.
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<small>''This is the growing list of study terms for [[World History Lectures|World history]], from creation to 1648 (the same midpoint used by the [[CLEP]] exams)''.</small>
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This should grow from 339 (175 of them are honors) to 500 terms -- about half basic and half honors -- and every term should be described in the table. ''An examination on this material will be given in November 2011''.
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This should grow from 372 (about half are honors) to 500 terms -- about half basic and half honors -- and every term should be described in the table. ''An examination on this material will be given in November 2011''.
==Basic terms==
==Basic terms==
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|[[St. Augustine]]
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|(A.D. 354-430) A father of the early Christian church who wrote an intellectual discussions of the faith
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|A father of the Christian church
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|[[Sumer]]
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|[[pictograph]]
|A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs are the foundation for cuneiform and hieroglyphics, having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 B.C.
|A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs are the foundation for cuneiform and hieroglyphics, having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 B.C.