Global I Vocabulary

Unit 1: Introduction to Our World

Island

River Valley

Cultural Diffusion

Cultural Diversity

Society

Geography

Economy

Politics

BC/BCE

AD/CE

Unit 2: Early Man

Hunting & Gathering

Neolithic Revolution

Civilization

Nile River

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Indus Rivers

Huang He River

Polytheism

Hammurabi’s Code

The Middle Kingdom

Unit 3: Classical Civilizations

“Classical” Civilization

Dynasty

Mandate of Heaven

Contributions of Maurya

Contributions of Han Dynasty

Contributions of Rome

Contributions of Greece

Hellenistic Culture

Twelve Tables

How Empires Fall Apart

Unit 4: Belief Systems

Reincarnation

Missionaries

5 Relationships

Four Noble Truths

Five Pillars of Faith

Monotheism

Jerusalem

Religion

Social Philosophy

Shintoism

Unit 5: Important Empires I

Golden Age

Tang Influence on Japan and Korea

Silk Road

Tang Contributions to our Society

Justinian’s Code

Reasons why Byzantine Empire Lasted

Battle of Tours

How Muslim Empire Spread

How the Byzantine Empire was Created

Gupta Contributions

Unit 6: The Middle Ages

Dark Ages

Feudalism

Manorialism

Monastic System

Heresy

Excommunication

Impact of Crusades

Battle of Hastings

Hundred Years War

The Plague

 

Unit 7: The Renaissance

Effects of the Crusades on the Economy

Capitalism

Italian City-States

Why the Renaissance began in Italy

Vernacular

Leonardo Da Vinci

Humanism

Secular

Commercial Revolution

Hanseatic League

 

Unit 8: Important Empires II

Policy of Isolationism

Effects of Geography of Tokugawa Empire

Genghis Khan

Marco Polo

Ibn Battuta

Ethnocentrism

Arab Traders

Mansa Musa

Three Meso-American Civilizations

Impact of Ottoman Empire on European Trade

 

Unit 9: Global Exploration

Zheng He

European Reasons for Exploration

Chinese Technology

Imperialism

Colonialism

Triangle Trade

Encomienda System

Spanish Imperialism Social Class Triangle

Columbian Exchange

Mercantilism

Unit 10: The Reformation

Luther’s Proposals

Martin Luther

Reformation

Effects of Reformation

John Calvin

Church Problems

Council of Trent

Counter-Reformation

Protestant

St. Ignatius Loyola

Unit 11: Absolutism

Monarchy

The Glorious Revolution

Divine Right

The “Restoration”

Absolutism

English Civil War

Magna Carta

Machiavelli

Akbar the Great

Thomas Hobbes

 

Unit 12: The Age of Revolution

Scientific Revolution

Heliocentric Theory

Enlightenment

Impact of Enlightenment

Impact of American Revolution

Causes of French Revolution

Bastille

Estates-General

Reign of Terror

Results of Latin American Revolutions