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History 1 Final Exam Study Guide

The examination will have 61 Questions. This examination is closed-book. The

examination will be administered online through Proctorio.

Question 1: (40%) This written answer question will have you define four (4) terms out
of a list of fifteen (15). Each definition will be worth ten (10) points. You will need to
explain what the term means, but also how it is significant to the larger themes of
World History. You will be expected to use the course reading and lectures in your
response and not random internet sources. Please be sure to write in full sentences.

Possible Terms:

The Silk Roads “Bread and Circuses”

Samsara Pax Romana
Plebeians Gaius Marius
Tiberius Gracchus Carthage
Odacer Etruscans
Caesar Augustus Siddhartha Gautama
Constantine Paganism
Consul Visigoths
Byzantium Pater familias
Julius Caesar Antonine Plague
Diocletian Patricians
Saul of Tarsus Tribune
Latifundia The Roman Republic
Parthians Monsoons
Genghis Khan Tetrarchy
The Steppes Pastoral Nomadism
The Mongols Pax Romana
Jewish Christianity Yersinia pestis
Essenes Paganism
The Black Death The Axial Age
Islam Ummah

The remainder of the examination will consist of 60 multiple-choice questions. You will
identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The
bullet points below are a breakdown of the questions and guidelines for what you
should be studying – the actual questions will be worded differently. These multiple-
choice questions correspond to and are mostly derived from the class lecture PDF. If
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the bullet point is followed by either “Strayer Readings” or “Diamond Readings”, it

means the question is derived from either of the class’s two textbooks.

In Questions 2 to 61 there will be:

19 questions on the Romans. You will need to know:

• What social and political conflict the Romans faced throughout their history.
• The Roman politician who reformed the Roman Army so that land ownership was no
longer a requirement to be a soldier.
• How Gaius Marius represented a turning point in the history of the Roman Republic.
• What the Byzantine Empire was (Strayer Readings).
• What brought Rome into conflict with the Greek world in the 3rd century B.C.E.
• What Caesar Augustus called himself (Strayer Readings).
• Who Odoacer was.
• What Carthage was.
• What happened to Carthage.
• What characterized the imperial city of Rome in the First Century C.E.
• The tribal peoples on the empire’s northern boarders who were an increasing threat in
the 4th Century (Strayer Readings).
• Who Gaius Julius Caesar was.
• Who Hannibal Barca was.
• Why some Roman rulers wanted to redistribute land to small farmers.
• What Pater familias was (Strayer Readings).
• What Latifundia were.
• The civilization that was a major influence on the development of Roman Civilization.
• What the Roman Republic’s motto was.
• What the Punic Wars were.

14 question on the Silk Roads and Religion. You will need to know:
• What (and where) the Silk Roads were.
• What role the Parthian Empire played in the Silk Road trade.
• What the result of the importation of silk was to Roman society according to
Seneca.
• What the Eurasian ecumene refers to.
• What adhesion refers to.
• What a monsoon is.
• What the Antonine Plague was.
• What characterized “old” or ancient religions.
• The term for ancient Greek worship.
• The meaning of Nirvana.
• What Samsara refers to.
• What polytheism refers to.
• What animism is.
• How goods were carried along the Silk Roads (Strayer Readings).
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10 questions on the Mongols. You will need to know:

• The term for the personal followers of a Mongol leader.
• What are the Steppes.
• How/why Mongol society was structured the way it was.
• The significance of the horse to the pastoral way of life on the Steppes
• What institutions the Mongols used to run their empire.
• What the Mongols did during their conquest Baghdad.
• How the Mongol army was organized.
• Who Kublai Khan was.
• How the Mongols ruled their empire.
• Who the Mongols did not succeed in conquering.

14 questions on Religion: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. You will need to

know:
• What a diaspora is.
• Who ruled the Roman Empire at the time of Jesus’ birth.
• Who the Essenes were.
• Who the Sadducees were.
• Why Roman officials persecuted early Christians.
• Who the first Christian Roman emperor was (Strayer Readings).
• The emperor that made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire
• Who the “Fearers of the Lord” were.
• Who Titus Flavius Josephus was.
• What Diocletian did during the 4th century.
• What Saul of Tarsus is credited with.
• What the word “Islam” means.
• What the Five Pillars of Islam are.
• The term for the Islamic community of the faithful.

3 questions on the Black Death. You will need to know:

• What the organism that caused the plague was.
• What the primary biological host of the plague bacteria was.
• What group of people was often targeted as scapegoats during the
plague.