History 205a

Summer 2007

List of Terms from Lecture

These are the terms/concepts and places you’ll be responsible for on the exam. By ‘responsible’ I mean you’ll need to know a rough date (century) when applicable, a short definition and significance (answer to the ‘so what’ question) and be able to place on a map if a geographical locale. All terms can be found either in lecture notes or the textbook – all locations are labeled on maps in the textbook.

June 11 – Elements of Civilization

Jericho (9000 BCE), Uruk (3000 BCE), Mesopotamia (map terms)

Lascaux Caves

Woman of Willendorf

Epic of Gilgamesh (2150 BCE)

Code of Hammurabi

Cuneiform

June 12 – Ancient Greece

Crete, Athens, Sparta, Troy, Persia (map terms)

Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey (8^th c BCE)

acropolis

Solon (630-560 BCE)

Diskobolos (450 BCE)

Persian War (499-479)

Pericles (495-27 BCE)

Parthenon (447-32 BCE)

Delian League

Protagoras (5^th c BCE)

Aeschylus (6^th c BCE)

June 13 – Hellenistic Mediterranean

Alexandria, Macedonia, Rome (map terms)

Aristophanes (5^th c, BCE)

Plato (4^th c, BCE)

Aristotle (4^th c BCE)

Alexander the Great (d. 323 BCE)

Etruscans

June 14 – Roman Republic

Carthage (map term)

Consul

Plebian

Punic Wars (264-146 BCE)

The Graccchi (2^nd century BCE

Julius Caesar (d. 43 BCE)

June 15 – Roman Empire

Hadrian’s Wall, Danube River (map terms)

Augustus Caesar (d. 14 CE)

Virgil (1^st c, CE)

Colosseum (70 CE)

June 18 – Monotheism and Historical Judaism

Jerusalem (map term)

Zoroastrianism

covenant

Ten Commandments

Temple

Diaspora

Pharisees/Essenes - Dead Sea Scrolls (1^st C, BCE?)

Saul of Tarsus (d. 70 CE)

June 19 – Facets and Sects – Early Christianity

Hagiography

St. Perpetua (d. 203 CE)

Monasticism

St. Benedict of Nursia (5^th c CE)

Gnosticism

Gospel of Mary Magdalen (1^st c, CE?)

Heresy

Edict of Milan (313 CE)

Council of Nicaea (325 CE)

Missionaries

June 20 – Rome Declines, Christianity Emerges

Constantinople (map term)

Germanic Tribes

Tetrarchy (c. 300 CE)

Visigoths

St. Augustine of Hippo (d. 435 CE)

Emperor Justinian (d. 565 CE)

Eastern Orthodoxy

June 21 – Islam and the West

Mecca, Al-Andalus (map terms)

Qu’ran

Dome of the Rock (7^th c CE)

Mosque of Cordoba (c. 600 CE)

Sufism

June 25 – Creating the Institutional Church

Cluny, Crusader states (map terms)

Donation of Constantine

Papal State

Gregory the Great

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

St. Hildegard of Bingen

Investiture Controversy

Urban II

Innocent III

Boniface VIII

June 26 – Creating European States, 500-1100

Tours, Hastings, Norway (map terms)

Charlemagne (768-814)

Vikings/Scandinavians

Normans

Harald/Harold/William and 1066

Bayeux Tapestry

Ottonians

June 27 – Kings and Culture, 1100-1300

Aquitaine, Holy Roman Empire, Sicily (map terms)

Primogeniture

Court & Courtly Literature

Romance of Tristan

Art of Courtly Love – Andreas Capellanus

Troubadors

Eleanor of Aquitaine (d. 1209)

The Medieval English State

Thomas a Becket (d. 1170)

Magna Carta (1215)

Parliament

Medieval French State

Philip IV (d. 1314)

Estates General

Holy Roman Empire

Frederick I Barbarossa (d. 1190)

Frederick II (d. 1250)

June 29 – High Church Culture

Paris (map term)

Peter Abelard (d. 1141)

Scholasticism and Thomas Aquinas

Universities – Paris, Bologna

Pilgrimage

Ste. Madeleine, Vezelay, France (11^th c)

Chartres, France, (12^th c)

Waldensians (12^th c)

Inquisition (13^th c)

Dominic de Guzman (13^th c)

Franciscans (13^th c)

July 2 – Trade in the Medieval World

Venice, Florence, Hanseatic League (map term)

Usury

Arsenale (12^th c)

Guild

Communes (11-12^th c)

Dante Aligheri (d. 1321)

Conspicuous Consumption

Clothes

Books – Tres Riches Heures

July 3

Avignon, Burgundy (map terms)

St. Catherine of Siena (d. 1377)

Great Schism (1378-1417)

Bubonic Plague (1348)

Ciompi (1378)

100 Years War (1337-1453)

Wars of the Roses (1453-85)

July 5

Castile (map term)

Charles V (d. 1555)

Venality

Spanish Inquisition (1481)

Ottoman Empire

Humanism

Printing Press

Thomas More (d. 1535)