Revolutions in Human Thought - Review
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Unit 6 Review
Short-answer Questions: World History I, Unit 6
Key Terms: World History I, Unit 6
Key Concepts: World History I, Unit 6
Key Arguments: World History I, Unit 6
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Abstract
Samsara: In India, time was viewed as a ceaseless cycle of existence. This became a basic assumption of Indian thought and religion; the purpose of human life was to escape samsara.
Contents
- Unit 1:: Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent
- Human History before the Domestication of Plants and Animals
- East-West Axis and the Spread of Food Production
- Domestication and Human Diseases
- Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent - Review
- Unit 2:: Religion and Culture in the Earliest Civilizations in the Ancient Near East
- Sumerian Culture
- Temple Complexes, Religious Ritual, and the Order of Nature
- City-states and Their Gods
- Religion and Culture in the Earliest Civilizations in the Ancient Near East - Review
- Unit 3:: Earliest Civilizations of Africa
- Carthage
- Nubia
- Egypt
- Earliest Civilizations of Africa - Review
- Unit 4:: India
- Indus Valley Civilization
- The Maurya Empire
- Vedas and Indian Religion
- India - Review
- Unit 5:: China
- The Influence of China on Japan and Korea
- The Qin Empire
- Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Cycle
- China - Review
- Unit 6:: Revolutions in Human Thought
- Greek Philosophy
- Confucius and Buddha
- The Jewish Prophets
- Revolutions in Human Thought - Review
- Unit 7:: Earliest Civilizations of the Americas
- The Aztec
- The Inca
- The Olmec and Maya
- Earliest Civilizations of the Americas - Review
- Unit 8:: The Greeks
- Hellenistic Age
- Golden Age of Greece
- Minoan and Mycenaean Greece
- The Greeks - Review
- Unit 9:: The Romans
- The Fall of Rome
- The Roman Republic
- The Roman Empire
- The Romans - Review
- Unit 10:: The Rise of Christianity
- Christianity and the Roman Empire
- The Structure of the Christian Church
- Jesus
- The Rise of Christianity - Review
- Unit 11:: European Peoples
- Benedictine Monks and the Conversion of the European Peoples
- The Vikings
- Cultures of the People
- European Peoples - Review
- Unit 12:: Ascendancy of the East
- Expansion of Muslim Culture
- The Rise of Islam
- The Byzantine Empire
- Ascendancy of the East - Review
- Unit 13:: The Formation of Western Christendom
- Carolingian Renaissance
- Corruption and Renewal in the Church
- The Crusades
- The Formation of Western Christendom - Review
- Unit 14:: The Medieval Age
- Medieval Church and State
- Europeans and Mongols
- Reason and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
- The Medieval Age - Review
- Unit 15:: The Renaissance
- Renaissance Art and Science
- Church Corruption
- The Great Plague
- The Renaissance - Review