World History Project Topics 
         Ancient Discoveries of China, or        Vlad the Impaler                         Tenochtitlan 
         Egypt, or Mesoamerica, or India,        Elizabethan Period                       Rosetta Stone 
         or any other civilization               Ferdinand and Isabella                   Shakespeare 
         Weapons of an ancient                   French Revolution                        Socrates 
         civilization                            Huns                                     Sphinx 
         Acropolis                               Hundred Year’s War                       Stonehenge 
         Pantheon                                Inca Civilization                        Taj Mahal 
         Parthenon                               Iron Age                                 Thucydides 
         Alexandra the Great                     Ivan the Terrible                        Timbuktu 
         Attila the Hun                          Joan of Arc                              Trojan War 
         Genghis Khan                            Leonardo da Vinci                        Tudor Monarchy 
         Alexandra, Egypt (ancient)              Leprosy                                  Tutankhamen 
         Alps (history relating to               Louis XIV                                Versailles 
         geography)                              Magna Carta                              Treaty of Versailles 
         Building of city of Venice              Mayan Civilization                       Vikings 
         Aztec capital                           Mayflower                                Egyptian farming – shaduf- 
         Antony and Cleopatra                    Mecca                                    irrigation systems cataracts 
         Children of the crusades                Michelangelo                             Nile River 
         Archimedes                              Mohammed                                 Menes 
         Aristotle                               Napoleon Bonaparte                       Pharaohs 
         Socrates                                Neanderthal man                          Mummification  
         Plato                                   Sir Isaac Newton                         Hieroglyphics 
         Aztec Civilization                      Use of Oriental spices                   Papyrus 
         Tower of Babel                          Ottoman Empire                           Early River Valley Civilizations 
         Black Death                             Peloponnesian War                        Mesopotamia 
         Anne Boleyn                             Persian Empire                           Hammurabi and the laws 
         King Henry VIII                         Peter the Great                          Shang Dynasty 
         Bronze Age                              Pharaoh                                  Zhou Dynasty 
         Ice Age                                 Pontius Pilot                            Indus Valley 
         Ice Man                                 Plagues of Egypt                         Assyrians conquer Israel 
         Buddha                                  Marco Polo                               King Saul unites Hebrews 
         Byzantine Empire                        Pompeii                                  Phoenicians dominate trade 
         Byzantine Architecture                  Ptolemy                                  Indo-European migrations 
         Gothic Architecture                     Pyramids                                 Nubian Kingdom 
         Julius Caesar                           Queen Elizabeth                          Battle of Kadesh between 
         Carthage                                Raphael                                  Egyptians and Hittites 
         Catherine the Great                     Rasputin                                 Persia – Persian Wars 
         Charlemagne                             Reformation                              Han Dynasty 
         Coliseum                                Reign of Terror                          Qin Dynasty 
         Columbus                                Martin Luther                            Confucius 
         Copernicus                              Rembrandt                                Hindus compose the Upanishads 
         Crucifixion                             Renaissance                              Early Hominids 
         Dead Sea Scrolls                        Richard the Lion Hearted                 Cro-Magnons 
         The Crusades                            The Fertile Crescent                     Paleolithic Age 
         Sewage systems of various cities        Aryan Invasions of India                 Neolithic Age 
                Indus Valley                    Patterns of Ancient Trade                Beginning of Agriculture 
                Rome                            Kush Empire                              Neanderthals 
                Carthage                        Assyrian Empire                          Aqueducts 
         Castle life                             Persian Empire                           Trade in Roman Empire 
         Bloodletting (barbers)                  Greek-City States                        Indian Empires 
                                                 Charlemagne’s Empire                     Indian Trade Routs 
                                                 The Holy Roman Empire                    Muslim Leaders and Empires 
                                                 Mesoamerican Civilizations               Constantinople 
                                                                                          The Mongol Empire 
      
        Olympia and Olympics                 Marco Polo                           Mary Leakey 
        Nomads                               Herodotus                            Hammurabi 
        Tigris and Euphrates River           The Triumvirate                      Menes 
        Indus River Valley                   Lucy                                 Siddhartha Guatama 
        Civilization of the steppes          Spices and Trade                     King Solomon 
        Migration                            Important Artifacts tell stories     Hatshepsut 
        Hittites                             Hominids                             Confucius 
        Anatolia                             Paleolithic Age                      Laozi 
        Aryans                               Neolithic Age                        Pericles 
        Vedas                                Homo sapiens                         Socrates 
        Brahmin                              Cave paintings                       Plato 
        Caste System                         Hunter-gatherers                     Aristotle 
        Mahabharata                          Slash-burn farming                   Alexander 
        Sanskrit                             Domestication                        Hannibal 
        Reincarnation                        Neolithic Revolution                 Julius Caesar 
        Karma                                Ancient Artisans                     Augustus 
        Jainism                              Scribes                              Constantine 
        Siddhartha                           Cuneiform writing                    Diocletian 
        Gautama                              Bronze Age                           Chandragupta Maurya 
        Enlightenment                        Barter                               Asoka 
        Nirvana                              Cultural diffusion                   Liu Bang 
        4 Noble Truths                       Polytheism                           Ezana 
        Minoans                              Theocracy                            Ibn Khaldun 
        Aegean Sea                           Canopic jars                         Empress Theodora 
        Knossos                              Embalming process                    Alexandre Nevsky 
        King Minos                           Monsoon climates                     Malik Shah 
        Phoenicians                          Mohenjo-Daro plumbing                Tang Taizong 
        Writing throughout the ages          Loess in China                       Wu Zhao 
        Palestine                            The Great Wall                       Genghis Khan 
        Torah                                Yangtze River                        Kublai Khan 
        Abraham                              Geography of China                   Marco Polo 
        Monotheism                           Oracle bones                         Benedict 
        Covenants                            Mandate of Heaven                    Saladin 
        Moses                                Dynastic cycle                       Richard the Lion-Hearted 
        Israel                               Feudalism in China                   Joan of Arc 
        Judah                                Medieval Feudalism                   Sundiata 
        Tribute                              Qin dynasty                          Mansa Musa 
        Hatshepsut                           Shi Huangdi                          Pachacuti 
        Thutmose III                         Autocracy                            Medici Family 
        Ramses II                            Epics                                Leonardo da Vinci 
        Nebuchadnezzar                       Myths                                Raphael 
        Assyrian Military Power              Polis                                Martin Luther 
        Cyrus                                Acropolis                            Henry VIII 
        Cambyses                             Monarchy                             Elizabeth I 
        Darius                               Aristocracy                          John Calvin 
        Satrap                               Oligarchy                            Osman 
        Royal Road                           Phalanx                              Shah Abbas 
        Zoroaster                            Tyrant                               Akbar 
        Filial piety                         Helot                                Prince Henry 
        Bureaucracy                          Democracy                            Kangxi 
        Daoism                               Solon                                Hernando Cortes 
        Legalism                             Marathons                            Montezuma II 
        Yin and yang                         Direct democracy                     Philip II of Spain 
        Qin dynasty                          Classical art 
       
       
         Philosophers                           Sahara                                  Czar 
         Mayan ball courts in Mexico            Savanna                                 Kievan Rus 
         Sumo wrestling in Japan                Desertification                         Mongol invasions 
         Darius III                             Maize                                   Mamelukes 
         Farm tools through the ages            Digging up the past                     Seljuks 
         Hellenistic period                     Mesoamerica                             Vizier 
         Alexandria                             Olmec                                   Malik Shah 
         Euclid                                 Zapotec                                 Tang Taizong 
         Archimedes                             Monte Alban                             Wu pastoralist 
         Colossus of Rhodes                     Olmec Civilization                      Clans 
         Greek Astronomy                        Andean civilization                     Genghis Khan 
         Alexandria’s museum                    The Muslim World                        Zhao 
         Pythagorean Theorem                    Allah                                   Movable type 
         Republic                               Muhammad                                Gentry 
         Patricians                             Islam                                   Mongol Empire 
         Plebeians                              Muslim                                  Mongol rulers 
         Tribunes                               Hijrah                                  Kublai Khan 
         Consuls of Rome                        Qur’an                                  Marco Polo 
         Senate                                 Mosque                                  Shinto 
         Dictator                               Hajj                                    Samurai 
         Roman Legions                          Sunna                                   Bushido 
         Hannibal                               Shari’a                                 Shogun 
         Scipio                                 Beliefs and practices of Islam          Feudalism in Japan 
         Roman government structure             caliph                                  Women’s clothing throughout 
         Greek government structure             Shi’a                                   ancient World History 
         The Roman Army                         Sunni                                   The Zen Way 
         Absolute rulers                        Sufi                                    Khmer Empire 
         Augustus                               Fatimid                                 Angkor Wat 
         Pax Romana                             House of Wisdom                         Koryo Dynasty 
         Gladiators                             Calligraphy                             Middle Ages 
         Nero                                   Role of women in ancient                Franks 
         Bad Emperors of Rome                   cultures                                Monastery 
         Good Emperors of Rome                  Medical advances throughout             Secular 
         Bread and Circuses of Rome             ancient history                         Carolingian Dynasty 
         Heresy                                 Math and Science discoveries            The Germanic Kingdom 
         Pope and bishops of the church         throughout ancient history              Clovis 
         The spread of Christianity             Astronomy throughout ancient            Benedict of 543 A.D. 
         Attila the Hun                         history                                 Lord 
         Germanic Invasions                     Religions causing wars                  Fief 
         Greco-Roman culture                    Justinian Code                          Vassal 
         Pompeii                                Hagia Sophia                            Knight 
         Virgil                                 Patriarch                               Serf 
         Tacitus                                Icons                                   Manor 
         The Colosseum                          Iconoclasts                             Tithe 
         Jesus                                  Excommunication                         Chivalry 
         Silk Roads                             Schism                                  Tournaments 
         Gupta Empire                           Cyrillic alphabet                       Castles of the Middle Ages 
         Civil Service                          Slavs                                   Weapons of Middle Ages 
         Henry II                               Boyars                                  Richard the Lion-Hearted 
         Magna Carta                            Olga                                    Reconquista 
         John Wycliffe                          Vladimir                                Inquisition 
         Bubonic plague                         Yaroslav the Wise                       Architecture through the ages 
         Hundred Year’s War                     Alexander Nevsky                        Saladin 
                                                Joan of Arc                             William the Conqueror