Saturday, March 13, 2010

Ottoman Review

Ottoman Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question

Describe how the Ottoman Empire Begins:
Answer: Begins out of small state between muslims and byzantines that will eventually unite all of the turks.

Describe Ottoman Soldiers and why they were successful in battle:
Answer: The first to replace soldiers on horse back with soldiers with guns and they were the first to use cannons.

Describe the rebellion of Timur the Lame:
Burned the city of Baghdad and beat ottoman in battle.

Describe the rule of Mehmed II:
Answer: First ruler to conquer Constantinople.

Describe the rule of Suleyeman:
Answer: He was known for his courts splendor and cultural achievements.

Describe how Suleyeman changed culture:
Created law code, Simplified tax code.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

China Review

China Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question

Describe the Ming Dynasty:
Answer: Were paid regular tribute by other states in southeast.

Describe the Rule of Hongwu:
Answer: Driving out the monguls.

Describe Ming trade and relations with foreign govs:
Answer: Gov. tried to control trade.

Describe the Qing Dynasty:
Answer: Rule by manchu's and rebellious flared up, but slowly manchu's earned peoples respect by up holding traditional values.

Describe the culture of the Qing Dynasty:
Answer: They had to earn peoples respect by up holding traditional values.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Renaissance Part 1

Renaissance Part 1 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question
Describe how the Renaissance began:
Answer: Urban centers- lots of opportunities and resources and Merchant dominated.

Describe Giotto:
Answer: Created allusion of depth.

Describe the Divine Comedy:
Answer: Written in vernacular.

Describe Why Florence was the Birth of the Renaissance:
Answer: Kept faith of lower class by being the champion of popular causes


Describe How Artist Beautified Florence:
Answer: Ghiberti- spent 50 years creating bronze doors for baptistery

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Middle Ages 3 Review

Middle Ages Part 3 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question

Describe how the Crusades started:
Answer: The Christian wanted to gain control of Jerusalem back from the Muslim.

Describe what happened during the Crusades:
Answer: They were unprepared and had trouble picking a leader.

Describe how the Crusades Ended:
Answer: Ended in truce with the Kurds keeping Jerusalem but allowing Christians pilgrimage to visit.

Describe the Changes in Farming during the middle Ages:
Answer: Earth warmed allowing farmers to use new farming techniques.


Describe what a Guild is:
Answer: Organizations that developed in Europe.

Describe the Commercial Revolution:
Answer: Increases availability of trade goods.

Describe the new emphasis on learning:
Answer: Jewish Scholars translated Greek into Latin language.

Bell ringer 2-24-10

1. Get alot of money, jewels, and precious objects.
2. The advantages were they got to be safer at home.But the disadvantages was they could have been secretly robbed.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

European Changes Web Quest Words

European Changes Web Quest Words
1.Charlemagne - Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

2.Fief - a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.

3.Vassal - a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military serviceor its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.


4.Serf - a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferredwith it from one owner to another.

5.Canon law - the body of codified ecclesiastical law, esp. of the Roman Catholic Church as promulgated in ecclesiastical councils and bythe pope.

6.Thomas Aquinas - a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.

7.Magna Carta - any fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing rights and liberties.


8.Estates General - assembly of the estates of all France

9.Great Schisim - a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church

10.Hundred Years War - the series of wars between England and France,

11.Renaissance - the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe

12.Michelangelo - Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

13.Leonardo Da Vinci - Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, mathematician, and scientist.

14.The Divine Comedy - An epic poem written by Dante in the early fourteenth century, describing the author's journey through the afterlife

15.Cosmo De Medici - was the first of the Medici political dynasty

16.Donatello - Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural, lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue

17.Raphael - Italian painter whose works, including religious subjects, portraits, and frescoes, exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance.

18.indulgence - a partial remission of the temporal punishment, esp. purgatorial atonement

19.usury - the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.


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24.Jesuits -

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

European Empires Webquest Words

European Empires Webquest Words

1.Mycenaean - Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Mycenae.

2.Trojan War - a ten-year war waged by the confederated Greeks under Agamemnon against the Trojans to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, by Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, and ending in the plundering and burning of Troy.

3.Homer - a Hebrew unit of capacity equal to ten baths in liquid measure or ten ephahs in dry measure.


4.Polis - an ancient Greek city-state.

5.Helot - a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.

6.Phalanx - a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.

7.Persian War - were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia

8.Peloponnesian War - a war between Athens and Sparta, 431–404 b.c., that resulted in the transfer of hegemony in Greece from Athens to Sparta.

9.Socrates -Athenian philosopher

10.Plato - Greek philosopher. A follower of Socrates.

11.Aristotle - Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great.

12.Alexander the Great - king of Macedonia 336–323: conqueror of Greek city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India.

13.Republic - a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato dealing with the composition and structure of the ideal state.

14.Patrician - a member of the original senatorial aristocracy in ancient Rome.

15.Plebeian - of pertaining to, or belonging to the ancient Roman plebs.

16.Punic Wars - the three wars waged by Rome against Carthage,

17.Hannibal - Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy

18.Julius Caesar - Roman general, statesman, and historian who invaded Britain, crushed the army of his political enemy Pompey

19.Triumvirate - the office or magistracy of a triumvir.

20.Augustus - Also called Octavian, first Roman emperor reformer, patron of arts and literature; heir and successor to Julius Caesar.

21.Jesus - the source of the Christian religion.

22.Constantine - Roman emperor named Constantinople as the new capital; legally sanctioned Christian worship.

23.Constantinople - the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Empire

24.Attila - king of the Huns who invaded Europe: defeated by the Romans and Visigoths in 451 at Châlons-sur-Marne in France.

25.Justinian - Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians.

26.Hagia Sophia - a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church

27.Gengis Khan - Mongol conqueror of most of Asia and of E Europe to the Dnieper River.

28.Kublai Khan - Founder of the Mongol dynasty in China (grandson of Genghis Khan).