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.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
20.95 Thesis -
21.Lutheran Church -
22.Anglican Church -
23.Inquisition -
24.Jesuits -
25.Martin Luther -
26.John Calvin -
27.Guttenberg -
28.Henry VIII -
29.Ignatius -
30.Diet of Worms -
31.John Knox -
32.conquistador -
33.Columbian Exchange -
34.mercantilism -
35.triangular trade -
36.Da Gamma -
37.Columbus -
38.Cortez -
39.Pizarro -
40.Magellan -
41.Drake -
42.Cartier -
43.Dias -
44.Vespucci -
45.NW Passage -
46.Champlain -
47.Jamestown -
48.De Soto -
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.
20.95 Thesis -
21.Lutheran Church -
22.Anglican Church -
23.Inquisition -
24.Jesuits -
25.Martin Luther -
26.John Calvin -
27.Guttenberg -
28.Henry VIII -
29.Ignatius -
30.Diet of Worms -
31.John Knox -
32.conquistador -
33.Columbian Exchange -
34.mercantilism -
35.triangular trade -
36.Da Gamma -
37.Columbus -
38.Cortez -
39.Pizarro -
40.Magellan -
41.Drake -
42.Cartier -
43.Dias -
44.Vespucci -
45.NW Passage -
46.Champlain -
47.Jamestown -
48.De Soto -
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).
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).
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Unit 1 Terms
1.Fertile Crescent - An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
2.Mesopotamia - An ancient region in west Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, now part of Iraq.
3.City- state – A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
4.Dynasty – A series of rulers from a single family.
5. Cultural diffusion – The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
6.Polytheism – A doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
7. Empire – A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
8.Hammurabi - 18th century B.C. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
9.Delta – A marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
10.Pharaoh – a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
11.Theocracy – a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
12.Pyramid – a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb.
13.Mummification – to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
14.Hieroglyphics – designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
15.Papyrus – an ancient document, manuscript, or scroll written on this material.
16.Hyksos – a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.: believed to have been a Semitic people that originally migrated into Egypt from Asia.
17.New Kingdom – the period in the history of ancient Egypt, 1580–1085 b.c.,
comprising the 18th to 20th dynasties, characterized by the predominance of Thebes.
18.Hatshepsut – 1495–75 B.C., queen of Egypt.
19.Thutmose III – 1475 b.c., Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
20.Nubia – a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
21.Ramses II – 1292–1225 b.c., king of ancient Egypt.
22.Kush –an area mentioned in the Bible, sometimes identified with Upper Egypt.
23.Piankhi – was the hereditary ruler of the kingdom of Cush on the Upper Nile in what is now the northern Sudan.
24.Meroe – a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed
25.Palestine – Also called holy land. Biblical name, Cannaan an ancient country.
26.Torah – the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
27.Abraham – the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation.
28.Monotheism – The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
29.Covenant – an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
30.Moses – the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
31.Judah – the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in S Palestine, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
32.Phoenicians – a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
33.Monsoon – the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
34.Harappan Civilization – This culture existed along the Indus River in present day Pakistan.
35.Reincarnation – the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
36.Karma – Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation.
37.Siddhartha Gautama – Was given the name buddah (the awakening) and also was the son of a Nepalese Rajah.
38.Enlightenment – the state of being enlightened.
39.Nirvana – a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world.
40.Mandate of heaven – a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source.
41.Feudalism – the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
42.Confucius – Chinese philosopher and teacher.
43.Filial piety – in Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors.
44.Bureaucracy – government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
45.Daoism – philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
46.Legalism – strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
47.I Ching – an ancient Chinese book of divination, in which 64 pairs of trigrams are shown with various interpretations.
48.Yin and yang – ) two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin), and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang), whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things.
49.Qin Dynasty – the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall
50.Autocracy – government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
51.Allah – the Supreme Being; God.
52.Muhammad – founder of Islam
53.Islam – the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah.
54.Hijrah – the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution a.d. 622: regarded as the beginning of the Muslim Era.
55.Mosque – a Muslim temple or place of public worship.
56.Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least once in his or her lifetime: the fifth of the Pillars of Islam.
57.Qur’an – the sacred text of Islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
2.Mesopotamia - An ancient region in west Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, now part of Iraq.
3.City- state – A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
4.Dynasty – A series of rulers from a single family.
5. Cultural diffusion – The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
6.Polytheism – A doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
7. Empire – A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
8.Hammurabi - 18th century B.C. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
9.Delta – A marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
10.Pharaoh – a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
11.Theocracy – a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
12.Pyramid – a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb.
13.Mummification – to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
14.Hieroglyphics – designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
15.Papyrus – an ancient document, manuscript, or scroll written on this material.
16.Hyksos – a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.: believed to have been a Semitic people that originally migrated into Egypt from Asia.
17.New Kingdom – the period in the history of ancient Egypt, 1580–1085 b.c.,
comprising the 18th to 20th dynasties, characterized by the predominance of Thebes.
18.Hatshepsut – 1495–75 B.C., queen of Egypt.
19.Thutmose III – 1475 b.c., Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
20.Nubia – a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
21.Ramses II – 1292–1225 b.c., king of ancient Egypt.
22.Kush –an area mentioned in the Bible, sometimes identified with Upper Egypt.
23.Piankhi – was the hereditary ruler of the kingdom of Cush on the Upper Nile in what is now the northern Sudan.
24.Meroe – a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed
25.Palestine – Also called holy land. Biblical name, Cannaan an ancient country.
26.Torah – the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
27.Abraham – the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation.
28.Monotheism – The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
29.Covenant – an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
30.Moses – the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
31.Judah – the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in S Palestine, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
32.Phoenicians – a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
33.Monsoon – the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
34.Harappan Civilization – This culture existed along the Indus River in present day Pakistan.
35.Reincarnation – the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
36.Karma – Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation.
37.Siddhartha Gautama – Was given the name buddah (the awakening) and also was the son of a Nepalese Rajah.
38.Enlightenment – the state of being enlightened.
39.Nirvana – a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world.
40.Mandate of heaven – a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source.
41.Feudalism – the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
42.Confucius – Chinese philosopher and teacher.
43.Filial piety – in Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors.
44.Bureaucracy – government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
45.Daoism – philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
46.Legalism – strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
47.I Ching – an ancient Chinese book of divination, in which 64 pairs of trigrams are shown with various interpretations.
48.Yin and yang – ) two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin), and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang), whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things.
49.Qin Dynasty – the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall
50.Autocracy – government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
51.Allah – the Supreme Being; God.
52.Muhammad – founder of Islam
53.Islam – the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah.
54.Hijrah – the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution a.d. 622: regarded as the beginning of the Muslim Era.
55.Mosque – a Muslim temple or place of public worship.
56.Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least once in his or her lifetime: the fifth of the Pillars of Islam.
57.Qur’an – the sacred text of Islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
African Empires Review
African Empires Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question
Describe the Empire of Ghana:
Answer: Was gettin rich off of taxing goods that were coming through.
Describe the Islamic Influence in Ghana:
Answer: Islam spreaded through trade.
Describe the Empire of Mali:
Answer: Turmoil in ghana and the founding of gold in the east meant power shifted to Mali.
Describe Mansa Musa:
Answer: Mansa took power with military. He put down every rebellion and expanded empire.
Describe the Songhai Empire:
Answer: Build up military and extend empire to east.
Describe the East Coast trade Cities and the Influence of Islam on them:
Answer: Villiages on the east coast became important trade cities. Muslims introduced islam to the africa's east coast. The growth of commerce caused a religion to spread.
Describe Great Zimbabwe:
Answer: Stood near a great trade route. Which linked to gold fields. Gained control of these routes and became a thriving city.
Describe the Mutapa Empire:
Answer: Used army to dominate areas and forced people to make payments.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question
Describe the Empire of Ghana:
Answer: Was gettin rich off of taxing goods that were coming through.
Describe the Islamic Influence in Ghana:
Answer: Islam spreaded through trade.
Describe the Empire of Mali:
Answer: Turmoil in ghana and the founding of gold in the east meant power shifted to Mali.
Describe Mansa Musa:
Answer: Mansa took power with military. He put down every rebellion and expanded empire.
Describe the Songhai Empire:
Answer: Build up military and extend empire to east.
Describe the East Coast trade Cities and the Influence of Islam on them:
Answer: Villiages on the east coast became important trade cities. Muslims introduced islam to the africa's east coast. The growth of commerce caused a religion to spread.
Describe Great Zimbabwe:
Answer: Stood near a great trade route. Which linked to gold fields. Gained control of these routes and became a thriving city.
Describe the Mutapa Empire:
Answer: Used army to dominate areas and forced people to make payments.
The Mongol Review
Mongol Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question
Describe the Rise of Genghis Khan:
Answer: He fought his rivals and defeated them one by one.
Describe why Genghis was successful:
Answer: He was a brilliant organizer. A gifted strategist, and usesd cruelty as a weaspon.
Describe what happens to the Mongol Empire after Genghis Death:
Answer: His successors still conquerer and conquer form china. Divided their empires into four refgions called khantes.
Describe the Mongol Peace:
Answer: The mongols imposed stability and law and order process. The Mongols guaranteeded safe passage of traders, travelers, and missionaries from one empire to another.
Describe the rise of Kublai Khan:
Answer: Khan started a dynasty with unites china for the first time in 300 years. Opened china to great trades and foreighn contacts. Build new capital and moves there at modern dat beijing
Describe Khan’s invasion of Japan:
Answer: Sends huge fleets against japan. Second attack was the largest sea attack un will World war II.
Describe How Khan rules in China:
Answer: Mongols and chinese lived seprately. Khan was a capable leader building roads and canals ensuring supplies got all over china.
Describe the foreign influence on Khan:
Answer: The monogol peace meant trade rountes were open and traders could carry chinese supplies to Europe. Khan also invited foreign to visi.
Describe the fall of the Mongol Empire:
Answer: Khan dies and his dynasty is overthrown.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question
Describe the Rise of Genghis Khan:
Answer: He fought his rivals and defeated them one by one.
Describe why Genghis was successful:
Answer: He was a brilliant organizer. A gifted strategist, and usesd cruelty as a weaspon.
Describe what happens to the Mongol Empire after Genghis Death:
Answer: His successors still conquerer and conquer form china. Divided their empires into four refgions called khantes.
Describe the Mongol Peace:
Answer: The mongols imposed stability and law and order process. The Mongols guaranteeded safe passage of traders, travelers, and missionaries from one empire to another.
Describe the rise of Kublai Khan:
Answer: Khan started a dynasty with unites china for the first time in 300 years. Opened china to great trades and foreighn contacts. Build new capital and moves there at modern dat beijing
Describe Khan’s invasion of Japan:
Answer: Sends huge fleets against japan. Second attack was the largest sea attack un will World war II.
Describe How Khan rules in China:
Answer: Mongols and chinese lived seprately. Khan was a capable leader building roads and canals ensuring supplies got all over china.
Describe the foreign influence on Khan:
Answer: The monogol peace meant trade rountes were open and traders could carry chinese supplies to Europe. Khan also invited foreign to visi.
Describe the fall of the Mongol Empire:
Answer: Khan dies and his dynasty is overthrown.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Bell Ringer 2-8-10
1. 30 years, Looks like a desert.
2. Botch sides contain desert, rainforest, savanna, and mediterranean.
2. Botch sides contain desert, rainforest, savanna, and mediterranean.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Bell Ringer 2-5-10
1. They had 10,000 soldier.
2. Women to take care of them.
3. They had many weapons.
2. Women to take care of them.
3. They had many weapons.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Rome: Julius Caesar Movie Questions
1. Riots, violence, murder
2.Glory and Leadership.
3.Strength.
4. Hispania.
5. Popularity.
6. Consul.
7. People liked him also he was a good speaker.
8. Wanted change, cared for poor.
9. Sell slaves.
10. Marries his daughter to Pompey.
11. Triumvirate
12.
13. Helvetian's.
14. Took a Few risk.
15. They thought he would take over.
16. In love with Caesars daughter.
17. Post in one of the Eastern Provinces.
18. Areolvistas.
19. Forcing the barbarians to fight.
20. Germany and Britian.
21. To justify his actions.
22. Elected to the consul.
23. Caesars daughter dies in child birth.
24. Riots and violence in the streets.
25. Mark Anthony.
26. Defeats Gauls.
27. Release his army, He refuses.
28. Flocked to him lik a god.
29. Greece.
30. A civil war breaks out.
31. He is murdered and beheaded
32. Caesar has total power in rome.
33. Changes rome into a dictatorship.
34. stabbed to death by members of the senate, led by Brutus.
2.Glory and Leadership.
3.Strength.
4. Hispania.
5. Popularity.
6. Consul.
7. People liked him also he was a good speaker.
8. Wanted change, cared for poor.
9. Sell slaves.
10. Marries his daughter to Pompey.
11. Triumvirate
12.
13. Helvetian's.
14. Took a Few risk.
15. They thought he would take over.
16. In love with Caesars daughter.
17. Post in one of the Eastern Provinces.
18. Areolvistas.
19. Forcing the barbarians to fight.
20. Germany and Britian.
21. To justify his actions.
22. Elected to the consul.
23. Caesars daughter dies in child birth.
24. Riots and violence in the streets.
25. Mark Anthony.
26. Defeats Gauls.
27. Release his army, He refuses.
28. Flocked to him lik a god.
29. Greece.
30. A civil war breaks out.
31. He is murdered and beheaded
32. Caesar has total power in rome.
33. Changes rome into a dictatorship.
34. stabbed to death by members of the senate, led by Brutus.
Byzantine Empire Review
Byzantine Empire Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe how the Byzantines established their empire:
Answer: Roman leaders broke up the empire in 395, but rulers in the east continued to see themselves as emperors of Rome.
Describe the challenges Byzantine rule faced:
Answer: Emperors lived under constant threat of assasination.
Describe Life in the Byzantine Empire:
Answer: They lived by code called "Justinian Code"
Describe Life in Constantinople:
Answer: The main street running throught Constantinople was lined with merchant stalls. Citizens enjoy free chariot races and other performaces at the "Hippodrome"
Describe the fall of the Byzantine Empire:
Answer: Thousands of people were dying from bubonic plague.
Describe the Split of the Catholic Church:
Answer: Due to largely lack of contact between Rome and Eastern Empire.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe how the Byzantines established their empire:
Answer: Roman leaders broke up the empire in 395, but rulers in the east continued to see themselves as emperors of Rome.
Describe the challenges Byzantine rule faced:
Answer: Emperors lived under constant threat of assasination.
Describe Life in the Byzantine Empire:
Answer: They lived by code called "Justinian Code"
Describe Life in Constantinople:
Answer: The main street running throught Constantinople was lined with merchant stalls. Citizens enjoy free chariot races and other performaces at the "Hippodrome"
Describe the fall of the Byzantine Empire:
Answer: Thousands of people were dying from bubonic plague.
Describe the Split of the Catholic Church:
Answer: Due to largely lack of contact between Rome and Eastern Empire.
Bell Ringer 2-4-10
1. Mostly i think because of the divorce situation.
2. No until they agree on certain things.
2. No until they agree on certain things.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Rome Part 3 Review
1. Most people lived in countryside and worked on farms
2. Most slaves were conquered people brought back after wars.
3. Tied with spirits over the gov and eventually the emperor being worshiped.
4.Provided free games, races, mock battles and gladiator contests.
5. He preached, taught, did good works, and performed miricales.
6. The Apostle Paul preached that Jesus died.
7. Thousands being crucified, burned, or killed by wild animals in the area.
8. The roads the romans had set up so that traveling would be easy. This could make it easier to spread christianity easier.
2. Most slaves were conquered people brought back after wars.
3. Tied with spirits over the gov and eventually the emperor being worshiped.
4.Provided free games, races, mock battles and gladiator contests.
5. He preached, taught, did good works, and performed miricales.
6. The Apostle Paul preached that Jesus died.
7. Thousands being crucified, burned, or killed by wild animals in the area.
8. The roads the romans had set up so that traveling would be easy. This could make it easier to spread christianity easier.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Hinduism / Buddhism Review
Hinduism / Buddhism Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe How Hinduism Began:
Answer: Hinduism was a collection of religious beliefs that developed over time.
Describe the Religious teachings of Hinduism:
Liberating the soul from illusions, disappointments, and mistakes of everyday experience.
How has Hinduism changed over time?
Answer: Brahma split into 3 gods and eventually fading while the forms of the devil and the mother goddess became more important.
Describe Hindu culture:
Ideas about karma and reincarnation strengthen the caste system.
Describe Jainism:
They believed everything in the universe had a soul and should not be harmed.
Describe the founding of Buddhism:
The founder Siddhartha Gautama exhibited marks of great man from birth.
Describe the Religious Beliefs of Buddhism:
Religious life is the only way to gain refuge from life's suffering.
Describe the Similarities and Differences between Buddhism and Hinduism:
They have different religious beliefs
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe How Hinduism Began:
Answer: Hinduism was a collection of religious beliefs that developed over time.
Describe the Religious teachings of Hinduism:
Liberating the soul from illusions, disappointments, and mistakes of everyday experience.
How has Hinduism changed over time?
Answer: Brahma split into 3 gods and eventually fading while the forms of the devil and the mother goddess became more important.
Describe Hindu culture:
Ideas about karma and reincarnation strengthen the caste system.
Describe Jainism:
They believed everything in the universe had a soul and should not be harmed.
Describe the founding of Buddhism:
The founder Siddhartha Gautama exhibited marks of great man from birth.
Describe the Religious Beliefs of Buddhism:
Religious life is the only way to gain refuge from life's suffering.
Describe the Similarities and Differences between Buddhism and Hinduism:
They have different religious beliefs
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Greece Part 2 Review
Greece Part 2 Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe Pericles three goals for government:
Answer: 1. To strengthen Athenian Democracy
2. To hold and strenghten the empire.
3. To glorify Athens.
Describe the Art and architecture in Athens including the Parthenon:
Answer: Pericles wanted to have the greatest greek artists and architects to create magnificent buildings to glorify athens.
Parethenon has a similar style to other greek temples. It was the built honor goddness Athena.
Describe the invention of Drama in Greece:
Answer: Drama in greece was invented in art form. It was about leadership, justice, and duties to the gods.
Describe how Athenians developed a sense for History:
Answer: Thucydides who believed events and political recur over time. Studying the events and writing them down would give them a better understanding of the present time.
Describe the Peloponnesian War:
Answer: Athens grew in wealth, prestige and power and other city-states began to view it with hostility.
Describe Socrates:
Answer: Believed absolute standards did exists for truth and justice.
Describe Aristotle:
Answer: Plato's student. He questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, though and knowledge.
Describe Plato:
Answer: A student of Socrates. Wrote his vision of a perfectly governed society in " The Republic".
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe Pericles three goals for government:
Answer: 1. To strengthen Athenian Democracy
2. To hold and strenghten the empire.
3. To glorify Athens.
Describe the Art and architecture in Athens including the Parthenon:
Answer: Pericles wanted to have the greatest greek artists and architects to create magnificent buildings to glorify athens.
Parethenon has a similar style to other greek temples. It was the built honor goddness Athena.
Describe the invention of Drama in Greece:
Answer: Drama in greece was invented in art form. It was about leadership, justice, and duties to the gods.
Describe how Athenians developed a sense for History:
Answer: Thucydides who believed events and political recur over time. Studying the events and writing them down would give them a better understanding of the present time.
Describe the Peloponnesian War:
Answer: Athens grew in wealth, prestige and power and other city-states began to view it with hostility.
Describe Socrates:
Answer: Believed absolute standards did exists for truth and justice.
Describe Aristotle:
Answer: Plato's student. He questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, though and knowledge.
Describe Plato:
Answer: A student of Socrates. Wrote his vision of a perfectly governed society in " The Republic".
Bell Ringer 1-28-10
No, because some of "the whole people" don't have a decision. The Government could threaten certain people to do what tehey want. So everyone could not be or treated equally.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Phenocians
Phoenician Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe how Phoenicians organized: They were organized in several city-states spread out.
Describe the Phoenician shipbuilding and travel achievements: Were the first Mediterranean people to venture beyond straight of Gibraltar.
Describe the settlement of Phoenician lands: Had cities along North Coast of Africa, Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain.
How did the settlement of Phoenician lands effect trade: Their trade was upset by Eastern Cities were captured by Assyrians and Western Cities were captured by Babylonians.
Describe the Phoenician Alphabet and how it spread: It was developed to represent sound. And was spread to trade partners.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe how Phoenicians organized: They were organized in several city-states spread out.
Describe the Phoenician shipbuilding and travel achievements: Were the first Mediterranean people to venture beyond straight of Gibraltar.
Describe the settlement of Phoenician lands: Had cities along North Coast of Africa, Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain.
How did the settlement of Phoenician lands effect trade: Their trade was upset by Eastern Cities were captured by Assyrians and Western Cities were captured by Babylonians.
Describe the Phoenician Alphabet and how it spread: It was developed to represent sound. And was spread to trade partners.
Hebrew Review
Israel Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe Early Hebrew History: God told Abraham to move to canaan to start a new civilization.
Describe the characteristics of the Hebrew religion: They believe in one god. Yahweh
Describe Moses influence on the Jewish Religion: Moses rescue his people from Egypt. Also god gave Moses the 10 commandments.
Describe the Hebrew Culture: They wanted to live a moral life accordance to God laws.
Describe the Hebrew Reign of Kings: It lasted over the next 200 years. It started with king Saul.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe Early Hebrew History: God told Abraham to move to canaan to start a new civilization.
Describe the characteristics of the Hebrew religion: They believe in one god. Yahweh
Describe Moses influence on the Jewish Religion: Moses rescue his people from Egypt. Also god gave Moses the 10 commandments.
Describe the Hebrew Culture: They wanted to live a moral life accordance to God laws.
Describe the Hebrew Reign of Kings: It lasted over the next 200 years. It started with king Saul.
Egypt Part 1 Review
Ancient Egypt 1 Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the farming culture in Egypt: They waited for the Nile river to flood before they planted their crops.
Describe how Egypt Unites: they are united by narmer into upper and lower Egypt.
Describe Pharaoh’s and how they rule: theocracy because its ruled by religion.
Describe the Religious Belief of Egyptians: polytheistic with Re the sun god being the most important.
Describe the class system in Egypt: Royals at top, Gov officials, priests and army commandeers, Lower class was peasant farmers, and laborers.
Describe the Innovations in Egypt including writing: They developed hieroglyphics and developed paper like shet with papyrus.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the farming culture in Egypt: They waited for the Nile river to flood before they planted their crops.
Describe how Egypt Unites: they are united by narmer into upper and lower Egypt.
Describe Pharaoh’s and how they rule: theocracy because its ruled by religion.
Describe the Religious Belief of Egyptians: polytheistic with Re the sun god being the most important.
Describe the class system in Egypt: Royals at top, Gov officials, priests and army commandeers, Lower class was peasant farmers, and laborers.
Describe the Innovations in Egypt including writing: They developed hieroglyphics and developed paper like shet with papyrus.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Unit 1 Terms
Unit 1 Terms
1. Fertile Crescent - An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
2. Mesopatamia- An ancient region in west Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, now part of Iraq.
3. City- state – A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
4. Dynasty– A series of rulers from a single family.
5. Cultural diffusion – The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
6. Polytheism – A doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
7. Empire – A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
8. Hammurabi - 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
9. Delta – A marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
10. Pharaoh - a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
11. Theocracy -a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities
12. Pyramid - 1. a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb.
13. Mummification - to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
14. Hieroglyphics - designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particulary that of the ancient Egyptians, in many of the symbols are conventionalized.
15. Papyrus - an ancient document, manuscript, or scroll written on this material.
16. Hyksos - a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.
17. New Kingdom - the period in the history of ancient Egypt, 1580–1085 b.c., comprising the 18th to 20th dynasties, characterized by the predominance of Thebes.
18. Hatshepsut - 1495–75 B.C., queen of Egypt.
19. Thatmose III - 17.1475 b.c., Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
20. Nubia - a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
21. Ramses II - 1292–1225 b.c., king of ancient Egypt.
22. Kush - Kingdom of, an ancient African state in this area; part of the region of Nubia
23. Piankhi - Piankhi was the hereditary ruler of the kingdom of Cush on the Upper Nile in what is now the northern Sudan.
24. Meroe - a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed A.D. c350.
25. Palestine - a former British mandate (1923–48) comprising part of this country, divided between Israel, Jordan, and Egypt in 1948.
26. Torah - the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
27. Abraham - the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation.
28. Monotheism - the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
29. Covenant - an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
30. Moses - the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
31. Judah - the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in S Palestine, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
32. Phoenicians - a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
33. Monsoon - the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
34. Harappan Civilization -
35. Reincarnation - the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
36. Karma - Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman
37. Siddhartha Gautama - Account of the life of Siddhartha Gautama, on a site that is an introduction to Buddhism.
38. Enlightenment - the act of enlightening.
39. Nirvana - freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusio
40. Mandate of heaven -
41. Feudalism -
42. Confucius -
43. Filial piety -
44. Bureaucracy -
45. Daoism -
46. Legalism -
47. I Ching -
48. Yin and yang -
49. Qin Dynasty -
50. Autocracy -
51. Allah -
52. Muhammad -
53. Islam -
54. Hijrah -
55. Mosque -
56. Hajj -
57. Qur’an -
1. Fertile Crescent - An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
2. Mesopatamia- An ancient region in west Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, now part of Iraq.
3. City- state – A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
4. Dynasty– A series of rulers from a single family.
5. Cultural diffusion – The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
6. Polytheism – A doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
7. Empire – A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
8. Hammurabi - 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
9. Delta – A marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
10. Pharaoh - a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
11. Theocracy -a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities
12. Pyramid - 1. a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb.
13. Mummification - to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
14. Hieroglyphics - designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particulary that of the ancient Egyptians, in many of the symbols are conventionalized.
15. Papyrus - an ancient document, manuscript, or scroll written on this material.
16. Hyksos - a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.
17. New Kingdom - the period in the history of ancient Egypt, 1580–1085 b.c., comprising the 18th to 20th dynasties, characterized by the predominance of Thebes.
18. Hatshepsut - 1495–75 B.C., queen of Egypt.
19. Thatmose III - 17.1475 b.c., Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
20. Nubia - a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
21. Ramses II - 1292–1225 b.c., king of ancient Egypt.
22. Kush - Kingdom of, an ancient African state in this area; part of the region of Nubia
23. Piankhi - Piankhi was the hereditary ruler of the kingdom of Cush on the Upper Nile in what is now the northern Sudan.
24. Meroe - a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed A.D. c350.
25. Palestine - a former British mandate (1923–48) comprising part of this country, divided between Israel, Jordan, and Egypt in 1948.
26. Torah - the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
27. Abraham - the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation.
28. Monotheism - the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
29. Covenant - an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
30. Moses - the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
31. Judah - the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in S Palestine, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
32. Phoenicians - a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
33. Monsoon - the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
34. Harappan Civilization -
35. Reincarnation - the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
36. Karma - Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman
37. Siddhartha Gautama - Account of the life of Siddhartha Gautama, on a site that is an introduction to Buddhism.
38. Enlightenment - the act of enlightening.
39. Nirvana - freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusio
40. Mandate of heaven -
41. Feudalism -
42. Confucius -
43. Filial piety -
44. Bureaucracy -
45. Daoism -
46. Legalism -
47. I Ching -
48. Yin and yang -
49. Qin Dynasty -
50. Autocracy -
51. Allah -
52. Muhammad -
53. Islam -
54. Hijrah -
55. Mosque -
56. Hajj -
57. Qur’an -
Friday, January 15, 2010
India Review
India Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the Geographic Challenges in the Indus Valley:
Answer: They have unpredictable flooding which spread good soil. Wet and dry seasons.
Describe the first evidence of people in the Indus Valley:
Answer: Historians believe that some of the first settlers of India come from Africa.
Describe the cities of the Indus Valley:
Answers: Every city-state had central part where most of the build would be found.
Describe Harrapan written language:
Answer: It was found on pottery through out the city-state.
Describe Harrappan Culture:
Answer: They weren’t big on war, they were a farming and trading civilization.
Describe Why the Harrapan Culture declined:
Answer: Because of drought and over used soil.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the Geographic Challenges in the Indus Valley:
Answer: They have unpredictable flooding which spread good soil. Wet and dry seasons.
Describe the first evidence of people in the Indus Valley:
Answer: Historians believe that some of the first settlers of India come from Africa.
Describe the cities of the Indus Valley:
Answers: Every city-state had central part where most of the build would be found.
Describe Harrapan written language:
Answer: It was found on pottery through out the city-state.
Describe Harrappan Culture:
Answer: They weren’t big on war, they were a farming and trading civilization.
Describe Why the Harrapan Culture declined:
Answer: Because of drought and over used soil.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The Lost Pyramid Movie Questions
“The Lost Pyramid Movie Questions”
Directions: Watch the movie and answer the questions on this sheet of paper. When the movie is over post the answers in your blog.
1. Name one of the pharaohs who built the pyramids in Giza?
Answer: Khuphu
2. What is the pyramid an ultimate symbol of?
Answer: A pharaoh’s power.
3. Why are the pyramids regarded as one of mans greatest achievements?
Answer: Because it was so complex for their time.
4. Why was the lost pyramid very difficult to visit?
Answer: It was a military site.
5. Why was Abu Rawash a good location even with the inhospitable conditions?
Answer: Because it’s a hill top high up.
6. How did the pharaoh who supposedly built the pyramid at Abu Rawash gain power?
Answer: By killing.
7. What have been found at Abu Rawash that gives clues to it being built by Jadhifri?
Answer: Face sculpture and statues
8. What is at Saqqara?
Answer: The site of the oldest pyramid.
9. Prior to pyramids how were pharaohs’s buried?
10. What do tunnels tell about what pyramids were meant to be?
Answer: A home for the after life for the king.
11. Were does the burial chamber lie in relation to the pyramid?
12. What does Abu Rawash have that makes it seem to be a pyramid?
Answer: The burial chamber.
13. Why did a Robbers hole give evidence that Abu Rawash had a burial chamber?
Answer: Because that’s were they make their hole.
14. What kind of blocks helped seal the burial chamber?
Answer: Granite
15. In the early 19oo’s what did the French Egyptologist find that was different from other pyramids?
Answer: Destroyed statues
16. Who does Jadhifri marry, that lends credence to a theory that he killed his brother?
Answer: His own sister.
17. What have archaeologist attempting to figure out about Abu Rawash?
Answer: What they built on a hill top.
18. What are the two functions of the causeway at Abu Rawash?
Answer: Path for beginning. Path to after life. Path for stone.
19. How did the Egyptians orient their pyramids?
Answer: West in the way of the sun.
20. Why was the Causeway not a normal east West causeway?
Answer: Because he separated from his family.
21. What does the Causeway lead to?
Answer: cowry
22. What role does the Nile River play in the building of Pyramids?
Answer: Transport system
23. What had to be built close to the pyramid for the workers?
Answer: Harbor and Canal
24. What types of people lived in the working towns?
Answer: Works man.
25. How did the Egyptians figure out to cut Granite?
Answer: Copper saw.
26. How was Granite used at Abu Rawash to show power and wealth?
Answer: It was very expensive and time consuming.
27. Why do archaeologist want to rethink Jadhifiri’s accomplishments with his
pyramid?
Answer: Because of new evidence.
28. What is the mystery of the sphinx? How have historians changed their view?
Answer: The sphinx does not look like kafray. They believe that jadahfiri built the sphinx. In order to honor his father.
Directions: Watch the movie and answer the questions on this sheet of paper. When the movie is over post the answers in your blog.
1. Name one of the pharaohs who built the pyramids in Giza?
Answer: Khuphu
2. What is the pyramid an ultimate symbol of?
Answer: A pharaoh’s power.
3. Why are the pyramids regarded as one of mans greatest achievements?
Answer: Because it was so complex for their time.
4. Why was the lost pyramid very difficult to visit?
Answer: It was a military site.
5. Why was Abu Rawash a good location even with the inhospitable conditions?
Answer: Because it’s a hill top high up.
6. How did the pharaoh who supposedly built the pyramid at Abu Rawash gain power?
Answer: By killing.
7. What have been found at Abu Rawash that gives clues to it being built by Jadhifri?
Answer: Face sculpture and statues
8. What is at Saqqara?
Answer: The site of the oldest pyramid.
9. Prior to pyramids how were pharaohs’s buried?
10. What do tunnels tell about what pyramids were meant to be?
Answer: A home for the after life for the king.
11. Were does the burial chamber lie in relation to the pyramid?
12. What does Abu Rawash have that makes it seem to be a pyramid?
Answer: The burial chamber.
13. Why did a Robbers hole give evidence that Abu Rawash had a burial chamber?
Answer: Because that’s were they make their hole.
14. What kind of blocks helped seal the burial chamber?
Answer: Granite
15. In the early 19oo’s what did the French Egyptologist find that was different from other pyramids?
Answer: Destroyed statues
16. Who does Jadhifri marry, that lends credence to a theory that he killed his brother?
Answer: His own sister.
17. What have archaeologist attempting to figure out about Abu Rawash?
Answer: What they built on a hill top.
18. What are the two functions of the causeway at Abu Rawash?
Answer: Path for beginning. Path to after life. Path for stone.
19. How did the Egyptians orient their pyramids?
Answer: West in the way of the sun.
20. Why was the Causeway not a normal east West causeway?
Answer: Because he separated from his family.
21. What does the Causeway lead to?
Answer: cowry
22. What role does the Nile River play in the building of Pyramids?
Answer: Transport system
23. What had to be built close to the pyramid for the workers?
Answer: Harbor and Canal
24. What types of people lived in the working towns?
Answer: Works man.
25. How did the Egyptians figure out to cut Granite?
Answer: Copper saw.
26. How was Granite used at Abu Rawash to show power and wealth?
Answer: It was very expensive and time consuming.
27. Why do archaeologist want to rethink Jadhifiri’s accomplishments with his
pyramid?
Answer: Because of new evidence.
28. What is the mystery of the sphinx? How have historians changed their view?
Answer: The sphinx does not look like kafray. They believe that jadahfiri built the sphinx. In order to honor his father.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Mesopotamia Review
Mesopotamia Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe Geography of Mesopotamia: Area became known as Fertile Crescent with land in between forming first civilization.
Describe why people came to region and what they did?
People began to settle and farm land before 4500 BC, Samarians arrived in 3300 BC.
Describe how city-states were organized and who were their leaders: Each city was organized by being similar in culture but having its on gov.
Describe the religion of Mesopotamia: Polytheistic or believed in many gods who control nature. Also Gods descried as human things like falling in love and having kids.
Describe Hammurabi’s Code: The code had 282 laws dealing with everything in community such as family relations, business conduct, and crime and property issues.
Code applied to everyone but established different punishments for rich and poor and men and women.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe Geography of Mesopotamia: Area became known as Fertile Crescent with land in between forming first civilization.
Describe why people came to region and what they did?
People began to settle and farm land before 4500 BC, Samarians arrived in 3300 BC.
Describe how city-states were organized and who were their leaders: Each city was organized by being similar in culture but having its on gov.
Describe the religion of Mesopotamia: Polytheistic or believed in many gods who control nature. Also Gods descried as human things like falling in love and having kids.
Describe Hammurabi’s Code: The code had 282 laws dealing with everything in community such as family relations, business conduct, and crime and property issues.
Code applied to everyone but established different punishments for rich and poor and men and women.
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