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".
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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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