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:
1. To strengthen Athenian Democracy.
2. To hold and strengthen the empire.
3. To glorify Athens.

Describe the Art and architecture in Athens including the Parthenon:
Stone, Marble and limestone as these were abundant in Greece.

Describe the invention of Drama in Greece:
The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece.


Describe how Athenians developed a sense for History:
Athenian democracy was developed in the Greek city-state of Athens.


Describe the Peloponnesian War:
The Peloponnesian War was a military conflict that took place between Athens and the Delian League, and Sparta and the Peloponnesian League .


Describe Socrates:
Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher who is credited with laying the fundamentals of modern Western philosophy.


Describe Aristotle:
Describe Aristotle's teaching about the differences between the final cause and the other causes and also discuss the strengths and weaknesses .


Describe Plato:
Plato's dialogues are not only a memorial to Socrates, ..... and then later goes on to describe the different kinds of humans that can be observed.

Thursday, January 28

Bell Ringer:

A. Because they had the power to tell who was going to to do what.

Exit Ticket:

1. I learan that Sparta and Athenian start because Athenian struck Sparta.

2.I learn about Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Bell Ringer

1. Start at the yellow sea and end in the Plateau of Tibet.

2. They both control Qin Ling.

Tuesday, January 19, 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:
Started sometime between 750 and 550 BC when eachers tried to explain the meaning of the veda Hymns

Describe the Religious teachings of Hinduism:
Teachers described it as having an understanding between atman which was the individual soulof a being and Brahman.

How has Hinduism changed over time?
Gods have change over the years with Brahman seen as splitting into three gods and eventually fading while the forms of the devil and the mother goddess.

Describe Hindu culture:
if someone was in upper class his good fortunate was said to come from his good deeds in a previous life, and if he was lower class was said to bad karma from previous life.

Describe Jainism:
Jainism believed everything in the universe had a soul and should not be harmed.

Describe the founding of Buddhism:
Buddhism was found by Siddhartha Gautama who was born in the Himalaya Mts and exhibited marks of great man from birth.

Describe the Religious Beliefs of Buddhism:
Buddhism, like most of the great religions of the world, is divided into a number of different traditions. However, most traditions share a common set of fundamental beliefs.

Describe the Similarities and Differences between Buddhism and Hinduism:
*Buddhism rejects gods priests, formal rituals and the caste sytem
* Did not believe in many gods as Hinduism

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Webquest

Unit 1 Terms

1. Fertile Crescent- A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad half circle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates.
2. Mesopotamia- The land between the Tigris and Euphrates.
3. City- state- A city that governs itself well as the land and people around it.
4. Dynasty- A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family.
5. Cultural diffusion- The movement of customs and ideas from one culture to another.
6. Polytheism- The belief of the existence of many gods.
7. Empire- The domain ruled by an emperor or empress.
8. Hammurabi- Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC).
9. Delta- A low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
10. Namer-
11. Pharaoh- Egyptian king
12. Theocracy- Rule by Gods or, in an extended sense, by God’s Law and/ or God’s agents.
13. Pyramid- A massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt.
14. Mummification- embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy.
15.Hieroglyphics- Ancient system of writing based on pictorial character.
16.Papyrus- Tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that many purposes in historic times.
17.Hyksos- Greek word derived from Egyptian hekawet-hasut, which means “lords of the plains”.
18.New Kingdom the Middle Kingdom ended with the invasion of Egypt by the Hyksos from the east.
19.Thatmose III- Pharaoh whose military campaigns expanded the borders of Egypt.
20.Nubia- An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
21.Ramses II
22.Kush- Ancient state on the territory of the modern Sudan also referred to as Kushite Empire.
23.Piankhi- Whose name was once transliterated as Piankhi Nubian.
24.Meroid
25.Palestine- An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
26.Torah- The holy book of Judaism.
27.Abraham-T he first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
28.Monotheism- Belief in a single God
29.Covenant- A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action.
30.Moses- Moses, the reputed author of the Pentateuch and protagonist of Exodus Medieval.
31.Judah- The original Judah was the fourth son Jacob and Leah.
32.Phoenicians- It is uncertain to what extent the Phoenicians viewed themselves as a single ethnicity.
33.Monsoon- This allows other regions of the world to qualify as monsoon regions.
34.Harappan Civilization- The mature phase of this civilization is known as the Harappan Civilization as the first of its cities.
35.Reincarnation- It means that once your soul is in peace you can move on in the afterlife.
36.Karma - A soul's karma or good and bad deeds follow from one life to another.
37.Siddhartha Gautama
38.Enlightenment
39.Nirvana-
40.Mandate of heaven - In Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority.
41.Feudalism - A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally.
42.Confucius -
43.Filial piety - Respect shown by children for their parents and elders.
44.Bureaucracy- A system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of goverment.
45.Daoism- Refers to a variety of related philosophical and
46.Legalism- Tomkins argues that courts and constitutions are a poor check on executive or legislative.
47.I Ching- The earliest extant version of the text, written on bamboo slips, albeit incomplete.
48.Yin and yang- It means light and dark, female and male and life or death.
49.Qin Dynasty- During its reign over China, the Qin Dynasty enjoyed increased trade, agriculture, and military security.
50.Autocracy- A political system governed by a single individual
51.Allah- Muslim name for the one and only God
52.Muhammad- The prophet who founded Islam.
53.Islam- an Arabic word which, since Mohammed’s time, has acquired a religious and technical significance denoting the religion Mohammed and of the Koran.
54.Hijrah- The flight of Muhammad and fellow believers from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE.
55.Mosque- A place of worship for Muslims, corresponding to a church or synagogue in other religions, and having at least one minaret; a masjid.
56.Hajj- Hajj is one of the five pillars or central duties of Islam.
57.Qur’an- The revealed book from God to Him which is a really living miracle.

Phoenician Review

Phoenician Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe how Phoenicians organized:
Phoenicians organized by city states.

Describe the Phoenician shipbuilding and travel achievements:
They were very successful as sea traders, trading wood, wine, ivory tusks, and even their own ships they built.

Describe the settlement of:
Phoenicia, the kingdom that arose in Canaan with capitals at Tyre and Sidon, was the first great colonizing power of the Mediterranean. Leveraging their superior seafaring skills--which some say were learned from Crete--the Phoenicians by about 1200 BC were trading at coastal towns across the whole Mediterranean. Distant Spain proved to be a particularly lucrative destination.

How did the settlement of Phoenician lands effect trade:

Describe the Phoenician Alphabet and how it spread

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Egypt 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:
Dried

Describe how Egypt Unites:
Narmer combined them

Describe Pharaoh’s and how they rule:
They rule as gods

Describe the Religious Belief of Egyptians:
Polytheistic

Describe the class system in Egypt:
The highest part of the class system is the wealthy and everybody who is not wealthy at the bottom

Describe the Innovations in Egypt including writing:
The written on the wall is words and the words tells storys and there life.

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:
Desert

Describe why people came to region and what they did?
Farmland

Describe how city-states were organized and who were their leaders:
Priest

Describe the religion of Mesopotamia:
Gods

Describe Hammurabi’s Code:
First written code