Thursday, January 28, 2010

Thursday January 28, 2010

Bell ringer:
1. I don't agree with that, because he descided to who was going to do what, and used money from the Delian league to beautify Athens and strengthen the military without permission.

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:
To strengthen Athenian Democracy, to hold and strengthen the empire, and to glorify Athens.

Describe the Art and architecture in Athens including the Parthenon:
It was built to honor the goddess Athena.

Describe the invention of Drama in Greece:
As a civic duty wealthy bank rolled plays that were about leadership, justice, and duties to the gods. Two kinds of plays were written: tragedies and comedies.


Describe how Athenians developed a sense for History:
Only records of the Dorian age were homer’s epics which are not accurate, and the greatest historian was Thucydides who believed that events and political situations reoccur over time.


Describe the Peloponnesian War:
Athens had a stronger navy and Sparta had a stronger army, so Pericles avoided land completely and decided to attack by sea. In the second year of the war the plague hit killing a third of the population including Pericles himself.
Describe Socrates:
Believed that absolute did exist for truth and justice, and encouraged Greeks to go farther and question themselves and their moral character.


Describe Aristotle:
Plato’s student, he questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, thought and knowledge.


Describe Plato:
A student of Socrates wrote his vision of a perfectly governed society in “The republic”, and believes that everyone should be ruled by the person with greatest and highest intellect.

Exit ticket:
1. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were philosophers that went to seek the truth of life.
2. Pericles took money from the Delian League to strengthen the military and glorify Athens without permisson.
3. fter the Persian War Athens took over the Delian League.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Bell Ringer January 20, 2010

1. They both start at the yellow river and end in the Plateau of Tibet.
2. They both had ruled in Anyang, Zhengzhou, Hao, Luoyang, Yangzhou, and Panlongcheng.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

HinduismBuddhism Review January 19, 2010

Hinduism / Buddhism Review

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

Describe How Hinduism Began:
A collection of different religious beliefs.

Describe the Religious teachings of Hinduism:
Hindu teachers tried to explain the meaning of the Veda Hymns, teachers described it as having and understanding between atman.

How has Hinduism changed over time?
Brahma was slit into three gods and eventually fading while the devil and mother Goddess became more important.

Describe Hindu culture:
They are allowed to choose their own deity to worship, believe in karma, and have a Caste System.

Describe Jainism:
Jains believed that everything in the universe had a soul.

Describe the founding of Buddhism:


Describe the Religious Beliefs of Buddhism:


Describe the Similarities and Differences between Buddhism and Hinduism:

Friday, January 15, 2010

India Review January 15, 2010

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:
Unpredictable flooding, rivers sometimes changed course, and the cycle of wet and dry season was unpredictable.

Describe the first evidence of people in the Indus Valley:
The first people were either Africans who settled south or northern immigrants.

Describe the cities of the Indus Valley:
Over 1000 civilizations were discovered in very precise, planned out grids.

Describe Harrapan written language:
Was not bilingual, which made it impossible to decipher, and was only found on trading pots.

Describe Harrappan Culture:
The class system was pretty much non-existent, the houses were all basically the same size. They had toys for children, and animals were very important to their religion.

Describe Why the Harrapan Culture declined:
Drought and over used farm land.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Unit 1 terms January 14, 2010

Unit 1 Terms

1. The Fertile Crescent is a crescent shaped region that once provided/provides fertile soil to the land around it.

2. Mesopotamia is the land between rivers and the beginning of civilization; writing, agriculture, and cities.

3. City- states are independent countries with their own leaders, rules and regulations.

4. If your father and his fathers before him were to have ruled your country and now it’s your turn, you would belong to a dynasty, a sequence of rulers belonging to the same family.

5. Cultural diffusion is the spreading of a cultural trait, like religion and agriculture.

6. Polytheism basically means that you believe in more than one god.

7. Empires rule many countries over one single authority. For example, the British Empire, or The Chinese Emperor.

8. Hammurabi is the ruler who established the greatness of Babylon, and created the first ever written/recorded set of laws called Hammurabi’s Code.

9. A, delta is where a river slits into two parts, making it seem like triangle before emptying into to ocean.

10. Namar

11. Pharaoh’s were what the called the leaders in Egypt.

12. Ruling according to what the God’s “say/tell you” is theocracy.

13. Pyramids were built in honor of the Royal that died, as not only a tomb, but is where they would place many items of gold or importance so that their spirit can use them in the afterlife.

14. Mummification is where when someone of importance died, they would di-organ the body and wrap in clothe and a liquid to preserve the body.

15. Hieroglyphics were pictures created by the Egyptians to represent motions, sounds, and eventual record history.

16. The first paper like material was invented by the Egyptians with Papyrus Reed. Light weight, durable, and easy to carry round for thousands of years.

17. Hyksos were a group of nomadic invaders from southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C.

18. New Kingdom was the time after the rule of the Hyksos, the time of the female pharaoh’s, Ramses the great, and Tutankhamen the boy king.

19. Queen Hatshepsut was longest of all female rulers in Egypt, and her funerary temple still stands as a tribute to her incredible rise to power.

20. Thatmose III is considered to be one of Egypt’s greatest warrior heroes.

21. Nubia is a desert land divided by the Nile River.

22. Ramses II was the third ruler of the 19th dynasty.

23. Kush is an ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C.

Pheonician Review January 14, 2010

Phoenician Review

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

Describe how Phoenicians organized:
They lived in unorganized city-states throughout Lebanon.

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 Phoenician lands:
Built city-states all over the Eastern Mediterranean, and eventually had cities along the north coast of Africa, Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain.

How did the settlement of Phoenician lands effect trade:
The cities were close enough, made trade very easy.

Describe the Phoenician Alphabet and how it spread
They created their own system of writing to log the trades, symbols to represent sounds.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Egypt pt. 1 review january 7, 2010

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:
The Nile River provides fertile soil after flooding, which provided people with food and jobs for farming to those around the area.

Describe how Egypt Unites:
Villages split into upper and lower Egypt.

Describe Pharaoh’s and how they rule:
By the gods.

Describe the Religious Belief of Egyptians:
They are polytheistic and believe in more than one god, the sung god Rae being one of the most important.

Describe the class system in Egypt:
Pharaoh’s were first, middle class, lower class, and eventually slaves.

Describe the Innovations in Egypt including writing:
Developed a calendar to document the flooding of the Nile, paper made from papyrus reed, hieroglyphics, and pyramids for the pharaoh’s.

mesopatamia review january 6, 2009

Mesopotamia Review

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

Describe Geography of Mesopotamia:
Fertile and good for arming and growing crops.

Describe why people came to region and what they did?
Because there was fertile soil and most people became farmers.

Describe how city-states were organized and who were their leaders:
They were organized to help protect from the rivers flooding and they were run by priests
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Describe the religion of Mesopotamia:
Polytheistic, which means that they believed in more than one god.

Describe Hammurabi’s Code:
The first written law, they were enforced to everyone, but differed with social class and gender.