Ari Jacobs
Teacher,
7th Grade Social Studies
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CHAPTER 35

  • ENLIGHTENMENT (The movement not the noun definition)
  • REASON
  • INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
  • CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
  • BILL OF RIGHTS
  • NATURAL RIGHTS
  • SEPARATION OF POWERS
  • DEPOSITION
  • OPPRESSION
  • THOMAS HOBBES
  • JOHN LOCKE

PART ONE (maybe): If you did not write about letters H, I and/or J for your journal/portfolio, do them tonight:

______H. Why did we do this project in a history class?

 ______I.  What I learned about myself? 

______J.  Advice for next year’s kids


PART TWO (everyone): And TYPE A PARAGRAPH THAT ADDRESSES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE IN RELATION TO YOUR PAINTING and MASTER PAINTERS:

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.

CONFUCIUS


1.  Discuss the 5 motives (or reasons) the explorers went out exploring.  (Hint:  one reason was to spread Christianity across the world.

2.  Describe the 3 new “inventions” or advances in technology that make sailing better and faster in the 1500’s.  (Hint:  one was the “astrolabe”.)

3.  Exploration starts in Portugal.  Describe the contributions of these Portuguese:  Prince Henry the Navigator, Dias, da Gama, and Cabral.

4.  Describe everything you know about Columbus and his first voyage.

“IN _________ Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue”**** Extra Credit for Exam****

5.  Describe Magellan and his great voyage.

6.  Discuss how the voyages of Columbus & Magellan changed the world.

7.  Discuss Hernan Cortes and how he conquered the Aztecs.

8.  How did the explorers change the world forever?





Terms Chapter 33

1.                 New World

2.                 Cartography

3.                 Longitude

4.                 Latitude

5.                 Colony

6.                 Plantation

7.                 Strait

8.                 Circumnavigate

9.                 Epidemics

10.             Inflation

11.             Northwest Passage

12.             Capitalism

13.             Market

14.             Economy

15.             Cottage industry

16.             mercantilism

'Dino' Quintanilla

Chapter 32

Terms add to ID  list

Quiz tomorrow - Wed

  1. Sect
  2. Counter Reformation
  3. Scripture
  4. Original Sin
  5. Holy Communion
  6. Blasphemy
  7. Pulpit
  8. Theocracy
  9. Missionary
  10. Massacre
  11. Nationalism
  12. Absolute monarchy
  13. Puritan


READ CHAPTER 31 - 5/14/12

PAGE 347

THE REFORMATION BEGINS

MAKE A LIST OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS

1.          REFORMATION

2.          PROTESTANT

3.          INDULGENCES 

4.          SIMONY 

5.          PAPACY

6.          HERESY

7.          DOCTRINE

8.          MYSTIC

9.          DENOMINATION

10.    ‘OLD’ TESTAMENT

11.    ‘NEW’ TESTAMENT


Put the following terms into a typed one page single spaced, or handwritten two page story,

 1st person pages 24-29
1st person story 
1. manor houses
2. castles
3. moat
4. lords' jobs
5. women's jobs
6. knights
7. armor
8. CHIVALRY
9. peasants lives
10. Hierarchy
story:
19-23

1. barbarian
2. Rome fell
3. Christianity
4. need for order/protection
5. vikings
6. feudalism
7. monarch
8. fiefs
9. manors
10. nobles
11. Duke William


Ch. 19 Terms and Questions were on the board in class last week but never made the website.  Here they are for those that missed it:

TERMS: 1. Xuan Zan 2. Buddhism 3. Silk Road 4. Kublai Kahn 5. Marco Polo 6. tributaries 7. kowtow 8. Zheng He 9. Ming Dynasty

1.What did the Tang do to make travel along the Silk Road safe? What types of cultural exchanges resulted from the Silk Road during the Tang dynsaty?

2. How did Buddhism come into China? How did it continue to spread during the Tang Dynasty?

3. Why did foreigners and their beliefs become less welcome during the Tang dynasty?

4. How did the Mongols help encourage overland trade along the Silk ROad and what type of cultural exchanges happened between Europe and China as a result?

5. How did maritime trade flourish under the Mongols?

6. Who was Marco Polo and why were his travels important?  Be able to map his travels?

7. What did tributaries have to do and how did Zheng increase maritime foreign contacts?

8. Why did Ming rulers eventually turn inward?  What ultimately happened to the Ming Dynasty?



Chapter 22 terms and ?'s

·      Samurai #241

·      Code of conduct #241

·      Shogun #242

·      Daimyo #242

·      Martial arts #244

·      Haiku #246     

·      Amida Buddhism 247  

·      Zen Buddhism #247 

·      Code of Bushido #248          

·      Seppuku 248      

·        Kamikaze #250

1.    How was the military rule established in Japan during the 12th century

2.    Explain the role of shoguns, daimyos, and samurai in the military government of Japan

3.    What did the samurai warriors wear in battle, and what weapons did they use? How were samurai warriors physically and mentally prepared for battle?

4.    What aspects of Japanese culture were evident in samurai training. Explain

5.    How did Amida Buddhism and Zen Buddhism develop? What influence did Buddhism have on the samurai warrior?

6.    What was the code of conduct related to samurai values and traditions?

7.    In what ways, did the position of the samurai women decline over time

8.    In what ways was the medieval Japan similar to Medieval Europe In what ways was it different Compare, for example, Japanese haiku  poetry with medieval English epic poetry   



CHINA AND JAPAN PACKETS ARE DUE THURSDAY 2/9/12

CHINA AND JAPAN EXAM IS ALSO THURSDAY 2/9/12

2/1/12:
Chapter 21 terms and ?s:
1. Heian Period
2. corruption
3. Heian-kyo
4. Fujiwara family
5. courtier
6. yamato-e
7. Noh Theater

1. WHy is the Heian period called Japan's 'Golden Age'
2. Desribe life within Heian-kyo?  How was the city designed? How did people live?
3. How did the Fujiwara family exercise their power?
4. WHat determined social rank during the Heian period? What was affected by a person's social rank?
5. What value did Heian society place on beauty and fashion? How did men and women groom?
6. What forms of entertainment, sculpture, painting, writing and literature were prevalent during Heian period?
7. Who was Murasaki Shikibu? Why was her novel 'The tale of Genji' significant?
8. What factors contributed to the end of the Heian period?  In what ways can Heian influence be seen in modern Japan?



WE WILL NOW ADD JAPAN TO CHINA FOR OUR BIG UNIT EXAM on MON. FEB. 6, 2012:

1/3/1/12
In class, neatly copy the following out of your textbook to add to your China Packet of notes: 
  1. Copy the diagram of the Chinese dynasties on page 180.
  2. Copy the chapter 16 summary on page 185
  3. Copy the chapter 17 summary on page 193
  4. Copy the chapter 18 summary on page 203
  5. Copy the chapter 19 summary on page 211

For Homework (due tomorrow 2/1/12)

Chapter 20 terms and questions:
1. cultural diffusion
2. Prince Shotoku
3. Seventeen Article Constitution
4. Taika Reforms
5. Shinto
6. Kanji
7. kana
8. tanka
9. pagoda
10. gagaku

1. Why did Japan's location allow for HER to be to be influenced by many cultures at once?
2. What was life like for people during Prince Shotoku's reign?
3. Which Chinese ideas about government did Japanese rulers adopt?
4. How id Buddhism spread into Korea and Japan?  How did Buddhism and Shinto blend together?

Thurs. 1/12/12
Complete the following questions from Ch. 16:

  1. What is an imperial government?
  2. How did the Tang Dynasty use Civil Service Examinations to improve bureaucracy?
  3. What changes did the Song dynasty implement to create a meritocracy?
  4. How did Confucianism influence Song emperors?
  5. Was the Civil Service  System used by Ming Dynasty good or bad for China? Explain.

Tues: 1/10
Add these terms from chapter 17 to your list of textbook terms for China:
Ch. 17 terms
  1. urbanization
  2. typhoons
  3. harrow
  4. chain pump
  5. paddies
  6. barge
  7. currency
  8. junk 
Answer the following questions on your notes from Ch. 17.
1. Why did agricultural changes occur during the Song dynasty? What were the main agricultural changes? What impact did those changes have?

2. Where was tea grown? What was its original use? In what ways did tea become important in China?

3. Why did economic changes occur during the Song Dynasty?  What impact did these changes have?

4. Why did urbanization occur during the Song Dynasty? What was the impact of urbanization?    


Monday, 1/9/12.

In class we are working on our 'Great Wall of China Notes" and for HOMEWORK on 1/9:

Define Chapter 16 terms:
1. aristocracy
2. meritocracy
3. Mandate of Heaven
4. bureaucracy
5. warlord
6. Tang Dynasty
7. Civil Service Exams
8. Song Dynasty
9. Mongols
10. Kublai Kahn
11. Ming Dynasty


HAPPY NEW YEAR!
  • Asia complete map due Thur. 1/5
  • Map Quiz Fri 1/6

AFRICA FINAL EXAM this Thursday 12/15/11
  • Chapters 12,13,14 & 15

GUIDE TO AFRICA DUE MONDAY 12/19/11 

  • if you are not going to be attending school on the 2 days before winter break, the GUIDE MUST BE TURNED BY FRIDAY 12/16/11.
  • GUIDES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE.

12/6/11

 The legend of the “Cowtail Switch”: 

1.  After reading the old blue text pgs. 128-31, I will briefly explain this African story (2 or 3 paragraphs) in my own words as if I were in the story.

2.   I will then write a short paragraph stating in my own words the moral of this “Cowtail Switch” story. Then I’ll write a paragraph or two, describing a personal example from my life that shows that I understand the moral of the story. 



12/5/11
Chapter 15 terms to know:

1. oral tradition
2. griot
3. written tradition
4. geneology
5. folktale
6. proverb
7. call and response
8. balafon
9. ngoni
10. kora
11. terra-cotta
12. applique'

Ch. 15 reading questions:

1. Describe how west Africa history, beliefs and values were passed down through oral and written traditions.
2. what functions does music serve in W.A. society? What styles of singing, instruments, drumming and dance are characteristic of WA
society?
3. What functions dos art serve in WA society? What styles of sculpture, masks and textiles are characteristic of WA art?

12/1/11

CH. 14
Write a story 1-2 pages that comments on the various ways Islamic influence changed Africa:

1) Religious Practices
2) Government and Law
3) Education
4) Language
5) Decorative Arts
6) Architectural Style

11/30/11
Chapter 14 terms to know:
1. Almoravids 
2. Mansa Musa 
3. Songhai
4. amulet 
5. succession 
6. patrilineal 
7. Timbuktu
8. Arabic

Ch. 14 reading questions:
1. How did Islam first reach Ghana?
2. How did Mansa Musa's hajj help Mali gain acceptance as an important empire? What evidence is there to prove this acceptance?
3. As Islam spread in West Africa, what new religious practices and values were adopted?
4. What three major changes occurred in West African government and law as a result of Islamic influence?
5. Explain the Muslim influence on each of these areas of culture in West Africa: education, architecture and art.
6. Why did more and more West Africans learn Arabic? In what ways did the Arabic language influence learning and scholarship? What was the influence of Arabic on trade and government?

11/22/11

Chapter 12 terms to know:
1. Sahara Desert
2. Sahel
3. savanna
4. Niger River
5. Extended families
6. Nok
7. Jenne-jeno
8. tribute 

Ch. 12 Reading Questions:
1. Describe the physical features, vegetation and climate of West Africa. How did geography of West Africa influence settlement and trade?
2. Why did extended families eventually join together to form villages?
3. Explain the role of ironworking and trade in the development of villages into towns and cities.
4. What did archeologists' excavations of Jenne-jeno reveal about ancient West Africa?
5. How did the first kingdoms in West Africa develop? How did trade affect the development of these kingdoms?    

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