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Welcome to "Learning in the Past." This blog contains historical information studied at the 8th grade level in Alabama. The title, "Learning in the Past," suggests that we not only hope to learn about the past, but we also hope to learn from the past (plus, some other blog names were already taken). Again, welcome and thanks for joining us on our journey.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Good Luck, Study

1.      Tanzania, Uganda
2.      They both speak French
3.      The Nile River
4.      The arrival of Europeans
5.      Zimbabwe
6.      Axum
7.      Axum
8.      Adulis
9.      An area of high, flat land
10.  Influenced in part by Islam
11.  Meditate, teach
12.  Fear not, welcome
13.  Everything in nature has a spirit
14.  Prepared them for the afterlife
15.  How to achieve inner peace
16.  Kaminaljuyu
17.  Palenque
18.  Sun-dried mud bricks
19.  Using a land bridge
20.  1492
21.  The man who conquered the Aztec
22.  By capturing Atahualpa
23.  In a dense forest
24.  With guns, horses, and an epidemic
25.  He thought Cortez was a god
26.  Fitting suffering for the English
27.  Thousands of them go the plague
28.  English
29.  Killed English and Scottish alike
30.  Decided to go home
31.  Had a code of honor
32.  Silk
33.  Crowned the new Roman Emperor
34.  Separating cultures from one another
35.  Limited the emperor’s power
36.  A surplus of goods and safer travel
37.  Drove the Vikings out of Britain
38.  France’s first parliament
39.  First
40.  A Church court that tried heretics
41.  Everyday language
42.  War between England and France
43.  The Angles and the Saxons invaded
44.  Education
45.  Marry without permission
46.  Dirty, smelly, and polluted
47.  Limited the power of the king
48.  Was a trading center
49.  Catholics against Muslim Turks
50.  Wages rose and trade declined
Additional questions
51.  It crossed 1500 miles of the Sahara
52.  Songhai
53.  Taxed traders and had a big army
54.  Christianity
55.  Pottery making and mining
56.  Great warrior king who seized Ghana
57.  Believed in a single supreme god
58.  Allowed different religions
59.  Oral histories and proverbs
60.  Sugarcane
61.  feudalism

Monday, May 14, 2012

4th 9 Weeks Test Study Guide

1.      Which countries speak English?
2.      What do Algeria and Rwanda have in common?
3.      What is Africa’s longest river?
4.      What changed the nature of slavery in Africa?
5.      Which kingdom developed in Southeast Africa?
6.      Which of the following did NOT trade in salt?
7.      Which empire lasted the longest?
8.      What was the capital of the earliest empire?
9.      What is a plateau?
10.  The Swahili culture was …
11.  Which hand gestures involve touching both hands together?
12.  What hand gestures is the Buddah doing in the picture on your study guide?
13.  People who follow Shinto believe…
14.  Most Japanese people believe that Buddhism…
15.  What did Zen Buddhism teach?
16.  What is the name of the archaeological site closest to the Pacific Ocean?
17.  Which archaeological site is farthest west?
18.  What was adobe?
19.  How do scientists believe people crossed from Asia to North America?
20.  Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in…
21.  Who was Hernan Cortes?
22.  How did Pizarro conquer the Inca?
23.  Where was the Mayan civilization located?
24.  How did the Spanish explorers defeat the Aztec?
25.  Why did Montezuma not attack the invading Spaniards right away?
26.  How did the Scots view the plague in England?
27.  When the Scots approached England to invade it, what happened?
28.  The Scottish plague survivors were pursued and killed by the …
29.  The plague…
30.  After the plague reduced their numbers, the Scots…
31.  Medieval knights and Samurai both…
32.  Samurai armor was laced together with…
33.  Charlemagne was…
34.  Mountains and rivers shaped European culture by…
35.  The Concordat of Worms…
36.  What allowed trade to resume in Europe by 1100?
37.  Alfred the Great…
38.  The Estates-General was…
39.  Which Crusade succeeded in driving the Muslims out of Jerusalem?
40.  The Inquisition was…
41.  What is the vernacular?
42.  What was the Hundred Years’ War?
43.  What happened after the Romans pulled out of Britain?
44.  Charlemagne believed in…
45.  Serfs were peasants who were not allowed to…
46.  Medieval cities were…
47.  The Magna Carta…
48.  Moscow became an important city because it…
49.  The Crusades were a holy war launched by…
50.  How did the Black Death affect Europe?

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Medieval Europe Study Guide Answers

1.      Drove the Vikings out of Britain
2.      War between England and France
3.      France’s first parliament
4.      Everyday language
5.      First
6.      A Church court that tried heretics
7.      Limited the power of the king
8.      The Angles and Saxons invaded
9.      Marry without permission
10.  In an area that is now France
11.  Education
12.  Hildegard of Bingen
13.  Domesday Book
14.  King John
15.  Kievan Rus
16.  English Channel
17.  Separating cultures from one another
18.  Power
19.  A surplus of goods and safer travel
20.  Wages rose and trade declined
21.  Trading
22.  Stained glass windows
23.  Catholics, Muslim Turks
24.  Knights
25.  fjords

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Regular Schedule

Beginning Friday, Team 8 will return to the daily schedule below.  We will no longer be on a rotating schedule.

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2
6
3
5
4
7

Also, students with good behavior and who have kept up with all of their school work will receive special privileges during 5th period beginning Wednesday, May 2.

Medieval Europe Study Guide

1.      Alfred the Great…
2.      What was the Hundred Years’ War?
3.      The Estates-General was…
4.      What is the vernacular?
5.      Which Crusade succeeded in driving the Muslims out of Jerusalem?
6.      The Inquisition was…
7.      The Magna Carta…
8.      What happened after the Romans pulled out of Britain?
9.      Serfs were peasants who were not allowed to…
10.  Where did the Franks settle?
11.  Charlemagne believed in …
12.  _______ headed a convent in Germany and composed Church music.
13.  _______ was a census taken in England by William the Conqueror.
14.  _______signed the Magna Carta in 1215.
15.  A group of small territories in Eastern Europe ruled by Vikings was called _______.
16.  What separates Britain and Ireland from the rest of Europe?
17.  Mountains and rivers shaped European culture by…
18.  The Concordat of Worms limited the emperor’s _______.
19.  What allowed trade to resume in Europe by 1100?
20.  How did the Black Death affect Europe?
21.  Moscow became an important city because it a _______ center.
22.  What was a key feature in Gothic cathedrals?
23.  The Crusades were a holy war launched by _______ against _______.
24.  Under feudalism, _______ were warriors in armor who fought on horseback.
25.  _______ are steep-sided valleys that are inlets of the sea.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Social Interaction Workshops

Social Interaction Workshops are a time for students to learn acceptable ways of socially interacting in a professional setting.  The classroom serving as that setting, students may participate in such activities as having a snack or soft drink, while still working in cooperative learning groups to accomplish a specified learning objective.  Furthermore, students may need to move freely about the room, sharing edible or drinkable items brought from home, while disseminating ideas pertaining to the academic, social, political, and current events relevant to their "world."  While Social Interaction Workshops may at times resemble a party, the educational benefit is such that it should never be confused with one. 

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

"The Americas" Answers

1.      Adobe
2.      Hunter-gatherers
3.      Using a land bridge
4.      In a dense forest
5.      To offer as human sacrifices
6.      By capturing Atahualpa
7.      By acting bravely in war
8.      The man who conquered the Aztec
9.      By irrigating their crops
10.  1492
11.  They had to learn how to farm
12.  Mysterious
13.  They irrigated crops
14.  Hunter-gatherers who built mounds
15.  Apartment houses in cliffs
16.  Empire
17.  He thought Cortez was a god
18.  Present-day Alaska
19.  With guns, horses, and an epidemic
20.  End fighting among the groups
21.  Hunter-gatherers
22.  Hernan Cortez
23.  Mayan city-states
24.  Francisco Pizarro
25.  Beringia