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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

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?

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

Regular Schedule

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

1
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.

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. 

"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

Upcoming Events

Thursday, Apr. 26--Work on Ch. 16 Study Guide
Friday, Apr. 27--No School
Monday, Apr. 30--Review Ch. 16 Study Guide
Tuesday, May 1--Test on Ch. 16, Ch. 16 work due, and Ch. 16 Study Guide due
Wednesday, May 2--Begin Ch. 15, Sec. 1,2,3,4,5

Rotating Schedule

Below is the rotating schedule the 8th grade will be following beginning April 23:

Monday               Tuesday               Wednesday               Thursday               Friday
     1                            2                              3                               4                          1
     2                            3                              4                               1                          2
     6                            6                              6                               6                          6
     3                            4                              1                               2                          3
     5                            5                              5                               5                          5
     4                            1                              2                               3                          4
     7                            7                              7                               7                          7

"The America's" Study Guide

1.       _______ consists of sun-dried, mud bricks.

2.      _______ moved constantly in search of food.

3.      How do scientists believe people crossed from Asia to North America?

4.      Where was the Mayan civilization located?  (What type of land feature?)

5.      Why did the Maya seek captives in war?

6.      How did Pizarro conquer the Inca?

7.      How could commoners in Aztec society join the noble class?

8.      Who was Hernan Cortes?

9.      How were people able to survive in the dry deserts of the Southwest?

10.  Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in what year?

11.  Why were early people in North America able to build complex cultures?

12.  The Mayan civilization came to a _______ end.

13.  The Moche people prospered because…

14.  Who were the Mound Builders?

15.  The Anasazi lived in …

16.  The Incan leader Pachacuti built a huge, ancient _______.

17.  Why did Montezuma not attack the invading Spaniards right away?

18.  Where did the Inuit live?

19.  How did the Spanish explorers defeat the Aztec?

20.  The Iroquis League was formed in order to do what?

21.  _______ moved constantly in search of food.

22.  _______ was a Spanish soldier who defeated the Aztecs.

23.  What city-states were located in the dense forests of Peten.

24.  _______ was a Spanish soldier who defeated the Incas.

25.  What is the name of the land bridge that connected Asia and Alaska during the Ice Age?

Answers to Medieval Japan Study Guide

1.      Minamoto Yoritomo

2.      Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu

3.      Jimmu

4.      Samurai

5.      The military government of Japan

6.      A great female novelist

7.      How to achieve inner peace

8.      A general who made himself shogun

9.      Warriors fought for control

10.  The Yamato

11.  Were loyal to the nobles

12.  Were nobles from powerful families

13.  Created a strong central government

14.  Kyushu

15.  So he would not be overthrown

16.  Their ships were smashed by storms

17.  Rice and wheat

18.  The art of writing beautifully

19.  Feudalism

20.  Prepared them for the afterlife

21.  Warriors

22.  Everything in nature has a spirit

23.  China

24.  Constitution

25.  Martial arts

Medieval Japan Study Guide

1.      Who was Japan’s first Shogun?

2.      Name four of the largest islands in Japan.

3.      Who was the first of the Yamato leaders in Japan?

4.      What was the name of warriors who agreed to fight for nobles in exchange for land?

5.      What was a shogunate?

6.      Who was Murasaki Shikibu?

7.      What did Zen Buddhism teach?

8.      Who was Ashikaga Takauji?

9.      The Onin War was a time when…

10.  Today’s emperor of Japan is descended from which clan?

11.  List some characteristics of the samurai.

12.  Government officials during the Nara Period were hired because they…

13.  What did the Yamato do during the Great Change?

14.  Which of the four major Japanese islands is the farthest south?

15.  Why did the emperor create the title of shogun?

16.  What happened when the Mongols attacked Japan?

17.  What crops did Japanese farmers grow?

18.  What is calligraphy?

19.  A bond of loyalty between a lord and a vassal is known as what?

20.  Most Japanese believed that Buddhism benefited them how?

21.  Yayoi clans were headed by whom?

22.  What do people who follow Shinto believe?

23.  What country’s government did Prince Shotoku use as an example for Japan?

24.  What is a written plan of government called?

25.  This sport taught the Japanese to control their bodies through combat and self-defense.