Cotter's World History

Map Quiz Terms (Rome)

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p. 162

Africa
Mediterranean Sea
Spain
Italy
Greece
Asia Minor
Britain
Gaul

p. 175

Alps
Rome
Danube River
Rhine River
Atlantic Ocean
North Sea

p. 186
Toledo
Tours

p. 189
Constantinople
Corsica
Sardinia
Sicily
Athens

Greek Golden Age

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Click here

Prepare a timeline and put one person from each area. What is the timeframe of the Golden Age of Greece.

Click here

Reflect on the story. Can you apply this to any personal experience? Explain.

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Draw a floor plan of the Parthenon using this link. Include as much detail as possible.

Click here and email results

Click here and print report

Challenge

Geography Quiz (Ancient Greece)

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Locate:
Ionian Sea
Meditteranean Sea
Aegean Sea
Black Sea
Crete
Asia Minor
Macedonia
Sparta
Athens
Rhodes
Mt. Olympus
Troy
Delphi
corinth

Click here to help you study.

Ancient Greece

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Print this

Click here

How many islands does Greece have?

Click on the story. From time to time answers will come from the notes icon.

Who is the hero of the Odyssey?

How is it connected to the Illiad?

Why do you think Troy was a wealthy city?

What was the name of the one-eyed giant?

How did they find the way home?

Who were the sirens?

What did Poseiden do?

How much time elapsed during the story?

Click on the map and click continue

Choose full screen.

Where is Sparta in relation to Athens?

Select Natural Resources

What resources are found around Athens?

Click here

When did Greece emerge from the dark ages?

What accompilshment marked this event?

How often were festivals held during this period?

Click here to learn about Hesiod

What is Work and Days? When was it written?

What are the Muses?

In the excerpt of Hesiod's poem, what could best be applied to your own life?

Do this challenge

Do this challenge

CHALLENGE

EXTRA CREDIT BELOW

Challenge

Friday Geography Quiz (China)

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Concentration

Locate the following:

Tibet
Huang He (Yellow River)
Chang Jiang (aka Yangste Jiang)
Xi River (aka Xi Jiang)
North China Plain
East China Sea
South China Sea
Yellow Sea
Pacific Ocean
Qinling Shandi (aka Qin Ling Mountains)
Gobi Desert
Grand Canal
Himalaya
Korean Penninsula
Sea of Japan
Tian Shan
Taiwan Strait

China Map

China Map

Grand Canal Map

Great Wall Map

You can use an interactive map by clicking here and selecting the physcial features section

Early China

Early Writing

Philosophy (just do 1-3)
Great Wall
Philosophy (if you have time)

Hinduism

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Write a chart that shows the five caste levels

Caste link

and

here

Indus Valley

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Click here

Where was the Indus Valley civilization
When did it exist

Click here

describe the construction and architecture of the Harappan Civilization

Click here

What are seals and why are they significant

click for photo array

sketch 4 objects that have explanations
compare and contrast

Click here

Take notes for discussion tomorrow in class

Egypt Assignment

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THE LINKS ARE IN BLUE AND THE QUESTIONS ARE IN PURPLE

Click here to start

What is "black land" and "red land"?

What created the "black land"?

Click on Explore

Where are most of the pyramid sites?

Where are most of the temple sites?

Where is the Valley of the Kings?

What is an oasis?

What are quarries?

Describe the Nile Delta.

Over how many miles are significant objects found on the Nile?

Click on Story

Where does the boy go if he travels upstream?

Where does he go downstream?

Click here and play. I'll initial when completed.

Click here

Click story

How did priests keep track of time at night?

Click Explore

Choose Egyptian History

What is another name for Menes?

When was hieroglyphic script developed?

When was the first STONE pyramid built?

When was the largest pyramid built?

When did Tutkhamen rule?

Choose Egyptian writing timelne

What is hieretic script?

When was the Rosetta stone carved?

When was the Rosetta stone rediscovered?

Click here

Click on Explore

Write the hieroglyphic symbols for Aten, Anubis, Ra, Horus, Isis and Osiris.

Click on Story

Who was the first god?

Who were Isis and Osiris?

Click here

What were the two main duties of the Pharoah?

Click on Story

Where is Nubia?

Click on Explore

When were horses first introduced to Egypt? Which Kingdom was in existance?

How long did Ramses II rule?

Did any women rule Egypt?

How can one tell if a person is young in the painting?

Click here

How many known pyramids are there in Egypt?

Where were the largest built?

What does the Great Sphinx guard?

Where does the word pyramid originate?

Who is buried in the third largest pyramid?

Where were New Kingdom pharoahs buried?

Click story

Why were pharoahs usually buried on the west bank?

Who were the workers on the pyramid? When did they work?

How long did it take?

Click Explore and then look inside the pyramid

What was the underground chamber?

Where was the queen's chamber?

What's a sarcophagus?

Click here

What was the central event in Egyptian life?

Click on explore

During which kingdom did the nobleman Nebamun live?

Click on the piece of the wall painting that shows farming.

Who was the assistant inspector?

What are Onegars?

What was the primary purpose of horses?

What were boundary stones?

Why ws the Pharoah interested in the amount each farmer produced?

What grains were grown? What did they make with it?

Click on the piece that shows fish and trees?

What was the significance of the Lotus flower?

What is a vizier?

Why did some Egyptians not eat fish?

Click on the banquet scene

What did Nebanam want to take with him to the afterlife?

Click on the boat scene?

Where is Nebanam going in this scene?

Who is traveling with Nebanam?

What jewelery is his daughter wearing?

What were two primary uses of papyrus?

How were cats used in ancient Egypt?

Click on the remaining picture

What were perfume cones?

Who sat in chairs?

Click here

Click Story

What is the "Opening of the Mouth" ritual

Click Explore

What is a scarab?

What is natron?

Click here

Click story

What are obelisks?

Click explore

What are pylons?

Play challenge and I'll initial

Click here

Click Explore

What are two things made by jewelers here?

Click here

Click on Rosetta Stone

Why is it called Rosetta Stone?

Click on Story

Who is Thoth?

What did Thoth look like?

What is a palette?

Click on Explore

What is a scribe?

How long did it take to train as a scribe?

Where did a scribe first work when he graduated?

How were scribes used in the military?

Do the following challenges as extra credit when this assignment is complete

Challenge Two

Challenge Three

Challenge Four

Challenge Five

Challenge Six

Challenge Seven

Challenge Eight

Challenge Nine

Assyrians

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Palaces of Assyria

Click Story

Why do we know so much about King Sennacherib's palace?

What ws the name of the palace?

What happened when the site chosen for the palace was shown to have an earlier eroded structure?

What is a stone relief?

Click Explore

In what city was the palace built?

What's a lamassu?

What's a rosette?

What were sandals made of?

What's a banduddu?

What's a mullilu?

What's tribute?

What's a "standard inscription"?

Where did monkey's come from?

Who wore earrings? Men or women?

Who was the supreme god in Assyria?

What were "polos"?

Play challenge and I'll initial.

Assyrian Warfare

Click Story

What was the Meditteranean Sea known as in Assyria?

Who were the Assyrians marching against? Why?

Click Explore

How is the scene read? From L to R or vice versa?

Click Challenge and I'll initial.

Click the "gods" page

Write the cuneiform name of Adad.

Who is Ashur?

How does Nabu travel?

Play challenge and I'll initial.

Click here

Review this Babylonian number list. How is it similar to our current number system.

Mesopotamia after the Sumerians

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Links are in blue and the questions are in purple.

Babylonian Astronomy

What is the difference between astronomy and astrology?

Click Explore

Provide three lines of translations from three different tablets.

Click Challenge. Play and I'll initial.

Babylonian Trade

Click Explore

Which method of transporatation could move bricks?

How about for oil?

What are reeds and how were they used?

Click challenge and I'll initial.

Click Hammurabi's Code

Look at Number 3. What happens if you can't prove a capitalcrime accustaion?

Is 109 fair? Why or why not?

Look at 148 and compare to 132. What is more important justice or order?

Palaces of Assyria

Click Story

Why do we know so much about King Sennacherib's palace?

What ws the name of the palace?

What happened when the site chosen for the palace was shown to have an earlier eroded structure?

What is a stone relief?

Click Explore

In what city was the palace built?

What's a lamassu?

What's a rosette?

What were sandals made of?

What's a banduddu?

What's a mullilu?

What's tribute?

What's a "standard inscription"?

Where did monkey's come from?

Who wore earrings? Men or women?

Who was the supreme god in Assyria?

What were "polos"?

Play challenge and I'll initial.

Assyrian Warfare

Click Story

What was the Meditteranean Sea known as in Assyria?

Who were the Assyrians marching against? Why?

Click Explore

How is the scene read? From L to R or vice versa?

Click Challenge and I'll initial.

Click the "gods" page

Write the cuneiform name of Adad.

Who is Ashur?

How does Nabu travel?

Play challenge and I'll initial.

Click here

Review this Babylonian number list. How is it similar to our current number system.

Study Guide for quiz on Friday

Sumer

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LINKS ARE IN BLUE AND QUESTIONS ARE IN PURPLE

Geography

What does the Greek word "Mesopotamia" mean?

Click "explore"

Which city is farthest north, South, East and West (Ur, Uruk, Eridu or Nippur)

What part of Mesopotamia were these cities located? This was the extent of Sumer. The other cities came later which we'll explore next week.

Click "story"

Who was Gilgamesh?

Where did he live?

Who was his friend?

Why did they travel?

Click the challenge and complete and I'll initial

Timeline

When did the first cities begin to grow?

When did cuneiform writing emerge?

Who first united the Sumerian cities and when?

When did Ur become the capital?

When was Ur destroyed?

Writing

What is the relationship between "script" and "cuneiform"?

Click "story"

Draw the pictograph and cuneiform symbols symbols for barley.

How much is a gur? Draw the symbol for gur.

How was writing done?

Click "explore"

What is a curiculum tablet

Write two phrases in cuneiform.

Why were some tablets sealed in envelopes?

Play the challenge and I'll initial

Ziggurats

Click on "story"

Why did archaeologists assume that the building in Eridu was a temple?

How did archaeologists determine that several temples occupied the same site?

Click on the picture

How many temples occupied the site? When was the first and last one built?

Click "explore" on the left.

Click on the photo of the book.

Who was William Loftus and when did he visit the ziggurat?

Click on the photo of the man

When did excavation begin on the ziggurat?

Click the old picture of the ziggurat

Describe how the site looked when Woolley first arrived.

What is the climate in the pictures?

Click on picture of the ziggurat

What are weeper holes?

What is a buttress?

What is a terrace?

What were the two types of bricks used and where were they placed in the building?

Why do you think they used two different types of bricks?

Who built the ziggurat and when?

Click on "challenge" on the left. Finish building and I'll initial your paper.

The Royal Tombs of Ur

Click "story" on the left

Create a timeline of Woolley's work. Label the events using only 1-3 words.

Why were trenches dug?

Why did Woolley think the tombs were royal?

What is lapis lazuli?

Where were most people buried? What settlement 6,000 years before Ur also did this?

Where did most people throw their rubbish?

What were school tablets?

What is bitumen and how was it used in Ur?

Click "explore" on the left

Name two items found near Pu-abi's grave.

How many bodies were found at PG 1237?

What was the "Ram in the Thicket"? Woolley gave the item this title because it reminded him of a story in the bible? What title would you give it?

What musical instrument was found? How is it played?

What is the Standard of Ur? What was represented on each side?

Computer Lab for Prehistory

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GAME

Click this link

Describe the relationship between homo sapien, homo erectus and neanderthal using this chart.

Go to the following three links and explore the art of Cro-Magnon (pre-modern humans):
Chauvet (30,000 years ago)
Click "Visit the Cave" and explore the different sections
Cosquer Cave
Art from many different caves in the paleolithic era

What do you think of the craftmanship in these three sites? Why do you think they made this art?

Click on this timeline

What happened 12,000 years ago (10,000 BC)? 10,350 years ago (8,000 BC)? 9,400 years ago (7,000 BC)?

Click on these maps

Describe the location of Catal Hoyuk.

Click here

How many people probably lived in Catalhoyuk?

Catalhoyuk was discovered about 50 years ago. The name of the city means "fork mound". What created the mound?

Click here to see a typical house in Catalhoyuk
Explore the house.

Why do you think they buried people under the house?

Where did people spend most of their time?

Click here to view some of Catalhoyuk's artifacts.

Decsribe in general terms, each of the f

WH2 Assignment

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Follow the instructions and answer all the questions on a separate piece of paper. Questions are in purple.

BEGIN ASSIGNMENT

Click this assignment link that will take you to Donald C. Johanson' site. (He's the son of the scientist who discovered "Lucy")

Click Launch Activity (complete the activity)

Make sure I initial your paper before you continue. Now launch the documentary.

Click Becoming Human at top of page

Click Features

Click Lineages (below)

Go to No. 5 (African Genesis)

What is the difference between a hominid and hominoid?

What characteristics do apes and human share?

Click Culture (above)

Go to No. 2 (The Toolmakers)

Is tool-making exclusively a hominid trait? Explain.

When was the earliest evidence of stone tools among hominids?

Go to No. 3 (Making Tools)

List the four tool-making methods used by Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) hominids. Give the best estimate of when these methods developed in each case.

Go to No. 4 (Hunting or Scavenging?)

Describe the hunting and gathering lifestyle.

Click Evidence (above)

Go to No. 3 (Explore a dig)

Where is the dig?

Listen to all the people. How many people do you think are involved in this dig? How did you arrive at that figure?

Go to No. 4 (Profiling Fossils)

What species is being profiled?

Why are the teeth important fossil finds?

Go to No. 5 (The Dating Game)

What is the geological Law of Superposition?

Go to No. 7 (Interpreting the Evidence)

What is material culture?

Describe savanna and woodland environments.

Click on Anatomy (above)

Go to No. 3 (On the Ground or in the Trees?)

Describe 2 reasons that Ron Clarke gives that hominids 3.6 mya were partly arboreal?

Describe 2 reasons that Carol Ward gives that hominids 3.6 mya were fully bipedal?

Go to No. 5 (Bringing the Past to Life)

Is John Gurche a scientist or an artist?

Click here to read a detailed story about "Lucy" and her discovery.

Where was "Lucy" discovered?

Describe the environmnet of this location today. Click here and here for help in answering.

Compare to the climate during "Lucy"'s life.

What are current theories on how "Lucy" walked?

What were the conditions that created bipedalism?

Click here and read this page on anthropology and archaeology.

Why is it important to understand the definition of anthropology before understanding archaeology?

What is archaeology?

Click here and go to National Geographic site showing where important fossils have been found around the world.

Click on locator map. This map shows only hominids that seem to be closely related related to the homo sapien line. Most fossils are not included.

Where are the earliest homonids found? Which hominid came next?

Which is the first hominid species to appear outside of Africa?

Click on skull comparison

Compare 4 different skulls. Make sure you rotate the skulls. Identify your choices and compare and contrast each of your four choices.

Click here for a chart showing human development

We have established that there is strong evidence that hominids were bipedal 5 mya. According to this chart when did each of the following occur and with which species:

Tool-making
Fire
Accelerated devlopment of the brain

Click on this site. Answer the two questions. When you click "submit answers" you will be asked to fill in some information. My Name: enter your name,
Section ID: Class hour, Me: kcotter@sbcsc.k12.in.us (or your email address), My Instructor: kcotter@sbcsc.k12.in.us. That's all you need to fill out when you complete the two answers.

Exploratorium

Agriculture

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Pestle About 4-8,000 years-old

satellite map of Ur

Ice Age

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Swimming Reindeer About 13,000 years-old

Prehistory

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Olduvai 2mya

Olduvai 1.4mya

France 500thya

Scientific Revolution

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Concentration

Copernicus

Art of the Enlightenment

SECOND HOUR

Nancy Pierson (1st Place)
Caitlin Cantanzarite (2nd place)
Oza Young (3rd Place)

FIFTH HOUR

Diego Reyes (1st Place)
Anthony Ayala (2nd Place)
Hilari Mayo (3rd Place)

SIXTH HOUR

Matt Lewis (1st Place)
Oshea Whitmore (2nd Place)
Alberto (3rd Place)

Middle Ages

2010-12-06T12:52:00.000-08:00

Concentration

WINNER- Danielle Phillips 1:19 (2nd Hour), Felicia Scholz :35 (5th Hour),Cornell Taylor :45 (6th Hour)

Castles

DO NOT GO FURTHER UNTIL ALL ABOVE IS COMPLETE

Anglo-Saxon Coins

Viking Quest

WINNER: Jordan Osborne AND Malik Barnes AND Wisdom M. (2nd Hour)
Darien Mattox, Ncole Mattix, Eric Newsom, Anthony Ayala (5th Hour)
Kevin Syson,

Battle of Hastings

Link to Historiography of WW2

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China (Sui, Tang and Song)

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Concentration

The Silk Road

Empress Wu

WINNERS!

2nd Hour
1st Place MALIK BARNES
2nd Jordan Osborne
3rd Nancy Pierson

5th Hour
1st Place HILARI MAYO (Skittles)
2nd Felicia Scholz (Butterfinger)
3rd Diego Reyes (PB M&Ms)

6th Hour
1st Place OSVALDO LUNA (Snickers)

2nd Josh (snickers)

3rd Jakob Thode (snickers)

Islam

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Concentration

Hour 2 Winner - MALIK BARNES (also finished C. Milliken, Kenya Hamilton, Nancy Pierson)

Hour 5 Winner SHANTEL NEILY (Diego Reyes, Jacob Parks, Madison McGill, Hilari Mayo, Darien Mattix, Greg Nyikos, Celina Patterson, Nicole Mattox, Gabrielle Morgan)

Hour 6 Winner ALBERTO LOPEZ (Osvaldo Luna, Josh Ridgeway, Jakob Thode, Joe Barnes, Cassandra Ballard, Marquise Myers, Brianna Lymburner, Shartasia Mapson, Trey Manier, O'Shea Whitmore, Johnny McCall, Terrance Malone)

Email results

Write answers on paper

The Hajj (email)

Answer 1,6,8 (email results)

Roman Republic

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carthage

met

map

map

Etruscans

Roman Republic Law

Sulla

Assasination of Julius Caesar

caesar

Ancient China

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Early China

Early Writing

Philosophy (just do 1-3)

Great Wall
Philosophy (if you have time)

Ancient India

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Rig Veda

Buddhism Timeline

Buddhas Earliest Sermon

Mesoamerica

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Olmecs

Mayan Astronomy

Copan

Ballgame

WH3 Assignment

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Please answer all the questions in purple. Use a seperate piece of paper.

Begin assignment

Click here to access a migration map. Once at the map click the arrow at top left and listen to the information.

What hominid species first migrated out of Africa? When did this occur?

How did Homo sapiens reach Australia? North America?

Click here and press play and then press play again

What part of the world did homo sapiens inhabit 160,000 years ago?

Follow these directions:

1) Click the red dot in Africa.

How long did "Homo Erectus types" dominate the world?
What caused new types of humans to emerge?
What happened to the population of modern humans during the last ice age?
When did Homo erectus and Neanderthal probably become extinct?

2) Close the "African Origins" web page and go back to the map. Click the book symbol next to the play button.

Explain the "Out of Africa" theory

3) Close the "Out of Eden" page and click the play buton.

When and where did modern humans first migrate?

4) Click the book symbol next to the play button for a description of glaciers.

What happened to climate in Africa during ice age periods?
How did glaciers affect modern humans ability to colonize the world?

5) Close the page on glaciers and press the play button.

Where did the next migration of modern humans occur?

6) Open the button labeled "Reconstructed Eve" on the map.

What has recent DNA testing revealed about the genetic relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans?

7) Close the "Eve" page and click the play button.

What happened to the most recent migration. Why did this happen?

8) Press the play button.

Where did the next migration occur? Why was this migration significant?

9) Click the "Gates of Grief button on the map

How and why did modern humans cross the Red Sea 85,000 years ago?

10) Close the "Gates" page and press play

Where did the next migration occur?

11) Click the "Blombos Cave" dot on the map

What was the most significant find in the cave? How old was it?

12) Close the "Cave" page and click play

What happened?

13) Click play

Where was the next migration?

14) Click play

Where was the next migration?

15) Click the book icon

When was Europe colonized by modern humans? Where did they come from? How did they get there?

16) Close the "European Origins" page and press play

Where was the next migration?

17) Press play

Where was the next migration?

18) Press play (this should take you to 40,000 years ago)

Where was the next migration?

19) Press play

Where was the next migration?

20) Click the "Meadowcraft" button on the map.

What was found here? How old was it?

21) Close the "Meadowcraft" page and press play

What happened and how did it affect modern humans?

22) Press play

Where did the next migration take place?

23) Press play

Where did the next migration occur?

24) Press play

Where did the next migration occur? How did climate play a role?

25) Press play

What significant event took place during this migration? What happened climatically?

26) Click on each of the agriculture buttons

Briefly describe what happened in each agricultural site

Click this link.

Click the "interactive map" link below "book resources". Click "The Spread of Homo sapiens sapiens" below "Timeline Maps". Answer the questions and use this email address: "kcotter@sbcsc.k12.in.us" If you don't want to send to your personal address then just provide my email address in the that slot.

Click this link

Describe the relationship between homo sapien, homo erectus and neanderthal using this chart.

Click this link and morph

Do these people look human? Explain your answer.

Go to the following three links and explore the art of Cro-Magnon (pre-modern humans):
Chauvet (30,000 years ago)
Click "Visit the Cave" and explore the different sections
Cosquer Cave
Art from many different caves in the paleolithic era

What do you think of the craftmanship in these three sites? Why do you think they made this art?

Click on this timeline

What happened 12,000 years ago (10,000 BC)? 10,350 years ago (8,000 BC)? 9,400 years ago (7,000 BC)?

Click on these maps

Describe the location of Catal Hoyuk.

Click here

How many people probably lived in Catalhoyuk?

Catalhoyuk was discovered about 50 years ago. The name of the city means "fork mound". What created the mound?

Click here to see a typical house in Catalhoyuk
Explore the house.

Why do you think they buried people under the house?

Where did people spend most of their time?

Click here to view some of Catalhoyuk's artifacts.

Decsribe in general terms, each of the following artifacts found at the site:
pottery, obsidian, figurines, murals

General

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Lost Art Game

Japanese Edo Period

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Edo Prints (MFA Boston)

Egypt

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MFA Boston (Tomb tour)

WWI and the Russian Revolution

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Must complete and show before going to next link (use google to get answers)

Lenin Theses

Trench War

Imperialism and WWI

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Concentration (optional)

Problems 1 only

Problems 6 AND 7 only

Poem

Anastacia

Imperialism in Asia

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Sepoy Mutiny

India and English Language

Qing (Ch'ng)

Germany, Austria, Ottomans and Russia

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German Unification

Austria

Alexander I (Russia)

Latin America and Urbanization

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LINK

Industrialization (part 2)

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Child Labour in England

Edison

Bell's Notes

Henry George

Queen Victoria (1-4)

The Industrial Revolution

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Cotton Gin

Lowell Mills in the US

Robert Owen

The Light Bulb

The Telephone

American Socialist

In class (workbooks pp. 254-255)

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beginning

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Concentration

3rd Estate

French Revolution

Terror

Napoleon 1804

Enlightenment and Revolution

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Art of the Enlightenment

Declaration of Independence

American Constitution (1-4)

The Constitution and Slavery

Scientific Revolution

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Great Fire of London

Copernicus

Galileo

Africa and the Slave Trade (just do #s 2 and 6)

Japan and Russia

2010-02-11T15:36:00.001-08:00

Samurai (just do problem 1)

Bushido (problems 1-4)

Toyototomi

Martial Arts

Russian Princes (just do problem 1)

Map quiz p. 555

2010-02-10T17:18:00.001-08:00

China
Mongolia
Arctic Ocean
Novgorod
Moscow
Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Estonia
Ukraine
Belarus
Lithuania
St Petersburg
Kiev
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Finland
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Latvia

China

2010-02-09T02:12:00.000-08:00

Zheng He

Eight Banners

Confucian Examinations

Qing

Muslim Empires

2010-02-03T15:24:00.000-08:00

Video

Concentration

Fall of Constantinople

Ottomans

The Harem

Ottomans

Suleiman the Magnificent

Map Quiz

2010-02-02T06:04:00.000-08:00

Gobi Desert
Huang He River
South China Sea
Tokyo
East China Sea
Chang Jiang River
Delhi
Sikri
Bay of Bengal
Indian Ocean
Himalayas
Yellow Sea
Esfahan
Aral Sea
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
Istanbul
Vienna
Rome
Mediterranean Sea
Arabian Peninsula
Medina
Mecca
Tripoli
Algiers
Kyoto
Atlas Mountains
Indus River
Ganges River
Caucasus Mountains
Baghdad
Jerusalem
Arabian Sea
Beijing
Osaka

Classwork

2010-02-01T05:43:00.000-08:00

p. 473 (1-2)
p. 474 (Primary Sources)
p. 475 3 (a and b)
p. 477 (1-2)
o, 478 (Primary Sources 1-2)
p. 480 (1-3)
p. 481 3 (a and b)
p. 489 (1-2)

Great Oneida Love-In Question (10 points)

2010-01-29T04:56:00.000-08:00

Rubrics: Answer will be assessed on how well you tie in to the above titled reading (7 points) and how well you integrate your response to the era we have studying (1820s-1850). (3 points)

Prompt: You are interested in joining the Oneida community in 1850. You have visited the place several times and know at least one person living there. Write a pro and con essay on your level of interest. Choose a persona from the list below.

Farmer with 200 acres (subsistence) in upper state NY by the canal.
Wife of above
eldest male or female child of above (18 years old)
artsan (45 years old) who makes shoes in New York City
Female Temperance activist
Lowell worker
Lowell capitalist
Barge operator on the Erie Canal
Recent Irish or German immigrant (male or female)
revival preacher in the burned out district

Exploration

2010-01-27T18:28:00.001-08:00

Reconquista

Columbus

Magellan

Sir Francis Drake

Map Terms Quiz Wed

2010-01-26T05:41:00.000-08:00

pp. 472-473

All the continents and oceans

PLUS

Brazil
Peru
Mexico
East Indies
China
Japan
Phillipines
India
France
Spain
England
Portugal
THE EQUATOR LINE

Reformation

2010-01-21T02:05:00.000-08:00

Luther

Luther

Luther and Henry VIII

Link (Answer 3,4,5 and 6 only)

Henry and Elizabeth

Zwingli

Calvin

Map Quiz (Thursday)

2010-01-20T02:06:00.000-08:00

Swiss Confederation
France
Spain
England
Prussia
Naples
Sweden
Austria
London
Ottoman Empire
Scotland
North Sea
Wittenberg
Papal States
Ireland
Portugal
Geneva
Brandenburg
Denmark
Poland-Lithuania
Rome
Venice
Mediterranean Sea

Rennaissance

2010-01-12T16:59:00.000-08:00

Michelangelo

The Birth of Venus by Botticelli

Raphael

Petrarch

Machiavelli

Literature

Mediterranean Map

2010-01-11T06:22:00.000-08:00

Naples
Constantinople
Sicily
Mediteranean Sea
Black Sea
Venice
Milan
Genoa
Rome
Florence
Papal States
Siena
Sardinia
Africa

Monday, 1/11/10

2010-01-11T06:11:00.000-08:00

p. 416 (Primary Sources - 1 and 2)

p. 418 (1-2)

p. 425 (1-4)

p. 427 (17-18)

p. 436 (1-2)

Geography Quiz on Thursday

2010-01-02T04:57:00.000-08:00

Europe 1095 AD (p. 402)

North Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Rhine River
Seine River
Vistula River
Danube River
Po River
Elbe River
Rhone River
Dnieper River
London
Kiev
Constantinople
Genoa
Rome
Barcelona
Cordoba
Paris
England
France
Holy Roman Empire
Portugal
Leon
Castille
Russia
Poland
Jerusalem
Alexandria
Hungary
Kingdom of Sicily
Serbia
Croatia
Byzantine Empire

Japan

2009-11-22T17:40:00.001-08:00

Map

Map

Shinto

Diary

Prince Shotoku

East Asia (Part I)

2009-11-14T07:01:00.000-08:00

Concentration

Sui Dynasty Map

Empress Wu

Women of the Mongol Court

Japan and Korea (through 1000 AD map)

Rome and Christianity

2009-11-08T17:51:00.000-08:00

Mithras

Melina

Questions pp. 256-277 (Due next Wed)

2009-10-30T02:28:00.000-07:00

Look at the map on page 256. a) What body of water separates the Arabian Peninsula from Africa? Persia? b) Describe two routes through this area goods might travel to Constantinople from China.
How do Bedouins survive in the desert?
How might someone in this region have become wealthy during this period?
Look at the picture on page 257. What is the focus of the picture? Why was it significant?
What was Mohammed's real name? What was most unusual about his life before he became a religious leader?
Why do you think some people didn't like Muhammad's message?
What happened in 632?
How long did it take from the hegira for Muhammad to take control of Mecca?
Why didn't Muhammad write the Qur'an?
Which of the Five Pillars are most closely related to Christianity or Judaism? Which would be the most difficult to observe?
What is the hajj? What are two things people do at the hajj?
What are two different meanings of jihad?
Individual events in the Sunna are called what?
What is Sharia law?
What do "people of the book" have in common?
What is a surah? What do all surahs have in common?
Which two countries or empires did abu-Bakr's forces defeat after Muhammad's death?
How far east did the Caliphate grow by661? west?
Why were the Umayyads unpopular? What were there followers called? Who were their chief rivals?
What are imams?
What are the three main groups in Islam?
What happened to "people of the book" as Islam spread?
Where was the first great mosque built as Islam spread. Why do you think this city is still contested by different cultures today?
How did the Umayyad dynasty end?
What changed when the Abbasids took over the caliphate?
What is a vizier?
What challenges did the caliphate face by the 900s AD?
Look at the map on pp. 268-269. How did Islam spread by the year 1500? Why do you think Islamic society was imprtant to both China and Europe?
After the Caliphate broke up what unified Muslims over great distances?
How did the status of women change as Islam grew?
How did the Qu'ran deal with trade?
What was the most important Muslim contribution to mathematics?
How did the House of Wisdom influence learning in the Muslim world?
Why is Islamic art design abstract?
Who wrote Arabian Nights?

GEO QUIZ NEXT TUES

2009-10-29T15:03:00.000-07:00

Egypt
Arabian Peninsula
Persia
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Syrian Desert
Rub al-Khali
Mecca
Medina
Damascus
Jerusalem
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Yemen
Constantinople

China from Qin to Han

2009-10-25T05:22:00.001-07:00

Qin and Legalism

Women in Han China

Great Wall of China

Map (Countries)

Map (Physical)

Map (Cities)

Homework due Tuesday

2009-10-19T06:38:00.000-07:00

Create 3 headings and provide an important fact for each heading.

Study Guide for Geography Quiz (Friday)

2009-10-05T14:05:00.000-07:00

Tiber R
Arno R
Rubicon R
Po R
Adriatic Sea
Egypt
Apennines
Alps
Rome
Mediteranean Sea
Sicily
Corsica
Sardinia
Atlantic Ocean
Greece
Carthage
Judaea
Asia Minor
Gaul (France)
Germania (Central Europe)
Hispania (Spain)
Brittania (Great Britain)

Rome 3

2009-10-03T20:10:00.001-07:00

Concentration

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Computer Lab Wed 11/4

2009-10-03T19:03:00.000-07:00

Concentration

Covering Up

Baghdad

Islam and Politics

Documents

2009-09-27T06:09:00.000-07:00

Concentration 1

Concentration 2

Alexander the Great

Hippocrates

Archimedes

Julius Caesar video

2009-06-18T06:12:00.001-07:00

Martin Luther video

2009-06-18T06:06:00.001-07:00

Textbook 2009

2009-05-06T09:54:00.000-07:00

p. 361 H16

p. 569 H9

p. 664 H13

p. 692 H14

p, 794 H7

p. 813 H11

p. 819 H17

p. 975 H15

Homework2008

2008-03-26T03:08:00.000-07:00

Due Monday 4/14/08

p. 511 (3.4)

Due Tuesday 4/01/08

p. 491 (Analyzing Primary Sources)
p. 493 3, 4, 5
p. 497 Graph
p. 500 Map
p. 501 Map
p. 502 map
p. 503 3,4

Due Thursday 3/27

p. 484 Analyzing Primary Sources
p. 485 History Maker
p. 486 (1-2)
p. 488 map
p. 489 3,4a,4c,4d

Vocabulary Quiz (Ancient Greece)

2007-09-24T06:39:00.000-07:00

Vocabulary and Concept Quiz for Wed:

frescoes
Odyssey
Iliad
polis
acropolis
agora
Minoans
Myceneans
myths
Oracles
Draco
Solon
Peisistratus
Cleisthenes
Olympic Games
Homer
hoplite
tyrants
democracy
Aristocracies
helots
ephors
metics
archons
Difference between direct and representative democracy

Study Guide (revised) for test on Wed.

2007-09-22T23:16:00.000-07:00

Persian War

ØPeloponnesian War

ØBattle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Ionian Revolt
King Darius
King Xerxes

ØThemistocles

ØDelian League

ØPericles
trireme
Zeno

Øsophists

Øterracing

Øpedagogue

Øethics

Ørhetoric

Øarchitecture

ØCosmology

ØAristotle

ØMacedonia
philosophy

ØSocrates

Øaristocrats

ØPlato

Ønatural law

Øsupernatural

ØHippocrates

ØHerodotus

ØThucydides

ØSophocles

ØAristophanes

ØPythagoras

ØPhillip II

ØPhalanxes

Parthenon

ØStoicism

ØEpicureanism

ØAlexandria, Egypt

ØGolden Age

ØHellenistic Age

Øassassination
Alexander the Great
Aeschylus
Euripides

The Great Wall

2007-09-18T19:03:00.000-07:00

Click here to create a brochure

Absolutism in Russia

2007-04-20T12:50:00.000-07:00

After clicking the link below choose Web Explorations on the left. Do problems 1,5,6,7,8,9, 10,11.

Russia Assignment (email to kcotter@sbcsc.k12.in.us)

Islamic Empires

2007-04-03T07:17:00.000-07:00

Click here and write a report on the Safavid Empire

Answer these questions and email

Answer these questions and email

China and the Europeans

2007-03-26T02:42:00.000-07:00

Click here and go to section 2
Write these statements down

Click here and answer these questions:

Where was Opium found and how was it produced?

What did Europeans call opium as a medicine?

Who had a monopoly opium trade?

What did the Chinese government feel about opium?

What was an antidote for morphine addiction in the early 1900s?

Click here and choose the 1st book under high school World History
go to Chapter 22 and student web activities

The Koran

2007-03-14T18:43:00.000-07:00

Click here for a searchable database of the Koran

STEPS

1) Choose a Chapter to read.

2) Google background information

3) Leave a comment on your interpretation. Include the following:

Summary statement
What is the relevance for today

4) Comments should be at least 3 full paragraphs

Ming and Qing Dynasties

2007-03-14T17:39:00.000-07:00

Your work should be written on a seperate piece of paper unless there is an email option. Use kcotter@sbcsc.k12.in.us for email excercises.

Click here and write out the complete true sentences

Qing Map Exercise
complete and email results (100% is only acceptable result)

Ming and Qing pictures
scroll to Art and describe any Ming or Qing artifact or picture you see. do the same for Technology.

Confucian Exams then go to Chapter 28 and click "Internet Excercises" on the left...email answers

Extra Credit Read and write short description

When you finish, ask Mr. Cotter about the search.

Rennaissance Activity

2007-02-13T04:08:00.000-08:00

Click here

WORLD HISTORY TEST STUDY GUIDE (Tuesday 1/16/06)

2007-01-06T19:37:00.000-08:00

Geography

Countries
England
Scotland
Holy Roman Empire
Ireland
Lithuania
Hungary
Poland
Byzantine Empire
Russia
Denmark
Castile
Portugal
Turks
Russia
Sweden
Norway

Cities
London
Paris
Kiev
Constantinople
Venice
Rome
Naples
Florence

Vocabulary

Middle Ages
Clovis
Merogivians
Charles Martel
Corolignians
Charlemagne
Louis the Pious
Magyars
Vikings
feudalism
fief
vassal
primogeniture
manorialism
serfs
chivalry
sacraments
curia
cardinals
monasticism
abbot
abbess
canon law
interdict
hieretics
tithe
simony
shires
common law
medieval

People and Events

Saint Patrick
Inquisition
Saint Augustine
Hildegard of Bingen
Saint Benedict
Alfred the Great
Edward the Confessor
William the Conqueror
Henry II
Thomas Becket
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Magna Carta
Simon de Montfort
Otto I
Henry III
Henry IV
Pope Gregory VII
Frederick of Barbarossa
Innocent III

Practice the Vocabulary

Study Guide for Test (Rome-Fri. 11/10)

2006-10-29T14:25:00.000-08:00

republic
consuls
praetors
censors
Senate
Magistrates
Assemblies
Twelve Tables
Conflict of the Orders
checks and balances
plebians
Etruscans
patricians
legionaires
Carthage
Punic
Polybius
Scipio
Spartacus
tribune
Hannibal
Julio-Claudian Emperors
Second Triumvirate
Five Good Emperors
First Triumvirate
Julius Caesar
Gnaeus Pompey
Licinius Crassus
Octavian
Marc Antony
Lepidus
Vespasian
Titus
Domitian
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Nerva
Trajan
Hadrian
Antonius Pius
Marcus Aurelius
Gracchi Brothers
Sulla
Social War
Pax Romana
Virgil
Ovid
Tacitus
Colosseum
Galen
Ptolemy
Plutarch
Jesus of Nazareth
Zealots
Christianity
Theodosius
martyrs
Constantine
Diocletian
Attila
Romulus Augustulus
Theodosius
Trinity

Roman Origins

2006-10-26T18:15:00.000-07:00

Click here and view Etruscan images

How would you compare the quality of this art and architecture with classical Greek art? What is the range of dates of Etruscan images on this page?

Click here and read the article and click the gallery

Click here and view the timeline

Click here to help in translating

Preparing for test

2006-08-29T17:59:00.000-07:00

Review Chapter One and Section 3 in Chapter 2 in book and review computer lab info

History of Americas (I) Assignment Page: "Why Study History?"

2006-06-29T08:04:00.000-07:00

History of Americas (I) Assignment Page: "Why Study History?"