Grade 8 Revision Topic 2 - Dynamic Interactions

Grade 8 Revision Topic 2 - Dynamic Interactions

The Phoenicians

• Watch the video on the next slide

• It goes for 3.46 minutes

• After the video there will be 10 multiple choice questions

• If you get any wrong, make a note for your revision

Open Ended

In no less than THREE FULL SENTENCES summarise what the video you have watched was about.

Use the following 4 words in your sentences: trade, colony, countries and alphabet.

Multiple Choice

In which modern day countries was the Phoenician Empire?

• Lebanon and Syria

• Greece and Turkey

• France and Switzerland

Multiple Choice

The land where they settled was good for raising animals only, so the Phoenicians had to trade for food.

True of False?

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Which two things did the Phoenicians become famous for?

• Fishing

• Manufacturing

• Building

• Trading

Multiple Choice

The Phoenicians became the worlds first trading empire.

True or False?

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

Where did the Phoenicians carry out their trading?

• The Black Sea

• The Mediterranean Sea

• The Atlantic Ocean

Multiple Choice

What is a colony?

• A settlement of people in their home land

• A settlement of people

• A settlement of people outside their home land

Multiple Choice

Phoenicians were well known traders. Some even sailed as far as America, across the Atlantic.

True or False?

• True

• False

Multiple Select

The Phoenicians were also known as great navigators because they could plot their journeys using what?

Pick two.

• Sun

• Compass

• Stars

• GPS

Multiple Choice

The Phoenicians found a way to write using only how many symbols?

• 20

• 21

• 22

• 23

Multiple Choice

The Phoenicians are referred to as the ______________ of civilisation because of their extensive presence in the Mediterranean.

Pick the correct word.

• famous

• creators

• carriers

• inventors

Multiple Choice

Why was Phoenicia in such a good trading position.

• The Empire stretched from Asia to the United Kingdom

• The Empire stretched from Asia to Egypt

• The Empire stretched from Africa to China

• The Empire stretched from America to Europe

Ibn Battuta

• Watch the video on the next page

• It is 4 minutes long

• Answer the 8 questions that follow

Multiple Choice

Where and when was Ibn Battuta born?

• Morocco in 1325

• Egypt in 1325

• Morocco in 1304

• Egypt in 1304

Multiple Choice

Why did Ibn Battuta head to the Middle East

• To visit family

• To pursue Islamic studies

• For Hajj

Multiple Choice

After Ibn Battuta had completed Hajj, why did he keep traveling?

• He wanted to famous for his travels

• He liked adventure

• He had a dream that inspired him

• He had a bird that he wanted to see return home

Multiple Choice

Ibn Battuta kept traveling in which direction?

• North

• East

• South

• West

Multiple Choice

Where did Ibn Battuta make a sea voyage to?

• The Meditteranean

• The Atlantic Ocean

• The Horn of Africa

• The Indian Ocean

Multiple Choice

Ibn Battuta traveled east after rounding the Horn of Africa. He traveled across Turkey, Syria, India and Sri Lanka. He eventually made it to China.

What did he do after he had visited China?

• Continued traveling on to Mongolia

• Continued further north to Russia

• Turned back west and headed home

• Went to India and lived there for a while

Multiple Choice

When Ibn Battuta arrived back and settled in Tangiers in 1354, the country's leader ordered him to do what?

• Produce video evidence of his travels

• Become a great ruler

• Write a book

• Never leave again

Multiple Choice

What happened to Ibn Battuta after he returned home and wrote his book?

• He became a famous leader

• He gave lots of talks about his travels

• He disappeared from the public eye

Open Ended

Summarise the life of Ibn Battuta. You must write at least FOUR sentences.

Include the following words: travels, Hajj, China, book.

Read the following sources about Ibn Battuta

Answer the question that follows

Ibn Battuta

From: “Travels in Asia and Africa” ca. 1325-1354

Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) was a Muslim explorer from Tangier, Morocco. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, a journey that sparked his lifelong interest in travel. Ibn Battuta became an explorer and spent more than three decades visiting much of the Islamic world, as well as India, East Asia, and parts of Europe, which he recorded extensively. Below are his experience of the east coast of Africa, his descriptions of the trip across the Sahara desert, and his thoughts on the Kingdom of Mali. 

Ibn Battuta sails along the East Coast of Africa 

I took ship at Aden, and after four days at sea reached Zayla [Zeila, on the African coast], the town of the Berberah, who are a coloured people. Their land is a desert extending (stretching) for two months' journey from Zayla to Maqdashaw. Zayla is a large city with a great bazaar (market), but it is the dirtiest, most abominable(awful), and most stinking town in the world. The reason for the stench is the quantity of its fish and the blood of the camels. When we got there, we chose to spend the night at sea, in spite of its extreme roughness, rather than in the town, because of its filth. 

Open Ended

Why did the travelers not want to stay in town?