WH Fall Semester 2024 Overview

Which time period did you enjoy learning about the most this semester?

• Neolithic Age & River Valley Civilizations

• Ancient & Classical Empires

  like Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Greece, China & India

• Dark & Middle Ages like Charlemagne, Mongol Invasion, Kievan Rus, Feudalism, Crusades, Black Plague

• Early Modern Era like Ottoman Empire, African Kingdoms, the Americas, decline of Feudalism, Renaissance

We learned about social, political, economic and geographic concepts this semester. Match the examples with these concepts.

Groups:

(a) Social

,

(b) Political

,

(c) Economic

,

(d) Geographic

• Trade

• Rivers & oceans

• Silk Road

• Laws & Rules

• Natural Resources

• Irrigation

• Language

• Kings/Emperors

• City-States

• Division of labor

• Religion

• Magna Carta

• Culture

• Jobs & Wages

• Health & Education

Identify the following places on the map (you can write the number):

1. 1 Africa

2. 2 Europe

3. 3 Asia

4. 4 North America

5. 5 South America

6. 6 Australia

7. 7 Antarctica

How surprised were you to learn that salt used to be worth as much or more as gold in the Middle Ages?

• Not surprised

• A little surprised

• Somewhat surprised

• Very surprised

What comes first chronologically (on a timeline)?

• Classical Greece

• Ancient Greece

• Nation of Greece

What comes first chronologically?

• 2000 CE

• 330 BCE

• 2000 BCE

• 330 CE

Put the following events in chronological order: (you can just list the dates)

476 CE - Fall of Rome

753 BCE - Founding of Rome

44 BCE - Julius Caesar becomes Emperor

800 CE - Holy Roman Empire emerges

Is this painting from the Renaissance?

• Yes

• No

Is this painting from the Renaissance?

• Yes

• No

When analyzing Eastern beliefs like Confucianism, Hinduism and Buddhism, the ___ is not as important as the group(society). Whereas, in Western beliefs like Islam, Christianity and Judaism, the ___is as important or more so than the group.

• Holy texts

• government

• individual

• economy