Ellery's school is doing "Get to it" week which focuses the kids on making a goal to go to college. She had to take a picture of her by, or wearing, something having to do with a university. I dressed her up in my garb. Looks great doesn't she?
I am having Soren take unit tests in his main subjects tomorrow. Here is the History/Geography quiz I just built.
1. Does the set below describe Aryans or Indus River valley inhabitants? Who conquered whom?
Builders
Had public restrooms, sewers
Farmers
Weavers
Did not have a trained professional army
Cities laid out like grids
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Looters
Tall fair-skinned nomads
Tall fair-skinned nomads
Divorce was illegal
Believed fire released soul to afterlife
Were not builders
Lived off cattle
2. An Egyptian Pharoah calls a relative to help him govern. This is an example of:
favoritism
laziness
capitalism
nepotism
True or False Egyptians, like other ancient peoples, were afraid to criticize or disobey priests for they feared that it would anger the gods.
What Central American ancient people believed the same way?
Egyptians paid taxes in ______.
grain
gold bars
dollar bills
acts of kind service to the Pharoah
The Toltecs spread a particularly gruesome sacrificial ceremony throughout ancient Central America. Explain it and other types of sacrificial ritual or torture.
The legendary ________________ was a king/priest who was forced to give up his throne. He promised to return in the year 1519.
Name some of the many foods available to Mayans.
What types of daily activities would have taken place in Chichen Itza?
Mayans used boards to flatten the forehead of a baby according to their standard of beauty. What other body modifications or ways of dressing would they do to show beauty or status? List as many as you can.
Mayans threw conquered men and children into the __________.
Pizote
Lago Arenal
Tamarindo caves
Cenote Sagrado
Mayans were lucky that their honeybees:
had no stingers
could talk
built huge hives on the ground
Mayans could not build buildings with wide-open interiors like Romans could. Draw the corbelled arch of the Mayans and draw a Roman arch. (Hint: one is angled (geometric) and one is curved (organic)).
Aztecs became strong by: (circle all that apply)
· Collecting tributes from conquered provinces
· Training a strong professional army
· Controlling ownership of the land
· Sacrificing victims to the god of Spring, Xipe Totec
· Changing alliances in the middle of a war to defeat former allies
· Encouraging education, farming and military service
· Believing that Quetzalcoatl would come back.
Explain why Monteczuma, the Aztec king, did not fight the invading Spaniards right away. What were the positive and negative effects of the Spanish coming to the Americas? (Use your composition notebook.)
Match the Country on the left to the appropriate Capital on the right,
Costa Rica Brasilia
Paraguay Asuncion
Canada Lima
Honduras Bueno Aires
Brazil Ottawa
Argentina Bogota
Colombia Tegucigalpa
Peru San Jose
2. An Egyptian Pharoah calls a relative to help him govern. This is an example of:
favoritism
laziness
capitalism
nepotism
True or False Egyptians, like other ancient peoples, were afraid to criticize or disobey priests for they feared that it would anger the gods.
What Central American ancient people believed the same way?
Egyptians paid taxes in ______.
grain
gold bars
dollar bills
acts of kind service to the Pharoah
The Toltecs spread a particularly gruesome sacrificial ceremony throughout ancient Central America. Explain it and other types of sacrificial ritual or torture.
The legendary ________________ was a king/priest who was forced to give up his throne. He promised to return in the year 1519.
Name some of the many foods available to Mayans.
What types of daily activities would have taken place in Chichen Itza?
Mayans used boards to flatten the forehead of a baby according to their standard of beauty. What other body modifications or ways of dressing would they do to show beauty or status? List as many as you can.
Mayans threw conquered men and children into the __________.
Pizote
Lago Arenal
Tamarindo caves
Cenote Sagrado
Mayans were lucky that their honeybees:
had no stingers
could talk
built huge hives on the ground
Mayans could not build buildings with wide-open interiors like Romans could. Draw the corbelled arch of the Mayans and draw a Roman arch. (Hint: one is angled (geometric) and one is curved (organic)).
Aztecs became strong by: (circle all that apply)
· Collecting tributes from conquered provinces
· Training a strong professional army
· Controlling ownership of the land
· Sacrificing victims to the god of Spring, Xipe Totec
· Changing alliances in the middle of a war to defeat former allies
· Encouraging education, farming and military service
· Believing that Quetzalcoatl would come back.
Explain why Monteczuma, the Aztec king, did not fight the invading Spaniards right away. What were the positive and negative effects of the Spanish coming to the Americas? (Use your composition notebook.)
Match the Country on the left to the appropriate Capital on the right,
Costa Rica Brasilia
Paraguay Asuncion
Canada Lima
Honduras Bueno Aires
Brazil Ottawa
Argentina Bogota
Colombia Tegucigalpa
Peru San Jose
1 comment:
Good Luck, Soren!
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