Gr.8 Unit 1

Question 1

What is a worldview?

Answer 1

a way you look at the world, influenced by other things

Question 2

What influences worldview

Answer 2

Religion - Ethnicity - Where you live - When you live - Age - Family etc.

Question 3

5 things that influence YOUR world view and why? (this is a personal answer DO NOT COPY MINE)

Answer 3

I’m a christian and I believe that everyone/everything is beautiful. I’m 13 so my world view doesn’t include finances and mortgage problems. I live in Brandon MB so my “world” is pretty safe and peaceful. I have instagram and have learned about the P Diddy case so I think the music industry is a messed up place. My family isn’t upper middle class so my world view I would say is less materialistic and more experiences and memories based.

Question 4

Why is it important to consider the worldview of others

Answer 4

It makes us more wise, it helps us become more open-minded and understand each other better. Also to prevent future arguments and disagreements.

Question 5

What does the BIble say happened on each day of creation.

Answer 5

God creates light (day 1); the sky (day 2); the earth, seas, and vegetation (day 3); the sun and moon (day 4); animals of the air and sea (day 5); and land animals and humans (day 6)

Question 6

Describe another cultures creation story

Answer 6

Chinese
there was chaos and the universe was a giant egg with pangu. after a while pangu hatched the egg and light came from the egg and created the heavens Then pangu grew really tall that he seperated the heavens and earth then he grew some more that he got so big he had to split in half and the many opposites came from him (yin + yang and man + woman etc) Then he grew so big that he died and his body become the earth and its geographical features.

Question 7

Describe the similarities and differences to the bible that your creation story of choice has.

Answer 7

Humans were created from a being (created in the image of God/ coming from pan gu being split in half) Heaven and earth, it happened overtime not just in one day. darkness at first. heaven and earth separated.

Question 8

Chronology definition

Answer 8

the sequential order in which past events occur

Question 9

What do the terms BC, AD, BCE and CE

Answer 9

BCE - before common era
CE - common era
BC - before christ
AD - anno domini (the year of our lord)

Question 10

Why do we not use bc and ad anymore?

Answer 10

Because Non-christian obviously don’t believe in the lord.

Question 11

What is a century and how are they numbered

Answer 11

A century is a period of 100 years or 10 decades. You number them by which on you are going to complete ex. 1969 is in the 20th century.

Question 12

What were the two major time periods of prehistoric people called?

Answer 12

the paleolithic
and the neolithic

Question 13

How did the Paleolithic people live.

Answer 13

they lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers and they used basic tools out of basic materials.

Question 14

What major discovery was made by the paleolithic people

Answer 14

Fire, How to make tools and how to make clothes out of animal skins.

Question 15

What two major discoveries were made by the Neolithic people?

Answer 15

metal working and agriculture.

Question 16

Where did AG first begin

Answer 16

Asia, africa, central america

Question 17

What were the changes that agriculture brought.

Answer 17

Permanent settlements, specialization, government, people began to control the environment.

Question 18

What did agriculuture due to population size

Answer 18

it made it bigger.

Question 19

What does nomadic mean

Answer 19

moving from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time

Question 20

What has happened to the hunter-gatherer societies?

Answer 20

Their numbers have become way smaller.

Question 21

Know the differences between hunter-gathers and agarians.

Question 22

What is culture

Answer 22

all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation

Question 23

Describe the three elements of culture

Answer 23

Values, ways of doing things, knowledge.

Question 24

Describe why societies might change or stay the same

Answer 24

Change
> new invention/techniques
> new authority figures
> environmental changes
Stay the same
< Isolation
< same leader

Question 25

What are the 8 features of civilizations

Answer 25

cities, organized central governments, complex religions, job specialization, social classes, arts and architecture, public works and writing

Question 26

Examples of the influence of the natural environment on the development of societies

Answer 26

~ Natural disasters can make people want to move away
~ Bad weather will make people move away
~ bad soil will make people move away
~ drought or too much rain will make people leave.

Question 27

Describe ways in which societies organize, maintain and perpetuate.

Answer 27

Societies are organized by having the same belief/goal.
They maintain by having laws, rules etc. They perpetuate by having a leader or a way of doing things and have a name/symbol/

Question 28

Compare and contrast civilization and societies.
(answer not finished)

Answer 28

Similarities
= same goal/interest/belief
= they are both communities of some sort
Differences
=civilizations are more new and innovative
= Civila

Question 29

What is bias

Answer 29

prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Question 30

Reasons for bias

Answer 30

Personal experiences, religion, stereotypes, age, weight, race, cultural context gender etc

Question 31

why is it important to learn history

Answer 31

to learn from past mistakes and to prevent it from happening again.

Question 32

the difference between primary sources and secondary sources.

Answer 32

Primary comes from the time but secondary comes from a primary source

Question 33

how does archaeology, artifacts and literature enhance our understanding of the past.

Answer 33

Archa: how does archaeology, artifacts and literature enhance our understanding of the past.
Artif: can tell us where people lived; what they ate, wore, and used; and how culture changed over time
Liter: allows a person to step back in time and learn about life on Earth from the ones who walked before us. We can gather a better understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of them

Question 34

How does art, music and photographs help us know more about history

Answer 34

art:allows us to look back and understand how our civilization evolved over the centuries
mus: itreflects the time and place of its composition. Historians often look to music to learn more about a society and its culture
Pho: it helps shape our understanding of culture, history, and the identity of the people who appear in them.

Question 35

How do journals and biographies aid us in knowing more of the time before us.

Answer 35

jour: help us picture what it was like to live in the past and remind us of the role that our choices play in shaping the future
Bio: By reading about the lives of notable individuals, we gain insight into their struggles, triumphs, and the circumstances that shaped them

Question 36

How do oral histories make us more knowledgeable of the olden days.

Answer 36

by illuminating personal experience.