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What is perspective and how does it affect our study of the world?

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Panoramic: world map
Landscape: mapping city you have visited
close-up: mapping your house
we have such a narrow vision that we dont see anything but what is right infront of us and where we are living

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List the 5 themes of Geography and provide exaples

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  1. Place- human and physical characteristics
  2. Location- where a place can be found on the globe
  3. Movement- interchange of people, good and ideas
  4. Region- areas that are not nesecarily defined by political boundaries
  5. Human-enviroernment interactions- peoples interactions with the world around them
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How do latitude and longitude lines measure location?

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Latitude lines run W-E and measure degrees 0-90

Longitude lines run N-S and measure degrees 0-180

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What are some advantages and disadvantages to maps and globes respectively?

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Maps: helps guide you…D- distorted
Globes: Precise…D- totally impracticable

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What happened during the neolithic revolution and why was it such a significant occurrence?

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Farming lead to the first important civilization. As men hunted, women gathered. As the civilization began to move after loss of food, the women just threw the old seeds back onto the ground, later to relize that the seeds grew and became food. Now this created city states and little citys that started t grow there own things.

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What are the five characteristics of civilization?

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  1. Advanced cities- roads, streets, sidewalks
  2. Advanced technology- dams for electrical power
  3. Complex institution- hoopfest
  4. Specilized workers- hospitals
  5. Record keeping- bloomsday
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Why was the Fertile Crescent suitable for farming?

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It was fertile and helped the farming grow faster

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What is polytheism?

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Belief in many gods

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How did the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shape the religious beliefs in Mesopotamia?

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Unpredictable flooding cause the people to belief that gods hated them and wanted to bring evil to them

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How did the Sumerians solve the flooding problems on Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

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Irrigation ditches

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Who was Hammurabi? What did he contribute to Sumerian civilization and the world?

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Babolonian. created the code “eye for an eye”. if someone did evil they got the same thing done to them for punishment.

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How did the flooding of the Nile differ from the flooding of the t and e?

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Nile was predictable

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Explain religious beliefs of the Egyptian people.

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They believe in many gods and they believe that the gods are either great or very evil.

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Explain the Egyptian view of the afterlife

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they think that once you are gone karma can bring you back if you recieve mocsha. Which you have to work for

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Explain how the Harappan civilization and their advanced system.

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Their citys and streets were planned off mathimaticas and each block was set in perfect inches making getting around a whole lot easier

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Explain the concept of Karma as it relates to Hinduism.

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Caste you get born into in your new life, you get born into the caste that your actions showed in your previous life

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What is the goal in the practice of yoga?

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To get to moksha. Practicing yoga, physical or religious helps you achieve moksha which then gets you higher into the caste system.

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What is monotheism?

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Belief in one God

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Describe in detail at least three influences Classical Greece had on America today.

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  1. Athletic- created the olympics and many sports we have today
  2. Sculptures- many scupltures we have today and many famous ancient ones were created by greece
  3. Democracy- strong democracy and different democracys were taken from greek times
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How did the Geography of Greece impact the develpoment of city-states?

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Greece was surrounded by many mountains creating small individual citys that we now call today city states

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What was so ‘golden’ about the golden age?

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Athens used the money from the Delian league to make Athenian a beautiful city, stronger army, and stronger democracy

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Describe the make-up of the roman republic. How is it simliar to the US today?

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3 branches on each side

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How would limiting the size of Rome’s estate help the poor?

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Talk about small tool shop…then walmart coming in. LATIFUNDIA’S!!!

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How were Jesus’ teachings at odds with Roman values and religious ideas? why might the Roman’s have felt threatened by Jesus?

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Jesus said and preached there was only one god. Rome they believed in many gods. Romans believed that jesus was teaching and preaching false idols. Romans felt threatened because jesus was preaching and trying to get a new message across to the people and wanted them to follow after him. The roman didn’t like that because they knew that new people and family’s would follow after jesus and his beliefs.

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Which were more likly to led to the decline of the Roman Empire, the economy or the military?

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Talk about on or the other!

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Why is India referred to as a subcontinent?

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It is part of a continent but is considred either geographically or politically as an independent enitity.

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How did the Zhou use the Mandate of Heaven to justify the overthrown of the Shang?

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God wanted them to lead so after one dynasty was going down, God chose a different leader who he thought deserved to lead because God thought they were great leaders

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Describe the political system of Feudalism.

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Draw picture of “king Darby”

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What was the Caste System? who ws ranked at the top and who was ranked at the bottom?

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India’s system of social stratification.
Priests were at the top.
Untouchables were at the bottom

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Who was the founder of Buddhism and what caused him to believe what he believed?

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Buddha

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What happened to the Tibetan Buddhists in the 1950’s?

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They got exiled and had to fleed the country

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Explain the Covenant between God and Abraham.

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God promised Abraham land and decendents if Abraham spread his word and teachings.

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What are the Ten Commandments and how did they become the bassists for Hebrew law?

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Biblical law created by God, followed by Christians and Jews.

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Which Chinese philosophy do you identify with and why?

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Daoism because it states let nature take its corse and just go with the flow.

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Why was the Great Wall of China built?

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To protect china

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Five pillars of Islam

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  1. Declaration of Faith- there is no God worthy of worship except God
  2. Mandatory Prayers 5 times a day- face mecca
  3. Almsgiving- charitable donations
  4. Fasting during Ramadan
  5. Pilgrimage to Mecca- Once a life time
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What is the Qur’an?

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Muslims book of stories (bible)

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Who is Allah?

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Muslim God

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What happened at the battle of tours and why was it significant?

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Muslim was spreading fast and they meet at tours with christians and batteled. Christians won so in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue to start a new country with christians. It would of been muslim who won and got there religion brought into a new world and we wouldnt be sitting in a christian school but we would be sitting in a muslim school. SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT INVENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!

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What are some other Islamic practices that are described in the Qur”an?

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No eating pork

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Why is the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem such a sacred site?

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Where Muhammed received his first visit from Gabriel/ Allah

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What is a caliph? A caliphate? Why were the first four caliph’s “rightly guided”?

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Caliph: person who claims to be a political and religious successor of Muhammed
Caliphate: a form of government ran by A caliph
Rightly guided because they were direct descendent of Muhammed

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Explain the differences between Shi’a and Sunni Muslims.

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Shi’a: believe there leader should be a direct descendent of Muhammed
Sunni: believe their leader should be selected by a Muslim/ representatives

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Why was Islam able to spread so quickly and convert so many to the new religion?

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No priests no one to complicate the readings
Everyone was welcomed and invited
Appalled to the poor and weak

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What was the Hijrah?

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Migration of Muslims to the north

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Describe the rise of Islam and how it is similar to Judeo-Christianity.

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Islam related directly to the Judeo Christians because all Muslims believe in most Jews and christan ways.
But Muslims believe Jesus was not a prophet and Muhammed was gods last prophet.

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